Is "Don't Ask, Don't Tell Dead?

Is The 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal DOA? -- Politico

A repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell?” Don’t bet on it.

The window for action on reversing the ban on gays in the military is quickly closing, and the path to undoing the 17-year-old law is riddled with roadblocks: a crowded lame-duck calendar, Democratic defectors, and emboldened Republican senators who have no desire to hand a legislative victory to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

If Democrats fail to pass the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” next month — before Republicans take control of the House in January — it could be years before they get another shot.

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My Comment: With a large number of Democrat senators up for re-election in 2012 (and many of them in Red states).... giving their opponents another issue to be used against them is a path that I am sure many of them do not want to follow.

I expect DADT to be DOA in the Senate, with supporters of DADT then shifting to the courts with the hope that they will do what the legislators are now unwilling to pursue.