Messenger Boy

In an unexpected move, the Obama administration has backed an amendment to repeal the military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy this year, instead of the waiting for the 2011 round of budget talks, as proposed by the policy’s supporters. The person to thank for this surprising turn of events is none other than Senator Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut Independent, who drafted a compromise amendment that could put the anti-gay policy under repeal consideration in this year’s Pentagon budget authorization bill.

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