Wall of Shame

[mellicious]

This kind of thing just pisses me off, so I'm using Holidailies today to vent my anger. The Senate voted today to kill (that is, against ratifying) the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. I mean, are the Republicans just trying to see how big of a grinch they can be, collectively?

(Added: apparently everybody's favorite failed presidential candidate/dirty word Rick Santorum had something to do with this whole thing.)


This list came from the official Senate website, but I edited it down to the naysayers, so any mistakes are likely to be mine.

38 senators (all Republicans) voted no - enough to vote it down, since this is a treaty and takes a 2/3 majority:

Alexander (R-TN), Nay 

Blunt (R-MO), Nay 

Boozman (R-AR), Nay 

Burr (R-NC), Nay 

Chambliss (R-GA), Nay 

Coats (R-IN), Nay 

Coburn (R-OK), Nay 

Cochran (R-MS), Nay 

Corker (R-TN), Nay 

Cornyn (R-TX), Nay 

Crapo (R-ID), Nay 

DeMint (R-SC), Nay 

Enzi (R-WY), Nay 

Graham (R-SC), Nay 

Grassley (R-IA), Nay 

Hatch (R-UT), Nay 

Heller (R-NV), Nay 

Hoeven (R-ND), Nay 

Hutchison (R-TX), Nay 

Inhofe (R-OK), Nay 

Isakson (R-GA), Nay 

Johanns (R-NE), Nay 

Johnson (R-WI), Nay 

Kyl (R-AZ), Nay 

Lee (R-UT), Nay 

McConnell (R-KY), Nay 

Moran (R-KS), Nay 

Paul (R-KY), Nay 

Portman (R-OH), Nay 

Risch (R-ID), Nay 

Roberts (R-KS), Nay 

Rubio (R-FL), Nay 

Sessions (R-AL), Nay 

Shelby (R-AL), Nay 

Thune (R-SD), Nay 

Toomey (R-PA), Nay 

Vitter (R-LA), Nay 

Wicker (R-MS), Nay

These R's (and Lieberman) voted Yes (and I may have missed at least 1 R in there):

Ayotte (R-NH), Yea 

Barrasso (R-WY), Yea 

Brown (R-MA), Yea

Collins (R-ME), Yea 

Lieberman (ID-CT), Yea 

Lugar (R-IN), Yea 

McCain (R-AZ), Yea 

Snowe (R-ME), Yea

(And I don't know what's up with this guy:

Kirk (R-IL), Not Voting)
(What I'm not sure about is what "not voting" means, exactly? Abstained? Absent?) (Note: see answer to this in the comments.)

Comments

[anjea.livejournal.com]

I saw that, too. What makes it even worse is that they were voting with whether or not they agree that everyone else in the world should support changes to support those with disabilities, and we wouldn't have to change a thing, legally. Bringing the world up to US standards for this. But nope, apparently the cheese wants to stand alone.

[mellificent.livejournal.com]

Of course I don't know about you, but I didn't even really have to look to see how both our senators voted.

[seweccentric.livejournal.com]

It just means they didn't bother to vote. From Jan 2005 to Oct 2008, Obama missed 314 of 1,300 roll call votes, which is 24.2% (the median among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 2008 was 2.2)

[mellificent.livejournal.com]

Well, Obama wasn't voting here. My point was that it was unclear to me whether he was absent (as Obama was a great deal, yes) or didn't want to vote for some other reason.

[profrobert.livejournal.com]

O'Donnell did an impassioned piece about this tonight on his show. You know, they wheeled Bob Dole on to the floor to make the point, and even he couldn't persuade these cowardly assclowns to do the right thing. You know why they didn't: Objections from the Home School lobby, who are (incorrectly) afraid that the treaty would somehow deprive them of the opportunity to home-school their disabled children. Why would anyone care about such a small group? Because they are affiliated with the nutjob Tea Partiers and the Repugnicans are too scared of getting primaried from the right.

[(Anonymous)]

Kirk is absent; he had a stroke about nine months ago. He's been in rehab ever since and plans to return to the senate in January.

[mellificent.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. Well, it's good to hear he's doing well enough to be thinking about coming back, then!