In October the Department of Defense announced that all future DADT discharges would require the approval of one of just five “service branch secretaries." That set the bar much higher and—consequently—there haven't been any discharges under DADT in the four weeks since then.

I suppose we ought to credit the Obama administration for this development—those would be the same folks who've been telling us, for almost two years now, that the president can't issue an executive order stopping enforcement of DADT because it's a law and he and only Congress had the power to stop discharges under DADT—which they could only do by repealing the law—and besides if the president took unilateral action to stop the enforcement of DADT then some subsequent president would just come in and start the whole thing up again and then where we would be?

And now here we are.