CT Senate: Davis Disingenuous?

On Meet the Press this morning Lanny Davis, advocating for Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, answered a question concerning the Terri Schiavo feeding tube situation disingenuously. He stated that criticizing Lieberman's support for the Federal government's intervention was bad because the Senate voted unanimously to support the government's involvement in this family decision. The obvious implication here was that Lieberman was in a vast majority of U.S. Senate support for the resolution.

The Senate vote on that was 3-0 and was conducted in the middle of the night. Rick Santorum was one of the three votes.

3-0.

So, yes, you could, technically, call this a unanimous vote. Implying Lieberman was supporting something with broad based support though is perilous in light of the facts. It's disingenuous.

How does a resolution pass by a 3-0 vote? Because not one Democrat stood up and objected by calling for a quorum. You might also recall this was such an important piece of legislation that President Bush actually interrupted his vacation and flew back to the White Hose to sign it immediately into law. You do also remember him rushing to New Orleans to deal with Katrina don't you? Or rushing back to Washington on September 11th to deal with that crisis?

You don't? That's because he didn't.