Roster of Futility

The votes of my last six Senators (MD, IL, DE) in today's John G. Roberts, Jr. confirmation vote for the Chief Justiceship:

Paul Sarbanes: No
Barbara Mikulski: No
Dick Durbin: No
Barak Obama: No
Joe Biden: No
Tom Carper: Yes(!)...very surprising

One for six. That's pathetic when it is hard to imagine a better qualified, better tempered person for the job. The final tally today was 78-22 in favor of non-Chief Justice Roberts' nomination. By comparison, all of Clinton's nominees sailed through, including former ACLU head Ruth Bader Ginsburg (97-3!). How is it that I got stuck with over 20% of the dissenters as my Senators for the last 20 years?

What has happened to the Democratic party? One thing is for certain, this roster of shame shows that my states' politicians are nothing more than a bunch of classless, hyper-partisans...definitely not my representatives.