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Repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Advances

This is very exciting.

I think that I had decided that it was a goner when the bills started to back up in the Senate.

Obama wanted START, there was the DREAM act for illegal immigrant college students and the Omnibus budget bill.

The Omnibus bill failed for GOP political reasons and so the way was opened up. Today they didn't go for DREAM. And so the doors opened to the DADT vote.

This give plenty of time before START.

There is sufficient support that the DADT will be repealed. But it hasn't happened yet.

A lot of people worked very hard for this. It is a good thing that has happened.

Obama took a lot of heat for not pouring it on but he is not King. And he had other priorities. Mostly that START get done.

What happened here is that a number of GOP Senators had their heads turned by the relentless work of the "gay lobby". I know. There isn't supposed to be one but there is.

We wait. It is a big day.

Labels: Administration Obama, gay liberation, gay military, gay rights