We better face it. These are the only Senators who "get it."

[garybeck]

Senators who voted against LIEberman's Attack Iran bill:

Biden (D-DE)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Dodd (D-CT)
Feingold (D-WI)
Hagel (R-NE)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Leahy (D-VT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Lugar (R-IN)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Sanders (I-VT)
Tester (D-MT)
Webb (D-VA)
Wyden (D-OR)

All other senators, I say fool ya once, you're dumb. Fooled 8 times, you should find another job. I don't care what party you are in.

[Midlodemocrat]

1. Ted Kennedy has never disappointed me. He has consistently

voted the way I wish ALL the Senators would.

[Breeze54]

53. I agree and I wrote him and told him so!

;)

[Cha]

2. Some of those votes are surprising ..

like Blanche Lincoln in Arkansas! Even Cantwell!

And what's with Murray in Washington?

[uppityperson]

6. Murray voted aye, Cantwell no. Weird.

[Cha]

10. I know..I just edited my post..

cause I went back to check where Murray voted.

[uppityperson]

21. Cantwell quit answering my emails when I scolded her for sending canned replys

She kept sending "thanks for supporting me" replies when I sent her critical letters. Now she doesn't answer at all. Oh well. I'll let you know if I get a reply from Murray, sometimes I do.

[Cha]

26. Thanks, uppity!

Good Work!

[uppityperson]

38. some days I live up to my name. Thanks back.

[ribrepin]

55. I kept getting "thanks for supporting me" letters from Cantwell too

I wrote promising MS Cantwell that I would support her opponent in the primary after her pro-war vote for war in Iraq. I got back one those thanks for your kind thoughts and supporting me letters. I stopped wasting my time writing to her. Let the pro-war idiots support her. I voted for her opponent in the primary, but Cantwell in the general. She's less dangerous than the republicans, but I held my nose.
x(

Maybe Cantwell has gotten a clue. The pro-war people in Washington state will not get her elected.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

27. I'm surprised, nay, shocked, at Murray.

Maria had to do without my vote last year because of her vote for the IWR.

Baird has decided that the "surge" is a good idea and is working.

Now, Murray?

They vote - so do I.

[Raster]

45. yeah, that one makes me go hmmmmmm

[Botany]

3. So Clinton voted for it and Obama did another "no show?"

fuck em both.

[garybeck]

5. ditto. the line in the sand is drawn for me.

[Botany]

11. giving bush more power to widen the war?

no excuse ..... none. Obama is even worse a fucking no show.

[blondeatlast]

16. Agreed again--at least HC went on the record. Obama made himself

a coward and I've lost all respect for him.

[Botany]

23. just like his MoveOn.org vote

this was a time to stand up and be counted.

[cascadiance]

33. Obama shows a SERIOUS lack of leadership!

If he's trying to impress us that he should be "our leader", then he's been notoriously lacking in that category without even voting on issues that the rest of congress sees fit to take one side or the other on.

And if he's trying to make like this is his "bipartisan" or "nonpartisan" approach that leads him to vote this way, then I'm sorry, but that just doesn't cut it!

Obama, you're there to make decisions and convince others to follow you in how you vote. If you feel that neither a no or a yes vote should be cast, then it is up to YOU to lead the process to provide another ammendment to make it something you CAN support. Otherwise, you're showing lack of leadership there too!

And thanks for confirming that you ARE a warmonger Hillary!

We NEED Al Gore!!!!

[blondeatlast]

13. Agreed. nt

[HughBeaumont]

4. Some of my favorites are there . . . including MY Senator!

Sherrod Brown let us down? Not by a long shot, pukes.

That's why we voted your milquetoast rubberstamp DeWine outta there and the other serial Bewsh enabler Voinovich is NEXT!

[garybeck]

8. BOTH of mine!!! I think I only see two states where both senators have a brain.

MA and VT.

