For anyone to have expected the Democrats to get us out of Iraq without Republican support was sheer folly.
The Democrats have a two vote majority in the Senate (51-49). With Sen. Johnson from SD having been in the hospital and unable to vote at all this session and Lieberman being more hawkish than many Republicans to fund the surge..there is no Democratic majority...and certainly not a veto-proof majority in either house.
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Originally Posted by roachboy
ok so here's what i dont understand about the perception of the democratic party in the context of this congress. everyone knew from the moment the election returns were tabulated that the numbers in both houses were such that the democrats were not in a position to overturn the idiot logic of the war in iraq, the even more idiotic "war on terror" and the programs related to it unless the republicans were to stop voting in partyline block. everyone knows this.
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Obviously many do not wish to acknowledge this simple but irrefutable fact.
Samcol...the numbers dont lie.....perhaps you can explain how the Democrats can defund the war.