Sen. Stan Bingham takes a walk, and the Senate votes to override Gov. Bev Perdue’s veto of the Women’s Right to Know Act. I am glad the bill will become law, but I would rather have Sen. Bingham vote up or down, even if it meant the guv’s veto would stand.

The N&R’s Doug Clark calls the bill ‘obnoxious,’ and he bristles when a commenter brings up the voting record of another state senator we we all know and love.

I agree it’s ‘ancient history,’ so to speak, yet it provides valuable insight as we try to figure why we’re in the mess we’re in right now, especially when you consider President Obama’s role in debt ceiling negotiations, which in my view is pretty much the chief executive’s equivalent to voting ‘present.’

Again, I wonder exactly what did people think would happen when we elected him president?