[rox63]

15. We're Senatorily blessed here in Mass

:D

[garybeck]

20. back at ya, from VT :)

:)

[Lugnut]

64. I'm in PA

Neither of my two senators have brains. That includes Bob Casey who won the election simply because he isn't Rick Santorum. Ha! He may as well be.

[Cha]

14. Ya Lucks! At least you're represented

by a Senator who is intelligent and votes his conscience not what's expedient for the middle voters.

Maybe Sherrod Brown for Prez someday, who knows?

[HughBeaumont]

37. Future first couple?

Realistically, he'd make a great Vice President first.

[Cha]

47. Yeah, go the whole working route..

Sherrod Brown.. what a career so far!

[TheDebbieDee]

22. My Senator, McCaskill, MO, voted against this bill..........

but she voted to condemn the MoveOn.org ad and she voted for expanding the reach of FISA just before the congressional break.

It's like having Cybill for Senator!

[Cha]

30. Really!

I'm surprised she didn't vote for this one..another surprise.

[soleft]

7. So, after we go to war, those who voted yes will say they didn't vote for war

wanna bet?

[RufusTFirefly]

29. Either that or the old favorite...

"If I only knew then what I know now."

Disgusting and deeply discouraging.

We're screwed.

[HughBeaumont]

48. That really IS an old favorite.

A favorite, since it implies the complete lobotomy theory . . . that you DIDN'T know Bewsh was a pro-corporate, pro-fascist, anti-soldier, anti-American dictator hellbent on sending this country straight into the shitter, all so his ultra-wealthy handlers/friends can live in their gated bubbles far away from us soon-to-be-extinct untermensch. I mean, we really thought he was TRYING to do what's best for America!

WHO KNEW!!??@??!/1/1?!??

[ThomCat]

46. Of course they will. They certainly won't let themselves be held

responsible for their votes. They will insist that the vote is not an authorization for war, while simultaneously allowing it to be used as an authorization for war. We have already seen that this is true.
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[bdamomma]

9. I will try to find out why my senators voted the way they did

Reed and Whitehouse, I am not passing judgement on them until I get the facts.

[garybeck]

17. let us know. my opinion--

if they voted YEAH, there really is no excuse. As bad as Iran's leader may be and as crazy as things are in that country, they are not a threat to us. Our military should only be used when there is a clear and immediate threat to our country.

[bdamomma]

51. I did call both of my senators when I got home from work

and I was very upfront with my questions both people who answered were very cordial, I said there are alot upset people out there, and did Senator Whitehouse and Senator Reed give their ok for invasion of Iran, they both said NO, and those passages were amended. But I made a point of saying there are alot of upset people out there. I also asked if Senator Reed would send out a Press Release regarding his vote they said they will tell him, and Senator Whitehouse's office said alot of people were calling.

[bdamomma]

52. that is that pre emptive shit that this regime came up with

/strike them before they strike us, what kind of BS is that?? I agree our military should be only considered when our country is under a threat, apparently this wicked regime we have threw away 60 million dollars that should have gone to Afghanistan to Iraq instead, what a bunch of fucks really, and they have the nerve to ask for more today.

[Cha]

19. Please do..I'd be interested,

too.

[Dhalgren]

12. More than half of the Democratic Senators voted for war with Iran.

And I don't care how you want to parse it, this was a war-vote and you know it. That's a majority of the Democrats.

We need a political party...

[garybeck]

18. Is this discouraging or what. I feel like crying.

[Dhalgren]

25. I'm with you, brother...let those tears become a rain...a hard rain...

[Cha]

34. Hard

Hard Rain.

[tekisui]

32. America is ripe for a Populist Party,

I think a party of the people, for the people could take down the Dems and Pugs if it had the right leader.

[Just-plain-Kathy]

35. The corporate minded DLC has our dems on a leash. ...n/t

[Parche]

24. My Senator Wyden

He Rocks

(So Does my candidate John Kerry)

[Reader Rabbit]

44. Go Ron!

He's been awesome lately, what with tussling with the Dept. of the Interior shenanigans and this military insanity.

