The positive note on this from mcjoan of The Daily Kos is that the amendment received 29 yea votes as opposed to the 11 votes from the sponsors of the bill, and that constitutes a majority of Democrats.
However, I think 29 Democrats is still a pretty sad number in support of Reid-Feingold.
And when I go back and look at the tally of Dems who voted Nay (in the above screen shot), it’s particularly disheartening to note that all four of the new Democratic senators elected last November are part of that group (in addition to Casey and Webb, that also means Jon Tester and Claire McCaskill – I’m not going to say anything about the other Repug-lites on that list for now).I wonder if these people have any understanding at all of how hard I and other bloggers work to try and overcome the “divided Democrats” narrative foisted on us by our corporate media (believe me, if anyone thinks Repugs aren’t divided right now, then they obviously haven’t read any of the Email I’ve received from conservative icon Richard Viguerie kicking and screaming about “conservatives betrayed”…I don’t know how I ended up on his Email distribution, but reading this stuff is a treat from time to time).
The country hates the war. We want our troops to start coming home. How many more polls am I supposed to cite to confirm that?And by ignoring that fact with their “No” votes, our four freshman Dems are confirming another narrative here, the one that the Senate is an out-of-touch country club of pols who have no intention of messing with the status quo of their jobs, perks and dint of celebrity inherent in their offices. At any rate, they are definitely not honoring the fine work of the Dems in the House, who are a lot more in touch with this country on the war and a whole host of other issues.
But, as mcjoan notes, this vote will come around again. So our four new Dem Senators will have another chance to do the right thing.
We’ll be watching.
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