Heading into lame-duck hell.
Under either scenario the GOP will have enough votes to filibuster anything the Dems try to do during a lame duck session.
And if the GOP doesn’t, there will be **** to pay.
Personally, after we see how badly the Dems lost in 2010, I think enough Democrat senators up for election in 2012 that will thinking about their own skin and refusing to go along with these extreme proposals.
And if the GOP doesn’t, there will be **** to pay.
Personally, after we see how badly the Dems lost in 2010, I think enough Democrat senators up for election in 2012 that will thinking about their own skin and refusing to go along with these extreme proposals.
Republicans currently have 41 Senate seats...they got the 41st seat when Scott Brown won election in January. It takes 41 seats to filibuster anything.
” At worst, the GOP will head in the lame duck session with 40 seats. At best they will have 42 (The winner of Byrd’s and Biden’s old seats will be sworn in immediately). “
Don’t discount the Maine Harpies, and Grahamnesty... Between these avowed “Dems In Everything But Name”, and the ‘closet squishies’ that pop up from now and then, a nominal 42 member Republican caucus is no guarantee of an effective filibuster....