re: #172 HappyWarrior

Yes, i really believe that if there wasn’t some kind of deal that there would not be even the hope of a vote on DADT or START. The GOP said so, and if they are good at anything it is obstruction. Plus they know their numbers will go up in another month and they were holding the impending sunsetting of the Bush tax codes over the Democrats’ heads. The GOP said no vote unless there is a tax deal. Well, now’s there’s a tax deal, the GOP got mostly what they wanted, so I hope that the President extracted an agreement to get to those other issues in the remaining time of the lame duck session. If that is so, and if the WH shares that info with the Democratic leadership, things may happen. But it is always troubling to write about politics with a bunch of “ifs” in one’s sentences.