Discussion: The 6 Senate Democrats Most Likely To Vote With Republicans

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Keeping your troops in line to NOT take action is easier than convincing them to unite to DO something. McConnell will have to find items that the GOP’s different factions agree on.

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Sigh.

Another deeply superficial non-story by Sahil.

Why does this man still have a job?

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Tester is angling for the DSCC chairman spot; I suspect he may take a more liberal line on issues in this congress.

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I don’t understand. The Republicans aren’t willing to put up with the sort of shenanigans in which they have engaged during the past six years. If the Dems start using the filibuster as a way to thwart The Will of the People, McConnell will simply do away with it.

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Sahil’s apparent motto: “Any story to make things sound bad for Obama, especially ones with lots of speculation!”

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Not an issue. The chances of all 6 voting with Republicans on the same issue are zero. So it means nothing. Even if they have 5 of them, means nothing.

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BIG imPORtant STOry. ThaNKS SaHIL! It IS noW cleAR that NOBAMa is HATEd Even BY THe ExTRem LIberaL wing OF HIS own PARty. There GOES NOBamACARE. tHERE goES nobaMAPHoneS. Say HEllo TO KEYStone. Has THERE beeN A preSIDENt MOre aLOOf and OUt of ToucH with America??? ProbablY not SInce OHBuMMer iOUr FIRst faKE KENYAN ILLEgal President!11!!!one!!11!!1!!

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The Democrats are a lot more diverse than the GOP, but there are fundamental reasons for them to be Democrats in the first place. It is great to belong to party that actually has liberal and conservative members, versus the Republicans, where no deviation from their orthodoxy du jour, or even talking to a Democrat, is tolerated and is grounds for getting primaried.

I think this is kind of the way things are supposed to be. Liberal Republicans, Moderate Republicans, and Conservative Democrats used to exist because they believed in the fundamentals of their party, but were more a la carte in their thinking about individual issues. Only one party now has members like that, and that is the Democrats.

Today’s reality–this parliamentary approach to voting-- is depressing. At least the Dems can say they still have members from across the spectrum.

But I wouldn’t count on them for a lot of help if I were the Turtle Man. His craven obstructions and “party over country” approach for the past six years were treasonous and poisonous to our nation. I doubt they’ll be eager to help on much of anything.

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Question: With Obama’s ability to veto, why would Democrats bother to filibuster anything? And overriding requires sixty-seven votes, not sixty.

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If “ifs” and “buts” were candy and nuts, we’d all have a merry Christmas.
_________‘Dandy’ Don Meredith

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If anyone of these shitbag demoCONs votes with Turtle head they should be shot.

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Do any Senators represent our interests any longer? The US is certainly wealthy enough to fund university educations for all that can make the grade, 10-month maternity leave packages that could be divided among the parents, and universal health care. They could make sure that scientific research, transportation, the federal courts and USGS were adequately funded. Nope, gotta have F-35s, “cybersecurity” and GMO diets. If I’m an oligarch, I’m only getting my money’s worth from the senators I buy if they a) help me move my privately incurred debts off my balance sheet and onto the public ledger, b) help me gain control of public goods and services, either as a cost-plus provider, or transfer the public asset into my direct possession (e.g. subsidies, land swaps) or c) make sure I don’t have to compete by granting me a monopsony (cable companies) or de facto monopoly (American Water Works, Monsanto),

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It may be a rhetorical question but it goes to heart of the matter and what is wrong with American politics. The answer is no. They are salesmen, first last and always, selling their brands, and I hate that concept, but they’re not selling a better country to its constituents. Landrieu is a good example of someone who will bend over backwards to not make waves in order to keep her seat, and that’s her primary interest…

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He needs another 7 to override Obama’s veto pen.

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I don’t think Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri or Sen. Jon Tester of Montana will regularly join with Mitch McConnell.

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Maybe the idea is that if Obama wants Chained CPI to cut Social Security benefits but Harry Reid doesn’t, then this is how it could pass.

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The problem is not that certain people in the Democratic Party think independently. The problem is that no one in the Republican Party does.

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Why do you think they amended the Constitution turning Senators into nothing more that state-wide Representatives instead Senators, who were suppose to give voice to the States at the federal level.

But we don’t want that, we want instead to consolidate all the power into as few hands as possible. Of course a lot of liberals used not like that, but most are now in favor off taking it further by supporting more and more unilateral action by the President.

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Of course they will, they see the writing on the wall. They both will be up in off-year elections in deep red states.