Closeted Bigots

I'm with John Aravosis on this. Who the hell, in this day and age, is against a resolution condemning LYNCHING!

I'm putting up the entire post simply because it is so apalling (not the post, the story):

I just heard this on ABC News. They're apparently holding the vote late tonight so they won't have to have a real roll-call vote (i.e., individual Senators won't have to vote up or down). The reason? So they can hide the 12 or so Senators who apparently think it's bad politics back home to sign onto a resolution that apologizes for not passing anti-lynching legislation sooner. Apparently, southern Senators fillibustered efforts to pass such legislation for years.

I don't care if they're Democrats or Republicans, I want to know who isn't supporting this legislation. We have a right to know, and to know why anybody in either party would permit the basically-secret vote to take place this evening in order to his who these bigots really are.

Now they went with a VOICE VOTE late last night to cover their bases. As John says the AP in reporting it, totally missed it.

When people start going off on Howard Dean, lets remember what cretins control the GOP, because I'm betting that comprises the entirety of those who did not want to be on record as opposing fucking lynching!

UPDATE:

Kos also discusses the matter in greater detail.

Reuters says there were 20 non-signers.

John Kerry is on it.

"It's a statement in itself that there aren't 100 co-sponsors," Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, said. "It's a statement in itself that there's not an up-or-down vote."

A real press may let us know who the 20 are, or at least ask a few folks if they are "anti-lynching" per the resolution.

We know it wasn't Democrat Mary Landrieu of Louisiana.