Posted by
Defend America on Friday, May 28, 2010 2:25:18 PM
Via Ed Morrissey
Rob Neppell says Congress did not really vote for repeal:
So everyone is blaring headlines that say things like Senate panel and House vote to repeal ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ .
Um, no.
What they voted for is to sorta-kinda empower Team Obama to repeal
DADT, if and only if he, his SecDef, and the Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs promise Congress, in writing, that they’ll take all the blame if
repeal screws anything up.
The actual “repeal” language (in the House action, at least) is in H.AMDT.672, proposed by Rep. Patrick J. Murphy to the overall Defense bill (H.R. 5136).
Since Thomas can be so annoying and still hasn’t really figured out permalinks, I’ll include the full text below. I am fairly sure this is the final language, but not certain, so take that as a slight caveat.
A few thoughts:
http://rob.neppell.org/2010/05/28/congressional-dadt-action-you-keep-using-the-word-repeal-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means/