Originally Posted by
Mark E. Hurling
I'm the first to fess up about my substandard math skills. But the defeat of the show trial called the January 6 commission went down to defeat today with a vote of 54 to 35. So naturally this is all the fault of republicans. Except the math doesn't quite make it so. At least the way I cipher it out.
The Senate is evenly split 50-50.
There were 9 republicans who didn't vote.
There were 2 democrats who didn't vote.
The 6 republicans who voted with the democrats are prominently identified.
The problem I'm having is how many and who among the democrats voted with republicans, because otherwise there is no way to get to 54 votes against this commission.
Unsurprisingly, my google-fu has yet to turn up the rest of the story, as Paul Harvey used to say.