Reminder - Obama CANNOT use executive order to stop DADT

[KonaKane]

As much as I wish he could, he can't. This bit of disinformation on DU regarding this issue has to stop. I quote from an article by Jonathan Ridley at HuffPo:

"Intentions aside, this policy reversal isn't one Obama can perform alone. That is to say, by Executive Order. As Federal law, DADT must be repealed by Congress. To that end California Congresswoman Ellen Tauscher has introduced a bill to overturn the ban which has picked up nearly 150 cosponsors. And CNN reports: "More than 100 retired U.S. military leaders -- including the former head of the Naval Academy -- have signed a statement calling for an end to" DADT."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-ridley/obama-and-the-end-of-the_b_145567.html


The analogy to Truman's desegregation of the armed forces is fallacious, because segregation in Trumans time was not a federal law but am army policy which was easily done away with by the president's pen.

Can we dispense with some of the neck vein bulging disdain for Obama and use some facts now, on this issue?