From Politico:
Rosen: Obama will restate DOMA opposition, back Lieberman Baldwin
P.R. exec Hillary Rosen, plugged in on gay rights issues, told me just now that President Obama will use tonight's presidential memorandum extending federal benefits to reassert his broader support for gay rights, repeating his support for repealing the Defense of Marriage Act and pushing Congress to back legislation offering more substantial benefits, like health care, to same-sex partners.
I've been mad about his missteps and tone-deafness on this but this looks like a good sign. I've wanted him to publicly back the repealing of DOMA. I hope he's forceful and it's not just a shiny half-hearted distraction.
This is all he really had to do the whole time. He claims to be a fierce advocate so he should be fiercely advocating. Simple.
My hope is that he'll put serious political pressure on Congress to repeal DOMA. And then he'll remember his promise on DADT. Hopefully.
This could all have been achieved on his own time had he not been so politically dumb on gay rights. Something like "I'm working on it" might have been nice before the brief.
