House and Senate Votes on Torture BillSenate: 12 Dems out of 65 yeas
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00259
House: 34 proud Dems out of 254 yeas
http://clerk.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.asp?year=2006&rollnumber=491
The Dems caved in a major way. They couldn't even get it together for a statement of principle.
Comments (4)
torture caucus...please
what would the hotel hanoi candidate
think
if toprture seeped thru this
clean up bill
my suggestion:
the forfeited rights abridgement caucus
Posted by fatted calf | September 29, 2006 2:55 PM
Posted on September 29, 2006 14:55
Eh. We don't need us no Hay-bee-us Corpus. Now pass the porkrinds Skeeter, Survivor Island is on...
Posted by AlanSmithee | September 29, 2006 4:07 PM
Posted on September 29, 2006 16:07
Once again, since the party had no way to win (didnt have enough votes for filibuster)every individual was allowed to vote the way they thought would keep them in office. So the dems in close races voted yea, while the presidential "aspirants" voted nay. Principal is a luxury for those in power. That seems to be their theory.
Posted by bobw | September 29, 2006 11:18 PM
Posted on September 29, 2006 23:18
they did have enough votes
on a party line basis more then enough
41 out 0f 45 to sustain a" fillee"
but i share father smiffs view the "fillee"
is an inherently un democratic "right"
useful for re actionary minorities only
to me
the donks should have gone down fighting
it as a unity party
and threatened to toss
any one out of the caucus who didn't
but as bobw sez
these are the winning is everything folks
and if you're a soup hound
winning is everything
btw obviously
this law will be harder to repeal
then it would have been to block
but some day if we the people
get a party willing to fight
but hell
its not the end of everything
we love about our
sacred founding compact
that enlightened
state of grace
myth is just bad booze
as garrison said
our constitution
"was conceived in sin
and not redeemed there after
by any of its amendations"
Posted by js paine | September 30, 2006 12:08 PM
Posted on September 30, 2006 12:08