Posted on 07/14/2005 1:58:01 PM PDT by LisaFab
Anybody else watching the Senate on CSPAN 2? Reid just had his "Carl Rove' amendment to the Homeland Security funding bill read and spoke for about five minutes bashing Rove and Bush.
THEN, the clerk read an amendment proposed by Bill Frist that any office holder who discloses classified FBI information on the Senate floor and uses it to denigrate the U.S. military should have HIS security clearence removed. DURBIN alert!
Wow! Great stuff. Turn on CSPAN 2 immediately!
Baucus- No
Clinton- No
Shoemer- No
Not yet
Warner- No
Do you think this is a good amendment?
I actually like this roll call. It's outing a lot of "republicans".
McMaverick and McHagel will never win the nomination.
Talent- Aye
Liberman- No
Nelson- No
Chaffee- No
Thune- Aye
Dewine- No
Hatch- No
0 Democratic Yes
8 Republican No
They just messed up Hatch's vote on the floor. Very amusing to listen to.
Hatch- Aye??
They just said two things??
Well, the real vote will be whether or not the GOP votes against the Reid amendment. Neither amendment really belongs in this bill - but the Frist amendment was an appropriate response for the silly Reid amendment to keep the Democrats from being able to take control of the debate with their idiocy on Rove.
Because it's a 'second degree' amendment. That is, it appends/amends the first one (Reid's).
Martinez- Aye
Lincoln- no
Burns- Aye
Corzine- No
Harkin- No
Fraud?
Biden- No
Don't feel bad, we keep getting stuck with Feinswine and Boxerr
Voinavich- NO!!
I can't believe it!
Salazar- No
Voinobitch voted no as well.
This is a good guide to "Who's not really a Republican". And Arlen Specter may be revealing himself to not be a RINO, but just an attention whore, who will pretend to be a RINO if you don't watch him.
FWIW I think both amendments will fail. The Frist amendment only amends the Reid one. Therefor we will have had a fruitless yet illuminating two hours. But at least the RINOs are out in the open once more.
I haven't examined it entirely. I view it more as a loyalty vote and a certain number of Republicans would never vote for it, so don't have to worry about whether it is sound.
It's guarenteed to get at least 6 to defeat it. That leaves the other other Republicans free to use the vote as they choose, and I find it interesting which "republicans" choose to vote "no" on what is no more, no less, than a protest vote against the nonsense of the Dems amendment.
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