{"id":188077,"date":"2010-12-16T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/16\/obama-is-now-blocking-dadt-repeal\/"},"modified":"2010-12-16T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T02:30:00","slug":"obama-is-now-blocking-dadt-repeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/16\/obama-is-now-blocking-dadt-repeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama is Now Blocking DADT Repeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So much for his promise to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/12\/is-the-white-house-stalling-dadt-repeal-in-the-senate.php\">&#8220;Fierce advocate&#8221; for the LGBT<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Sources  on the Hill are telling me a big reason DADT repeal isn&#8217;t moving faster  comes right from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Despite President Obama&#8217;s  public support for repeal, with DADT stacked up against the START  nuclear arms reduction treaty that Obama carefully brokered with the  Russians earlier this year, the White House is putting its legislative  push behind START.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, with more than the 60  votes secured to invoke cloture on a repeal bill in the Senate,  obstacles to repealing DADT legislatively are a simple combination of  time and priorities. Time is short in the lame duck session, and DADT  repeal is just one of many items the Senate would like to address before  it adjourns. Where repeal slots into the remaining legislative  calendar, and how much time is left in that calendar when it does pop  up, will make the difference between repealing the ban and keeping the  status quo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I strongly disagree with the next paragraph though:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>No  one questions that Obama wants to see DADT end, or that he wants to see  it end this year. The concern is over the priorities: Obama, it seems,  wants START to come first. And with the White House pushing START (in  daily phone calls from top White House officials, according to one  source on the Hill), Obama could end up standing in the way of DADT  getting done.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Truth be told, Barack Obama&#8217;s excuses  for not supporting LGBT civil rights, whether it&#8217;s his slow-walking  DADT, or aggressively defending it in court, or ignoring judges orders  to recognize gay marriages where they are legal, etc. rivals John  McCain&#8217;s flip flops on gay rights for their mendacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So much for his promise to be a &#8220;Fierce advocate&#8221; for the LGBT: Sources on the Hill are telling me a big reason DADT repeal isn&#8217;t moving faster comes right from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Despite President Obama&#8217;s public support for repeal, with DADT stacked up against the START nuclear arms reduction treaty that Obama carefully &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,998,1051,1020,1030,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-congress","category-hypocrisy","category-legislation","category-lgbtq","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188077"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}