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

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Snowe abstained because she was attending the funeral of her aunt (and de-facto mother) when the vote went down. The BDN reports that she supported the bill.

*gag*

And the warrantless wiretap authorization will probably pass today. Where's a constitution when you need one?

[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.

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

My senators are bought and paid for. My country is only in the imagination.

[malkingrey.livejournal.com]

Given that both of NH's senators are Republican, I was less surprised to find Gregg on the list than to find Sununu off of it.

[star-gazersusan.livejournal.com]

Michigan Senators don't appear to be on the list. One small item in their favor. I'm still voting strict Democrat in the coming elections.

[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]

Hanging on a roll in Bush's Presidential Restroom?

[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.

[chikkorae.livejournal.com]

I just finished my absentee ballot application...I'll be able to vote out one of the OH senators.

[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.

[origamilady.livejournal.com]

Cold comfort, but atleast no Illinois senators (where I live) are on the list.

[anghara.livejournal.com]

Full list here:
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00259


What happened to "We the people"? So far every voice I've heard has been outraged, appalled, ashamed. Those who voted yes *work for us*. *WE* elected them. On whose behalf was this vote passed?

[saruby.livejournal.com]

This vote was passed on behalf of the upcoming election and the desparate need for the Republican party to at least appear to hang together. (Oooh, wouldnt that be nice). I have no lanswer for MY Dem senator's approval, however. I wish he were up for reelection this year. No, I don't. the alternative would surely be just as bad or worse.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

I would be stunned if either of my senators had NOT voted for the bill.

For the first time in my life, I will be voting a straight Democratic ticket. I voted for the moderate republican judges I wanted in during the primaries (and most of them won!) because no democrats were in the races. Now, it's just flipping a bird toward the governor's office (he has 3 opponents, you know he'll be re-elected...)

I think it's time to get a bumper sticker of the Preamble to the Constitution...

[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