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Skriven 2006-11-09 10:51:02 av Mimi Gallandt (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 24703 av Jeff Binkley (1:226/600)
Ärende: VOTE TO ALLOW ANOTHER BAN
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Jeff Binkley -> Ross Cassell wrote:
 ->>>> But is this a real big win in the here and now for
 ->>>> the Democrats, lets assume the Va Senate Seat does
 ->>>> fall to the left?

 BS>>> Jim Webb is hardly "left" and your assumption is now fact.

 RC>> Actually Va wont certify vote til 11/27, I assume because of
 RC>> recounts?

 RC>> Its not official, but I aint holding out hope.

 ->>>> All this does is teach Bush how to Veto and the new Dem
 ->>>> majority isnt stout enuff to turn a veto back.

 BS>>> Do you actually think republicans who survived the elections by
 BS>>> running away from Bush will clamor to get behind him if he is on
 BS>>> the wrong side of the issue with his veto?  I suspect you are
 BS>>> dreaming if you believe that.

 RC>> Get real, if Bush veto's a bill, all the repubs have to do is vote
 RC>> the same way they did when the bill initially was voted on.

 RC>> In the House if 175 repubs initially voted against a bill, that got
 RC>> passed by virtue of the Dem majority, bill later passes Senate, goes
 RC>> to Bush, he vetoes it, then it goes back to congress. To be
 RC>> overridden 32 of the original 175 repubs who voted against it would
 RC>> have to change their vote..

 RC>> Just take the scenario as it is Bob, we can split hairs over other
 RC>> things..

 ->>>> So what has changed except the introduction of gridlock?

 BS>>> The gridlock, if it occurs will be on Bush's head if he chooses
 BS>>> to go against the will of the people.

 RC>> You are being melodramatic, Reagan and Clinton had their share of it.

 RC>> Yet you require me to believe Clinton was the bestest president ever.

 JB> The will of the people gave the democrats a narrow margin in the House
 JB> and Senate.  It was hardly a mandate.  Those same people voted in quite
 JB> a number of republicans.  The magnifying glass now turns to the
 JB> democrats, who owe the people who voted for them a plan.

While out here Arnold got a tremendous landslide victory. Here's a tidbit about
sore losers, when Angelides gave his concession speech he congratulated Arnold
on his victory and his supporters at the speech booed. How classless and tacky
of them.

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