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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (29558)	10/30/2002 6:58:11 PM
From: sandintoes	Respond to of 59480

Some officials from local TV stations are said to be complaining that they were misled into televising live a partisan political rally. Mislead...BS they had the right to turn the camera off! Booing Lott was unforgivable! You may not agree with his politics, but he was there paying respect to a fellow Senator! The whole tone of the funeral was one that of a double wide crowd! They were led by the felon and his bride, what else could be expected?

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (29558)	10/30/2002 9:51:39 PM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

Send your opinion to Ventura and the lame duck senate will be run by Republicans.

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (29558)	10/30/2002 10:09:11 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

Word is the Repubs and Greens are demanding equal time for their own campaign shows. Seems eminently fair to me.

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (29558)	11/5/2002 2:23:04 PM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

We / Ventura may just have pulled off a small chance at a miracle. Lame Duck Session Could Become Wild Goose Chase By Jeff Johnson CNSNews.com Congressional Bureau Chief November 05, 2002 Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com) - Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura's appointment of his state's Independence Party chairman, Dean Barkley, to fill the unexpired term of the late Sen. Paul Wellstone caps a number of possibilities for leadership changes in the Senate during the lame duck session following Tuesday's elections. Prior to Wellstone's death, the Senate was divided with 50 Democrats, 49 Republicans and one independent, Sen. Jim Jeffords of Vt., who voted for Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) to become Senate Majority Leader earlier this year. Technically, after Wellstone died in a plane crash, Democrats maintain a one-vote majority as long as Jeffords continues to vote with them, because Vice President Dick Cheney (R) can only vote in the event of a numerical tie. Before Barkley's appointment, Republicans believed their best chance for control of the remaining days of the 107th Congress rested with Missouri Republican Rep. Jim Talent, who is inching ahead of first term incumbent Sen. Jean Carnahan (D) in polling for the state's junior Senate seat. Because Carnahan was appointed to fill the vacancy created when her dead husband won the election, if Talent won, he would be sworn in as soon as election results were certified. Former Rep. Bill Frenzel (R-Minn. 1971-1991) said Republicans could theoretically take control of the Senate in a number of ways. "There are a number of funny things that could happen, Missouri is only one," he said. Frenzel noted that other possibilities leading to confusion in the lame duck session include: Sen. Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska) winning the governor's race there and appointing his replacement, who would probably not arrive in Washington for at least two weeks; A possible defection from the Republican Party by Rhode Island Sen. Lincoln Chafee; A potential runoff between two of the three Republicans vying for the seat currently held by Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), which may or may not include Landrieu; "All of those things are going to mess up the lame duck session," Frenzel predicted. "But it's okay, because the lame duck session was going nowhere anyway. They're not going to do anything." Thomas Mann, senior fellow for governance studies at the Brookings Institution, noted that even if Republicans regain theoretical control of the Senate during the lame duck session, senators-elect must be certified under a variety of state rules before they can take office. "It could take as long as 21 days in Missouri to get that election certified. They may do it more quickly, but the point is, [Talent] would not be certified by the time the Senate reconvenes." Possibly the strangest potential outcome is that Barkley could arrive in Washington and vote with Republicans, splitting the two sides with 49 party members and one independent supporter each. In that even situation, Cheney's vote would break any tie votes arrived at during the lame duck session, also potentially giving his party at least temporary control of the Senate's agenda. But Mann believes attempting to use a one-vote Republican majority to accomplish anything significant during the lame duck session would amount to a wild goose chase. "There isn't a prayer of a chance of reorganizing the Senate for the lame duck, therefore, there's no chance of changing committee leadership or getting other legislation, like the nominations that have been tied up, out of committee and onto the floor," he observed. "It's also the case that Democrats, if they felt Republicans were trying to do something on a strictly partisan basis, would simply filibuster and nothing would happen." Should that occur, Republicans could face the requirement of obtaining 60 votes to do anything other than opening the Senate for business in the morning and adjourning in the evening. cnsnews.com\Politics\archive\200211\POL20021105c.html