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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on October 25, 2010, 08:02:12 AM
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...will a democrat or two jump caucuses to give the GOP a majority?
If you think so, who are your prime suspects?
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...will a democrat or two jump caucuses to give the GOP a majority?
If you think so, who are your prime suspects?
gene taylor (MS) has flirted with changing parties on a number of occasions. but it seems to me that any dem that wasn't so repulsed by the extremist Pelosi agenda (not to mention the strong arm tactics she used to whip votes on things like "cap-and-spend") that they didn't flip in 2010 isn't likely to flip in 2011 . . . without an inducement, at least.
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How about Lieberman? Don't know what's taken him so long to go GOP, especially considering how shittily he's been treated by the DemocRAT Party.
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Liebermann is pure old-school Dem on all the social and domestic issues, he only stands with the GOP when it comes to terrorism, GWOT, Israel/Palestinian policy, and the national defense stuff necessary to support all of that. He was grossly mistreated by the Dems, but I don't see him breaking with them.
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Liebermann is pure old-school Dem on all the social and domestic issues, he only stands with the GOP when it comes to terrorism, GWOT, Israel/Palestinian policy, and the national defense stuff necessary to support all of that. He was grossly mistreated by the Dems, but I don't see him breaking with them.
After the past two years, I have no idea why he would stay anywhere near them. If you're being abused, get the hell out.
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Liebermann is pure old-school Dem on all the social and domestic issues, he only stands with the GOP when it comes to terrorism, GWOT, Israel/Palestinian policy, and the national defense stuff necessary to support all of that. He was grossly mistreated by the Dems, but I don't see him breaking with them.
He only really became pro-choice when Gore tapped him for VP but your larger point pretty concurs with my general impression Lieberman will stay with the D caucus.
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A couple may jump the fence only if the republicans win a clear majority and control all the committees. They'll only cross over then for the freebies they can get for crossing over.
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A Connecticut-based poll conducted in Nov. 2009 in this analysis (http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/124433-lieberman-could-be-kingmaker-in-next-congress?page=3) shows that most of his constituents already think of Lieberman as a Republican, making a switch not entirely out of the question.
He says no, he won't, but stranger things have happened.
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The may sound callous, but I could care less if dems/repbulicans switch parties. To be blunt, if they aren't conservative/libertarian in focus, then by definition they maintain some socialist traits that, cumulatively, makes it irrelevant if they are D or R.
Indeed, I'm still looking at the R's being in the mid-fifties after the election, with enough conservative votes to preserve a 51-vote majority (50 votes is not enough to Biden-proof legislation).
If the GOP doesn't get in the mid-fifties, then look for Biden to become more of a player around Senate voting time.
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...will a democrat or two jump caucuses to give the GOP a majority?
If you think so, who are your prime suspects?
No. If anyone was going to jump, it might be Lieberman, but it's far more likely Obama's "comfort girls" Collins and Snowe would jump to the Dems.