2012 and the F-22 vote

Fun roll call, on the 58-40 pass.

Statement of Purpose: To strike $1,750,000,000 in Procurement, Air Force funding for F-22A aircraft procurement, and to restore operation and maintenance, military personnel, and other funding in divisions A and B that was reduced in order to authorize such appropriation.

YES means you want to strike the funding; NO means you want to keep it in place.

2012 Prospects:

a. Bob Corker YES

b. Jim DeMint YES

c. John Ensign YES

d. Jon Kyl YES

e. Kay Bailey Hutchison NO

f. John Thune NO

Notes: On what kind of roll call do you get Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer agreeing with John Thune? This one.

It's discouragingly easy to find the defense industry pattern behind all the aisle-hopping. But it's fun to watch the strange bedfellows.

It's like that freaky masked ball scene in Eyes Wide Shut, except on the Senate floor and with less nudity, and no Tom Cruise, and also no computer generated fig leaves.