Six Republican Senators, including DeMint and Paul, voted to kill Boehner's bill

[ProSense]

Roll call

YEAs ---59
Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Begich (D-AK)
Bennet (D-CO)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Conrad (D-ND)
Coons (D-DE)
DeMint (R-SC)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Graham (R-SC)
Hagan (D-NC)
Harkin (D-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Lee (R-UT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Manchin (D-WV)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Paul (R-KY)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
Vitter (R-LA)
Warner (D-VA)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)

NAYs ---41
Alexander (R-TN)
Ayotte (R-NH)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Brown (R-MA)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coats (R-IN)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Collins (R-ME)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
Enzi (R-WY)
Grassley (R-IA)
Heller (R-NV)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Johnson (R-WI)
Kirk (R-IL)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lugar (R-IN)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Moran (R-KS)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Portman (R-OH)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rubio (R-FL)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Snowe (R-ME)
Thune (R-SD)
Toomey (R-PA)
Wicker (R-M

[Drale]

1. You should have stopped the headline with Boehner

and put 's bill in the text. You would get tons of views.:rofl:

[nmbluesky]

2. I never get it...

[gateley]

3. And, like the House, not ONE Dem vote against! Good job! nt

[LonePirate]

4. These debt ceiling votes have made for some strange bedfellows in the vote tallies

The party of common sense and reason have been joined several of the extreme, far right terrorist faction of American politics. It's simply bizarre.

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. Why is this surprising? It's the Tea Bagger Senate contingent

[ProSense]

9. Actually, it

isn't surprising. Just highlighting the GOP civil war.

Dear Senator Hatch, the teabaggers are still going to turn on you!

:rofl:

[GoCubsGo]

6. I'm stunned.

This is the first time in two decades that my representatives voted the way I wanted them to. Sadly, they only voted that way because this rotten bill was not extreme enough for them. I really, really, really wish I could escape this fucking hell hole.

On edit: It was actually six years. Fritz Hollings retired in 2005. It only seems like 20 years.

[sasha031]

7. thank you

Scott Brown said he would vote for Reid bill and he just voted again along party lines.

[Tx4obama]

8. K and R. and....

Those six republicans were 'not' voting 'with' the dems - they were voting 'against' Boehner because they think Boehner's bill didn't go far enough.

Which is bad news for us dems because that means Harry Reid will have to find SEVEN republican votes to vote for cloture on Reid's bill.

Not looking good :(

I was hoping some of the republican 'yes' votes were the usual suspects like Snowe, Collins, Brown, Murkowski, etc.

[Cosmocat]

22. Right - Rand Paul voted "with" the dems on this ...

And you KNOW that little entitled pukebag ain't working WITH them ...

[Imajika]

10. There isn't that much good about this news..

Those 6 Republican senators don't think Boehner's is radical and right wing enough.

It's not like we can count on them to be reasonable.

At least because those 6 voted to table Boehner's bill we can now accurately say a bipartisan majority in the Senate oppose it.

[Tx4obama]

11. Yeah, we still need to find seven republicans to vote 'for' cloture on Reid's bill :( n/t

[Kaleva]

15. Reports are that there are 10 Repubs open to voting for the Reid plan.

[Tx4obama]

16. Please post a link.

I just read that Susan Collins is going to 'oppose' cloture,
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/60265_Page2.html
and she is usually on our side.

So, where the heck are the dems going to find the seven republicans that we need for cloture?
I would be ecstatic if we get seven, ten sounds unbelievable.

[Kaleva]

17. I think there's a difference between actually supporting Reid's plan....

and a willingness to support cloture itself. Also, it appears the support is dependent on making some changes to the Reid plan.

I haven't found anything in writing to support what I said. I heard it stated on TV and I think it was Senator Schumer himself who said it.

The best I've found is this:

"But in public comments, several Senate Republicans were sharply critical of the proceedings in the House and suggested they could be open to a compromise with the Democrats."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-debt-talks-20110730,0,3593064.story

[Tx4obama]

19. We probably won't see any 'lists' of republicans that will vote 'yes' on cloture

until sometime Sunday, is my guess.

[Tx4obama]

21. I just heard Sen Schumer on a video say ....

that he knows of 10 republicans that want 'negotiate' and to 'come to a deal'.
Perhaps that's what you heard about.
If it is, then that's quite different than 10 of them agreeing to vote for cloture.

I just hope it all works out for the best soon so that we can all move on to a different issue :)

[Drahthaardogs]

12. Stupid McCain still playing politics huh?

So much for his hobbits, and goblins, and dragons OH MY! speech. Dirty piece of crap that he is.

[Ter]

23. He's against the tea baggers

He's been blasting them, why call him names now? He's more reasonable than most there.

[blue neen]

13. Dear Pat Toomey: Pay attention to how unpopular Gov. Corbett is because of his teabag policies.

Just in case you don't know, Pat, Corbett's at 35% now. The citizens of Pennsylvania are not enjoying his economic extremism or his corporate ass-kissing.

It doesn't matter how many editorials Richard Mellon Scaife puts in his libertarian rags in favor of your Grover Norquist policies. The people aren't buying it.


:dem:

[frazzled]

14. What? I read elsewhere that Kirk (IL) voted to table it.

I wrote the damned guy an email thanking him and urging him to continue to work for a balanced solution. Shit. Did he vote to kill the Boehner bill or not?

My info came from this article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/29/john-boehner-debt-ceiling-bill-vote_n_913723.html

Can someone confirm so I know whether I have to write a second email rescinding my thanks?

Shit.

As for some of the others (Rand, DeMint, Vitter), I do not applaud them. Their reasons for voting against it were probably because they thought it wasn't conservative enough. To hell with them.

UPDATE: I sent him a nasty follow-up rescinding my thanks. I should know better than to trust Huffington Post to report anything correctly.

[Tx4obama]

18. HP made a mistake. They should not have listed Kirk, and listed HATCH instead

They left Hatch out of their list of six.

Someone made a boo boo.

[last_texas_dem]

20. Pathetic.

I had assumed that at least a couple of the Repug "yeas" were from the supposedly more reasonable wing of the party, calling the Boehner bill out for the worthless political stunt it was. I guess that's the difference between having yesterday's moderates like Chafee and Jeffords in your caucus vs. having today's "moderates" like Snowe, Collins, and Scott Brown.

Still, it's just a little sad that someone with as low an opinion of that party as me is still giving them too much credit.

Of the six, though, no big surprises, I guess... The usual nutjobs like Paul, Demint, & Lee voting their "conscience", Vitter just being a dick as usual (even if it happened to put him on the side I agree with for once), and Graham & Hatch voting out of fears for their political futures in their blood-red states. Yup, not much to see here...

[Mass]

24. And? They do not want to raise the debt ceiling ever...