The Nazgul in the Senate.

[elfs]

Jim Henley proposes that for now on, the nine Senators who voted against John McCain's anti-torture legislation be known as The Nazgul.

They are:

• Sen. Wayne Allard [R-Colorado]
• Sen. Kit Bond [R-Missouri]
• Sen. Tom Coburn [R-Oklahoma]
• Sen. Thad Cochran [R-Mississippi]
• Sen. John Cornyn [R-Texas]
• Sen. James Inhofe [R-Oklahoma]
• Sen. Pat Roberts [R-Kansas]
• Sen. Jeff Sessions [R-Alabama]
• Sen. Ted Stevens [R-Alaska]

"Darkness went with them, and they cried with the voices of death." - The Silmarillion, pg 358, Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

It's a sore point. And there probably were 400 snickers, even if there were only 90 votes.

[solarbird]

Actually, there weren't. The Republican leadership fought desperately to keep it from coming to a floor vote. The Bush administration has been fighting this for years, and pulled out every stop to keep it from coming to a vote. Only when it was inevitable did the vote turn.

It's not part of the bill in the House, and it will be a big fight to keep it from being killed in the joint resolution committee. Only the current weakness of the Bush administration give it any chance of making it back to the House in amended form.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

"current weakness of the Bush administration".... now there's music to my ears. It's fun to watch the house of cards come apart under its own weight....