Pro Gay Tax Legislation, Blocked by Dems, Part Two

A reader writes that the Democrats are not trying to block legislation in the Senate that would extend a tax break for domestic partners to small business owners, as I posted previously, citing a Log Cabin Republican news release. The reader writes:

Democrats are not blocking this bill. They support it - they wrote it. It will be Democrats (specifically Senator Baucus) who will move it into law. I suspect that an over-zealous staffer at Log Cabin either doesn't know the situation, or is just trying to cause trouble.

Actually, they are exploiting a procedural move by the Democrats to make trouble. Baucus may indeed support it, but he in fact did prevent Smith's amendment from moving forward. So we'll have to wait and see what happens -- I remain skeptical of the Democrats real commitment to gay issues.

The WashBlade has more.