Censure Vote Missed by Only "ONE VOTE" .....Who Was that VOTE + 11 Senators were MISSING!

Friend who watched the Vote with me clued me into the "Statistics" saying you needed "60%" of the Senate to Vote and not "60 Votes" as I thought. Being "math challenged myself" I'll go with my Buddy who said that he heard Bernie Sanders say that we needed 60% of the Senate (and since 11 Members were missing) it meant "60% of those PRESENT" voting for the vote.

So...WHO WAS ABSENT ON CAMPAIGN TRAIL? Hillary, Obama, McCain, Chris Dodd, Sam Brownback...Joe Biden...WHO ELSE? Did any of the former cast their vote Yes...WERE THEY THERE for the VOTE?

Maybe some "Good News" in the "Garden of Gloom" that this Dem is in right now. :-( or :-)'s

so that they can re-open debate if the other side tries a procedural move against it or something.

Sen. from Wyoming died making 99 votes, and Johnson has not yet returned to work (though I read that he will soon be back) making possible 98 votes. I thought there were 91 votes cast leaving 7 no shows.

McCain has voted once in like 3 months.

they don't vote, they don't know?

You vote PRESENT, then change your vote if the party leadership needs it switched. You can change it as long as voting is going on...

My buddy pointed that one out. Still...for all this "misery" it seems "statistically the vote" was much closer than the M$M will ever report but better than it was looking earlier.

:shrug: We still lost the vote..and I hope this doesn't mean it's a sign that Dems need to shut down investigations, and a I still wish the Senate had held off a few weeks so we didn't get the bad media spin...but it was closer that it was looking based on the reports from even Liberal Websites this a.m.

I don't want to offer "false hope" but if my math buddy is correct then it's a good sign...

Guess he forgot to wear his "Incredible Hulk" tie today.

:eyes: Thanks for that...it's hard to deal without a big *Cough*****Cough***GAG!*

change their vote if there was a chance of it passing, of course...

It's how they do it--they play these games. But there wasn't the numbers to make it happen.

wearing a bright blue jacket. Did anyone notice her?

she's there today. And she was a co-sponsor of the no-confidence vote.

Therefore, they needed 60 votes, not 54.

http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Filibuster_Cloture.htm

that it is 60% of those PRESENT! (Believe me...I said to my Math Buddie that I was SURE it was 60 VOTES and not 60%...but he said...Bernie verified that it was 60% of those present.) :shrug: It could go back to those "Parliamentary Procedures that Senate and House use...or my friend could be wrong.

:shrug: I hope others will chime in.

I thought Obama was missing, didn't see/hear McCain, Biden either.

Link: http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/a_three_sections_with_teasers/votes.htm

:hi:

