Our Senator from Ohio.....

Senator Voinovich has been getting alot of attention lately. Personally I was glad to see him stand up for his own beliefs during the committee hearings on John Bolton. That's how our government is supposed to work, it's not supposed to be the party line every time upon command. He's been catching alot of heat from Republicans when instead they should be glad he is doing his job.

Today he made a very emotional plea that frankly the depth of the emotion when he stated this surprised me. The link to the video is here courtesy of dembloggers it's the only site I found out there that had it. It was quicker to save target as to my desktop rather than wait for it to load from there for those interested.

I transcribed the statement he made, for those not interested in the video, though you can't see how emotional he became via printed words.....

We're going to vote tomorrow, and I'm afraid that when we go
to the well, that too many of my colleagues, that too many of
my colleagues are not going to understand that this
appointment is very very important to our country.

At a strategic time when we need friends all over the world
we need somebody up there that's going to be able
to get the job done and I know some of my friends say,
oh let it go George it will work out,

I don't want to take the risk, I came back here and ran
for a second term because I worry about my kids
and my grandchildren. I just hope that my colleagues take the time
and before they get to this well do some serious thinking
about whether or not we should send John Bolton to the
United Nations.

I wrote him and told him thank you for having the courage to not just follow the party line in the committee. I wrote him again tonight and again thanked him for having the courage of his convictions. For George Voinovich to make that emotional of a plea to the Senate, something is driving that emotion. Let's hope the Senate listens.