In Honor Of Senator Mark Warner Ducking The Obamacare Repeal Vote Yesterday

I’m still waiting to hear where Senator Mark Warner was yesterday or what he was doing that prevented him from casting a vote on repeal of Obamacare. As we’ve already noted, he was in DC at some point during the day addressing the liberal Center for American Progress.

I have yet to see anything about a personal of family medical emergency or something else arising to the level where missing this vote would be excusable.  Until such a plausible explanation is offered, we can only assume that he was ducking this vote in order to have to keep from going on the record either against his constituents on the one side or his party leadership and the nutroots to whom he is beholden.

This one is for you, Ducky!!!

UPDATE: The WSJ asked Warner’s office why he didn’t vote.

Sen. Warner’s office didn’t respond to a request for comment.

If there were a family or medical emergency, you would think they would have stated that right up front.

UPDATE 2: Now there is a statement on his website:

“I was unable to vote today because of a family emergency”

How convenient. Yet he was able to speak at the Center for American Progress? That just raises a red flag for me on this.

Needless to say, for now I’m not buying it. Not to sound like Principal Rooney from “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” but I’m going to need a little more proof than this before I believe that his absence was excusable and not a political maneuver.