Most Senate Republicans still have some spine

From The Washington Post:

Senate Republicans for a second time blocked a symbolic attempt by Democrats to reject President Bush's troop increase yesterday, but GOP defections were higher than before, suggesting Republican cracks as the Iraq war dominates Congress's agenda.

With the 56 to 34 vote, Democrats fell shy of the 60 votes required to kick off debate on a nonbinding resolution passed by the House last week that expresses support for the troops but criticizes Bush's decision to expand combat ranks by more than 20,000 troops. Senate Democrats picked up five new Republican allies in their effort to advance the resolution, bringing the GOP total to seven.

But the fate of the resolution is now very much in doubt. Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) announced after the vote that he would not bring up the resolution again. Both sides instead are girding for the next phase, a confrontation over war funding, with some Democrats determined to exercise the power of the purse to influence Iraq strategy.

It should be noted that one of the reasons that Harry Reid scheduled the vote on a Saturday was the hope that Joe Lieberman, an observant Jew, would decline to vote on the Sabbath. Mr. Lieberman realized that the greater evil would have been to remain silent in the face of evil as despicable men and women attempted to undermine his nation in the pursuit of a just war.

As the Post story notes there were seven Republican defections to the side of the Islamofascists. The RINO turncoats were:

Coleman (Minn.), Collins (Maine); Hagel (Neb.); Smith (Ore.); Snowe (Maine); Specter (Pa.); Warner (Va.).

The Republican Party state apparatus in each of these states needs to find a primary challenger for each of these backstabbers.