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**Orefsmisits** · 11-05-2008, 11:19 PM

Then prepare for disappointment - you need 60 votes in the Senate to shove through legislation without input from the minority party

If you don't have minority input, then you own the government, and everything that doesn't work out.

You already have two polarizing figures running the House and Senate. There's going to be more pain in the year ahead, and if the public perception is that the Democrats are running the US Congress alone, you can expect them to pay for it at the mid-term elections.

And it'll undercut any attempt by Obama to promote bi-partisan cooperation.

I thought that was the central point of his campaign.

11-05-2008, 11:19 PM	#11
Orefsmisits Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 442 Senior Member	Then prepare for disappointment - you need 60 votes in the Senate to shove through legislation without input from the minority party If you don't have minority input, then you own the government, and everything that doesn't work out. You already have two polarizing figures running the House and Senate. There's going to be more pain in the year ahead, and if the public perception is that the Democrats are running the US Congress alone, you can expect them to pay for it at the mid-term elections. And it'll undercut any attempt by Obama to promote bi-partisan cooperation. I thought that was the central point of his campaign.
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