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Under the present regime...nothing will occur.

In January...if it were “President Obama”....then we would see the likely scenario of Obama ordering the SECDEF to form a new policy. Note that Obama won’t use an executive order because this leads back to the White House as the culprit. The SECDEF will be directed to open the door and just forget about “don’t ask and don’t tell”. The initial damage? Around six major admirals and generals will resign within two weeks of this announcement. Several individuals will query the SECDEF about the meaning of sodomy in the UMCJ...which is a prosecution-type offense and dictated to the US military by congress. Neither the SECDEF or the president can rewrite the Code of Military Justice. Neither will care to have a full-blown summer of gay-discussions in congress next year.

So I’m going suggest that all this talk....is just talk. Nothing will really change. Obama has to have the full support of the democratic congress...to enact any of his reforms. Tossing a entire summer of gay discussions upon them....won’t make them happy and will stall all of his potential programs. So this is merely a topic to make the gay special interest groups think that they are going to achieve results via Obama. They won’t....and its another special interest group that finds his promises to be empty by the end of his four-year period.