--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, MDixon6569@ wrote: > > > > > > > > > In a message dated 10/20/07 6:41:39 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > > > do.rflex@ writes: > > > > > > > He also fails to acknowledge that Congress isn't a 'Democratic' > > > > Congress. Sixty votes are required to freely pass legislation in > > the > > > > Senate and the Senate is as follows: > > > > > > Democratic Senators 49 > > > Republican Senators 49 > > > Independent 1 > > > Connecticut for Lieberman Party 1 > > > > > > AND, a 2/3 majority is required to pass bills in the House: > > > > > > House of Representatives > > > > > > Democratic Representatives 233 > > > Republican Representatives 200 > > > > > > Who sets the agenda's in the House and the Senate? Reid > > > and Pelosi? > > > > Non sequitur. The Republicans are filibustering > > anything they don't like, so a simple majority > > means nothing any more. > > Exactly: > > Reid: "Republican Obstruction Has Gotten So Bad That Now They're > Blocking Bills That They Actually Support". > > AP News: > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070630/democrats-agenda/ > > Conservatives boast about the "success" of their strategy in > discrediting the new majority. As Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott, > R-Miss., put it, "the strategy of being obstructionist can work or > fail. So far it's working for us."
Another very important way it's working for them is that filibustering a bill that has the support of the American people but is opposed by the White House excuses Bush from having to take responsibility for vetoing it. > Subverting Majority Rule And that's exactly what it is.
