The Democrats have 50 Senators. Plus Joe LIEberman (I-CT) to give them the majority.

That second sentence should answer your question, since it takes a vote of at least 51 to do even simple majority things (and we all know how LIEberman votes!), and then under the arcane rules of the Senate, most of the amendments and other stuff must pass by a super-majority of 60.

Again – for those of you slow learners – the Democrats have 50. Plus Joe LIEberman.

It is truly a wonder that Democrats in the Senate have managed to get anything passed – especially since

LESSON #2: All of the Democratic Senators do NOT always vote as a solid block (unlike the Republiscums) – in fact several of them are what we call the Yellow Dogs (Republicans in drag).

That is why many times the “Democratic” majority seems to be only 43 or 45 or some number below 50.

Any more questions?

Good!

Remember to vote for Democrats for any vacant seats or where Republiscums are up for election. But not just any Democrats. Progressive ones!!

whatever, i’m just really sick and tired of the lies and false hope.

Comment by katy

I don’t doubt your dedication and I believe you actually would get behind them, etc as you say but the American people have themselves to blame for a lot of this because as a whole, they will not get behind them and fight like hell……

Lots of the posts here are from democrat deniers……that is, they say you don’t have to be a democrat to be a progessive….well ok, but in America, today, if you’re a progressive then you will be dealing with democrats. If you don’t want a republican president then you will vote for a democrat….

Wonder why Al Gore is not interested in fighing like hell anymore? Could it be because when the fire was lit and he needed the democrats to fight like hell that he turned around and there was no one there?

How about Hillary. Wonder why she’s not pushing for nationalized health care anymore…..could it be because when she lit the fuse and tried to get it for us that we looked the other way and allowed her to be humiliated for her effort?

Not all democrats are good and they should be voted out. I’m just saying that progressives have caused many of our own problems.

This information must be free of the bondage of permanent archival. It must remain free from the oligarchy of government bureaucracy.

Indeed, follow great Americans, it must be verily SET FREE like the wind where it must REMAIN FREE, free from the clutches of those who would USE that information for purposes that might not be good for the GOP and big business.

FREE THE INFORMATION. DESTROY IT FOREVER…

Comment by Liberals Are Filled With Hate — January 26, 2008 @ 7:18 pm

The Clintons will never be as low as Rove and Bush’s treatment of McCain, not by a long shot. The Clintons look like angels compared to Republicans.

i wish they would go ahead and admit that they are being blackmailed, and why, and appologize and beg forgiveness…
and then get on with the business of the people and the CONSTITUTION
and allow us ALL the dignity of working together to fix this mess…
i’d get behind them and fight like hell with ‘em…
or throw them out with the rest of the rubbish, if they deserve that…

whatever, i’m just really sick and tired of the lies and false hope.

This really isn’t news. This is just one more brick being lifted out of a wall that crumbled years ago by the Bush and Cheney assaults to our Constitution.

I have no interest whatsoever in anything that Patrick Leahy has to say anymore. or any Democrats in either House of Congress. Leahy is a fat, lazy, comfortable drunk grown accustomed to the privileged life in the Senate. While Bush’s minions were destroying emails and servers, Leahy was making a cameo appearance in the film version of his favorite comic book hero, Batman. As far as I’m concerned, Democrats, by their feckless “What can we do? We don’t have the votes” bewilderment, are co-conspirators with Republicans in the annihilation of the United States.

Where are the hearings they promised? Where are the investigations? Where is their OUTRAGE, expressed daily? Why aren’t they using their oratorical skills to explain to the dumbed down people of the U.S. every single day just what voting for Republicans has done to the country?

Yesterday I listened to both Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi tell the National Press Club what a dandy job they’ve done, what Democrats have done, by working in a bipartisan manner with Republicans. Pelosi had a tear in her eye as she defended what they got accomplished (nothing of any consequence), and what they didn’t get done was all the fault of big, bad Bush.

Not that it ever did, but that line really doesn’t work for me anymore. It stokes rage, at Democrats. Democrats’ failure to stand up and fight against the steady erosion of liberals’ gains over the decades for the average working American by “working in a bipartisan manner with Republicans” has only impoverished more of us, lost ground for us and our children, and traded away our nation.

By the logic of these Democrats in office, “when your party doesn’t have a majority, you might as well just sleep in every day, not show up for votes, spend your time in office only raising money for your next campaign when, maybe, voters will put your party in the majority”.

After the 2006 election, after Democrats had pledged during the campaign to do everything they could to end the war in Iraq and instead did everything Bush wanted to keep the war going, I wondered what they might know that they weren’t telling us.

After Democrats and Republicans learned that Bush and Cheney had been lying to them from their first days in office, about everything, and excluding Congress at every turn, I expected their anger to overcome their frustration and do everything within their Constitutionally-mandated power to get that unitary executive back in line. When Congress didn’t, I wondered, “What do they know that I don’t know?” The only answers to explain it was that either Bush was blackmailing them with info he had gotten from the illegal wiretapping and surveillance programs, or, Congress was just made up of lazy, dumb, ineffective, or uncaring people. Or, they were in league with Bush and Cheney, rich and privileged, screw the Constitution, the country and the rest of the world.

I realized then that why Democrats weren’t getting the job done didn’t matter. These were the wrong people for the job. Whether they didn’t know how to, or didn’t want to, didn’t matter. Whatever the reason, these are the wrong people for getting the job done, for working on behalf of the people of the United States.

Comment by Liberals Are Filled With Hate — January 26, 2008 @ 7:18 pm

Like our friend O. Bigfoot, you are making the erroneous assumption that everyone posting at this site is a Democrat or Democratic Supporter. Also, you are deliberately introducing something that is Off-Topic and, frankly, obnoxiously incendiary and it ought to be deleted by Admin and replaced by a comment such as “Defecation removal by Admin”

Pooper Scooper Alert – Aisle #81

Comment by Liberals Are Filled With Hate — January 26, 2008 @ 7:18 pm

Worked like a charm in South Carolina…didn’t it??? Record Democrat turnout too. How about that???

merle wrote a song about how this country needs a woman for president, and he wrote it for hillary, but when maher asked him about actually supporting her, haggard’s answer was ambiguous, at best…

he was sloshed or something…

is he the one who is looking, seriously looking, at solar technology?
he’s wanting to find the perfect model, fund it and put his name on it…
i’m pretty sure it’s merle haggard…

BTW,,, the one good thing that Ronald Reagan did was to pardon Merle Haggard from prison , when he was Governor of California.

go for it!

it was merle haggard…
and boy, what was he messed up on when he finally got connected?
whew! that was more than old age!

my favorite waylon jennings:
“i’ve always been crazy, but it keeps me from goin’ insane”
(actually a song title) (GREAT song too)

Fortunately, a landslide is harder to tamper with, and I hope the Republicans LOSE in a landslide…but we need to fix this.