Eric Alterman takes on Obama's baffling decision to actively fight against the court injunction on DADT, an injunction that by all accounts, he should support.
I really don't get the logic of Obama's decision at all. I can appreciate his desire to see it overturned by Congress rather than the courts and that would be just lovely, thanks. But it's not gonna happen. If it couldn't be pushed through with democratic majorities in both the House and Senate, than it's certainly not going to go through after the November mid-term thumpin' that the democrats are looking at.
This is a chance for Obama to do the right thing by doing nothing. He's just got to NOT challenge the injunction. Doing otherwise won't win him any points on the right and will devastate him on the left:
At an MTV forum Thursday, Obama was pressed by a member of the audience, and explained "This is not a situation in which, with the stroke of a pen, I can end the policy." Well, he’s right about that, but only because this time, it would end all by itself without Obama having to do anything. His willingness to allow the Justice Department to challenge the policy re-affirms, as if we already didn’t know this, that Barack Obama simply does not care about the wishes of the people who put him in office.
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