Given the mind-numbing back and forth over DADT repeal in the last 48 hours before it collapsed, I don’t want to overplay this but Joe Lieberman says he and others will soon be introducing a standalone DADT repeal bill (remember the provision that just failed was in the big annual defense spending bill) and that Harry Reid has promised to bring that new bill to a vote before the lame duck session ends.

Yes, I’m skeptical, too. But there you have it.

David Kurtz

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