[eater-of-toast]

And in 2012, we will change the Congress and the President: then reinstate DADT, and throw all the queers out of the military that came out of the closet.

That will be a Herculean task. The 63 senators who voted for cloture today will all filibuster DADT reinstatement, and today's 33 No votes will have to increase to 60. That means having to elect at least 27 more senators fiercely determined to roll back the homosexual agenda, every one of them with an appetite for left-wing media abuse to rival Jesse Helms. After all, it's always a more contentious position to try to remove a right once it's granted than to reject granting it in the first place. I'd expect a couple of our 33 Noes today not to care to fight it out again in the future, and of course Manchin, who didn't vote today, will be of no help. He won't want to anger fellow Rats too much.

[Salvavida]

I agree with what you are saying. It will be difficult. I don’t think any nation has ever reversed such a policy.

The last vote is from the officers and NCOs in the ranks. I suspect once the morale plummett, those are the ones we need to hear from in order to turn the tide.