No 60 seat majority for US Democrats in Senate

[jackson33]

Bob; Please...

 

"Most charismatic leader in modern times", is being a bit presumptuous, based on a person that has yet to lead anything. I'll grant you he gives a good speech off a TelePrompter and knows how to ride an audience enthusiasm, but has shown me no ability to form a sentence with out some very deep concentration, then not always coherent. Aside from that, his base or the fragments of the Democrat Base are looking for actions directed at their pet peeve, not a good talker....

 

My opinions on 'MAN CAUSED', global warming, cooling' or whatever you call it, have nothing to do with politics. We are in the third or forth generation, where governments (all ideology), social engineering and the Educational Institutions have been literally preaching of our pending demise at our own hands and that one of 500 things must be done to correct. We correct one then it goes to another and has for the 50-60 years the subject has been alive....If we all died today, nothing would change any differently than is already in our unknown future. We are only here to begin with as conditions change in Earths past, where those conditions allowed primarily atmospheric condition and we are hear now in magnitude (6.6 Billion) for the ideal conditions. The past few hundred million years since complex life began on the 5 Billion year old rock, would be hard to cover on this post, but condition today are not going to be the same a million years from now, whatever is on the planet.

 

I said McCain's 'Biggest' error, not "only". He made far to many to mention and of no interest to you or anyone today. Obviously Obama, made the correct approach to the public, or at least those that ran the campaign. Think we covered 'sore losers' awhile back.

 

 

 

Pangloss; Democrats in Illinois, tend to win 2 to 1 over republicans, especially

in Senate races. But guess anything could happen. Obama is the President Elect, or will be on January 5th, 2009 when a Joint Session of Congress certifies the electoins...

[Pangloss]

That's interesting about the Illinois senate race history. Thanks for passing that along.

 

Regarding "anything could happen", you know Obama's no longer in the Senate, right? He took the unusual step of actually resigning from his post, which he could have done on January 20th just before being sworn in.

[jackson33]

That's interesting about the Illinois senate race history. Thanks for passing that along.

 

Regarding "anything could happen", you know Obama's no longer in the Senate, right? He took the unusual step of actually resigning from his post, which he could have done on January 20th just before being sworn in.

 

Yes I know, think about Nov. 16th on the notion his replacement would have a better shot of being seated on one or another committee. What bothers me here, is whats gone on since and he taking his personal choice for that slot into his own administration. Maybe more going on in Illinois than whats being reported....Most don't resign early for that additional couple pay checks and hard to oppose, I would do the same.

[iNow]

Since there was some trivia shared above, I thought it funny (sad?) that 4 of the last 8 Illinois governors have been sent to jail for corruption.

 

 

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=213357&title=d-il-weed

[Mr Skeptic]

Yes, according to John Stewart, your odds are slightly better committing murder than becoming senator of Illinois.

[iNow]

Slight correction, in the "Jon Stewart touches kids" section, he said, "Remember, kids. You only have a 42% chance of going to jail if you commit murder, but you have a 50% chance of going to jail if you are the Illinois governor."

 

Suck on that, kids.

[Pangloss]

[Mr Skeptic]

D'oh! I meant governor. Thanks for the correction.

[bob000555]

Colman, will be seated...predict all you want.

 

In the interests of accountability and intellectual honesty…come on Jackson.

[bascule]

Haha wow I just reread this thread again, and marveled at my own carefully worded optimism that Franken might be seated, but.. wow! This is awesome in retrospect. Especially reading my own incorrectly-worded thread title. Yes everyone, I was wrong, the Democrats have 60 seats now, hooray!

[toastywombel]

Haha wow I just reread this thread again, and marveled at my own carefully worded optimism that Franken might be seated, but.. wow! This is awesome in retrospect. Especially reading my own incorrectly-worded thread title. Yes everyone, I was wrong, the Democrats have 60 seats now, hooray!

 

Not really they have 58 seat majority, with two independents. One is Barry Sanders (self-labled socialist) and the other is Joe Lieberman, and Lieberman might caucus with the Democrats but he might as well be a Republican.