Reply #28: You realize that DADT repeal was part of DA 2011 until last week, right? [View All]

[msanthrope]

There was no deal cut, nor did I imply there was one....

Common sense would indicate to anyone that if the President of the United States threatened to veto DA 2011 on the GITMO issue, then DADT would have also failed since it would have been part of the SAME BILL.

Further, even when DADT became stand alone, there is no viable reality where you get enough republican votes to pass it after POTUS threatens a veto of DA 2011 over GITMO.

Obama has no purse without Congress. They don't want to fund it, it doesn't happen.