[newzjunkey]

In the mean time we have this BULL in the Senate (roll call):

Measure Title: A bill to express the sense of the Senate on shared sacrifice in resolving the budget deficit.

Vote Counts: YEAs 76 NAYs 23 Not Voting 1

GOP Senators voting FOR "shared sacrifice" (AKA higher taxes!):

1. Blunt (R-MO)
2. Boozman (R-AR)
3. Brown (R-MA)
4. Burr (R-NC)
5. Chambliss (R-GA)
6. Coats (R-IN)
7. Cochran (R-MS)
8. Collins (R-ME)
9. Corker (R-TN)
10. Hatch (R-UT)
11. Hutchison (R-TX)
12. Isakson (R-GA)
13. Johanns (R-NE)
14. Kirk (R-IL)
15. Kyl (R-AZ)
16. Lugar (R-IN)
17. Moran (R-KS)
18. Murkowski (R-AK)
19. Portman (R-OH)
20. Rubio (R-FL)
21. Shelby (R-AL)
22. Snowe (R-ME)
23. Thune (R-SD)

Not voting Wicker (R-MS)

[Cboldt]

That vote is on a motion to instruct the sergeant at arms to fetch absent senators.

[Gene Eric]

>> NAYs 23

Of those 23, a handful changed from Yea once the bill was sure to pass without their feckless support. So, it’s more like 15 clearheaded thinkers.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Isakson and Chambliss can bite me.