“Looks like he beat Collins and Snow to the lifeboats.”
Yeah, that’s because B comes before C, S, and V. Sheesh! And on one vote you are going to decide he is not a moderately good senator. Make your decision after you see how the final vote turns out. This was a procedural vote. Learn more about how the Senate voting system actually works.
I supported his election, and thought he would be a good senator for Massachusetts. I thought that the subsequent talk about him running for President was naive and silly.
I knew that he was moderately pro-abort, if that’s not a contradiction in terms, but thought he was fiscally sound. Now I doubt that, too, after this vote.
Did he need to vote this way to keep his job? I don’t know. I thought that he was elected because even the Massachusetts voters were tired of spending and debt and layoffs.
We’ll see how he goes on from here. This is, of course, a significant vote since it now allows the Democrats to pass their so-called jobs bill (a lying name for it) with just 51 votes. I didn’t expect him to be a real conservative, but I didn’t expect him to cave so soon on this fiscal insanity.