White House to Gays: No Action on DADT This Year. TTYL!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/21/10 at 5:56pm

This link is from JoeMyGod, but you can find at all the usual suspects.

Robert Gibbs: White House Will Wait Until Pentagon Completes DADT Repeal Study

Updated On: 4/21/10 at 05:56 PM

[uncageg]

Posted: 4/21/10 at 6:34pm

I thought I saw him say this a few days ago.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 4/21/10 at 7:11pm

This can't really be a surprise to anyone, can it? Seriously? Even the waiters for miracles, counters of baby-steps and appreciators of the good little things have to have seen this coming.

[romantico]

Posted: 4/21/10 at 7:29pm

Oh Christ!

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 4/21/10 at 7:45pm

But, now I'll NEVER get in!

[Roscoe]

Posted: 4/21/10 at 9:34pm

Obama promised Change We Can Believe In, not Change We're Actually Going To See.

And his State of the Union address said that he'd work with Congress this year to repeal DADT, not that DADT would be repealed this year. So it looks like all those gay servicemen and servicewomen will just have to take comfort in all the good little things that Obama does for them apart from allowing them to risk their lives for a country that denies them equal protection under the law. At least their gay partners can visit them in the hospital. Can't they? Or does that constitute "telling"?

Updated On: 4/21/10 at 09:34 PM

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/21/10 at 9:42pm

OH I GET IT NOW!

That hospital visitation thing was our crumb to shut us the hell up when this hit a few days later.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/21/10 at 9:43pm

At least now GLBT people can visit their closeted partners in the hospital when they're injured in the line of duty overseas.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/21/10 at 9:54pm

No, Jordan, that would be telling--or asking--and it would mean a dishonorable discharge.

We can visit our partners in the hospital EXCEPT when they're serving the country. Or when God comes into the blender.

And don't ask why. Because the president's not telling.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/21/10 at 10:06pm

Oh man, I had a dishonorable discharge once.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/21/10 at 10:08pm

Did it land you in the hospital, Namo? Usually when I have a discharge I need to get some help.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 4/21/10 at 10:18pm

I agree with romantico and that we should turn this over to Christ.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/21/10 at 10:19pm

You mean Peaches Christ?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/22/10 at 8:34am

According to Towleroad, the fix was in since just after the State of the Union:
Report: White House Officials Nixed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal Days After the President's Promise

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 4/22/10 at 11:30am

What is a "repeal implementation study" and why does it take the Pentagon eight months to complete?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/22/10 at 11:59am

Maybe because the president doesn't really want to do it at all.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/22/10 at 12:01pm

To be fair, isn't it the Pentagon that pays Halliburton $8,000 for a toilet seat?

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 4/22/10 at 7:24pm

I just hope Mr. Obama is aware of this number: 2009's Total DADT Discharges: 443

http://www.queerty.com/2009s-total-dadt-discharges-443-20100422/

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 4/30/10 at 11:12pm

"this year some day, maybe, i will might work with congress and our military to finally repeal talk about very quietly the law that denies gay americans the right to serve the country they love because of who they are, but don;t expect too much, ok, because every year is an election year and y'all are just not very popular with americans, k?"

and let's not even get started on the evil that dare not speak its name, doma.
is 2013 good for you? no? ok, how about never? does never work?

[SNAFU]

Posted: 4/30/10 at 11:32pm

2013? I wonder what the Palin/Beck Administration will do with it?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/1/10 at 12:19am

Doesn't the future President Palin have a lesbian friend?
We should be fine.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/1/10 at 9:17am

She can see Lesbos from her window.