Reply #15: I was kind of following the vote

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and when I heard "kerry - no" the first thought in my mind was WTF??? OTOH, Yvonne (and karyn I think) may have a point, it may be one of these painful to make and painful to explain votes made while viewing a goal post further down the road. I don't know... And I keep feeling that my head may be on the verge of exploding, this + last night's speech + the awful news and images coming from the Gulf...

About the speech: I DID like it. It did not lift me out of my chair (well... actually bed) with enthusiasm or newly found energy and sense of purpose, but I did like it. And when I started hearing the pundits right afterwards (Keith and company), I was wondering if we listened to the same speech. And maybe I wanted it too much to be so and hence had impaired objectivity, but I thought that the part about energy (and climate, kind of, he did mention it once + he mentioned the House bill) while somewhat vague, was stronger than what I expected.