The dems keep their people in line. Lieberman strays, but not on the really important leftist stuff.
We can’t get ours to remain true. And in this instance, we could have held the filibuster for a while, because the Dems only have 58 at best. They can’t get to sixty votes, so they can’t vote cloture.
I know what you’re saying. Snow, McCain and others will be voting with the dems on occasion.
We don’t block the dems wishes. We don’t block cloture. We just cave in. Here we had a natural block, since 60 votes couldn’t have been obtained. It appeared we didn’t even try to keep our folks in line. We might as well have 17 Rs.
Why don’t we explain nicely to our people, that they either tow the line or else?
If they run, so much the better. When they run again, we could run a real Conservative against them.
>>We can’t get ours to remain true. And in this instance, we could have held the filibuster for a while, because the Dems only have 58 at best. They can’t get to sixty votes, so they can’t vote cloture<<
I wonder if some of the R senators have a dream of running for POTUS some day, and think they can’t if they are deemed to be “too extreme.” If so, they might look at what happened to McCain. I just don’t see how a republican can be POTUS without inspiring conservatives. Conservatives have the passion to do the necessary hard work, but they won’t do it for a McCain.