What the DC Agenda Story on ENDA Really Means
Filed by: Dr. Jillian T. Weiss
January 29, 2010 11:00 AM
http://www.bilerico.com/2010/01/what_the_dc_agenda_story_on_enda_really_means.phpThe word is out on the street in DC that ENDA is dead, according to Lou Chibbaro, the famed veteran gay reporter at the DC Agenda. The story quotes four anonymous sources from "mainline" LGBT political advocacy groups who say that there are not enough votes in the Senate.
Duh. That was obvious from Day 1. You don't need anonymous sources to say something as obvious as that. We also knew that if the House let ENDA languish into 2010 that the battle was going to be more uphill.
What these sources are really saying, if you read between the lines, is that the DC powers-that-be are abandoning ENDA. Only a few more votes are needed in the Senate. The people who want to kill a bill always lay the blame on the Senate. But it is true that getting those 5 votes would require some serious work by Senator Harry Reid and, gasp, the President. I thought it telling that the President mentioned DADT but not ENDA in his State of the Union Address.
