Senate Roll Call is up

[Ruby the Liberal]

NO:
Kirsten Gillibrand
Tom Harkin
Frank Lautenberg
Bob Menendez
Ben Nelson
Bernie Sanders (I)

http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2011/08/02/and_we_re_done_debt_deal_passes_senate_74_26.html

[Ruby the Liberal]

1. NEW JERSEY!

Represent! :applause:

[proverbialwisdom]

2. YES!

[CakeGrrl]

3. And even more Republicans voted NO:

Kelly Ayotte
Dan Coats
Saxby Chambliss
Tom Coburn
Jim DeMint
Lindsay Graham
Chuck Grassley
Orrin Hatch
James Inhofe
Ron Johnson
Dean Heller
Mike Lee
Jerry Moran
Rand Paul
Marco Rubio
Jeff Sessions
Richard Shelby
Pat Toomey
David Vitter


Why, if Boehner claimed that he got 98% of what he wanted, would so many R's vote against it?

[Ruby the Liberal]

4. It didn't call for Obama to resign.

Many of those are tea party (Lee, Paul, DeMint, Vitter, Rubio...)

[pacalo]

5. It's a Catch 22 for Democratic principles. The Democrats voted no because it wasn't

a fair deal for the majority of citizens. The "no" votes on the Republican side were likely because they didn't want the debt ceiling raised.