The Cornyn Amendment:

To express the sense of the Senate that General David H. Petraeus, Commanding General, Multi-National Force-Iraq, deserves the full support of the Senate and strongly condemn personal attacks on the honor and integrity of General Petraeus and all members of the United States Armed Forces.

Carried by the US Senate 72-25.

Voting “nay“:

Akaka (D-HI)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Byrd (D-WV)
Clinton (D-NY)
Dodd (D-CT)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Levin (D-MI)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Murray (D-WA)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)

And no others. Three senators did not vote: Barack Obama (D-IL) and Joe Biden (D-DE) among them.

Anyone can tease out any trends?

Update: Cha-ching! Based on the comments at TPM’s Election Central, the MoveOn types are probably laughing all the way to the bank.

Which might have been what this was all about.

You know, legendary con man Joe “Paper Collar” Bessiman is said to have claimed that there was “a sucker born every minute.” And we know that pretty much all babies are born angry. What we’re seeing here is that subset of the first group that never quite outgrew the anger.

Anger can make you foolish. A fool and his money are soon parted.

It’s just business.