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ConservativeWanderer| 9.14.09 @ 7:15PM

Gee, there's something odd about these 7 "nay" votes.

NAYs ---7
Burris (D-IL)
Casey (D-PA)
Durbin (D-IL)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Leahy (D-VT)
Sanders (I-VT)
Whitehouse (D-RI)

Anyone besides me see a pattern here?

Here's a hint... Sanders may call himself an Independent (actually, he calls himself a socialist), but he caucuses with the Democrats, and is considered a "Democrat" for purposes of committee assignments.

ConservativeWanderer| 9.14.09 @ 7:18PM

Oh, almost forgot... before one of the research-challenged lefty trolls (leftrolls?) accuses me of making things up, here's a link to the roll call, right off the Senate website itself.

http://senate.gov/legislative/.....vote=00275

Oh, I know... Fox News hacked the Senate.gov website in an attempt to demonize ACORN. Yeah, that's the spin!

Pete| 9.14.09 @ 7:37PM

Perhaps the next administration can launch investigations into the people who gave the opinions that led to this obviously corrupt, partisan organization getting any federal funding in the first place. Hmmmm. After all, it is fast becoming a grave security risk having Osama in office.

smyles| 9.14.09 @ 7:38PM

Senators voting Nay or Not Voting and election 2010 status

Senator Richard Burr
North Carolina
Running for Reelection 2010
Not Voting

Senator Roland Burris
Illinois
Retiring
Nay

Senator Robert Byrd
West Virginia
Not Voting

Senator Robert Casey Jr.
Pennsylvania
Nay

Senator Tom Coburn
Oklahoma
Running for reelection
Not Voting

Senator Richard Durbin
Illinois
Nay

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
New York
Running for election
Nay

Senator Lindsay Graham
South Carolina
Not Voting

Senator Judd Gregg
New Hampshire
Retiring
Not Voting

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison
Texas
Resigning
Not Voting

Senator Patrick Leahy
Vermont
Running for reelection
Nay

Senator John McCain
Arizona
Running for reelection
Not Voting

Senator Barbara Mikulski
Maryland
Running for reelection
Not Voting

Senator Bernie Sanders
Vermont
Nay

Senator David Vitter
Louisiana
Running for reelection
Not Voting

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
Rhode Island
Nay

Dennis D| 9.14.09 @ 8:44PM

Gillebrand is the surprise. She used to be more conservative. I guess she figures the inner city black vote is worth losing the upstate New York Vote.

Tish| 9.14.09 @ 11:08PM

Democrats already know ACORN is a criminal enterprise, but they may, for the first time, suddenly fear that everybody else knowing it will be politically damaging.

Liberal Reader| 9.14.09 @ 11:08PM

Michelle Malkin ... who reported 2 million people somehow got in and out of Washington DC Saturday with not one single credentialed journalist noticing?

Pete| 9.14.09 @ 11:28PM

500K to 1M was more than adequate. But as usual, you are trying to divert attention from the point of the blog.

http://senate.gov/legislative/.....vote=00275
Lying .gov website...must be another D coverup?

Any comments on your criminal brethren at ACORN? Or did those mean Republicans force the other side to vote the way they did somehow? Waaaaa, our election fraud network lost some funding. Have no fear, they clearly have other "business" interests that will replace that federal money. I assume you are a big fan of underage latin hookers? Of course you are. So there you go, you can fund your ACORN buddies indirectly and still get your kicks.

Interested Conservative| 9.14.09 @ 11:39PM

". . . not one single credentialed journalist". Huh? Since when are "journalists" "credentialed" to count crowds?

A weak and intolerant argument LR.

Liberal Reader| 9.14.09 @ 11:47PM

Interested --

"Credentialed" is a common locution for journalists employed by reputable news agencies or outlets. I mean reporters hired by the Associated Press or Fox News for that matter to report news, who do in fact have standards of accuracy, who do confirm facts, and so on.

Unfortunately, determining crowd sizes is very difficult.

