Naming the Names

[rolanni]

The names of the senators who voted in favor of torture, and to make the president of the united states (small caps intended) the sole and final arbiter of your -- yes, YOUR -- fate. If the president takes a madcap whim, YOU may now be taken away, secretly imprisoned for as long as the president feels like keeping you, denied a lawyer and a trial, tortured.

So be careful what you say in your blogs, 'k?

Susan Collins is on this list. Olympia Snowe abstained. I am ashamed.

Edited to correct list. Source here

Alexander (R-TN)
Allard (R-CO)
Allen (R-VA)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burns (R-MT)
Burr (R-NC)
Carper (D-DE)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Craig (R-ID)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
DeWine (R-OH)
Dole (R-NC)
Domenici (R-NM)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Frist (R-TN)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagel (R-NE)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lott (R-MS)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Santorum (R-PA)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Smith (R-OR)
Specter (R-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Stevens (R-AK)
Sununu (R-NH)
Talent (R-MO)
Thomas (R-WY)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (R-VA)

Comments

[scarlettina.livejournal.com]

How could John McCain, of all people, vote for this thing? My respect for him is pretty much gone.

Cold comfort, but at least my senators didn't vote for this thing.

[windrose.livejournal.com]

How could John McCain, of all people, vote for this thing? My respect for him is pretty much gone.

I was thinking the exact same thing.

Pardon me while I go weep for what used to be my country.

[elbales]

He's part of a three-man group of Republican dissenters who insisted the bill's being toned down before they would support it.

Yes, that means it used to be worse. Scary.

[od-mind.livejournal.com]

Frankly, the pre-toning-down version was no worse, just more honest. It said "you can be disappeared on a whim"; the current version says "you cannot be disappeared on a whim, unless the president decides it would be a good idea".

Has anyone else noticed that the content and rationale for this bill is essentially a point-by-point repudiation of the Declaration of Independence? Time to dig up the remains of Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin and try them for deviationism.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Actually, when they got through with the, "compromise," it was worse than when they opposed it.

The definitions of fault were limited, (so only those who physically hurt someone, or; directly, order it done, could be prosecuted) and the defintions of torture were more specific, so things which had been torture, are no longer.

TK