A Stitch in Haste

In case you were wondering, Chris Dodd is a moral defective:

I believe the time to put an end to the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy has come — a change I called for some time ago. As President, I would call for a meeting with the Joints Chief of Staff to draw up plans that put an end to this policy within 6 months.

That's Dodd's gobbledygook. It's also (more or less) Clinton's, Obama's and Biden's gobbledygook. It is HRC's gobbledygook.

Here's reality:

DADT is a statute. It is no different than any other statute. It can be repealed, any time, by the plain, ordinary "I'm just a bill..." legislative process. Putting aside for now the pesky problem of a Bush veto (cf., ENDA), what gays need is not a President Dodd/Clinton/Obama/Biden working to end DADT, but a Senator Dodd/Clinton/Obama/Biden working to end DADT.

Recall: Such a bill already exists in the House — the Military Readiness Enhancement Act (H.R. 1246). As of October 20, 2007, it had 137 sponsors and cosponsors. It could pass the Democratic House any time the Democratic leadership wanted it to.

And the Senate?

Information on efforts to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" in the US Senate forthcoming.

That information has been "forthcoming" since at least February.

Each of the four sitting Democratic senators running for president is doing what Democrats running for high office always do to gays: talk the talk, then rev up the bus under which they will throw us when it comes time to follow through. And far too many gay Democrats will gladly go along with it, like they always do. They are the political equivalent of styrofoam packing peanuts: you use them to get your merchandise to its destination, then you throw them out.

The one nice thing I can say about Dodd is that he is not Clinton. Dodd merely spits in our faces with disingenuous garbage like this. Clinton also urinates on us (since she is on the Armed Services Committee and therefore could have special influence regarding DADT if she chose to), and then defecates on us too (by not compelling her pervert husband to publicly apologize for signing DADT into law in the first place).

Dodd is just another yawn of a sundry Democratic politician. Clinton is ... a Clinton.

Nevertheless, a pox on all four of these alleged "champions of gay rights."

UPDATE: And Biden. And Obama. And Clinton. All four moral defectives in perfect, worthless syncronization. And with the also-worthless Human Rights Campaign praising each one for their "stay tuned" attitude rather than demanding explanations for their inaction today. Absolutely pathetic.