Senate Confirms Rice As Secretary of State (85-13)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 1/26/05 | Barry Schweid - AP

[daybreakcoming]

Akaka - I was thinking the same thing but thought it was just my trashy mind. :o) I think he has been more of a dino than the frothing leftists. Surprising that he joined into the stupidity but believe he is one of those who would like to see Rummy gone..

[SunkenCiv]

The Dims are divided, that's clear. They have to choose their battles, and they know their court filibuster is lost -- they've alienated the public, alienated their own, alienated their Republican colleagues, and pretty soon will be out of jobs, one way or the other. And in the future, in the school textbooks, they'll be listed as among the obstructionists, like the opponents of civil rights legislation. :')

[SunkenCiv]

oh well, similar, a bit older:

Condi Rice Nomination for Sec. of State: update: Confirmation by 85-13 vote
C-Span ^ | 1/26/04
Posted on 01/26/2005 7:01:23 AM PST by gopwinsin04
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1328891/posts

[Bluegrass Federalist]

Bayh's vote shocked me, too. I have always thought that if I could ever stomach a Rat President again, it would be him. A surprising turn, but the good news is he has joined the cabal and now my disgust of all things in the Rat party is without exception.

[rip033]

I'm from IL and I'm ashamed of our senior Senator Durbin. This man has done nothing for this state except be a political ambulance chaser for the Democratic party. I see our Jr. Senator Obama voted yes for Condi. I heard a sound clip from him last night on the local radio and his tone was different from Durbin's. I just know "Dick" will start trying to manhandle Obama on the political stage and try to keep him in step with the old left line. Dick and the other 11 Dems represent the old guard of the Party. Look at Ted Kennedy and how he can't even remember Obama's name. He called him Osama.... I plan to work hard against Durbin in his reelection. The push should be to get these 12 Dems voted out of office in the next four years. They are the majority of the problem for this nation.

[Gator113]

"The Democratic Party is shredding, and we get to watch! :')"


Yes it certainly is and how beautiful it is to watch.

From this day forward, the below list will be remembered by me as ....

"The Byrd Bigot Brigade"

Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.
Robert Byrd, D-W.Va.
Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
John Kerry, D-Mass.
Carl Levin, D-Mich.
James Jeffords, I-Vt.
Jack Reed, D-R.I
Mark Dayton, D-Minn.
Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii
Evan Bayh, D-Ind.
Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J.
Tom Harkin, D-Iowa
Richard Durbin, D-Ill.

[SunkenCiv]

The problem is, of course, that some of the radicals blended in with the majority. They will also have to go.

[DJ MacWoW]

I believe you but he was defending a friend.

Which doesn't explain these:

McCain: Same-sex marriage ban is un-Republican

Sen. McCain: We Conservatives Oppose Bush's Tax Cuts (BARF ALERT)

Push to Pass McCain-Lieberman Global Warming Bill: up next week - IT’S ALL BUNK

McCain is a liberal in anybodys book. And he called the SwiftVets ads "dishonest and dishonorable". He's a RINO.

[SunkenCiv]

Ted, drunk at the office again:

Google

[Political Junkie Too]

I guess that Harry Reid voted Aye because he's still working off his last racist slur?

-PJ

[SteveH]

Heroes and Zeroes (Finally NOW weighs in on Condoleezza Rice as SOS)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1328727/posts

"Heroes and Zeroes"

Below the Belt: a Biweekly Column by NOW President Kim Gandy

January 21, 2005

[NorCalRepub]

well I guessy you are head strong but of course you are buffering your arguement with all the stuff YOU want and not all the facts......please plst McCain's full record and not just your facts and then it will be more detailed and honest......plus, hey, am I a RINO cause I think Bush is a spending fool.........he has spent more in his term (not including the war) than Clinton did for goodness sake. and Repubs are woefully inadequate on immigration. If you cherry pick you could call everyone a RINO......almost.

[cyncooper]

well I didn't use the word "moderate" I said non partisan but even pundits like Hannity and others have descrobed him this way. The thing about him is he doesn't lash out and become rabid like alot of the Dems.......I will listen to anyone that is civil with their discourse. When you listen to him in interviews he is quite reasoned. Not a conservative but reasonable

I didn't say you used the word "moderate". I used it and put it in quotes to denote my disdain for its application to him. I'm well aware of Bayh's reputation and history. I've listened to him in plenty of interviews and on the Senate Floor. I listen to all of these politicians.

He established himself with his comments yesterday and his declaration to vote no on Rice and his actual vote, not only as a partisan, but an extreme partisan.

[YaYa123]

The only surprise for me, Evan Bayh of Indiana. He has the reputation of being a moderate, often touted as a presidential possibility, and frankly, he's the only democrat I thought capable of giving us a good run in 2006.

Maybe this vote signals he IS in the running, and he's taken this vote to get kudos from the far left of the party.

[roaddog727]

Unless someone has already posed this question and I have not yet read it,who were the No's?

[537cant be wrong]

i know hari "KERRY" is an individual choice
i still volunteer to help. the bit*h

[cyncooper]

LOL!!!!

[DJ MacWoW]

well I guess you are head strong but of course you are buffering your arguement with all the stuff YOU want and not all the facts.

I gave you facts. I know a liberal when I see one. McCain consistently backs liberal agendas. Look at what McCain-Feingold did for the last election. I don't like McCain and it has NOTHING to do with Bush or Clinton. McCain isn't even a moderate Republican. And, what is McCains full record? I searched FRs archive and you saw what I found.

[Marysecretary]

I don't remember hearing about him but his name certainly struck my funny (but trashy) bone. LOL. M

[CPT Clay]

Focus your $$ on whomever runs against Mark Dayton in MN,and Jeffords in VT. Don't forget that Byrd will be 88 in '06 and Corzine will probably run for Guv in NJ.

Put me down for supporting whomever runs against these clowns!! add Stabenow and Cantwell to this list as well.