I didn’t realize there was such a strong pro-lynching lobby in New Hampshire.
Texas and Mississippi might be able to make such a claim, but Iowa? New Hampshire? North Dakota? Ohio? Alaska? I suspect that you'd have to do a pretty thorough sweep of the gun and revival shows to find more than a few dozen bigots who wouldn't vote for you just because you voted for a resolution saying "lynching is bad, really, and we're really sorry, in a legally nonbinding way, that the United States turned an approving eye to it up until a few years ago." Is it that these distinguished senators don't want to scare away the anti-gay vote by implying, in any way, shape, or form, that it's wrong to brutally murder people who have the temerity to be different in any way?
Here's a little list of the senators that didn't want to support the recent anti-lynching resolution in the Senate:
Lamar Alexander (R-TN) Robert Bennett (R-UT) Thad Cochran (R-MS) Kent Conrad (D-ND) John Cornyn (R-TX) Michael Crapo (R-ID) Michael Enzi (R-WY) Chuck Grassley (R-IA) Judd Gregg (R-NH) Orrin Hatch (R-UT) Kay Hutchison (R-TX) Jon Kyl (R-AZ) Trent Lott (R-MS) Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) Richard Shelby (R-AL) John Sununu (R-NH) Craig Thomas (R-WY) George Voinovich (R-OH)
I can't help but notice that, with the notable exception of the dishonorable Stupid Party senator from North Dakota, that each any every one of these is a member of the Evil Party. Never too proud to reach in the gutter for those votes, eh?
(list via Americablog)
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There's been a trickle of people signing on after the resolution was "unanimously" passed, and it's down to 14-15 Evil Party senators now. But it doesn't seem like it would have been too much of a strain for the Democratic senator from North Dakota, of all places, to sign on as a cosponsor of this apology before it was passed. So, as much as I'm rooting for a black and white Evil Party Evil!/Stupid Party Good! result, I think it's appropriate to give out the dishonor that everyone deserves.
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hey Dave, I've gone to different news sites and some say 18 and some say 16 and all republican. I'm not sure who voted against it and I remember that Conrad was the only red-state dem senator to vote against the Iraq war resolution in October 2002, not that this is scientific proof that he voted for the anti-lynching resolution of course. Frist of course was the one who decided they only neededa voice vote.