Is this what a democracy looks like? I have to rely on Jon Stewart's Daily Show or an op-ed in the Washington Post to learn that the $87 billion Iraq package was approved by a voice vote with SIX SENATORS PRESENT.

The fact that this is barely in the news almost as awful as the cowards in both parties who won't own up to the Iraq mess. The vote was 5-1. The one against was Senator Robert Byrd. His speech is online.