Did you bother to read what I wrote? Perhaps you assume the writer of the article is a liar, because it said Ford voted against the bill. In traditional democrat terms, he votes in a manner that gives him deniability on any position.
Yeah, Corker has an "R" after his name, and frankly he is not my first choice (or second). But he can do little that will convince me that Tennessee would be better off with Ford in the Senate, and that's not just because of his party affiliation.
Ford only voted for final approval when it was obvious that it was going to pass anyhow. When his vote was actually important---to approved the House-Senate conference report---he voted against it.
This is typical of that hypocrite Harold Ford, Jr., trying to stop a bill from passing but then switching and voting for it when its passage is assured. He did the same thing with the partial-birth abortion ban, voting in favor of a sham substitute amendment that wouldn't have banned a single abortion because of its "health of the mother" exception (which included "mental health"), but then voting for final passage of the real PBA ban when the sham substitute was defeated. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/923967/posts