An excellent update as to where things stand on the effort to end the military’s gay ban. It’s not long, and worth a read. Of particular note is ThinkProgress’s accurate (I think) prognosis that there’s little chance of DADT legislation being passed during any lame duck session between the elections and the installation of a new Congress in January.
Which begs the question: Why did White House deputy chief of staff Jim Messina basically promise an audience in Montana just a few days ago that DADT would be repealed this year?
I suspect the answer is that Messina is simply trying to buy off gay voters, between now and the election, with more false hope. The administration often seems to think in terms of short-term strategy – if they can convince progressive critics to back down in the near term, it doesn’t matter if in the long term things go terribly south.
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