We cannot forget about the Maine Twins.
Posted on 07/01/2009 1:28:07 PM PDT by RobinMasters
Like an oasis in the desert, the 60-vote Democratic supermajority is a mirage.
Yes, former comedian Al Franken is now Minnesota's senator-elect -- thanks to the state Supreme Court's ruling Tuesday -- giving Democrats enough members in the Senate to hit a filibuster-proof majority. This is no laughing matter.
But that's on a really, really good day. For all intents and purposes, Democrats don't truly have 60 votes in the Senate.
With the addition of Franken, they technically have 58. Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., caucus with Democrats but don't define themselves that way.
Sanders, a socialist, is arguably the most liberal member of the Senate, so he's more than willing to buck the Democratic leadership when he doesn't feel the liberal wing gets a fair shake. Lieberman, by contrast, is a moderate who's plenty willing to challenge the Democratic leadership when he believes it veers too far to the left.
But the Democrats aren't even at 58 votes on most days.
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hanging hopes on Sanders and Lieberman???
LOL! Whistle past the graveyard, boys.
The writer forgets that we (conservatives/republicans) have our own turncoats who consistently vote the DemoncRAT way.
Very true. The Dems can always call on the two senators from Maine when they’re in a pinch.
Selected, not elected.
Hmmm, where have I heard that observation before?
At least there, the vote count was NEVER in favor of the contender.
Which just shows to go you, keep on recounting over and over until you win.
We cannot forget about the Maine Twins.
Republicans need to make the “DEATHBED DUO”, Kennedy and Byrd, show up for every single vote in the Senate. Democrats can’t get to 60 without them.
Probably more like 62-63. For all intents and purposes.
On what planet is Lieberman a moderate?
Why do you think Lieberman wasn’t punished more for his treachery to the Dems? They needed his hypothetical 60th vote — which is no longer hypothetical.
we can entice a few reasonable Democrats to cross to the other side.
Dream on.
Whoop-de-do now there are 60 clowns - Throw the bums out!
LOL, I know it is pretty unrealistic.
There are more than 60 clowns in that body.
all I can think of is William F. Buckley’s famous line about how he’d rather be governed by the first 100 names out of the New York City telephone directory...
On this stupid "cap & trade" bill, for example, you can bet that every Democrat from a state with a strong energy sector will oppose it.
“reasonable democrat”-now theres an oxymoron if there ever was one.
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