Is It Possible to be Too Cynical?

When dealing with the contemporary United States Senate, I would have thought not.   And yet the stand-alone DADT repeal whose chances for passage I had (with good reason, I think) pegged at “zilch” seems to be an odds-on favorite to pass.  My official position, I suppose, is “I’ll believe it when I see it” — I mean, counting on Brown and the “talk like Lincoln Chaffee, vote like Jim DeMint” Maine twins to do the right thing?   Because Joe Lieberman has been such an effective advocate for a progressive cause?  When does the trap door open?   Still, the good people seem to have the votes, and if it happens, I’ll be thrilled to have been wrong.

…as Malaclypse reminds us in comments, there’s still plenty of procedural nonsense that could thwart reform — getting the necessary number of nominal supporters has never been the problem. We’ll see.