How do you spell f-i-l-i-b-u-s-t-e-r p-r-o-o-f ?

[garybeck]

+

=

JACKPOT!

[ZombieNixon]

1. With one L.

;)

[garybeck]

4. ha, thanks :)

[Occam Bandage]

2. With one fewer 'l'.

[BuyingThyme]

3. Never hurts to ask.

[JitterbugPerfume]

5. that is the magic number

and all of the "Spector will never be a REAL Dem" people need to realise what this really means.

[meegbear]

6. I believe it's f-i-l-i-b-u-s-t-e-r p-r-o-o-f

[Winterblues]

7. Ben Nelson

D'Oh ..... I thought you said how they support a fillibuster.....

[Laelth]

8. Let me have Collins and Snowe too, and I'll share your enthusiasm.

I remain skeptical, for the moment.

:dem:

-Laelth

[NightWatcher]

9. you KNOW that Biden is calling and making promises to both of them

and Steele is calling and begging and crying and threatening......

[Laelth]

10. I certainly would be, if I were Vice President Biden.

I read somewhere today that Snowe is very unlikely to become a Democrat, for personal reasons, but that Collins could make the switch. I'd be happy with that.

:shrug:

:dem:

-Laelth

[L. Coyote]

18. Yeah. Saving his own arse and ensuring the Dems don't take PA in 2010!

Slick Puke Trick is how this reads.

[KamaAina]

11. R-E-L-I-E-F!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!

[Political Heretic]

12. You can't seriously be this naive.

You think Specter is going to vote with Dems on issues where we'd need 60 Democratic votes to break a fillibuster?

Okay.. if you think that... Let's start with EFCA.

OH WAIT. :eyes:

[Gold Metal Flake]

16. +1

We may have a chance in 2010.

[madinmaryland]

13. 60-40 Baby!!

[DireStrike]

14. I dunno. Do the letters b-a-y-h or n-e-l-s-o-n go into it? Or l-i-e-b-e-r-m-a-n?

[Occulus]

19. Stop dividing by zero.

:P

[bobbolink]

15. And if he votes with Republicans????

He is NOT a liberal, not by any stretch of the imagination.

:thumbsdown:

[GoCubsGo]

20. Even if he does vote with his party...

There are still enough other DINOs around that his vote wouldn't make a difference. Mr. Nelson is the first to come to mind.

[Initech]

17. Fuck yeah!!!!

Let's finally finish off the GOP!

[Mechatanketra]

21. Oh, for the love of...

It's been noted more than once in this thread, but once more for the cheap seats:

The letters "D" and "R" are just labels. Labels don't break filibusters; votes do. We don't need 60 Democrats in the Senate to break filibusters; we need 60 votes.

What always aggravates me about people leaping up to defend guys like Lieberman or Bayh or (now) Specter is how they say "it's all about the judges!" or "it's all about the filibuster!", ignoring the concrete fact that people get derided as DINOs because they can't be relied on for the important votes. (Case in point: every one of the 5 judges who installed Bush in office were either confirmed by a unanimous vote or by aisle-crossers in a Democratic majority Senate.)

If we weren't filibuster-proof yesterday, we aren't today, and the only chance we're going to have of getting closer to it tomorrow is to unseat Arlen in the primaries (and hope that unlike Lieberman, he doesn't become the closet GOP candidate afterward). Because big-D "Democrat" is just a word.

[bobbolink]

24. You're speaking too much logic for DU.

You gotta stop that.

sigh....

Of course you're completely right.

Votes is what we don't got.

Specter or not.

Even Franken is a guess... he certainly wasn't a DEM when it came to Electile Dysfunction. :(


Thanks for your sanity. :toast:

[Freddie Stubbs]

22. Problem is, it has to be something that all 60 Democrats agree on

[DonCoquixote]

23. Not to rain on the parade

But please do not forget that even though the GOP is dying, Evan Bayh is leading a bunch of Dinos to become the new right wing party. This is not time for a victory dance, time to enjoy some schadenfreude, but not a victory dance.