I was wrong

[pecunium]

It seems the early returns I saw were on a different bit of the fight over this.

The real numbers are worse.

65-34.

Only one republican voted against it (Chafee) and 12 dems voted for it.

Word on the street is that people are afraid that filibustering it will hurt them, given what happened last time around (with "principle votes" wherein the elected official votes the way he thinks will make him look good, because the margin is so lop-sided [like say an bill to make teaching physics to anyone who wasn't 18] that voting against the way the bill comes out is just a parlor trick, a bit of theater to make it look as if one has priciples) there doesn't seem to be any reason to not filibuster. To not actually show some principles.

So, the offending Democrats are :Carper (Del.), Johnson (S.D.), Landrieu (La.), Lautenberg (N.J.), Lieberman (Conn.), Menendez (N.J), Nelson (Fla.), Nelson (Neb.), Pryor (Ark.), Rockefeller (W. Va.), Salazar (Co.), Stabenow (Mich.).

Jeffords voted against it.

This is going to be a nasty can of worms to try and fix.

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Don, they're a huge pile of weasels

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That will say whatever they want the people want them to say... people that matter like Bush, and Rove, and etc. If they're caught with their hand in the trap, they'll go, "this is not a violation, I didnt' intend to do it, I was entrapped." They don't care, they don't consider that their stupidity costs lives Americans hold dear because they so don't care.

and I imagine a time soon when anyone posting this kind of dissidence online will be getting a federal visitor. And once we're arrested, we can be tortured until we tell them what they want to hear. I despair.

Justice and the rule of law has just gone higglety pigglety.