These are two graphs of the cloture vote. The problem with the Democrats just isn’t that hard to see. Here are the Democrats who voted for cloture:
I don’t get it quite yet. It’ll be interesting to see how these people vote on confirmation. Looking at these results, the problem isn’t just the Republican control of the Congress, it’s the Republican control of the Democrats in the Congress.
[…] I woke up thinking about yesterday’s cloture vote. What’s stuck with me is listening to one Republican after another talk in the Senate about the potential filabuster being ‘partisan’ politics, pandering to ‘extremist groups.’ […]