Kiss DADT Repeal Goodbye This Year

Dan Friedman and Billy House write in Congressional Daily today:

"House and Senate Democrats plan a 2010 agenda aimed at leaving the second half of the 11th Congress as firmly identified in the public's mind with economic measures as 2009 was with healthcare reform."

National Dems are not going to wade into the non-jobs waters of DADT repeal. It deviates from the message. And, as I note below, they will be unwilling to do anything as controversial and "liberal" as allow gays to serve openly in the military in the wake of the Coakley debacle.

If Coakley Loses

We can kiss any chance of DADT repeal this year goodbye. Perhaps for the rest of Obama's first term. Democrats will be too shell-shocked to take a chance on something as potentially so controversial. That may be the case even if Coakley manages to pull it off.