Cafta vote on in the Senate

[Mass]

I did not hear everything but I heard

Lieberman, Lincoln, Nelson (FL), Bingaman all voting YES

Landrieu voting NO.

Cantwell YES.

All other Dems I heard at this point voting NO.

[Mass]

1. Thomas NO

[LittleClarkie]

2. So what's this vote now?

I thought CAFTA was already voted on in the Senate.

[Mass]

3. I missed the beginning

So I do not have a tally.

I think that unfortunately CAFTA will pass

Just now Carper YES.

Reid NO

[Justitia]

5. Me too - I thought it had already passed the Senate? -eom

[Mass]

7. I think the House voted on a different version

and the Senate had to vote again.

[Mass]

4. Final tally - YES 56 - NO 44

Grrr! Why cant we count on certain people.

[OzarkDem]

6. Does it have to go to conference?

One last tiny glimmer of hope perhaps?

[Mass]

8. No, this was the final vote, I think

They voted the same bill the house voted for last night, so they do not need a conference report, I imagine.

[LittleClarkie]

9. Did the House modify it or something?

So that the Senate had to revote?

[Mass]

10. I think they added provisions for sugar producers

to get a few more votes.

The amazing thing is that we could have hoped that a few Dems would have changed their votes to NO, but on the contrary the final tally has one less NO vote.

This is really disappointing.

[ticapnews]

11. The official vote will be listed here

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00209

It isn't up yet though...

[Mass]

12. It is now

Dems voting YES

Bingaman (D-NM)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Carper (D-DE)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Wyden (D-OR)

Republicans voting NO

Burns (R-MT)
Collins (R-ME)
Craig (R-ID)
Crapo (R-ID)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Shelby (R-AL)
Snowe (R-ME)
Thomas (R-WY)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)

[brentspeak]

13. Though Jeffords is Independent, not a Democrat (n/t)

[Mass]

14. right...\nt

[ticapnews]

15. Great. Now Snowe can run as pro-worker because

she cast a meaningless "no" vote on this law. If her's had been the deciding vote, no way she would vote "no."

[Mass]

16. you may like this article about Republican moderates

if you have not already read it.

http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewPrint&articleId=10002

The Fraud Caucus
To hear the media tell it, moderate Republicans are the greatest thing to hit Washington since air-conditioning. Enough already.

[brentspeak]

17. Some Red State Democrats we can't do anything about

No sense in trying to undermine Nelson (NE) or the two Arkansas Democrats (Pryor and Lincoln); we should just be grateful we have any Democrats elected there at all (even though they're practically Republican).

Some of the others in Bluer states, especially someone like Feinstein, require replacement with true-blue Democrats, pronto.

[ticapnews]

18. As far as I am concerned, the most important votes Pryor, Lincoln et al

cast are the first ones they cast every two Januarys: for Majority Leader. I am hopeful that after the 2008 elections they will be casting meaningful votes as part of the Democratic majority. Then votes like this would never even come to pass...