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60 - more than just a number.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14280.html
My take on the above link at Politico.com:
60 - it is just a number, but it is an important one.
If the Democrats can get 60 members in the Senate, they can disallow filibustering, and allow progressive legislation to follow a much quicker route through the Senate.
Consider this - for all of Obama's intelligence, charisma, and drive, he needs legislators who are willing to live up to the challenges we face: ending the war in Iraq, fixing the economy, ramping up production of renewable energy. The laundry-list goes on and on.
That will not happen if the Republicans can filibuster bills to death in the Senate. And they will. The Republican Party has been hijacked by such a messianic movement that passage of legislation that they do not author is not only bad policy, but an affront to America in general.
They will stop and nothing to thwart an Obama administration's progressive agenda.
Per Politico: VA, NM, CO, AK, NH, OR, NC, MN, KY, MS & GA are all either going to go to the Democrats or states were Republican numbers are falling, and the races are becoming competitive.
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61 is an even better number. Then we can kick Lieberman out of the caucus.
October 6, 2008 1:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
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