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To: exit82
Coleman needs to declare victory and sit down in the seat in January.

ABSOFUKINGLUTLEY!!!

That's the strategy Coleman should take, if he wins the recount.

Then, REFUSE to leave the Senate and challenge Dingy Harry to try and forcibly remove him.

Even the Lame Stream Media could not avoid covering that fiasco.

By the way, does anyone know if its a simple majority, or 2/3 vote requirement and does a filibuster rule?

28 posted on 11/28/2008 7:06:01 PM PST by Conservative Vermont Vet ((One of ONLY 37 Conservatives in the People's Republic of Vermont. Socialists and Progressives All))
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To: Conservative Vermont Vet
By the way, does anyone know if its a simple majority, or 2/3 vote requirement and does a filibuster rule?

It's simple majority, although I don't know whether it can be filibustered.

31 posted on 11/28/2008 7:18:20 PM PST by JohnBovenmyer
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To: Conservative Vermont Vet

Article 1; Sec. 5, US Constitution:

Section 5. Each House shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members, and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner, and under such penalties as each House may provide.

Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two thirds, expel a member.

Each House shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the members of either House on any question shall, at the desire of one fifth of those present, be entered on the journal.

Neither House, during the session of Congress, shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting.


32 posted on 11/28/2008 7:19:23 PM PST by deport (.....................May your Friday shopping be a pleasure..................)
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