How has Obama been able to distance himself from...
10-09-2008, 01:12 PM
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it would be interesting to see how many incumbents get reelected. I remember one election back in the early 90's when a big chunk of the CA state reps were replaced with new ones.
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10-09-2008, 01:14 PM
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http://www.opencongress.org/people/s...9_barack_obama
Most often votes with: Sen. Frank Lautenberg [D, NJ]
Republican most often votes with: Sen. Olympia Snowe [R, ME]
Votes with party: 96%
Republican most often votes with: Sen. Olympia Snowe [R, ME]
Votes with party: 96%
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400629
Obama is a rank-and-file Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship.
10-09-2008, 01:26 PM
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Forgot to add, you typically don't veto your own party, which has been at the Congressional Majority 6 out of 8 years. In addition, if you didn't realize the Republican's were going to change how filibusters work and their constitutionality, in essence strong arming the minority party.
Here's the wiki link to it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibus...Senate_history
In 2005, a group of Republican senators led by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN), responding to the Democrats' threat to filibuster some judicial nominees of President George W. Bush to prevent a vote on the nominations, floated the idea of making a rules change to eliminate filibusters on judicial nominees with the justification that the current Senate rules allowing such filibusters are unconstitutional. Senator Trent Lott, the junior Republican senator from Mississippi, named the plan the "nuclear option." Republican leaders later referred to the plan as the "constitutional option," though opponents and some supporters of the plan continue to use "nuclear option."
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10-16-2008, 08:10 AM
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To the second point of this statement that it's a dishonest assumption that Obama will not veto bills he finds flawed; I personally think that with his track record of being completely rank and file, he will pass and veto each and every bill that the DNC tells him to.