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flpoljunkie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 12:30 PM Original message |
A salute to those Dems who had the guts to vote against DOMA ten years ago |
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gaspee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 12:35 PM Response to Original message |
1. I miss |
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demdiva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 12:39 PM Response to Original message |
2. Yay for JK and my former senators |
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karynnj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 12:54 PM Response to Original message |
3. Looking at the list, this was an incrediblely gutsy vote |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 01:07 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Not as I recall - But the only one facing election that SAME year was JK. |
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flpoljunkie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 01:39 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Chuck Robb only Senator from Southern state to oppose DOMA. Was defeated |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 01:47 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Alot of that was Clinton backlash in Virginia - DOMA sure didn't help him |
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beachmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 03:29 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Yeah, and too bad for ME who lives in Virginia |
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flpoljunkie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 03:35 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Pleased to see Warner does not support FMA. He says it may outlaw civil |
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flpoljunkie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-07-06 11:15 AM Response to Reply #8 |
25. Evidently Warner changed his mind, as he voted for cloture. Perhaps one |
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kwolf68 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 04:19 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. You are correct. |
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karynnj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 04:39 PM Response to Reply #4 |
12. True, and although it was MA, it was his toughest race |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 06:07 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Because he was facing the most popular Republican in Mass history. |
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Mass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 04:44 PM Response to Reply #3 |
13. Definitively. Consider that Nelson is one of the very few (the only?) Dem |
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flpoljunkie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 04:48 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Nelson of Nebraska is said to be the only Dem who will vote for FMA. |
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flpoljunkie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-07-06 11:17 AM Response to Reply #14 |
26. Well, add Robert Byrd to the lost of those voting for the FMA. Too bad! |
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derby378 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 04:26 PM Response to Original message |
10. Russ Feingold ROCKS! |
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election_2004 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 04:32 PM Response to Original message |
11. That's my U.S. Senator!!! |
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wiley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 07:20 PM Response to Original message |
16. Daschle, Dodd, Lieberman, Leahy, etc.? Gutless? |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-07-06 12:46 AM Response to Reply #16 |
20. Sadly, Wellstone too |
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Love Bug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-07-06 11:09 AM Response to Reply #20 |
24. I like to think Wellstone would have changed his mind by now |
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LittleClarkie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 07:36 PM Response to Original message |
17. Reminder: Clinton told Kerry to come out in favor of DOMA in 2004 |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-07-06 01:00 AM Response to Reply #17 |
22. No, Kerry was correct regarding politics too |
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TayTay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 09:25 PM Response to Original message |
18. Hawaii, Illinois, California and Massachusetts rocked! |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-07-06 12:57 AM Response to Reply #18 |
21. Wellstone talks about this in his book |
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LeahD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 11:03 PM Response to Original message |
19. Again and again, thank you, JK. n/t |
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TheDonkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-07-06 02:01 AM Response to Original message |
23. Very brave and forward thinking democrats on that list. |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-07-06 02:29 PM Response to Original message |
27. Hear, hear! |
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