Which is funny, considering that most troops oppose revoking the policy and 10% of the military says it won’t re-enlist if Obama repeals it. But since when have liberal Democrats been concerned with little things like what the troops who will actually have to fight have to say? Just cut the funding for them and their combat systems, institute policies most of them oppose, and then expect them to be in the numbers they were before.

Why is The One doing this? Probably to throw a bone to the left. Between Rick Warren, a sudden softening on the Bush tax cuts, the stimulus package including even more tax cuts, and the rest of the kicks he’s delivered to their collective groin, many are pissed. By the way, Clinton tried the same thing. Didn’t go over well.