[deport]

32 republicans voted against the bill.... You are using the totals for the vote #156 which was the Specter amendment. Look at the vote total on passage of the bill which is vote #157

[Recovering_Democrat]

Recovering_Democrat screws up...thanks, deport!

UGH!! I should have caught that!!!!! :(

Well, we still have work to do in the party!

Thanks, deport--I should've seen the numbers.

CORRECTION!!
23 REPUBLICANS voted Yes
38 DEMOCRATS/INDEPENDENTS voted Yes
32 REPUBLICANS voted No
4 DEMOCRATS voted No
(Note: 2 pathetic weasely 'rats decided to wimp out and not vote: Jay "Let's warn Syria and Iraq they're going to be attacked and the media ignores my admission and then blames Bush when no WMDs are found" Rockefeller and Ken "Dr. Dobson is to blame for everything that is wrong in America" Salazar)

Let's do the math: 42% of the Republicans in the Senate voted yes
90% of the Democrats voted yes
58% of the Republicans voted yes
10% of the Democrats voted no.

Clearly, a high plurality of the Republicans screwed the pooch on this vote. You find the usual suspects here: Chafee, Collins, DeWine, Voinovich, McLame...and some are overall good conservatives if the ACU ratings are reckoned: Bennett of Utah has 87 lifetime rating, McConnell of Kentucky has a 90, Warner of Virginia is an 81, Gregg of New Hampshire is a 79.

My belief in my previous post still holds true:

I hope the "let's abandon the Republicans" crowd can clearly see the problem isn't with the Republican Party as a whole, and I hope they work to change it instead of walking completely away and turning the federal government over to the 'rats.