The Obama Administration has asked an appeals court to allow them to keep DADT in place until the end of the year according to Stars & Stripes;
In a filing, the Justice Department asked the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco to suspend legal proceedings while the government implements a federal law repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell,” the 1993 statute barring military service by gays and lesbians who disclose their sexual orientation.
Now I applaud the administration for waiting on the services to get ready to implement the new directions, but i don’t see any of the wailing from folks like Dicksmith who seems to have busied himself with cutting and pasting White House press announcements – which is what his posts are anyway. But, if it were a McCain Administration, Dicksmith would be spitting mad and calling names, but since it’s this administration, not a peep.
I guess it’s another example that the Obama Administration discovered that being the Anti-Bush Administration is harder than they thought it would be.
Obama’s already got the money, GOTV activism, and votes of the GLBT community, and he broke the backs of the Republican gay organizations, so he can afford some token largesse to the military community.
Interesting. I was down in Bethesda NNMC on Friday and they were going full bore with the mandatory DADT training. It’s a safe bet that since the administration knows they will be denied, this is nothing more than smoke screen to give them cover for those that are umcomfortable with the idea of DADT being repealed. They can say, “Look, we tried!”.