The 11 Republican senators who voted for cloture and thus to permit McConnell to become a lifetime federal judge were:
Lamar Alexander Tennessee
Scott Brown Massachusetts
Susan Collins Maine
Olympia Snowe Maine
Saxby Chambliss Georgia
Johnny Isakson Georgia
Lindsey Graham South Carolina
Mark Kirk Illinois
John McCain Arizona
Lisa Murkowski Alaska
John Thune South Dakota
Do we NEED any of these people?
I don’t know when Alaskans will realize what a mess they made of things with the write in vote for Merkowski. I didn’t vote for her because she’s worse than a RINO. She’s an all out democrat on the R ticket. Absolutely every vote is with the Dems both in and out of Alaska.
Actually, we do need some of these people for some votes (I’m thinking about those from liberal states); I’m not saying that we can’t do any better than the RINO Sisters in Maine, or or Kirk in IL (sadly, Scott Brown is as good as we’ll get in MA), but those RINOs are still better than a Democrat would be, and we can’t expect to run a Jim DeMint-type in ME or IL and win, so we need to look for moderate-to-conservative types who will still disappoint us once in a while but who could actually defeat not only the RINO in the primary but also the RAT in the general.
However, it makes no sense to have Senators from conservative states such as GA (the pro-abort Isakson and the pro-life Chambliss), AK (the pro-abort Murkowski), AZ (the generally pro-life McCain), SD (the pro-life Thune), TN (the pro-life Alexander) and SC (the pro-life Graham) voting to allow a radical liberal with ties to Planned Parenthood be given a lifetime federal judicial appointment in a district in heavily Catholic RI. Do you know what each of these Senators have in common? Their Senate seats aren’t up until 2014 or 2016. Cowards all.