Reply #136: Why he didn't sign [View All]

[Silverhair]

He didn't have the legal authority to issue the order. The Uniform Code of Military Justice, which is a federal law passed in the 1950's, outlaws homosexuals from military service. The military has always been, "Don't ask - Don't tell" in practice, unless they had a reason for going after someone. It seems that Clinton didn't know about the UCMJ, although any service member could have told him aobut it and about that provision. He was embarassed to learn that he needed an act of congress to do what he wanted to do.

We could have had a national health care system but Hillary blew it. She was way too arrogant. She wanted such a system and she also wanted ALL the credit. She tried to villanize the drug companies and the doctors, and the insurance companies. She and her advisers drew up the plan in secret, and then tried to ram it through congress, after she had made unneeded enemies. I she had really been so smart she would have invited the others and the Reps to give her input, addressed some of their fears in the legislation, and allowed them to share in the credit. Then it would have passed. But Hillary wanted to be seen as a savior rescueing the nation from the evil medical complex and we ended up with nothing.