… super majority to prevent the Republicans from getting in the way of their fabulous legislation!. With the spineless wonders we have in the Senate, they won’t have to worry about a thing. Republicans can be rolled on command by the Democrats.

There is only a handful of people in the Republican party serving in the senate who actually have the stomach to fight for what they believe in. The rest….. well if it can get them good press they will make a show of it. Its not like they actually believe in the platitudes they mouth to the voters.

Lessons learned for 06 and 08…NONE. But at least they assured us that Reagan is dead…at least for them.

I am glad to see you all are waking up about McConnell. I shoke my head on earlier days when there were posts praising the glorious leader McConnell.

McConnell has always been a huge spender. He believes in an alliance between big government and big business. He rewards those who give him money with taxpayers dollars. He lead the way on the bailout for the banks, the drug pill for the drug companiess, the energy bill etc.. And he’s pro open borders since the money givers want it that way.

He embodies everything that is wrong with the Republican party.
The party made a huge mistake in not dumping its leadership down to the last man.

McConnell is Mr. “Show me the money!”

Before McConnell is treated like a pariah, you need to remember that this is a cloture vote, so Dingy Harry needs to get enough votes to proceed.

A Republican not showing up to vote is the same as a Republican showing up to vote no.

Reid needs a 3/5 vote of the full Senate (usually 60, but with the Burris imbroglio and Coleman’s seat undecided it is 59 votes right now).

So that means Reid needs all of his side to vote for this, and, since Biden is still a Senator but on an overseas trip, they actually need to pick up Republican votes.

Plus who knows if all the Dems will show up in Washington on a Sunday for this farce.

So it shouldn’t come as a surprise if a lot of Republicans don’t show up to vote on Sunday, they all have better things to do than play footsie with Reid.

The ones to condemn are those that show up and vote yes on Sunday.

Washington Office
361-A Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-2541
Fax: (202) 224-2499

Use the fax number and jam up the machine and call his office to complain!

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson

I know that at one point this past summer, Reid tried to find room in the Senate schedule to do exactly the same thing and other things took higher priority.

The bill planned last summer (and probably this one as well) consisted of every bill that Coburn put a hold on by himself. Individual senators can put holds on bills that make if fairly difficult to push them through the Senates workings (remember you can do just about anything in the house with 218 votes, but in the Senate, one Senator who knows what he is doing can keep bills from going anywhere).

I know that some of the bills that Coburn put a hold on had a majority of support among the Senate Republicans as well as a majority of the Senate Democrats and which had passed the House. As I understand, Coburn also used his hold considerably more than the average and in some cases refused to remove a hold even when requested to by the Republican Senate leadership.

So with the start of the 111th congress clearing the deck of everyting in terms of holds, Reid is making a catch all bill of everyting that Coburn got in the way of and forcing it through. My belief is that this is comprised only of bills where Reid and McConnell both think that that there are 70-75 votes for.

So, in that regard, yes McConnell *is* hanging Coburn out to dry, and I would expect that the Democrats can get 60 with the assistance of those Republicans in the Senate who have been there a while. I wouldn’t be all *that* surprised to see someone like Hatch vote with the Democrats on this.

I know it was a futile hope, but I hoped that the surviving Rs in the Senate would have some level of ‘hang together’ to them to prevent the total steamroller that is coming.

Apparently we have more R Senators who are of French heritage than I had previously suspected.

And I want everyone to know, my ideal Senator is Tom Coburn. I support him unconditionally. Even when the majority of Rs are against him. The man is truly a conservative, not just an R.

Proper grammar saves lives.

Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.

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