Who voted against?
In this we see the democrats unwillingness to allow the
States(the people) to have their say.
So, besides the two senators from the Peoples' Republic of Maryland, ditto Massabullsh**, who were the ones who voted against?
If I recall my high school civics lesson correctly, the Congress does not have the power to Amend the Constitution. They only have the power to recommend an amendment, which then must be approved by 2/3 of the states.
Why does the press continually misrepresent simple facts?
Rome is burning.
Good. Free Speech survives another election cycle.
Mark Dayton (D,MN) voted for it.
I dropped my Fosters.
What in the world do we need the Senate for? If it fell off the earth today, no one but C-Span 2 would miss it (note: they aren't even C-Span 1). It's a worthless money pit where political hacks go to impress each other and waste their lives chewing over inconsequential things.
And it was not any of the usual RINO suspects. It was Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Robert Bennett of Utah.
I am starting to think the Republicans have an intentional plan to gum up the works so they can make it look like they're trying, but, oh, darn, we didn't have the votes, so the liberals get their way again....
Chafee and Specter had taken enough heat lately. Voinovich sunk the estate tax so he did his "good deed" for the year. DeWine has too tough a re-election fight. So it's McConnell's and Bennett's turn to crap on the will of the voters.
The senate worms can't uphold and protect the amendments already in place. A new amendment would be another one they would dither over and ignore.
To some, the flag was not just a piece of cloth....
At Ringgold Gap, Ga., on November 27, 1863, the 1st Arkansas Infantry captured the colors of the 76th Ohio Infantry in a desperate fight, in which eight color bearers of the Ohio regiment were shot down. On September 20, 1916, this flag was returned by the survivors of the 1st Arkansas Infantry during the thirty eighth annual reunion of the survivors of the 76th Ohio at Newark, Ohio.
To William C. Montgomery, of Johnstown, was given the glory of receiving the flag for the 76th Ohio Regiment.
Mr. Montgomery said: "I was the first of the seven color bearers to carry the flag into battle when the 76th engaged the 1st Arkansas at Ringgold Gap, Ga. I had not proceeded very far with 'Old Glory' when a shell carried away my right arm, and the colors fell. One by one six other men picked up the flag only to be shot down.
"The colors of a regiment are the poetry of the service. The men love their banner; they march under it; they fight under it. If the color bearer falls, another seizes it and holds it aloft, and so on until the battle ends. The firm determination is to keep it flying at whatever cost; and if in the stress of war it is lost, the sorrow is universal and profound.
If you look carefully you'll probably see cover for those Dem Senators that are running for re-election this year. As well, there were 3 GOP Senators who voted Nay.
Yea's - 66
Alexander (R-TN)
Allard (R-CO)
Allen (R-VA)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burns (R-MT)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Craig (R-ID)
Crapo (R-ID)
Dayton (D-MN)
DeMint (R-SC)
DeWine (R-OH)
Dole (R-NC)
Domenici (R-NM)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Frist (R-TN)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagel (R-NE)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Lott (R-MS)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Reid (D-NV)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Santorum (R-PA)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Smith (R-OR)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Stevens (R-AK)
Sununu (R-NH)
Talent (R-MO)
Thomas (R-WY)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (R-VA)
NAYs ---34
Akaka (D-HI)
Bennett (R-UT)
Biden (D-DE)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Carper (D-DE)
Chafee (R-RI)
Clinton (D-NY)
Conrad (D-ND)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kohl (D-WI)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (D-CT)
McConnell (R-KY)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Obama (D-IL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Schumer (D-NY)
Wyden (D-OR)
Liberal loonies and Al queeda would thank the Dems and other libertarians for voting against the flag burning amendment.
They show no respect for the American flag whatsoever.
So if they put little American flag symbols on cigarettes, can I smoke it in a bar?
A reminder to all. The Senate has a finely crafted ability to defeat stuff like this with the least possible political damage to its Club members.
Some Senators, those who are closest to reelection, are given free passes to vote 'yea'. Others, whose reelections are far off, vote no in the knowledge that the voters have very short memories, if they ever find out the truth in the first place.
It's the way things are done.
Bottom line? The Senate wanted this Amendment dead, and it is now dead.
I'm just as happy that the amendment did not pass, on a number of levels, foremost being that our Constitution should not be used for legislating. But am I missing something here? I have always thought that amendments to the ratified by the states. If Congress can do it, we're in series trouble next time there's a Rat majority.
So close....
It is just a loss that should not have been up for vote anyway.
I would rather the amendment offer protection to anyone who desecrates a flag-burner. One of my co-workers came back from Vietnam with shrapnel in his body from a mine. He saw some punks waving the flag of North Vietnam, stopped his car and went after them. He literally shoved the flag into one punk's rectum. The policeman who responded did not arrest him. Would be nice to codify that.
The Senate allowed some to continue a risky lifestyle. So be it. Many died and others lost much in defense of that flag and the principles for which she flies. It's now one's right to burn the Stars and Stripes as much as it is others to risk all to defend her. When the two meet, trouble is sure to transpire. Do we need an amendment? No, we just need more willing to kick ass to defend her.
I pity those who are so simple they can view the Stars and Stripes as "just a piece of cloth." I'm almost positive those who'd burn it in protest hold a more complex view of its symbolism than the former.