Bachmann: I would probably reinstate DADT...

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Bachmann: I ‘Probably Would’ Reinstate DADT Because It ‘Has Worked Very Well’

This morning on CNN, contender for the GOP nomination and Iowa straw poll winner Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) told host Candy Crowley that DADT “has worked very well,” and if she were president she would “probably” reinstate it.

CROWLEY: If you became president, would you reinstitute the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy in the military, which said that gays could not serve openly in the military.

BACHMANN: The Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy has worked very well. And I think…

CROWLEY: Would you reinstitute it then? Because it’s been set aside.

BACHMANN: It worked very well. And I would be in consultation with our commanders. But I think yes, I probably would.

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http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2011/08/14/295534/bachmann-i-probably-would-reinstate-dadt-because-it-has-worked-very-well/

[OnlinePoker]

1. It would be a little late to put that genie back in the bottle

What happens to all those who have come out in the interim?

[NNN0LHI]

5. Her and hubby will "cure" them

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. By Sleeping With Them?

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[polichick]

2. Hell, she'd reinstate the 19th century if she could - idiot!

[gateley]

3. Probably?? Watch it become one of her campaign promises. nt

[sarcasmo]

4. A whole lot of hate lives in the Bachmann's .

[Contrary1]

6. Why stop there, Michelle?

Why not ban them from the military altogether? I mean, c'mom...they only joined in hopes of seeing fellow soldiers nekkid. Everyone knows they couldn't have signed up solely as true patriotic Amurkins, like yourself.

[demosincebirth]

7. That's the least of my worries with her. nt

[Brickbat]

8. What "worked" about it? What made it "work well"? What "problem" was it solving?

Those would be the follow-up questions, CANDY.

[alcibiades_mystery]

10. Under what authority?

There is clear Congressional intent to invalidate the policy as a matter of law. It cannot be reinstated under the auspices of the Commander-in-Chief when there is such clear Congressional intent.

Any such policy would be immediately challenged in the courts, and the courts could not BUT invalidate it. There was a clear Congressional vote against the policy.

[DURHAM D]

12. There was no affirming language in the repeal.

You overstate the meaning of the legislation going forward. It was in the House bill but the WH and Senate wanted it out and it was removed.

I don't see a way to stop the CIC if he/she wanted to issue an EO on the matter.

[Fleshdancer]

11. Oh yes. Losing all of those pesky interpreters was a HUGE help.

She's W with boobs. :banghead:

[Exilednight]

13. If Obama had done the job properly, then this would be a non-issue. n/t

[readmoreoften]

14. Yeah, but if he was too nice to teh gays then he'd lose the gay-bashing, homophobe vote.

Can't have that, can we?

[McCamy Taylor]

15. WTF? Her base wants an anti-gay witch hunt. DADT won't satisfy them.