Alphabetical by Senator Name Akaka (D-HI), Yea
Alexander (R-TN), Nay
Allard (R-CO), Nay
Baucus (D-MT), Yea
Bayh (D-IN), Yea
Bennett (R-UT), Nay
Biden (D-DE), Not Voting
Bingaman (D-NM), Yea
Bond (R-MO), Nay
Boxer (D-CA), Yea
Brown (D-OH), Yea
Brownback (R-KS), Not Voting
Bunning (R-KY), Nay
Burr (R-NC), Nay
Byrd (D-WV), Yea
Cantwell (D-WA), Yea
Cardin (D-MD), Yea
Carper (D-DE), Yea
Casey (D-PA), Yea
Chambliss (R-GA), Nay
Clinton (D-NY), Yea
Coburn (R-OK), Not Voting
Cochran (R-MS), Nay
Coleman (R-MN), Yea
Collins (R-ME), Yea
Conrad (D-ND), Yea
Corker (R-TN), Nay
Cornyn (R-TX), Nay
Craig (R-ID), Nay
Crapo (R-ID), Nay
DeMint (R-SC), Nay
Dodd (D-CT), Not Voting
Dole (R-NC), Nay
Domenici (R-NM), Nay
Dorgan (D-ND), Yea
Durbin (D-IL), Yea
Ensign (R-NV), Nay
Enzi (R-WY), Nay
Feingold (D-WI), Yea
Feinstein (D-CA), Yea
Graham (R-SC), Nay
Grassley (R-IA), Nay
Gregg (R-NH), Nay
Hagel (R-NE), Yea
Harkin (D-IA), Yea
Hatch (R-UT), Nay
Hutchison (R-TX), Nay
Inhofe (R-OK), Nay
Inouye (D-HI), Yea
Isakson (R-GA), Nay
Johnson (D-SD), Not Voting
Kennedy (D-MA), Yea
Kerry (D-MA), Yea
Klobuchar (D-MN), Yea
Kohl (D-WI), Yea
Kyl (R-AZ), Nay
Landrieu (D-LA), Yea
Lautenberg (D-NJ), Yea
Leahy (D-VT), Yea
Levin (D-MI), Yea
Lieberman (ID-CT), Nay
Lincoln (D-AR), Yea
Lott (R-MS), Nay
Lugar (R-IN), Nay
Martinez (R-FL), Nay
McCain (R-AZ), Not Voting
McCaskill (D-MO), Yea
McConnell (R-KY), Nay
Menendez (D-NJ), Yea
Mikulski (D-MD), Yea
Murkowski (R-AK), Nay
Murray (D-WA), Yea
Nelson (D-FL), Yea
Nelson (D-NE), Yea
Obama (D-IL), Not Voting
Pryor (D-AR), Yea
Reed (D-RI), Yea
Reid (D-NV), Yea
Roberts (R-KS), Nay
Rockefeller (D-WV), Yea
Salazar (D-CO), Yea
Sanders (I-VT), Yea
Schumer (D-NY), Yea
Sessions (R-AL), Nay
Shelby (R-AL), Nay
Smith (R-OR), Yea
Snowe (R-ME), Yea
Specter (R-PA), Yea
Stabenow (D-MI), Yea
Stevens (R-AK), Present
Sununu (R-NH), Yea
Tester (D-MT), Yea
Thune (R-SD), Nay
Vitter (R-LA), Nay
Voinovich (R-OH), Nay
Warner (R-VA), Nay
Webb (D-VA), Yea
Whitehouse (D-RI), Yea
Wyden (D-OR), Yea

if these people weren't out campaigning. I love Obama, he's my guy, but he needs to get his butt into the Senate for important votes like this.

:grr:

Show some leadership by DOING YOUR DAY JOB and campaigning for the next job after hours.

Senator Obama, Dodd, Biden, et.al....

"How did you vote on the vote for No Confidence regarding Attorney General Alberto Gonzales?"

I just want them to here the massive boos after they explain that they couldn't make that vote because they were busy running for President about year too early!

:argh:

Hell... the rePukes flew in from all corners of the fucking Planet when it came to Terri Schiavo, but our Senator\Presidential Wanna-Bees can't make it back for a vote that attempts to heal one of the major wounds inflicted on our Constitution???

It's a shame their priorities are so obviously out of whack!

:mad:

I noticed that Sen. Clinton was there and voted yes. That does impress me. The rest of the Senators that are running for Pres. 16 months from now should be there to vote on any important issues. I can not believe Obama did not vote. I want to see how he votes on certain issues in the Senate before I cast my vote for him. It does not count when he won't vote on things but tell us later how he would have voted. I really liked him too. Now I am not so sure.

from comments at FIREDOGLAKE....with more info....

http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/06/11/no-confidence/#comments

cloture - The only procedure by which the Senate can vote to place a time limit on consideration of a bill or other matter, and thereby overcome a filibuster. Under the cloture rule (Rule XXII), the Senate may limit consideration of a pending matter to 30 additional hours, but only by vote of three-fifths of the full Senate, normally 60 votes.

http://www.senate.gov/reference/glossary_term/cloture.htm

Now its a matter of what "the full Senate" means.

Is it's not who's present in the senate, but how many current senator's there are, which as we know right now is not 100, but 99.

I believe in this case, it would be 60% of 99 which might be only 59 senators.