CNN: White House deputy Valerie Jarrett dismisses scolding from DADT victim Lt. Dan Choi

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Jarrett appeared on CNN with Blitzer this afternoon t answer Cahoi's charges.
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[lamp_shade]

1. As well she should.

[Tunkamerica]

2. a hammer sees every thing as a nail

the legislative and executive branches see this as their eventual victory. They don't want to let the courts take it away from them. My two cents.

[Ken Burch]

4. Dear God...that reminds me of a late 1970's "SNL" sketch

(It was the one where Dan Ackroyd played JFK, Bill Murray played RFK and Garrett Morris played Dr. King, having a mythical secret meeting at Hyannis Port in the summer of 1963. The running gag in the piece was that each of them used some variant of the lyrics of "Abraham, Martin and John" as dialogue...)

At one point, RFK and Dr. King were arguing about when the civil rights bill should be introduced, and the exchange went like this:

RFK: It's not time yet!
Dr. King: (in great frustration)When WILL it be time?
RFK: When I'M president!
JFK: Bobby....
RFK: Sorry, Jack!

[Ken Burch]

3. It's bullshit to say that Congress should repeal it.

This was the most progressive Congress Obama was ever going to have, and if THEY won't repeal it, no Congress for the rest of his term will do it.

Every Republican in Congress for the rest of eternity will always vote against gay rights. It's delusional to think that party is ever capable of change on this OR on anything else, and it's delusional to say "don't worry, bipartisanship will make it happen".

The Republicans are now carved in stone as absolute and permanent reactionaries. They will never be capable of moderation on anything in the future. And it's the height of irresponsibility for anyone in THIS party to mortgage any hopes for social change on the hope that I'm wrong on that.

[Ken Burch]

5. And she'd have been ok with the Justice Department fighting to uphold laws

that discriminated against women?

(And no "that's DIFFERENT, dammit!" is NOT an acceptable answer.)

[MNBrewer]

6. Isn't she the one who referred to gay teens who commit suicide as

having made a "life style choice"?

[Delver Rootnose]

7. What complete BS.

Obama could stop the enforcement of DADT as part of his authority a Commander in Chief. If congress doesn't like it they can sue him and it will go straight to the Supreme Court where the issue will be settled, probably in a way the GLBT community would not like, but at least it would be settled if he could do it by himself or does it really require an act of congress.