Pelosi: DADT will be eliminated by the end of the year

[NorthCarolina]

Pelosi vows to end ‘Don’t ask, don't tell’ by the end of the year

By Jared Allen and Bob Cusack - 05/19/10

The Pentagon’s “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy will be nothing but a memory by year’s end, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) declared Wednesday.

Pelosi, in an interview with The Hill, stopped short of laying all of her strategic cards on the table. She wouldn’t say whether the House will take the lead on the issue or predict when the Clinton administration-era tenet would be repealed.

But she made it clear ending “Don’t ask, don’t tell” is at the top of her agenda.

“I don’t have any doubt that ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ will be a memory by the end of this year,” she said.

However, the prospects for a law banning workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or identity — another pillar of the gay-rights platform — are somewhat dimmer.

Link: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/98833-vow-to-end-dont-ask-by-new-year

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Personally I don't ascribe much credence to this statement from Pelosi, especially given the timing which just happens to coincide with the elections. A ruse? Probably, but time will tell I suppose.

[zipplewrath]

1. All she controls is the House

She can do squat about the senate. And the White House dictates to her, not the other way around. Until the WH is on board, the senate is probably unlikely to act.

[Daveparts still]

2. Obama Could End

DADT with a ball point pen. He talks but he doesn't do because the military doesn't want him to do it. Obama never does what the military doesn't like.
Harry Truman ended racial segregation and didn't bother to ask the military what they thought about it

[NorthCarolina]

3. Odd that some DU folks would "Unrec" this post. Anti-gay sentiment on a progressive site?

Simply amazes me.