GOP Gay-bashing Marriage Amendment Fails

The Senate just voted 49 - 48 on the motion to invoke cloture. 60 votes were needed to continue debate. So, the right wing and the GOP lost....again. In 2004, the vote was 48 - 50.

UPDATE: This vote was better than expected. The gay bashers were claiming that they would have a majority. Our side picked up two GOP votes, Specter and Judd Gregg. Chris Dodd and Jay Rockefeller, who would have voted with us, were absent. Chuck Hagel, who would have voted against us, is in Omaha with the President. If everyone was present, the vote would have been 50-50. That means the Vice President would have had to break the tie. Now, that would have been interesting. (of course, with a cloture vote, the 50-50 tie doesn't matter, but it's still fun to think about)