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Wed Jun-17-09 12:56 PM
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UPDATE:Obama won't issue executive order, won't include health benefits

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details details!!!

by John Aravosis

Ah, those pesky details.

As you may have heard, President Obama tomorrow will be signing a presidential directive, not an executive order, providing "some" benefits to gay and lesbian employees. Well, the details, murky that they are, are coming. And they aren't great.

First off, Chuck Todd on MSNBC said that because this is only a "memorandum," as he called it, it will expire when Obama leaves office. Lovely. Second, health benefits for federal employees won't be covered. Why? Because of DOMA, so says the Advocate.

http://www.americablog.com/2009/06/obama-wont-issue-executive-order-wont.html

fumes from under the bus bothering anyone yet?

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