Say what you want about the Democratic Party, but you can never take this away from them: they looooove killin' babies. Despite the overwhelming majority of Americans who are repulsed by the infanticidal practice of partial-birth abortion, 33 United States Senators (all but three of whom are Democrats, and two of those "non-Democrats" are Jumpin' Jim Jeffords and the next likely Republican to defect, Lincoln Chafee) voted today against a ban on the morally indefensible procedure. Fortunately it passed the Senate by a large majority anyway. Those who voted "nay" are:


Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Chafee (R-RI)
Clinton (D-NY)
Collins (R-ME)
Corzine (D-NJ)
Dayton (D-MN)
Dodd (D-CT)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Graham (D-FL)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kohl (D-WI)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Reed (D-RI)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Schumer (D-NY)
Snowe (R-ME)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Wyden (D-OR)

Democratic Senators Biden, Edwards, and Kerry abstained. Gee, I wonder which way they would have voted if they had the guts to take a stand either way and weren't running for president...

I just want to make sure I have this straight: Joe Lieberman won't drive on Saturday because he believes it violates God's law, but there's no problem with crushing a child's skull and sucking her brains out? Talk about your whitewashed sepulchres...