Our tribune of the people, Rachel Maddow, has just led off her show with coverage of the DADT vote in the Senate. This is hardly surprising, but her take on it is as usual masterful.
She leads with a clip of her interview with Joe Biden last week, in which he tells her that the reason the White House has not suspended implementation of DADT while waiting for Congress to change the law was:
Because that is the compromise we basically had to make to get the votes.... We had to build a consensus for this ... and everybody's looking for the orderly elimination of this law.... That's why that hasn't happened. [emphasis Biden's]
Not surprisingly, that wasn't good enough for Rachel.
Hey, you know what? Even though you may have made that deal, you didn't get the votes to repeal it.
More Rachelly goodness, and the challenge to the White House below the fold.
UPDATE: Courtesy of ridemybike, video link below.
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