There are, apparently, two reasons why DADT won’t be repealed any time soon — Ted Kennedy’s death and, as Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin has said, the Senate is too busy right now. Via Politico:
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) says the Senate is swamped and has little time on the schedule for this fight. . . . “We have a very heavy, busy agenda and a few months left to do it,” Durbin said in an interview recently. “So it may not be now, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be soon.”
. . . And Kennedy’s death — already felt in the health-care debate — has reverberated in the gay-rights community. Over the years, he’s been on the forefront in advocating for bills sought by gay-rights activists . . . Kennedy never ended up introducing a bill this Congress, and now it’ll be up to another Senate Democrat to step up to push the controversial issue.
Rep. Barney Frank has said there’s a better shot next year to overturn a ban.
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