PATRIOT ACT Filibusted tally

52 YEAS, 47 Nays, 1 not voting, 1 nay done for procedual reasons to bring back up. Really, 53 Nays, 46 Nays, and 1 not voing — Bill Frist’s procedural voting doesn’t give him any points here.

Democratic Yay fence-crossers:
BEN NELSON OF NEBRASKA

Republican Nay fence-crossers:

LARRY CRAIG OF IDAHO, CHUCK HAGEL OF NEBRASKA, LISA MURKOWSKI OF ALASKA, JOHN SUNUNU OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Assimilate that information how you must. I ponder the meaning of the two Nebraska Senators jumping across the aisle, past each other, in pursuit of their different political positionings. I am a bit puzzled by Tom Coburn’s absence from the listings, as I had thought that Republican Senator (and all around nutcase) Tom Coburn of Oklahoma would be there with the filibuster, that seeming to be the saving grace over Brad Carson in that Republican Primary that masqueraded as a General Election. I guess Tom Coburn was whipped around or something.

As for the images, I regret to say that there were no funny images of Lisa Murkowski or Ben Nelson. Political enemies of Murkowski and Nelson need to get to work on grabbing unflattering images from anywhere at all. My image of John Sununu is 15 years old, but I toss it in to give a historical connection of sorts — the Bush I insider in the age of Bush II.

Russ Feingold posted an unofficial transcript of his bit in the Senate debate. Or, perhaps, his tenure as Blogger describing his week.

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