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To: Big_Monkey

Its actually the reverse. If they pick up a few Blue Dog Dems they can have a filibuster threat keeping it from a vote. They won’t have enough with a few Blue Dogs to defeat it outright and should not risk letting it come to a vote if they have the power to prevent the vote.


8 posted on 06/10/2009 10:46:16 AM PDT by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free...their passions forge their fetters.)
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To: KC Burke
"Its actually the reverse. If they pick up a few Blue Dog Dems they can have a filibuster threat keeping it from a vote."

That actually makes more sense.

10 posted on 06/10/2009 10:48:51 AM PDT by Big_Monkey
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To: KC Burke

I hope they do but can they get enough to counter the RINOs snowe and collins?


14 posted on 06/10/2009 10:55:11 AM PDT by b4its2late (I love defenseless animals, especially in a good gravy.)
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