White House: Obama Will Push Lame-Duck Congress to Legalize Homosexuality in U.S. Armed Forces

In the lame duck session of Congress, which follows the Nov. 2 elections to when the new Congress is sworn in on Jan. 3, 2011, President Barack Obama will push the Senate to pass a bill that includes an amendment to end the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy and allow homosexuality in the U.S. armed forces, according to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.
“The president believes the policy will end under his watch precisely because in the Defense authorization bill pending in the Senate is a provision that would repeal what the president believes is unjust, what the president believes is discriminatory,” Gibbs said on Tuesday. “It’s passed the House. The president will push for the Defense authorization to be passed containing that provision when the Senate comes back in the lame duck.”
In the lame duck session, members of Congress voted out of office in November can still vote on controversial bills without being accountable to the voters again.
There should be no such thing as "lame duck".  If members have been voted out, they should no longer have the authority to push things through that the voters do not want.