This diary won't be full of lots of original thought. Consider it more of an exercise in reporting.
During the most recent pie fights on 'tough love' for the POTUS, I was (am?) one of voices arguing that while he isn't sabre rattling on my highest priorities I was refraining from "trashing" him and I thought (and still think) others should also refrain. Bashing him for not issuing an Executive Order repealing DADT only weakens him and makes it harder for him to get Congress to issue a permanent fix, so the logic goes. (Note that "bashing" him [e.g., 'empty suit', 'same as Bush', 'Corporatist'] is not the same as respectful, principaled objection -- to head off that particular strawman.)
Anyway, a few people said I should diary on the status of my particular "pony" from time-to-time, so here's a short report.
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