Reso Condemning MoveOn Passes Overwhelmingly, With Lots Of Dems.

A very sad day when lawmakers choose non-urgent issues over important issues in this country. And this is why these lawmakers are in office to get good pay, good raises, good medical and dental benefits to criticize freedom of speech ads? Memo to Senators: We have soldiers dying overseas and a national debt over 9 trillion. Focus on those important issues.

From TPM:

The GOP-introduced resolution condemning MoveOn just passed by a huge margin, 72-25. Roughly half the Democrats in the Senate supported it.

A couple of the more interesting votes: Jim Webb, who just yesterday was a Netroots hero, voted for it, even though the last thing he needs as a military guy is cover on something like this.

Meanwhile, Hillary -- who's been under assault by Rudy for refusing to condemn MoveOn but who's also locked in a tough Dem primary -- stood her ground and voted No.

We'll have a list of Dems who backed this thing and Dems who voted against it in a bit. Stay tuned.

Late Update: A full list of all the Dem Senators who voted to condemn MoveOn is after the jump.

Later Update: More developments. Barack Obama missed today's vote on MoveOn -- even though he'd been present in the Senate earlier to vote on the Boxer measure.

And Chris Dodd, who voted against the condemnation, just released this searing statement criticizing the Senate for wasting its time on this:

"It is a sad day in the Senate when we spend hours debating an ad while our young people are dying in Iraq. Now that the Senate has twice voted on this ad, it is time to move on and vote to end the war."

Later Update: MoveOn chief Eli Pariser hits back at the Senate with this:

"No wonder public approval of Congress is tanking. They’re so out of touch with reality that they can find time to condemn an ad but they can't do what most Americans want -- vote to end this war."


Full list of Dems who backed the resolution after the jump.

Dems voting for the reso:
Baucus
Bayh
Cardin
Carper
Casey
Conrad
Dorgan
Feinstein
Johnson
Klobuchar
Kohl
Landrieu
Leahy
Lieberman
Lincoln
McCaskill
Mikulski
Bill Nelson
Ben Nelson
Pryor
Salazar
Tester
Webb