However, the difficulty -- which Malkin and others are trying to exploit, very cynically -- is in distinguishing -- say -- 60,00 for 85,000.

There is NO difficulty, NONE whatsoever, in distinguishing 70 or 80 thousand (the highest responsible estimates) and 2 million.

Think about it Interested:

Do you think if 1 million or 2 million people had been in DC Saturday, making the event one of the largest demonstrations in American HISTORY, that Fox News still wouldn't have it featured on their website? It's vanished from the Washington Times' website too.

It was very, very well attended.

However, there were NOT a million people there. There were NOT even a half million people there.

The main stream media and Fox (as though that's not main stream) all agree on this one. SO you must choose: credentialed journalists or Michelle Malkin.

ConservativeWanderer| 9.15.09 @ 12:22AM

Note, everyone.

I provide Jeremiah the Troll with a valid source direct from the Senate's own website, with a link, and he still chooses to claim the information is coming only from Michelle Malkin.

I think this person is clearly unhinged beyond help.

Interested Conservtive| 9.15.09 @ 12:32AM

My point being there are not really credentials for a journalist beyond trust and accuracy, and certainly no official or precise credentials in this country. M Malkin is as much a journalist as almost anyone you or I could name.

I doubt the crowd was a million, but it may have been 500,000, and from the few pictures I've seen it's well north of 60,000.

Still and all, a staggering event, and considering how the MSM essentially never covers the annual pro-life marches, they don't seem to have any credibility in analyzing this one. They don't seem too interested in trying.

Pete| 9.15.09 @ 9:22AM

And as I suspected, still no mention of the defunding of LRs scumbag ACORN buddies. IC, don't let LR get away with diverting attention from the subject at hand. I have yet to see his excuse for his liberal community organizing brethren and I am all wee-weed up in anticipation.

tj| 9.15.09 @ 11:14AM

NEXT Charlie Rangel....Here is another one they need to cut loose....
Rangel is now the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and a man of immense importance in Washington. Nonetheless, he has been busy of late revising and amending the record, backing and filling, using buckets of Wite-Out as he discovers or remembers properties he has owned in New York, New Jersey, Florida, the Dominican Republic and God only knows where else -- and has forgotten or neglected to fully report on the required forms, not to mention the income from them. Oops!

Rangel recently even discovered bank accounts that no one in the world, apparently including him, knew he had. One was with the Congressional Federal Credit Union; another was with Merrill Lynch -- each valued between $250,000 and $500,000. He somehow neglected to mention these accounts on his congressional disclosure forms, which means, if you can believe it, that when he signed the forms, he did not notice that maybe $1 million was missing. Someone ought to check the lighting in his office.

The dim bulb could also have accounted for why Rangel did not notice that he was soliciting contributions for the curiously named Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service on the congressional letterhead of the very same Charles B. Rangel. It may also account for why he failed to report dividend income from various investments in addition to what he made by selling a townhouse in Harlem. The place went for $410,000 in 2004, and had been rented -- or not -- to various people, who paid rent or didn't -- since Rangel reported no income for years at a time. This is what he did, too, with the rent he earned on his Dominican Republic villa. Again, nada.

There is something wrong with Charlie Rangel.

MJG| 9.15.09 @ 11:32AM

Rangel has to go if you want change!

Hilary| 9.18.09 @ 9:19PM

Surely there’s a way to discipline ACORN without blatantly defiling our beloved Constitution by passing bills of attainder. Maybe we could punish them a la Wall Street and fork over $800 billion dollars instead.

coolpete| 12.9.09 @ 2:48PM

There were NOT even a half million people there. . .

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coolpete| 12.11.09 @ 12:08AM

There is NO difficulty, NONE whatsoever, in distinguishing 70 or 80 thousand ( and 2 million.

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coolpete| 12.15.09 @ 3:11AM

The main stream media and Fox (as though that's not main stream) all agree on this one. SO you must choose: credentialed journalists or Michelle Malkin.

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