that is baldly false. The only Dems who voted for the filibuster were Pryor and Lincoln of Ark and Reid (who had to so he could bring up the bill again later).
5. It's one of those stupid Senate procedural things.
Edited on Tue Sep-21-10 11:03 PM by Diamonique
Reid voted "yes" at first. But after we lost, the Majority Leader has to change his vote to "no" in order be able to bring the bill back up for a vote again.
10. I read somewhere that Lincoln and Pryor didn't vote no until it was clear we were going to lose the
vote. Does anyone know if that's true? The implication was that they would vote for it if it was going to pass but if it was already going to fail, they could vote against.
13. I know. The usual is happening again. Republicans obstruct something and Democrats blame Democrats
while essentially letting the Republicans off the hook.
It was pretty damn clear during the lead up that ALL WE NEEDED was ONE Republican vote. If we got one, then we could repeal DADT. Harry didn't seem to be focused on Lincoln or Pryor as votes that had to be turned or else the repeal would fail. I think if we had Collins or Snowe then they would have voted the right way. If not then the word should have been out to call/lobby/etc. the hell out of the Arkansas Senate delegation. I didn't see that happening in the way it should have been if we would have flipped Collins and then Lincoln would have been the vote that killed the repeal.
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