Doc Mercer
EOG Master
Senator Johnson is NOT back to work yet since his brain hemmorage. This brings the Dems down ONE vote of their majority in the Senate:
This makes it roughly 50 Dems, and 49 republicans.
Also, Joe LIEberman, and some of the DLCers, will vote with the republicans on many issues, but especially the war in Iraq, and possibly the (proposed) war in Iran. So, even if it was ONLY holy Joe that would vote against stopping the war, that would make the vote 49 Dems, 49 republicans, and...you guessed it... here would come Cheney to break the tie.
There are a few republicans who are leaning to go against the war, but for every republican who leans away from it, there are some DLCers who would lean back toward supporting the war.
On a side note: Joe LIEberman, also, WOULD NOT vote to impeach the Dictator-Tot in the White House ....
The Dems didn't get enough seats in the majority to pass much hard-hitting legislation, and WAY too few seats to override a presidential veto.
It's a small and subtle point, but the truth is, IT'S THE WHOLE POINT!
The Senate Dem leadership has been walking very softly about what they're willing to pursue, simply because there just aren't enough votes AVAILABLE to them, for them to go around arrogantly beating their chests
The republicans are still controlling the message in the mainstream. Between the media, the electronic voting machines, the serious drive by the republicans to disenfranchise Dem voters (see the new U.S. attorney scandal), and the very tenuous majority in the Senate, Dems hands are pretty well tied, in reality.
This makes it roughly 50 Dems, and 49 republicans.
Also, Joe LIEberman, and some of the DLCers, will vote with the republicans on many issues, but especially the war in Iraq, and possibly the (proposed) war in Iran. So, even if it was ONLY holy Joe that would vote against stopping the war, that would make the vote 49 Dems, 49 republicans, and...you guessed it... here would come Cheney to break the tie.
There are a few republicans who are leaning to go against the war, but for every republican who leans away from it, there are some DLCers who would lean back toward supporting the war.
On a side note: Joe LIEberman, also, WOULD NOT vote to impeach the Dictator-Tot in the White House ....
The Dems didn't get enough seats in the majority to pass much hard-hitting legislation, and WAY too few seats to override a presidential veto.
It's a small and subtle point, but the truth is, IT'S THE WHOLE POINT!
The Senate Dem leadership has been walking very softly about what they're willing to pursue, simply because there just aren't enough votes AVAILABLE to them, for them to go around arrogantly beating their chests
The republicans are still controlling the message in the mainstream. Between the media, the electronic voting machines, the serious drive by the republicans to disenfranchise Dem voters (see the new U.S. attorney scandal), and the very tenuous majority in the Senate, Dems hands are pretty well tied, in reality.
