Breaking: Hope For DADT Legislative Repeal DiesS  Well, this is
goddamn depressing: Democrats in the Senate were unable to get
the votes to get the Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal to even be
debated, which means the last hope of legislative repeal is
dead. What went wrong?  For awhile there, it was looking like
with the help of Lisa Murkowski, Scott Brown, and possibly Susan
Collins, Democrats could beat a Republican filibuster. But then
everything went to hell at the last minute: Murkowski and Brown
voted against cloture, Collins voted yes just for the hell of it
(because it no longer made a difference), and that's it for gay
rights for servicemembers, despite a Democratic Senate, House
and President. According to The Washington Post,   Eventually,
Murkowski and Brown voted no, as did new West Virginia Democrat
Joe Manchin, for reasons that have yet to be explained.  As for
what happens to gay servicemembers now, there's still the
California Log Cabin Republicans case winding its way up the
legal system. And Gle