Controlling the House and Senate
Now we see if the Congressional Dems can convert their majority status in the House and Senate into a cold, hard advantage.
It's now their job to take the topic back off the debate and right back onto the economy.
It's now their job to take the topic back off the debate and right back onto the economy.
posted by mikevotes at
6:11 AM
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Democratic majority in Senate...
In the next debate, when McCain rips the Dems as do nothings, Obama needs to point out all the important working-class-friendly legislation the Dems put together, only to have McCain and his Republicans filibuster... I think it's very important to frame the inaction of the Senate as the direct result of the actions of John McCain and his Republicans (tyranny of the minority).
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-epm, at 8:28 AM
Decent analysis of a 60-seat majority here.
Scroll down to the section "A Filibuster-proof Senate is Conceivable".
There are two things to consider about control of the Senate though. Several of the new senators (if elected) will be conservative. And the Republicans left standing will be very nervous about 2010 if things go as they are projected to.
If the Democrats hold the WH, there will be few worries about vetoes, but Republicans may want to make a "final stand" in the Senate and block everything. The Republican narrative in 2006 was that the seats that were lost had candidates that were not "conservative enough". If McCain loses, the narrative will be the same in his case. There could be strong pressure on the remaining Senators to go "hard right" and make the Democrats look impotent. The GOP could also peel off conservative Democrats on crucial votes, but not on procedural votes.
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Todd Dugdale , at 12:00 PM
EPM, The next debate is a "townhall" style, so probably screened questions ala the YouTube debate.
The last debate, economics, is probably Obama's best.
But yeah, they need to pin it on the Republicans. They have the advantage of having the leadership in both chambers, and you gotta figure Bushj isn't going to do anything to piss them off right now, so they do have the shaping ability here.
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Todd, there was also a Rothenberg (maybe) piece talking about a possible 60 scenario, but frankly, I'm kinda with you in that I don't think that's gonna be 60 lockstep votes on anything.
However, they can use 60 to force closure and then allow those half dozen or so to vote no if they want.
But any plan that requires a reliance on Lieberman, and some of the other new ones.....
And, Conservatives will likely be almost all that's left on the Repub side as the moderate Repub districts and seats are the ones most available.
That's the nature of our system that the out of power party tends to end up more out of the mainstream. That's also why we don't generally see the House flipping every two years.
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mikevotes, at 1:46 PM
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