ENDA vote delayed

There are a lot of rumors as to why today's House floor vote on the GLB ENDA has been postponed. You'll recall that a deal was worked out where we would hold two votes this week, one on the GLB ENDA, and another on an amendment to add transgender to that bill, thus giving the transgender community and their supporters the chance to prove that there is not a groundswell of opposition to their cause in the US Congress (opposition that would then take down ENDA totally). The Hill newspaper reported earlier (and I can't find the link now found it here) that freshmen members are none too pleased about having to vote on the transgender amendment that openly-gay congresswomen Tammy Baldwin is planning to offer (i.e., they think they're going to face damning "you love cross-dressers" ads come the next election), and I hear that disagreement over her amendment is now holding everything up (though the story gets murkier, in that it's not even clear if Baldwin still WANTS her trans amendment to be voted on now at all, because she may fear that the GLB ENDA crowd was right, that her amendment will go down in flames and that such a stunning defeat will set the trans community back years). Anyway, no one official is saying boo about what's going on, which is rather annoying. More here, but only a little bit.