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Psychiatry 101 - How to Vote

There are 98 senators on the floor. All 98 of them vote. Yay. No senator voted in the negative. So it was a sweep. And the resolution would go to the House where Barbara Lee was a representative. Dashle had actually rushed the vote through the Senate because the White House is called for a national prayer meeting at the National Cathedral for the victims of 9-11. That's supposed to start right at noon. It was actually raining that day. But we are feeling pain, anger, we're shocked. Both Barbara and Ron were trained as psychiatric social workers. So they both knew that when a person is feeling all of those things, it's generally better to do nothing

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