Late this afternoon, the Senate had a cloture vote on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2013 . Cloture was actually successfully invoked. But nine cowards didn’t even vote. Here are their names: Roy Blunt (R-MO) Richard Burr (R-NC), Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), Tom Coburn (R-OK), John McCain (R-AZ), Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), David Vitter (R-LA).
Congratulations, tools. You are now the subjects for a new book called Profiles In No Courage.
I’m looking forward to the HBO mini-series.
No. Wait. No, I’m not. Though I do hope one of the mainstay sponsors is Depends.
Some travel thing or other. So I’m inclined to give them a pass. As for the rest of them? Blunt, Burr, Chambliss, Coburn, The Last Honest Maverick of a Man, Moran, and Diaper Dave? Oh yeah. Enough tools to open a Sears store.
Hmm, odds on getting it through the House?
Odds on the House coup?
Interesting bunch. What’s the matter with Missourah?–the title of an upcoming book it seems.
So what we know is that public opinion in Missouri, North Carolina, Georgia, Oklahoma, Arizona, Kansas, Alaska, and Louisiana has shifted so much that politicians don’t know how to vote because they can’t poll this issue accurately. And because they don’t know which highly motivated constituency will turn out in the larger numbers.
That’s very interesting political geography. Especially the OK-KS-MO configuration. And Saxby Chambliss’s ducking the issue when he’s up for retirement.
Yeah, I would love to know who’s pulling Saxby’s strings these days. What sort of courage does it take to do the right thing when one is leaving public office? Must be a job waiting on him somewhere that depends on this sort of vote, or “not” vote. Really cowardly.
I’ve noticed that in some other situations. Like the groupthink extended past the politics of it and folks don’t want to be shamed because they followed their conscience (assuming, of course, they have one).
No vote if present concerns me. The bill is only 40 or 41 pages. I haven’t read it, but not sure what there is to read. Are we equal or not. Simple.
My concerns are more on the 30 that voted No.
PS McCain is not a popular man in AZ.
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Coburn not voting is curious — not like he would pay a price for voting no, or personally consider voting yes.
IIRC, he had an openly gay staffer some years ago. But has otherwise given no clue I’m aware of that he’s been "evolving."
So I just called his DC office to ask. I didn’t let on how I felt about it either way. The woman I spoke with said that he was not in the Capitol yesterday, then cryptically said that more info about "that" will be coming in the Tulsa World newspaper, as they are working with reporter Chris Casteel on a story.
RT @politico: Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn has been diagnosed with a recurrence of
cancer, spokesman says: http://t.co/DHZfR7XrwS
(https://twitter.com/SabrinaSiddiqui/status/397759842754256896)
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
Oh, too soon?
Reason for Coburn not present:
RT @politico: Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn has been diagnosed with a recurrence of
cancer, spokesman says: http://t.co/DHZfR7XrwS
(https://twitter.com/SabrinaSiddiqui/status/397759842754256896)
If Coburn decides to run again, I can just see some yahoo running at him from the right, and citing Coburn’s non-appearance on the ENDA vote as reason enough for Kansans to cashier him.
On that day, my eyes will not be teary.
It would be totally consistent with the teatard stupid for somebody from Kansas to run against a sitting senator from Oklahoma.
At least they would get the most votes in Kansas,
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Just not enuf to win against Coburn in his home state.