I would have expected it to be across the board, no exceptions.
I, personally, applaud any and all who voted against this abortion of freedom.
When I said Constitutional Idolatry, it was to highlight the fervor that seems to be paramount concerning the Constitution by the TP, as if no one else could possibly (or does) honor it's greatness like they can, which I find insulting...AND...they invoke it so much, it starts becoming farcical...all the more so...when something like this even makes it (with it's current language) for a vote...let alone, not making it a unanimous "Fuck no!"
I fault them differently, because they raised the bar concerning their love of the Constitution. They platformed on it, they highlighted with deep passion their love and respect of it.
I fault them in the same vein as I would a staunch Family Values Rep., getting caught with a hooker, a mistress, having gay sex. It revels the obviously false blustering and commitment to the thing they wield as an ideal, as a "better than" you shield.
As I pointed out to Nutty, the Tea Partiers opposed this in greater percentages than anyone else in the Senate. I mean, we're talking about maybe 4 tea party senators and 2 opposed this? The progressive caucus didn't make as good a showing. Meanwhile those same progressives who had opposed virtually every Bush policy about detainees, now vote for a measure that's far worse than anything Bush proposed?
Proving a point I've made before about the left, it was always personal. Policy didn't matter, and the Obama administration's national security policies and neo-con war policies proved it.
But, go ahead and hold the Tea Party to a higher account for this. At least they did have principles to fall from.
