I was just on a blogger conference call with Speaker Pelosi and I asked her about DADT repeal, and the growing concern that the Republicans seem to want to continue playing games with the issue. Pelosi told me that the Republicans were just “spinning their wheels… trying to re-litigate” DADT. “It’s resolved in the minds of the American people,” she told me (referring of course to the 70+ % support for DADT repeal has in the polls). Still, the GOP isn’t known for caring about what the American people want or feel, so Joe and I both remain concerned that the Republicans will try to slip something in to the ongoing budget resolutions, or the appropriations bill, to stop implementation of the repeal. And they can. It’s simply a matter of writing language that says no money can be spent on implementing the repeal. Granted, that language has to become law, which requires the Senate agreeing and the President signing it into law. But were the GOP to hold the entire budget hostage to that one provision, do we really, truly think the President wouldn’t cave to the hostage takers “for the greater good.”

Igor Volsky at ThinkProgress should have the tape of the call up soon. I’ll link when he does. Okay, Igor posted a short transcript of my Q&A;: