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January 26, 2005

The Hamster Herd

Condi Rice won confirmation as Secretary of State today, by an 85-13 vote.

Voting against?

  • Ted Kennedy (MA): He knows the party is going to swing to the left, and he's swinging with it.
  • Evan Bayh(IN): Ditto. Bayh is frequently listed as a dark-horse for the ticket in '08. No harm in getting out front on this.
  • Barbara Boxer (CA): Ditto again, although her horse is lighter (as is her intellectual gravitas)
  • Robert Byrd (WV): He ain't votin' for no cullud wimmin.
  • Mark Dayton (MN): Because Howard Dean pulled the string attached to his chin.
  • Richard Durbin (IL)
  • Tom Harkin (IA): Just to feel relevant again, I guess.
  • Frank Lautenberg (NJ): He's fallen and he can't get up.
  • Carl Levin (MI)
  • Daniel Akaka (HI)
  • Jack Reed (RI)
  • Jim Jeffords (VT): Just to show how "independent" he is, I guess.
I suspect that, during childhood, each of these 13 disgraces to the Senate were prone to taking their toys and going home when they didn't get their way.

Posted by Mitch at January 26, 2005 06:59 PM | TrackBack
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Silly, silly people.

Not too many surprises here, of course, but I must say that I'm rather disappointed in Sen. Bayh's vote. I had thought him to be made of sterner stuff.

Posted by: Jared at January 26, 2005 02:28 PM

Jeepers, let's not forget John Kerry, who also served in Vietnam. He ran for president! He had a plan. This was it.

Amazing. In their quest to remain relevant in the public arena, the Democratic leadership has eschewed Civil Rights and Affirmative Action for the politics of George Wallace and Lester Maddox, and all behind the KKKlansman, Robert Byrd.

Shameful.

Posted by: Eracus at January 26, 2005 03:24 PM

On the humorous side...Minnesota Sen."I'm outta'here cuz'I don't wanna' die"Mark Dayton excoriated the Condi Rice nomination.At the heart of his pique against the Bushies was probably the $5 Co-pay at the Senate Pharmacy for his Prozac and the long wait behind Sen.Bobby Byrd as he filled his prescriptions for various maladies.A unanimous consent decree was offered on the floor by Dayton that Sen.Byrd post all his future pharmacy times to avoid the long lines.A second was offered by Sen.Kennedy who had been the victim of a long wait the previous week when trying to fill his Antabuse prescription.

Posted by: Ed Viehman at January 26, 2005 03:55 PM

On the humorous side...Minnesota Sen."I'm outta'here cuz'I don't wanna' die"Mark Dayton excoriated the Condi Rice nomination.At the heart of his pique against the Bushies was probably the $5 Co-pay at the Senate Pharmacy for his Prozac and the long wait behind Sen.Bobby Byrd as he filled his prescriptions for various maladies.A unanimous consent decree was offered on the floor by Dayton that Sen.Byrd post all his future pharmacy times to avoid the long lines.A second was offered by Sen.Kennedy who had been the victim of a long wait the previous week when trying to fill his Antabuse prescription.

Posted by: Ed Viehman at January 26, 2005 03:55 PM

Mitch,

You forgot John Kerry.

(insert joke about how forgettable John Kerry is, here.)

Posted by: Trudger at January 26, 2005 04:01 PM

I agree with Jared that with most of these jerks, their vote didn't come as much of a surprise, the exception being Bayh. I thought Bayh was trying to position himself as a reasonable moderate type Democratic for the sake of taking a stab at the White House. Hillary will have no problem outflanking him to the right after this vote.

Posted by: Van Helsing at January 27, 2005 01:11 PM

Senator Mark "Duck and Cover" Dayton is one of the largest disgraces on this list. It will be very interesting and entertaining to watch as the democrats try to save him from his own mind in 2006.

Posted by: Steve Sumner at January 30, 2005 10:55 AM
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