No guarantee - at least in this report - that it goes to the states. Guess we should all just wait to see the details.
“No guarantee - at least in this report - that it goes to the states. Guess we should all just wait to see the details.”
There’s almost zero chance the BBA will get out of the Senate. Do the math.
In the Senate, are there not:
- 49 Republicans (or is it only 48 or 47?)
- 49 Democrats (or is it 50 or 51?)
- 1 independent (Lieberman)
- 1 socialist (Sanders of VT, who is otherwise “independent”)
BBA needs 67 votes (two-thirds) to get out of Senate. If every Republican votes for it, you still need 18 votes.
Sanders is a socialist and would DIE before he’d vote for the BBA. Lieberman probably wouldn’t vote for it, either.
That means you’d have to get at least 18 of the ‘rats to vote “aye”.
I know that in the past, some ‘rats have _said_ they might vote for a BBA. But the current political atmosphere is too charged, to divided, for the ‘rats to do anything they aren’t _forced_ to do.
It’s one thing for the Tea Party Republicans to hold out long enough to force the White House to yield (Obama has probably given marching orders to Reid, vote on it or else), as has been done in the debt ceiling fight.
But no one will be forcing the hands of the democratic Senators during the BBA vote.
Grumplestiltskin prediction:
BBA will get voted on in the Senate (if the “compromise” bill becomes law), but...
BBA will fail in the Senate, and that’ll be the end of it — for now.
Just sayin’....