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Ted Cruz

7 (6.5%)

Rick Santorum

16 (14.8%)

Michelle Bachmann

13 (12%)

Chris Christie

23 (21.3%)

Rand Paul

49 (45.4%)

Total Members Voted: 107

[RedKing]

Well, there's a technical difference between abstaining and "not voting".
Abstaining means very specifically that they were present and did not register a vote.
"Not voting" (which is how they're reported on THOMAS) could mean they weren't even in the building at the time of the vote.

A little Google-fu shows that the latter is the case for Sen. Inhofe, who is recovering from emergency heart surgery on Oct 7, and wasn't expected to be back in Washington for at least two weeks.

[LordSlowpoke]

...
So did the economy crash and burn? I was away punching people so I didn't hear.

nope, it didn't
i were looking forward to it thanks for destroying my hopes and dreams non-suicidal congress
in fact they might be getting rid of the debt ceiling as instead of rising it, they passed a bill to ignore it until february

[Max White]

A little Google-fu shows that the latter is the case for Sen. Inhofe, who is recovering from emergency heart surgery on Oct 7, and wasn't expected to be back in Washington for at least two weeks.

James Inhofe (R-OK) did not vote.

Ugh, that's almost worse than voting against when it comes to something like this.

Wow, bet you feel pretty bad now. 

[Xantalos]

Oh okay. Plenty of time to set an elaborate deathtra- I mean negotiate with the Tea Party.

[Descan]

Xantalos, think about who you're talking about.

It's the same thing.

[Xantalos]

Xantalos, think about who you're talking about.

It's the same thing.

I totally didn't advocate setting the Hulk on their asses.

[lue]

I just used ABSTAIN because I wanted to use just one word (instead of the two-word phrase "not voting").

[Descan]

They wouldn't negotiate with Obama, why would they negotiate with the Incredible Hulk?

Deathtrap, negotiate, they're synonyms to the tea-party.

[Nadaka]

Personally I would send Deadpool to negotiate with the Tea Party.

[Bauglir]

Coburn (R-OK)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
Cruz (R-TX)
Enzi (R-WY)
Grassley (R-IA)
Heller (R-NV)
Johnson (R-WI)
Lee (R-UT)
Paul (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rubio (R-FL)
Scott (R-SC)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Toomey (R-PA)
Vitter (R-LA)

Enzi (R-WY)
Grassley (R-IA)
Heller (R-NV)

Grassley (R-IA)

I don't want to live in this state anymore. Seriously, he's not up for reelection voting against until 2016, and there's no way the political fallout will last that long. Grah!

[FearfulJesuit]

Take heart, everyone. Of the 45 Senators who are GOP members, more than half (24) are up for reelection in 2016, because they were elected or re-elected in the Tea Party wave of 2010. I suspect a number of them aren't going to survive- among their potential number are John McCain (could very well retire, Arizona will start to shift purple), Richard Burr (North Carolina), Kelly Ayotte (New Hampshire- she's not that bad, though), Rob Portman (Ohio, but supports gay marriage), Chuck Grassley (Iowa), Marco Rubio, Pat Toomey (Pennsylvania), very possibly Johnny Isakson (Georgia), and Mark Kirk (Illinois).

However, the Democrats had a similar, but smaller, wave in 2008 with Obama's election, and those Senators will face re-election this coming cycle. Among the possible casualties are Mark Pryor (Arkansas), Mary Landrieu (Louisiana), Max Baucus of Montana's newly vacated seat, Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia's newly vacated seat (both declining to run for re-election), Kay Hagan (North Carolina), and Tim Johnson (South Dakota). So it's really a crapshoot at this remove.

[Xantalos]

Personally I would send Deadpool to negotiate with the Tea Party.

Fuck, send Galactus.
Or Dr. Strange. That's the seriousness of it.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

A little Google-fu shows that the latter is the case for Sen. Inhofe, who is recovering from emergency heart surgery on Oct 7, and wasn't expected to be back in Washington for at least two weeks.

James Inhofe (R-OK) did not vote.

Ugh, that's almost worse than voting against when it comes to something like this.

Wow, bet you feel pretty bad now. 

Nope.

[alway]

Apparently the House has become such a lovecraftian horror that those who work there have started to go insane.

[Xantalos]

Apparently the House has become such a lovecraftian horror that those who work there have started to go insane.

Uh.