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Old 08-18-2009, 11:46 PM  
billyb
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OH!, and I forgot that 60 votes in needed to stop debate. Which means this or any other bill can still be fillibustered. Remember you guy's can't count on Kennedy or even Byrd. Byrd is actually against this process of high jacking the Senate.

So you really only have if you add up all the real votes in the Senate, about 54 votes. You won't get any southern Democrats to vote for this. To be honest I am for things to be passed by 51 votes, but you must not remember that Bush had more than 51 Republican Senators, but still would not pull the trigger on the nuclear option.
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