WV Governor Joe Manchin Won’t Vote To Repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Until Study Is Certified

[Newsjock]

Source: Think Progress

... An additional challenge facing Democrats is the uncertainty over the three new Senators from Illinois, Delaware and West Virginia who are expected to take their seats — and their first votes — within days of the Nov. 2 election. At least one of those Democratic candidates, West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin is now on record as opposing the existing DADT compromise. Here is the email I received from his campaign:

The Governor doesn’t believe the rules should be changed until the battlefield commanders can certify it doesn’t hurt unit cohesion.

All this means that the Senate is unlikely to take up the measure before the Pentagon releases its study, further delaying and jeopardizing repeal efforts.

Read more: http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/09/29/manchin-dadt/

[msongs]

1. obama's survey strategy is working fine eh? nt

[QC]

2. Googledimensional intergalactic chess, baby! n/t

[RDANGELO]

3. How do you study something that doesn't exist.

I could see if they did a partial implementation on a few basses or one region, they could study that. This looks to me like a delaying tactic by the brass.

[BolivarianHero]

4. Let the fuckwit run as an independent...

There's no need to do a study...It works in Canada, it works in Europe, and it even works in semi-theocratic Israel. If he's too stupid and too insular to look beyond his own borders, he is insufficiently broadminded to be a Democrat.

[BzaDem]

5. If that's his actual reason, it likely won't matter, because the study will be released December 1st

but I doubt it's his actual reason. He probably wants to vote no.

:mad:

[doc03]

6. I don't think you know WV to well, if he came out in favor

of repealing DADT at this time it would be like handing over Senator Byrd's seat to the Repug.