“Challenges in the Senate?” The US Senate is split 50/50 and HRC has never been able to change a Senators vote with their lobbying. Without the Senate it doesn’t matter what Joe says, the White House says or David says.

To profess confidence in the repeal of DADT simply because “HRC has been working on it for months” doesn’t change the reality in the US Senate.

HRC, like many others, is proclaiming a “political solution” to LGBT Equality and continues to suck resources from our community and send sincere volunteers down ineffective paths. They are asking everyone to run this “race to repeal DADT” knowing there is a firing squad at the Finish Line (the US Senate). That is beyond stupid, they know they are lying and it just hurts our movement. This explains why only 10% of our community gives or participates – they’ve worked hard only to be gunned down by political realities.

I would have preferred HRC’s Mr. Smith simply told the truth.