The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Last time we played this game we memorialized the 65 Senators who voted for the military commissions act (a.k.a. "the torture bill"). Today we memorialize the 53 Senators who affirmatively voted for a man for Attorney General who could not define waterboarding as torture and the 7 Senators (5 of them presidential candidates!!) who did not vote on the issue. Leaving us with a suspiciously round 40 votes against Mukasey (so the Dems can say -- we tried -- but we just didn't have the votes -- hey, if you'd gotten Hillary, Barack, Joe or Chris out of bed for the oh so late 11:04pm vote maybe we could have had a filibuster -- Reid's only forced the Reps to actually show up for one filibuster).

Read'em and weep:

The Good

NAYs ---40
Akaka (D-HI) Baucus (D-MT) Bingaman (D-NM) Boxer (D-CA) Brown (D-OH) Byrd (D-WV) Cantwell (D-WA) Cardin (D-MD) Casey (D-PA) Conrad (D-ND) Dorgan (D-ND) Durbin (D-IL) Feingold (D-WI) Harkin (D-IA)	Inouye (D-HI) Johnson (D-SD) Kennedy (D-MA) Kerry (D-MA) Klobuchar (D-MN) Kohl (D-WI) Lautenberg (D-NJ) Leahy (D-VT) Levin (D-MI) Lincoln (D-AR) McCaskill (D-MO) Menendez (D-NJ) Mikulski (D-MD) Murray (D-WA)	Nelson (D-FL) Pryor (D-AR) Reed (D-RI) Reid (D-NV) Rockefeller (D-WV) Salazar (D-CO) Sanders (I-VT) Stabenow (D-MI) Tester (D-MT) Webb (D-VA) Whitehouse (D-RI) Wyden (D-OR)

The Bad

YEAs ---53
Allard (R-CO) Barrasso (R-WY) Bayh (D-IN) Bennett (R-UT) Bond (R-MO) Brownback (R-KS) Bunning (R-KY) Burr (R-NC) Carper (D-DE) Chambliss (R-GA) Coburn (R-OK) Cochran (R-MS) Coleman (R-MN) Collins (R-ME) Corker (R-TN) Craig (R-ID) Crapo (R-ID) DeMint (R-SC)	Dole (R-NC) Domenici (R-NM) Ensign (R-NV) Enzi (R-WY) Feinstein (D-CA) Graham (R-SC) Grassley (R-IA) Gregg (R-NH) Hagel (R-NE) Hatch (R-UT) Hutchison (R-TX) Inhofe (R-OK) Isakson (R-GA) Kyl (R-AZ) Landrieu (D-LA) Lieberman (ID-CT) Lott (R-MS) Lugar (R-IN)	Martinez (R-FL) McConnell (R-KY) Murkowski (R-AK) Nelson (D-NE) Roberts (R-KS) Schumer (D-NY) Sessions (R-AL) Shelby (R-AL) Smith (R-OR) Snowe (R-ME) Specter (R-PA) Stevens (R-AK) Sununu (R-NH) Thune (R-SD) Vitter (R-LA) Voinovich (R-OH) Warner (R-VA)

and the Ugly

Not Voting - 7
Alexander (R-TN) Biden (D-DE) Clinton (D-NY)	Cornyn (R-TX) Dodd (D-CT) McCain (R-AZ)	Obama (D-IL)