More DADT Anal-oh-gees.
Since this morning I can’t stop thinking in “similies, in metaphors!” (Shaka, when the walls fell.)
And so, playing the part of those who want to dump DADT immediately will be the Oregon Highway Division, and playing the part of the policy will be the whale. The motto of this is clear, if you try to blow it up all at once, we are all going to be showered in the Ghey.
As S6R just noted on the phone to me:
A radical policy change like that would go over like a lady stomping grapes.
Category: Politics
Admiral Mullen says we should end DADT:
“WASHINGTON – The military’s top uniformed officer on Tuesday made an impassioned plea for allowing gays to serve openly in uniform, telling a Senate panel it was a matter of integrity and that it is wrong to force people to “lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens.”
“No matter how I look at the issue,” Mullen said, “I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy which forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens.”
“Gates, who says he is a Republican, is the only member of former President George W. Bush’s Cabinet whom Obama asked to stay on. He has gained a reputation for candor and caution. Mullen’s words were a forceful endorsement from a careful man, but his very appearance, starched uniform and four stars on view, spoke as loudly.
Gates drew unusually pointed and partisan criticism from Republicans on the panel for saying that the review will examine how, not whether, to repeal the ban.
Arizona Sen. John McCain, the top Republican on the committee, icily told Gates he was disappointed in his position. In sharp questioning, McCain angrily suggested that the Pentagon was usurping Congress’ job in rewriting the law should it choose to do so.”
With both Gates and Mullen saying it should be done away with, I’m betting it is only a matter of time. Of course, that is no guarantee that anything real or substantive will happen. President Bush said for years that we needed to close Gitmo, but it never happened.
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra…….
Sorry, Drink–but even flag officers are capable of incredible stupidity from time to time.
Ok, it is only mildly ironic that there was “meat overhead” after the metaphoric DADT was destroyed.
….and here I thought I was all clever for catching the Star Trek reference….
Ha, OT you got it and of all the stuff I wrote today, Southern Dem called to tell me I was a dork for that reference. Mind you, he had to know the reference in order to know I was a dork.
Timba, his arms open!