Any one of them could have stopped it, so they were all the 60th vote. ALthough some were more odious than others. Such as those that were bribed rather than voting for it because they supported it.
I could see the Republicans, from their perspective, getting some mileage out of calling someone the first Senator to vote for Obamacare, but you can’t get to 60 without going through 1, 2, 3 etc. to 59.
Republicans have already discounted evolution and climatology. I refuse to let them do it to mathematics as well.
Whether odious or not, they voted for a bill that is meeting its goals so far and making health care for millions of Americans way better.
And that’s why we have elections to decide how many of those “60th vote” Democrats get to keep their jobs.
He is funny on camera when doing comedy. He is a *brilliant *writer.
But during senate hearings, I have never heard anyone duller in my life.
Still, he’a good guy.
… he’s smart enough, and doggone it, people *like *him.
We have traded a brilliant comedian for an ok senator. I’m not certain if it was a good trade or not.
I so want to see “Stewart Saves His Family Again.”
He’s a genuine wonk. We need more of his type in the Senate.
I’m sure he keeps the humor to a minimum to disarm the right. You know Fox News would be all over any levity out of him and accuse him of disrespecting the Senate.
Oh, dear. His warm and generous support from Fox News is in jeopardy?
I don’t think Shodan is, and in the current environment (the so called liberal media is not doing much here) I should let a current comedian make the point, here is Jon Steward on the Republican of the house that use retarded points to avoid lifting a finger regarding our global warming gas emissions.
(Jump to 2:46 to see the GOP nincompoops (that will never apologize) in action)
And when we check what the current GOP senators are also saying and doing I have to agree with Bill Moyers. God help us if senator Inhofe takes control of the committees on the issue if the Republicans take the senate.
(Skip to 5:20 to get to the senate republicans with dizzying intellects dealing with the issue)
Here you go, it turned out a bit disappointing.
Senator Franken along with Senators Sanders, Warren, Brown, and Casey are among the best in the United States Senate and continues Minnesota’s tradition of sending excellent Senators such as Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale, and Paul Wellstone.
As a resident of the state of Minnesota, you’re welcome. But you forgot Amy Klobuchar…
Who are you and what have you done with Qin? Seriously, I never thought I’d see you approving of those senators.
(I mean this in the nicest way possible, I swear. And for that matter, what the heck is going on with adaher?)
Franken’s a great Senator. I’ve read his books, he’s not a wild-eyed progressive warrior. Franken’s actually quite moderate and has taken his job as Senator very seriously. Franken just got a reputation because he lights into Republicans so vehemently in his writing and commentary pre-Senate.
I don’t like the other ones Qin listed though. Warren’s so far out of the mainstream she couldn’t get elected in very many places, much less nationwide. Sanders is a socialist, nuff said. Casey, meh. Not terrible. Wellstone and Mondale were ultra liberal, although Wellstone was a good guy. Mondale was an old-line Democrat who was in hock to every Democratic special interest there was. That’s not my critique, that’s Gary Hart’s in 1984. I think history has been kinder to Gary Hart’s view of where the Democratic Party should go than Mondale’s.