Last night, Rachel Maddow interviewed two closeted active duty service members who say they are fed up with DADT, and concluded her three-part segment, with this bit of advice for the administration (my transcript):
"Unless you believe that the United States Senate after this year's elections is going to do the right thing by gay service members — HA! — then the decision by the Obama administration whether or not to appeal this ruling is likely a decision between killing this policy, now, and letting it survive, probably forever. This is not the conclusion I expected to reach after today's report on the subject and after today's interviews…
…Everybody says the Justice Department appealing this ruling is an inevitablity. It does not have to be. It is not inevitable. If the administration believes the law is unconstitutional, there is precedent that supports the administration not appealing it and letting the law die. An orderly timeframe for the death of a law can be arranged with the court. I hereby declare that I will never get another call back in Washington ever again for putting it this way to you, but it is the way it is. A plan that has no chance of becoming reality is not a real plan, no matter how much you say it is. You can either end it, or you can stop saying you will."
Watch all three segments, AFTER THE JUMP…
