Jack & Jill Politics

some of the people who will be needed to pass such legislation come from states where they ran and got enough votes to win as republican-lite. People like Landrieu, Lincoln, Nelson, etc. These people can vote against the legislation and still win their seats back in congress next time. So how do you hold their votes?

Schumer is playing to his progressive base by indulging all this reconciliation talk. The idea that they will breakup the bill and do part via reconciliation and part without is unrealistic. The goal has been and will continue to be to get 60 for at least cloture. The question is what does Lieberman, Nelson, Landrieu, and Lincoln want so that they hold the party line.

“Honoring a campaign promise, the President today signed into law the Veterans Healthcare Reform and Transparency Act which authorizes Congress to approve veterans' medical care funding one year in advance to better anticipate and meet the demands of the Veterans Administration that provides health care to the nation's veterans.”

-The President did WHAT?
Damn socialist! (snark)

Were you in the pew with Glenn Beck twenty years ago?
Just wondering.

Patience my young jedi.First stop listening to the village,they have been wrong from day one.Democrats know whats at stake.No public option lose their majority.LIEberman will be the one who will throw a monkey wrench if they go the cloture route and if spineless harry dont bring the hammer down then he is toast.Nelson,Landrieu and Lincoln will vote for cloture even if being the streetwalkers that they are vote against the final bill.Remember we only need 51 and right now we have 53 yes votes for a public option.

The troop number is a red herring. It should not have been leaked and/or McChrystal less loosed lip in its regard.

McChrystal is viewing the troops as necessary to keep control and safety of key areas of Afghanistan. He knows he cannot stop every suicide bomber. He can set up postions where the local people can come and receive services. He can protect dams, irrigation canals, schools-intially for men and agricultural information, protect the market place where people exchange goods,services and ideas.

The goal is to reach critical mass of services, goods and educated people.The latter is the most imortant of the three. Educate people can then read the Koran themselves or have their children read it to them. If that happens you have competetion of ideas about Islam. You have soldiers and police whom can handle their responsiblities. The law becomes more civil and less religious. You will not have people abandoning their families to AQ Islamic law. Most importantly they will turn against AQ when AQ forces them to chose between AQ's version of law and their culture. .

I continue to ask because they changed the consitution in 1963 and i am not sure these laws haven't been “displaced?”

Because We Must Honor The Sacrifices That Hundreds Of Thousands Of Invisible Teabaggers May Have Made

-So let them soak in a vat of battery acid…and stick Glen Beck in there with them.

Licenses revoked. Put a fork in them.

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/arc…

I heard him at the Chicago Jazz fest in 78 or 79. He came on after Illinois Jacquet. He didn't say a word. They just played and walked off stage. People were just blown away. The only way to describe it is the way the chicago Jazz station described Miles' Bitches Brew, “I don't know why I'm playing this”. It was war afterwards