And People Still Wonder Why Trans Folk Are Not Going to Accept a 'Compromise' Decanted by HRC & St. Barney & St. Mara
http://endablog.wordpress.com/2010/09/22/and-people-still-wonder-why-trans-folk-are-not-going-to-accept-a-compromise-decanted-by-hrc-st-barney-st-mara/Pam at PHB, quoting from The Wonk Room:
Yesterday, as Republicans successfully filibustered the 2011 Defense Authorization Bill and the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, President Bill Clinton told CBS's Katie Couric that when he signed DADT into law, he was promised a far more lenient policy:
COURIC: Don't Ask, Don't Tell, do you ever regret it as a policy?
CLINTON: Oh yea, but keep in mind I didn't choose this policy. Don't Ask, Don't Tell was only adopted when both Houes of Congress had voted by a huge veto proof margin to legislate the absolute ban on gays in the military if I didn't do something else...They made it clear they would never let me order my executive order, gays to serve in the military.... And I got beat and so did they gay rights people got beat.
