because i wasn t willing to try to make a point and at the same time drive the economy off into the abyss. but make no mistake, i don t know of a single democrat who voted for this bill who thought it was a good bill. not one single democrat. i know you said that the consequences of default would be catastrophic but it s interesting you say you would have voted for it if your vote was needed to make it pass. a critic could say well, then, that your vote is sort of about politics because you knew your vote didn t really matter so it was a safe vote to vote no on? no. it really wasn t about politics because i made that statement before the vote and i thought it was a bad bill. i talked about the fact that it was a bad bill. so the safest and easiest political vote was to vote yes. i mean, i stand in favor with the white house. i get kudos from folks who just wanted to get it out of the way but i registered a protest vote. some democrats today in a meeting with vice pres