A round of applause to the 19 Dem senators and 1 Independent who voted NAY today (and 2 Repubs)

[Selatius]

At issue was the Kyl amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008.

NAYs ---22

Biden (D-DE)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Dodd (D-CT)
Feingold (D-WI)
Hagel (R-NE)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Leahy (D-VT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Lugar (R-IN)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Sanders (I-VT)
Tester (D-MT)
Webb (D-VA)
Wyden (D-OR)

Obama missed the vote. The other absent senator was McCain:

Not Voting - 2

McCain (R-AZ)
Obama (D-IL)

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00349

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

:applause::applause::applause:

I guess you can applaud the 2 Repub senators as well, if you wish.

[TwilightGardener]

1. LOL! Lugar and Hagel are honorary Democrats now?

[Selatius]

2. Oh Shit, lemme go back an edit it. n/t

[Rainbowreflect]

15. Of course the Dem from Nebraska voted the other way.

Big surprise.

[TwilightGardener]

16. Yep. Maybe Hagel can lend Nelson some brains.

[Rainbowreflect]

17. Or a heart, maybe some courage????

[peace13]

3. Thank you for posting this.

And I join you in the applause! The noose must be very tight in DC to have so few do the right thing. Peace, Kim

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. ONLY 19 dems? ONLY?

Hey Obama, Durbin, wa da fa guys?

[Selatius]

6. They grow fewer and fewer in number as time goes on, apparently. n/t

[ShortnFiery]

5. Here! Here! Bless them for NOT wanting to usher in WW f**king III. nt

[chaska]

7. What is the Kyl amendment?

[Selatius]

9. Go here. In the news, it's dubbed the Kyl-Lieberman amendment, apparently.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1911538&mesg_id=1911538

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

8. That's a good bit more than the one man who resisted the first BushCo push for PNAC.

:patriot: Thank you, each and every one (INCLUDING the 2 Republican senators)!!!

GOOD ON YOU!!! :applause:

[katmondoo]

10. Good for Dodd

Today I vote for him

[Tatiana]

11. Edward Kennedy consistently votes with and for the American people.

Why couldn't he have been our Majority Leader?

[Virginia Dare]

22. Yet nobody around here ever seems to talk about him..

:shrug:

[blondeatlast]

12. This is THE issue for me. I do applaud the senators who put our country before politics.

Regardless of which side of the aisle they sit.

:patriot:

[RufusTFirefly]

13. Wow. We're really setting the bar low these days

Hate to sound jaded and negative, but it's pretty pathetic when we've reached a point where we cheer people for not doing something nuts.

OK. That's all. I'll crawl back under my dark cloud.

[blondeatlast]

14. Ain't it the goddamned, sorry-ass, sickening truth? nt

[Jim Lane]

19. A few lines of poetry about these strange times

How sharply our children will be ashamed
taking at last their vengeance for these horrors
remembering how in so strange a time
common integrity could look like courage.

-- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

[RufusTFirefly]

20. Sad and beautiful. And spot on. Thanks! n/t

[provis99]

18. Not surprised by the usual suspects voting Yea

Akaka, Bayh, Clinton, Reid, the Nelson twins. But some of the others voting yea really disappoint me.

[Virginia Dare]

21. Glad to applaud my Senator, Jim Webb..

:applause:

[Breeze54]

23. Clinton voted Yes??? WTF?

Glad to see my two senators had enough brains to vote Nay!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Only 19 Dems voted Nay? :banghead: Have the rest learned nothing???

Thanks for posting the list!

[Richard Steele]

26. You sound surprised. nm

[leveymg]

24. We still have some decent Senators, but the Senate has been destroyed

The Bush-Cheney cabal attacked and burned the Capitol in 2001, and it hasn't been rebuilt since.

[orleans]

25. ah yes, dick durbin supporting the troops once again -- i see...n/t