Bid To Repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Fails In Senate

Yahoo.com:

Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked legislation that would have repealed the law banning gays from serving openly in the military. The partisan vote was a defeat for Senate Democrats and gay rights advocates, who saw the bill as their last chance before November's elections to overturn the law known as "don't ask, don't tell."


With the 56-43 vote, Democrats fell short of the 60 votes needed to advance the legislation. It also would have authorized $726 billion in defense spending including a pay raise for troops.


Senate Democrats attached the repeal provision to the defense bill in the hopes that Republicans would hesitate to vote against legislation that included popular defense programs. But GOP legislators opposed the bill anyway, thwarting a key part of the Democrats' legislative agenda.

Good. Harry Reid, in the sole interests of his Leftist base and that mess of a woman Lady Gaga, used bully tactics in order to try and get this thing through. And yet, the military doesn't need to be used for social experiments anyway.