ROLL CALL! ("cambot!... gypsy!...")

Seventy-seven US Senators voted in favor of the Persian Gulf of Tonkin Resolution early this morning.

Twenty-nine Democrats favor the resolution. Notable among them:
-Joe Lieberman (duh!)
-Hillary and Schumer (The New York senators are in a precarious position. Both are liberal, but given Smirk's attempts to tie Iraq to 9/11 and the "war on terrah", they might have been in political hot water if they voted no, given their home state. Still, I expected a little more principle here.)
-Tim Johnson (close race in a fly-over state, you had to expect it)
-Zell Miller (again, duh!)
-Tom Daschle (will he be retracting that demand for Bush to apologize?)
-Dianne Feinstein (argh, how could a California senator do this, especially after Congressman Stark's valiant speech on thursday? then again, feinstein has her hawk streak)

Notable Democrats who voted NO, you know, the courageous ones who are operating fully on principle:
-Ted Kennedy (stalwart)
-Pat Leahy (him too)
-Paul Wellstone (you paying attention, Ralph? Michael? McGaa?)
-John Corzine (funny, the only principled Dem senator in the NY area is the one with the most money)
-Russ Feingold (can always count on him)

Quickly on the Republicans: I know McCain voted yes, but did anyone else see him ragging on Bush during his recent Letterman appearance? I don't know if they've resolved their feud or not, but something tells me they're somewhere inbetween Owens-Mariucci and Marichal-Roseboro (ahh, the sports-politics parallel, how fun!)

And Jim Jeffords? He voted no.

I sure hope there's a method to the Democrats' roll-over madness. I find it almost to be Naderite thinking: Tilt the agenda to the Bushies, and the country would potentially see the errors of its ways down the road if/when the Bushies fuck up beyond repair. This is completely possible, but why did today's events make me sick to my stomach?...