Best Republican Senators: here's the list: & here's why

[orleans]

(reposted by special request from mom cat)

it took me hours to do this (in fact it took me an entire freakin day)
(bkkd = boxer, kerry, kennedy, durbin who usually vote together)

the winners:
LINCOLN CHAFEE: voted 63% with bkkd
OLYMPIA SNOW: voted 56% with bkkd
SUSAN COLLINS: voted 53% with bkkd
ARLEN SPECTER: voted 41% with bkkd (gasp!)
(call the top three for an alito filibuster)
most "conservative" was mcconnell who voted with bkkd 5.37%

MY RESEARCH:
i looked at all the votes for 2005
there were 366
i did not include the votes where a large majority voted together (around 80 or so--unless a republican voted in the minority with other bkkd)
i did not inlcude votes where all dems voted one way and republicans voted the other way.

i looked at split votes(where at least one republican crossed over with bkkd)

my baseline was boxer, kennedy, kerry and durbin (bkkd)
(on the votes where they split their vote i did not include; i did use one or two votes where durbin voted against bkk and counted any republican who voted with bkk.)

that left me with 205 votes that i looked at. out of 205, here's the republican vote count (with the "friendliest" having the most votes listed)
129 chafee
114 snowe
108 collins
84 specter
80 dewine
59 coleman
52 smith
46 talent & voiovich
45 warner
43 mccain
42 lugar
39 thune, sununu
36 hutchison
31 gregg
30 martinez & vitter
28 domenici, santorum & allen
27 graham, coburn, shelby
26 murkowski, dole & craig
25 ensign, alexander & hagel
24 roberts & bond
23 chambliss & crapo
22 enzi, isakson
21 cornyn, hatch & inhofe
20 burns & stevens
19 burr, lott, thomas
18 bennett
17 cochran
16 frist, brownback
15 sessions
14 bunning, grassley, demint & allard
13 kyl
11 mcconnell

[salin]

1. no thanks

they prop up frist and bushco.

[Journeyman]

6. And the winner for confirming the Democrat's minority status. . .

and ensuring Alito's confirmation so their precious sensibilities aren't compromised goes to. . .

[0007]

2. Thanks for the information, it is definitely a keeper.

Thanks again for your time and hard work.

[roseBudd]

3. The best GOP senators are the ones to target regarding Alito...

Good work.

[benny05]

5. Yeah, I wrote Collins and Snowe

They are part of the gang of 14 and urged them not to vote with their Party.

[William769]

4. The best GOP Senators are the one's leaving office.

[cali]

7. I really appreciate the effort you put into this but

no matter how often they vote with the liberals, when the chips are down, when it's really important they support bushco. It reminds me of the Mcarthy era, except back then the repubs weren't as bad as the party today. They knew better then and didn't act until it was almost too late, and they know better now. Shame on Chafee, Snowe and Collins. They know better.

[Journeyman]

10. ". . . didn't act until it almost too late . . ."

so which is it: they'll never do anything other than support BushCo and the world be damned, or they are capable of enlightened understanding when finally thrust into an untenable situation? You've presented us with two absolutes. Is compromise possible or is it but a pipedream?

[cali]

16. I don't know if it's possible

I just finished reading Haynes' Johnson's Age of Anxiety in which he compares republicans in the Mcarthy era to today's republicans. He argues that it was a far more diverse party then. Is there anyone like Senator Flanders in the Senate today? It doesn't appear so as of this date.

[IndyOp]

8. CONTACT INFORMATION for Best 4 Repubs & Entire Gang of 14 !!!

Best 4 Repubs!

LINCOLN CHAFEE (RI): voted 63% with bkkd:
141A Russell, Washington, DC 20510
[phone]
Web Form: http://chafee.senate.gov/webform.htm

OLYMPIA SNOWE (ME): voted 56% with bkkd:
154 Russell Senate Office Bldg., Washington DC 20510
Phone: [phone]
WebForm: http://snowe.senate.gov/Webform.htm

SUSAN COLLINS (ME): voted 53% with bkkd:
461 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC 20510
Phone: [phone]
Web Form: http://collins.senate.gov/public /

ARLEN SPECTER (PA): voted 41% with bkkd (gasp!)
711 Hart Building, Washington, DC 20510
Phone: [phone]
Web Form: http://specter.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactInfo.Home


THE WHOLE GANG OF 14

Robert Byrd (WV)
311 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
[phone]
Web Form: http://www.byrd.senate.gov/byrd_email.html

Daniel Inouye (HI)
722 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
[phone]
Web Form: http://www.inouye.senate.gov/webform.html

Mary Landrieu (LA)
724 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
[phone]
Web Form: http://www.landrieu.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm

