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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-12-07 01:21 AM Original message |
Democrats can't get cloture because we have a 49 member caucus |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-12-07 01:32 AM Response to Original message |
1. You're right, and as much as it pi**es me off that we can't win, it |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-12-07 01:38 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Yeah, they're doing the work of Republican operatives for them. |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-12-07 02:03 AM Response to Reply #2 |
7. Why do you say that? It's much the same as saying they're playing into |
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MGKrebs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-12-07 07:01 AM Response to Reply #7 |
11. I assume it means that characterizing Dems as "spineless" |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-12-07 09:12 AM Response to Reply #7 |
13. Oh, that is what I'm saying. |
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Erika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-12-07 01:50 AM Response to Reply #1 |
5. Yep n/t |
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DrDan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-12-07 07:20 AM Response to Reply #1 |
12. well how do you think it plays across the U.S. to see an |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-12-07 01:41 AM Response to Original message |
3. And even though it looks close |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-12-07 01:45 AM Response to Original message |
4. Republicans could filibuster with less in 1993-95 |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-12-07 02:08 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. Speaking of today's vote only, Pubs were told not to fight Shrub |
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rockymountaindem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-12-07 01:57 AM Response to Original message |
6. Don't rain on the raining on the parade parade |
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Eurobabe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-12-07 02:54 AM Response to Original message |
9. I just looked at the roll call |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-12-07 06:03 AM Response to Original message |
10. I hate Lieberman but one needs 60 votes, not 51. |
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MGKrebs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-12-07 09:21 AM Response to Reply #10 |
14. But the cloture vote was in effect the no confidence vote. |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-12-07 02:47 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. The two party system isn't dead, but the GOP is the dominant party |
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