What a bitter, bitter old man.
Nov. 15th, 2010 10:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsJohn McCain once pledged to overturn Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Then, facing a harsh election against a right-wing foe, he said he was not in favor of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, but he would never overturn a working policy unless the Pentagon told him that doing so would not be harmful to troop recruitment or morale.
Over the weekend, there was much buzz over a leak from the Pentagon regarding the ongoing troop morale study, the one that asked such penetrating questions as, "If Don't Ask, Don't Tell is repealed and you are assigned to bathroom facilities with an open bay shower that someone you believe to be a gay or lesbian Service member also used, which are you most likely to do?"
The survey, painfully and obviously skewed to make the matter as contentious as possible, instead turned in a result that, for the most part, revealed that troop morale, retention, and enlistment would not be adversely affected.
McCain's response came this weekend when he said, "We need to look at whether it's the kind of study that we wanted."
Translation: It didn't say what I assumed it would say, therefore something is wrong with the study and not with me. And as a Congressman, I can order the Pentagon to do the study over and over again until it finally says what I want it to say.
Over the weekend, there was much buzz over a leak from the Pentagon regarding the ongoing troop morale study, the one that asked such penetrating questions as, "If Don't Ask, Don't Tell is repealed and you are assigned to bathroom facilities with an open bay shower that someone you believe to be a gay or lesbian Service member also used, which are you most likely to do?"
The survey, painfully and obviously skewed to make the matter as contentious as possible, instead turned in a result that, for the most part, revealed that troop morale, retention, and enlistment would not be adversely affected.
McCain's response came this weekend when he said, "We need to look at whether it's the kind of study that we wanted."
Translation: It didn't say what I assumed it would say, therefore something is wrong with the study and not with me. And as a Congressman, I can order the Pentagon to do the study over and over again until it finally says what I want it to say.