Joseph Lieberman (CT)
706 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
Web Form: http://lieberman.senate.gov/contact /
[phone]

Ben Nelson (NE)
716 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
[phone]
Web Form: http://www.billnelson.senate.gov/contact

Mark Pryor (AR)
217 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
[phone]
Web Form: http://www.pryor.senate.gov/email_webform.htm

K. Salazar (CO)
UNITED STATES SENATE WASHINGTON DC 20510
[phone]
Web Form: http://salazar.senate.gov/contact/email.cfm


Republicans:

Lincoln Chafee (RI)
141A Russell, Washington, DC 20510
[phone]
Web Form: http://chafee.senate.gov/webform.htm

Susan Collins (ME)
461 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC 20510
Phone: [phone]
Web Form: http://collins.senate.gov/public /

Mike De Wine (OH)
140 Russell Senate Building, Washington, DC 20510
Phone: [phone]
Web Form: http://dewine.senate.gov /

Lindsey Graham (SC)
290 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, DC 20510
[phone] phone
Web Form: http://lgraham.senate.gov/index.cfm?mode=contact

John McCain (AZ)
241 Russell Senate Office Bldg., Washington DC 20510
Phone: [phone]
WebForm: http://mccain.senate.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=Contact.H...

Olympia Snowe (ME)
154 Russell Senate Office Bldg., Washington DC 20510
Phone: [phone]
WebForm: http://snowe.senate.gov/Webform.htm

John Warner (VA)
225 Russell Building, Washington, D.C. 20510
Phone: [phone]
WebForm: http://warner.senate.gov/contact/contactme.cfm

[rodeodance]

13. e-mail interruped-said the message to Snowe--see below

Contacting Senator Snowe

Senator Snowe can be contacted several different ways:


E-mail:

E-mail messages may be submitted to Senator Snowe's Webform.

Please include your name and address with your message, comment, or request.


Phone:
Toll free in Maine: [phone]
TDD - Maine Relay Service: 1-955-3323

Please see "Mail or Fax" below for phone numbers of individual Snowe offices.


Mail or Fax:

Please select the office you wish to contact from the list below:

Washington D.C.

Auburn | Augusta | Bangor | Biddeford | Portland | Presque Isle

[IndyOp]

15. When I click on

webform - are you saying that after using the webform your email got kicked back to you with an error message?

:shrug:

[alfredo]

20. I see Bunning and McConnell are at the bottom.

assholes

[yellowdoginGA]

21. my senators from Ga aren't far from the bottom

[alfredo]

22. But McConnell is the king of mean. He deserves his last place.

[yellowdoginGA]

23. no argument there

[alfredo]

24. That's good. I'm too tired to

argue. Anyway it is the weekend, I should be resting.

[orleans]

26. your contact for the gang of 14 is great.

can you do a seperate posting of it so that more people read it and perhaps act on it?

thanks.

[skipos]

9. Wouldn't say "best," I'd say "best ones to target to vote against Alito."

nt

[orleans]

25. yeah, but this way it got people's attention so they would

know WHO to target--in case they didn't already know.
:)

[rodeodance]

11. very important to contact Snowe---especially now that she

has said yes. SHE needs to know your thoughts!!--

OLYMPIA SNOW: voted 56% with bkkd

[greiner3]

12. Dewine and Voinovich from Ohio;

Are going to be hard to unseat. They can go more toward the middle and take any challenger's moderate vote away and still pick up the klan vote. Hell, the Columbus Dispatch did not once endorse John Glenn. Imagine what they will say to any newcomer.

[skids]

27. DeWine is getting the crap kicked out of him in polls n/t

[rodeodance]

14. Recommend this

[scarletlib]

17. They are worthless to this country as long as they continue

to vote with bushco and the repugs.

No individual good deed or single vote cast by one of these people is worth anything as long as they support this current administration and its policies. And, as far as I can see, when push comes to shove and bushco wants a bill passed, a hearing suppressed, etc. they are on his side.

[Catherine Vincent]

18. What?

You mean to tell me my two republican Senators (Hutchison and Cronyn)didn't make the cut?

[DaveinMD]

19. there are no good Republicans

they are enablers for the right wing agenda no matter their voting record because they vote to organize under Republican control.

[skids]

28. K&R

Folks try to look past the word "best" and onto the (remote, yes) possibility of coaxing a couple Alito "no" votes. Or at least making them waver enough to give Frist an ulcer in the process.

This is good info, thanks to the OP!

[AZBlue]

29. Attention DU'ers from Arizona:

This is why we have to support Jim Pederson's campaign!!

http://www.pederson2006.com