For months, supporters of repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell had been, it’s fair to say, deeply unhappy with President Obama, who had punted on their promise to end the policy, and, many believed, had simply decided not to act on it. But last night, Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), chair of the Armed Services Committee, told me and a few other reporters that the White House got religion on the issue “in the last few days.”
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