[madokie]

28. I don't know if I could take away or add to that list

I agree with you, in fact its a list I need to post on my board so as to remind me just who are my friends

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

31. Byrd ALWAYS got it. I have his IWR speech forever saved in my firebox. n/t

[Beer Snob-50]

36. is it possilbe that the others believe

that if iran did fund these attacks on america (even though we should never have been there in the first place) and is giving safe haven to those who are attacking our troops, we can say that we are retaliating for their actions. i am a pacifist and thus am against war of any type but that is probably the reason for their vote.

[Sufficient Voice]

39. If anyone still does, PLEASE stop supporting CLINTON!

[MethuenProgressive]

43. ^ This shows why Obama skipped the vote.

I didn't know he was this shy when he started running.

[Faryn Balyncd]

40. Interesting that LUGAR finally voted on the right side for once................

Lugar has had a record of repeatedly sounding like he has finally had enough, and then, when push comes to shove, voting to enable Bush/Cheney every time.

It is probably premature to think that this might be a good omen, to think that he might be ready to use his influence to get us from the 55-56 range to over 60 on some of these critical war votes.

[cali]

41. and next week someone on that list will do something to

incur the wrath of DUers and will become THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD.

Remember last week when Leahy was on the shit list?

[KoKo]

42. I hope they voted their conscience and didn't just know ahead of time how vote would

turn out, though.

[jillan]

49. And two of those are candidates are running for Prez.

I know you may never of heard of them before, because they are totally ignored by the msm.
But they are there.

[johnnydrama]

50. face it

If you take more than just this vote, but other votes that have a lot of Dem defectors, you can narrow it down to just a scant few senator's who seem to always do the right thing.

I may be missing a few, because some of them i'm not as familiar with, but the names I come up with are:

Boxer
Feingold
Kennedy
Kerry

Others probably in there are

Webb
Harkin
Brown
Leahy

And I'd pick Feingold as the #1 guy. Starting with his brave original Patriot Act stance, the guy is about as close to a perfect senator as we could get.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

54. Feingold is the best.

Boxer is damn close. Seems to me she has avoided the cameras for the most part. She tends to come across as pretty fucking angry for a long fracking time now. GB her. That Woman is amazing to me.
Webb, Leahy, Harkin, & Whitehouse are also in the cream of this crop. Bless em all, the 110th.

edit to add: My Senators are Dumb. Stabenow et Levin. dipshits.
Can I adopt Feingold? His state is just 8 miles from my house.

[garybeck]

65. You are forgetting Sanders. n/t

[burrowowl]

56. I'm calling Bingamen's office tomorrow

to thank him!

[tyedyeto]

57. It never does any good to write or complain to my 2 Senators

Both McCain and Kyl don't give a shit about the voters in my state. I've written both of them several times about issues and votes. If I do get a reply (very seldom) it's a carefully worded one that has nothing to do with how the voters of this state (AZ) think or feel. They have the mindset that they were elected so they will vote however they want and fuck the voters who think differently than they do.

Arizona is slowly becoming Democratic but these 2 Senators think they have the same 'man-date' that Bush does.

[youthere]

58. Harkin rarely disappoints.

[Neshanic]

59. Good list all in all.

[defendandprotect]

60. Crap!!! Lautenberg and Menendez of NJ aren't on that list!!!!

Wow -- that's a big problem cause they're usually on the right side of these issues --

[Jersey Ginny]

62. I noticed that also. They need to be called to explain this. n/t

[Generic Brad]

61. Don't they ever talk amongst themselves?

I mean, WTF? :wtf:

[defendandprotect]

63. Why don't we pick a Prez Candidate from THIS list and move on it -- ????

We name the candidate -- we all support the candidate -- ????

Enough of self-selection -- it stinks!