Pander alert – Clinton says will do more on gay rights – but will she?

Hillary Clinton is promising to overturn husband Bill’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” gays in the military policy, give equal tax rights to cohabiting gay couples and more.

Right. She promises action on what’s out of her control, but won’t promise any action on what she could change herself.

There’s no way the tax changes will pass Congress. On the other hand, I am awfully damned sure she could change military policy by executive order, just as Harry Truman did when he integrated the armed forces, but she is claiming that she couldn’t even do it with a Bush-style signing statement on a military appropriations bill and instead would need Congressional action.

Elsewhere, she has claimed that if she used an executive order, Congress could then attach an amendment barring gays to the next military appropriations bill. If she thinks Congress would do that by a veto-proof margin, she’s crazy.

Then, she claims she would support gay pride events to the degree she could, and tells THIS whopper:

“I don’t think the Secret Service let Bill walk in a parade when he became president,” she said.

What bullshit. You and the Slickster walked together in part of the 1993 inauguration parade. No, it wasn’t the whole thing. But you did walk in part of it.