An excellent ABC News Roundtable.

George Will and Glenn Greenwald shine this morning, asking some excellent questions about the Kagan nomination, and following up when the answers are perfectly polite but empty as to the questions asked.

And good for George Will noting the policy that Harvard and Kagan objected to isn't a military policy, but U.S. law. It was passed by a Democrat Congress under a Democrat president, with many current incumbents voting in favor (Reid, Biden, Kerry, Lieberman, Leahy, Kohl).

Now where's that Change we've been promised? *looking at the clock, and the calendar*

Echoing the events of 1992-3, Barack Obama also campaigned on a full repeal of the laws barring gays from serving in the military. As president, Obama said in his first State of the Union Address, "This year, I will work with Congress and our military to finally repeal the law that denies gay Americans the right to serve the country they love because of who they are."

Trust me, we need it to be legit, via the representative vote. The votes of 9 robed elite -- no matter how much we might like the outcome -- will probably go over as well as Roe v. Wade, and we're still debating that sad excuse for judicial reasoning ("penumbra") these many years later.

End the outright discrimination Dems -- vote on it in Congress -- and open up the right to serve to all qualified Americans. People want opportunities, not deception and special protections that put them in the permanent victim class (ie/ special hate crime laws.)

Equality in opportunity, not special set-asides and promises from above that we can mandate and regulate and treat certain identity groups in a separate but equal way that will all magically even out in the end.