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To: bentway who wrote (537318)	12/18/2009 11:05:32 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578495

Granted, he's in a nearly impossible position, needing a three-fifths majority to get anything done Since when is a 60 vote majority an "impossible" position? I thought it was pretty much always that way. I thought the 60 vote majority is what allowed us to get other sweeping reforms like Medicare and Civil Rights and pretty much everything else other than purely ministerial legislation.

To: bentway who wrote (537318)	12/18/2009 12:29:43 PM
From: RetiredNow	Respond to of 1578495

Good summary of the situation. Again, I don't think the GOP has the right ideas on health care, but you have to admire the party solidarity and their ability to create leverage with only 40 votes. The Dems are hopelessly ineffective as a Party. They are a their own worst enemies. I wish we had a Centrist party that had the muscle, clout, and party discipline of the GOP, with the great ideas for renewable energy from the Dems. That would be an excellent party. If I were Obama, I would have gone for renewable energy first and foremost in my first year, and I would have dropped the whole Climate Change label, in favor of marketing the bill as a step toward energy independence and strengthening our economy. That would have been an easier win in the first year and I would have left Health Care for my second term. This was a colossal mistake. Even Bush, who was inexpert at execution, left Social Security reform for his second term. Nothing got done on that either. Health Care and Social Security reform are the 3rd rails of politics. They are career killers.