Forging a Working Majority of 60 in the Senate:

husband | 11-3-04 | patriciaruth

[patriciaruth]

Getting a working majority of 60 in the Senate:

55 Senate (assuming gains in FL, LA, GA, SC, SD, NC minus IL, CO)

These Senators may work with us.
Baucus (D-MT)
Nelson (D-NE)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Pryor (D-AR)
Liberman (D-CT)
Lambreau (D-LA)

These Senator are old, in ill health, and may be retired by God
Inoye (D-HI) with Republican Governor
Teddy Kennedy (D-MA) with Republican governor
Byrd (D-WV) Latenberg (D-NJ)

[patriciaruth]

Does this mean we have a shot at getting the energy bill passed and getting Supreme Court Justices passed?

How about Social Security reform and Immigration reform?

Any other gun control bills due to Sunset?

What other issues might we deal with with these people?

[ECM]

Abolition of the IRS?

(hey, I like to think big)

[patriciaruth]

Excellent! And I would place money on it that this is a definite possibility.

Which would you prefer instead-- Value Added Tax (VAT) or national sales tax?

[ECM]

National sales tax over a VAT ANY day of the week.

[IStillBelieve]

How about eliminating the deficit and cutting the federal budget by at least 10%?

[patriciaruth]

I tend to go with that...less paperwork and headache.

What would you exempt from a national sales tax?

[Jim Noble]

FOUR MORE SCALIAS!

FOUR MORE SCALIAS!

FOUR MORE SCALIAS!

[Pistolshot]

Byrd (D-WV) Latenberg (D-NJ)

Two examples of the walking dead.

[Non-Sequitur]

Subtract Collins, Snowe, Chaffee, and Specter. Massachusetts elects replacement senators, the governor doesn't replace them. West Virginia and New Jersey both have Democrats as governors.

[patriciaruth]

Non military and non homeland security items have been held to 1% growth.

Can shortchange our national defense now.

The tax cut should begin bringing in increased revenues from the jobs and business creations to help offset the deficit.

Any opinion on the price of oil? I think it will drop now that the international conspiracy to obstruct the reelection of Bush is now squelched.

Any opinion about tort reform leading to more profits and thus leading to increased IRS revenues?

[mabelkitty]

Here's the deal.
Rush said losing Daschle is like losing 3 seats for the Dems. Don't know whay, but okay....
Congress will have to get behind the President because he has the American people behind him.
First time anybody in the Senate acts up, Bush will go public and there will be backlash Big Time.
We won't have to worry about the Senate any more. We are also free to go nuclear and have Cheney force things to the floor.

[patriciaruth]

We were just wondering if their retirement would lead to more moderate replacements.

[patriciaruth]

Ooooh! This is better than sex!

[OldFriend]

Count on McCain to join the dems in voting against the president.

[Jim Noble]

Ooooh! This is better than sex!

You don't know my wife...

[Non-Sequitur]

We were just wondering if their retirement would lead to more moderate replacements.

Moderate Democrats? Are there any left? The chance of that is about the same as moderate Republicans, isn't it?

[WileyC]

National sales tax over a VAT ANY day of the week.

Hallelujah! (hope I spelled that right) =)

[hchutch]

CHIEF JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS!!!

[ken5050]

Right now it's about getting 5 dems to invoke cloture..NOT to pass the judicial nomination, but to allwo them to come to the floor for a vote.. In one sense, it's an easy vote, the Senate shoudl be allowed to work its will. OTOH, it's the hardest vote for Dems, because it's the issue that drives their hard core idelogical base, the NARAL crowd..

The GOP needs to get 5 more votes...I think that Nelson and Bayh will go along, Tim Johnson also, for he can read the handwriting on the wall. What Frist has to do is get MORE than 5 Dems, so that no one or two of them will have to catch NARAL's wrath..The two Arkansas senators will also go along...Landrieu won't..she's too hard core..but we'll take her out in 4 yeras. Lieberman will go along..Frist must be a very happy camper this morning..