this is pretty remarkable when you think about recent history. it was not too long ago when republicans would tack all sorts of crazy right-wing pet provisions onto military funding bills and then, when anyone dared to vote against the bill, they would scream bloody murder about how the no-voters hated our beloved troops. i guess every single GOP senator is willing to shut down the pentagon in order to stop the gay menace.
or not really. we all know that the republicans senators can rest easy that the DADT provision was always just a bluff. by tomorrow, the dems will introduce a new bill without the DADT repeal provision. if the democratic leadership were capable of playing hardball, they would only allowing a defense will with the DADT repeal come to a vote, forcing the GOP to really consider how much they want to stop the repeal. but there's no chance of that, so the GOP had no real risk of calling the democrat's bluff.
