Firedoglake clues me in to the Reality.
It is apparent from reading the voting list that the reason Democrats lost the cloture vote was that the Democratic members of the Gang of 14 chose institutional loyalty over Party loyalty and the good of the Nation. And they persuaded some of their fellow Dems to go with them.
The damn 'thugs "got us surrounded" again.
Write the following Senators:
DEMOCRATS * Joseph I. Lieberman, Connecticut * Robert C. Byrd, West Virginia * E. Benjamin Nelson, Nebraska * Mary Landrieu, Louisiana * Daniel Inouye, Hawaii * Mark Pryor, Arkansas * Ken Salazar, Colorado
& voice your displeasure.
Comity is one thing, but these folks are being played like rubes. Slap the rubes upside the face & tell 'em to "WAKE UP"!!!