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To: El Gato

“would find reason to not be present when the vote is taken.”

Only if they are retiring, Senators like their jobs.

35 posted on 01/11/2010 8:08:42 AM PST by east1234 (It's the borders stupid! My new environmentalist inspired tagline: cut, kill, dig and drill)

To: east1234

Only if they are retiring, Senators like their jobs.

That's why they find reason to be absent, so no one can say they voted for the thing, even though in effect they cast half a vote for it.

36 posted on 01/11/2010 1:35:30 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)

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