Memo to the "secret" Republican...

[kentuck]

You are still anonymous. Nobody knows your name. You are safe.

Nobody knows that you will continue to vote with your Party, even if they vote to give taxcuts to millionaires and cut food stamps for poor children. Nobody will blame you. They will blame your Party leaders.

Even though you may disagree with them on some "small" issues, you know they cannot be as bad as the evil and liberal Democratic Party. It doesn't matter if your mother depends on Medicare to survive. You are still with your Party as they vow to destroy it.

Remember that time you lost your job and you had to draw unemployment for over a year? You didn't want to, but you had paid into it and you deserved some assistance while you were looking for a job.

Soon, you will be able to sign up on your Social Security. You have worked your entire life and you need it. It will keep you alive in your later years. You will not have to live with your kids or ask your family for help. It's too bad that your Party wants to dismantle it. It's really a very good program for everyone, Democrats and Republicans.

But you can lay your head on your pillow tonight and sleep well knowing that you and your friends make it possible for more taxcuts for the wealthy and less food stamps for the poor. You should not worry that God has a very warm place reserved for you if perchance, you do not awaken in the morning. Isn't it nice that God forgives?

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[No Elephants]

1. No secret.

I find ayes and nays of bills undul hard to find on Thomas, unless I know the bill number.

Maybe that's deliberate?

However, votes taken during the prior business day will appear on the first page of http://www.senate.gov /

By following the links, you can get to the ayes and nays, presented alphabetically by Senator, alphabetically by vote position (where it's usually easy to spot outliers) and alphabetically by state.

You have to be quick, but it's so much easier than Thomas, IMO.

Meanwhile, which liberal Democratic Party are you referring to?

[No Elephants]

2. P.S. I forgot to mention that it was Senator Mark Pryor.

And Akaka and Lieberman joined two Republicans in not voting at all.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...