The don't ask don't tell repeal failure | Michael Tomasky

There's a lot of finger-pointing apparently going around about the failure of the don't ask don't tell repeal. Harry Reid is said to have imposed rules on amendments that even reasonable Republicans (er, make that singular, since there was only one, Susan Collins of Maine) couldn't live with. You can read all about that here if you wish.

Look, I don't doubt that the Democrats were thinking electoral thoughts in trying to push this through. Shocker, I know. Republicans in such a situation...