"As we hit midnight, Harry Reid requested a quorum call. Because there wasn't a
quorum, the Senate is now conducting a roll call vote on a motion to instruct
the Sergeant at Arms to request the attendance of absent Senators. That means 51
Senators have to show up -- or the Sergeant at Arms can go get them. This forces
some of the GOP Senators to be in the chamber. And, they should be.
Filibustering the Iraq war votes is their idea."
Democrats seem to be taking the threat to keep the senate in session all night long, if that is what is needed to get a vote on the Iraq bill very seriously. While there are surely factors at play in this that I don't understand, I say that it should be voted on. There can only be one reason to not vote, and that is because the Republicans know that they can't vote against what the public wants, but they are afraid to vote against the president.
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