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New York Times: Forces Pushing Obama on 'Don't Ask, Don’t Tell'.

Not the armed forces. Not the radicalized marching forces of the Gay Agenda's Sod Squad. Political forces:

It is undeniable that a variety of 21st-century forces — a new generation in the military, a change in climate at the top levels of the Pentagon, pressure on the president from a critical interest group, even Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand's anticipated Democratic primary battle in New York — converged to begin repeal of a 1993 law that has led to the discharge of more than 13,000 gay men and lesbians, including desperately needed Arabic translators.

Awesome to see forces like "decency" and "fairness" and "equality" still not making the list. But those are silly words for babies, not concepts with which Important Grown-Ups Who Do Politics concern themselves.

And because the Republicans must always distinguish themselves by being worse than the Democrats, whose foot-dragging is pathetic enough, the GOP response to the president's vow to work on repealing DADT this year is just priceless.

"In the middle of two wars and in the middle of this giant security threat," Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, the Republican leader, said Sunday on "Meet the Press" on NBC, "why would we want to get into this debate?"

Good question. How about we just not debate it and repeal the ban tout de suite? No, no—Boehner's right. We should definitely wait until there are no more security threats in the world and then have the debate. As soon as there's World Peace, then we can talk about gays and lesbians joining the military!

I just love (where love = find utterly contemptible) the idea that being in two wars means that we should be holding onto a policy that diminishes the number of people who can serve. Genius. It's no wonder the Republicans are considered the party of national defense. They're fuckin' brilliant.