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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-10 08:58 PM
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Pelosi vows to end ‘Don’t ask, don't tell’ by the end of the year
The Pentagon’s “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy will be nothing but a memory by year’s end, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) declared Wednesday.

Pelosi, in an interview with The Hill, stopped short of laying all of her strategic cards on the table. She wouldn’t say whether the House will take the lead on the issue or predict when the Clinton administration-era tenet would be repealed.

But she made it clear ending “Don’t ask, don’t tell” is at the top of her agenda.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/98833-vow-to-end-dont-ask-by-new-year :thumbsup:
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-10 09:03 PM
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1. We're waiting
We've been waiting.
Let's hope it's for real this time.
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-10 09:06 PM
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2. It better be done by Nov. before congress changes. n/t
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-10 09:07 PM
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3. Yup, cause if not.....
Well, let's not think about that.
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-10 09:09 PM
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4. I won't think about that...
I'm going to hope she means it.
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Orangepeel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-10 11:02 PM
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14. Congress doesn't change until January.
So the end of the year might be right.
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-10 11:14 PM
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15. That's right. And maybe there will be some lame ducks in congress who will
have nothing to lose.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-10 09:10 PM
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5. I like her
attitude.
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-10 09:11 PM
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6. So
do I. :)
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-10 09:15 PM
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7. Actions.
speak.louder.than.words.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-10 09:23 PM
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8. Call me optimistic..when she says
it will get done I believe it.
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-10 09:33 PM
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10. Glad someone has faith in politicians.
:)
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Hekate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 03:14 AM
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16. Personally, I have faith in only a few. Nancy is one of them.
:-)
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glinda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-10 09:33 PM
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9. meh
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-10 09:44 PM
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11. It would go a long way in redeaming her in my eyes
But I still hold her accountable for taking impeachment 'off the table'. I will never forget that, but I want her to get this one. It's fucking time to change this institutionalized and legalized discrimination. Fucken enough already
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Hekate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-10 09:44 PM
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12. Nancy Pelosi has been pretty good at keeping her promises, imo. nt
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-10 10:02 PM
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13. Yup. She usually gets done whatever she SAYS she'll get done. n/t
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ccharles000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 03:46 AM
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17. k/r
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Decoy of Fenris Donating Member (70 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 08:33 AM
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18. That's a tall order.
I'm incredibly hopeful, but dubious at best. The repeal won't be as simple, I don't think, as folk are making it out to be, and I think we all know that we'll be fighting an uphill battle against the Repub immovable object; we need to have unstoppable force to repeal DADT.

Here's a rec for exposure, however, as well as for hope for equality.
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 06:05 PM
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19. Hello.
Welcome to DU! :hi:
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