In the bizarro world, taking one's responsibility to vote seriously is being a "weasle."
Legislators were hoping to pass the bill on the continuing resolution tonight, no matter how late, so that the Senate would not need to be in session on Friday and so they could get back to their districts instead.
As of 3:30 p.m. ET, Brown was still in Washington, held up by the prospect of late-night votes in the Senate on a continuing resolution to fund the government that needs to get passed before Congress goes into recess.
This afternoon, Brown said that he would need to stay in Washington and skip the debate if there turned out to be late-night votes.
(Brown has missed only one Senate vote. ~ OldDog)
That prompted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to declare that there would be no votes tonight. As he did so, Reid suggested Brown was trying to use the Senate as an excuse to get out of his debate.
http://news.yahoo.com/scott-brown-al...-politics.html
When political grandstanding is needed, we can always count on Harry Reid.