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CHANGE: Obama Administration defense of Don?t-Ask-Don?t-Tell fails. ?But what damnable luck for th?

By Glenn Reynolds

CHANGE: Obama Administration defense of Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell fails. “But what damnable luck for the Democrats to have this thrown at them 2 weeks before the election! It’s such a bad issue for Obama. He hasn’t done what he promised, and he’s fought against constitutional rights that he ought to be actively pursuing, whether he’d made promises or not. He’s going to have to rest on the argument that he was always all about Congress making the change. But why hasn’t his Congress gone his way? And do Democrats in Congress want this issue forefronted now?”

RELATED: Justice Department appeals Defense Of Marriage rulings. “The news comes on a day when an injunction has been placed on the dismissal of all lesbian and gay servicemembers. The ruling by Judge Virginia Philips declared Don?t Ask, Don?t Tell unconstitutional. This brings up the probability that President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder plan on appealing Judge Philips? ruling as well meaning that the end of DADT may be a long time in coming.”

UPDATE: On Facebook, Joy McCann comments: “All the liabilities of a liberal President, with . . . all the liabilities of a socially conservative President. Worst of both worlds! Hoorah!”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on October 12, 2010 (boomark / email).