White Lightning Axiom: Redux: Rice Confirmed

Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Rice Confirmed

Who voted against her?

Akaka (D-HI)
Bayh (D-IN)
Boxer (D-CA)
Byrd (D-WV)
Dayton (D-MN)
Durbin (D-IL)
Harkin (D-IA)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Levin (D-MI)
Reed (D-RI)

The ones not bolded are a little surprising, especially Jeffords.

UPDATE: The boys over at American Thinker have this to say -

Reader Allen O'Donnell's analysis on those Senators who voted against Condi's confirmation for Secretary of State is spot on. But I would submit that Senator Daniel Akaka (D) Hawaii voted the way he did, not because he owed Senator "Kleagle" Byrd a favor, but because in my opinion, he owed retired Gen. Shinseki a measure of payback against the current administration.

Hawaii's Senior Senator, Daniel Inouye, has just been reelected and will not face a challenger until 2010. However, Akaka, who serves on the Armed Services Committee, and is a Ranking Member of the Readiness and Management Support Subcommittee, faces reelection in 2006, which is a more realistic target for the former Army Chief of Staff to make a bid to return to the halls of power in Washington, D.C.

Politics as usual.

# posted by mdmhvonpa @ 4:11 PM