UGH!! I should have caught that!!!!! :(
Well, we still have work to do in the party!
Thanks, deport--I should've seen the numbers.
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.
Oh, please. It's necessary for us to waste our vote or stay at home altogether in Nov. in order to teach these Republicans a lesson. And Bush is the one to shoulder the Ultimate Blame for Everything and Anything, including this somehow. Period, never forget that.
That's what we are told ad nauseum in thread after thread after thread from immigration to the Jefferson investigation. You'd better get your head screwed on right R_D.
(do I need to the sarcasm tag?)
Those ratings are rigged by the groups that make the tabulations. Members are told in advance how to vote on this or that issue to keep up their percentages. They are rigged, just like everything else in the USA these day, it seems. Is everybody corrupt?