In other words, the Senate has voted to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”. The next vote requires just 51 votes, so it’s a done deal. Cloture was invoked by a vote of 63-33. 60 votes were needed.

Brown, Collins, Kirk, Murkowski, Snowe, and Voinovich all lied — they voted to invoke cloture before the budget was finished. But we already knew that most of them would break their promise.