RAT Patrol wrote:
> When Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura appointed Independence Party member
> Dean Barkley to the U.S. Senate to replace the late Paul Wellstone, the
> balance of power in the senate ****fted to 49 to 49 and 2 yet Reublicans
> kept control of the senate because the Vice President is the President
> of the Senae and a Republican.
>
> Joe Lieberman must now be exposed as the hypocrite he is and be forced
> to switch to the Democrat party that rejected him.
>
> Why? Ol' Joe can be identified any way he wants but as of the last
> election there are two Independent Senators in the Senate. Joe
> Lieberman and Bernie Sanders and there are 49 Republicans and 49
> Democrats. The same rules apply. Republican Vice President Cheney is
> the Senate President and will be for 2 more years. The Republicans
> control the Senate until someone switches party.
>
> Source: The United States Constitution.
>
Sorry but it is irrelevent what people are called it is what way they
vote.
Bernie Sanders and Joe Lieberman have said they will vote with the
Democrats on committee chairmen etc etc so the vote is 51 49 and no
need for the VP to break the tie. If JL promised to vote Republican
then it would become 50:50 and Cheny would get to push the vote to the
republicans.
The story would still hold if there were multiple parties,
49 Republican
29 Democrat
10 Green
10 New York is great
1 Socialist
1 Joe Liberman
if the 51 all promised to out vote the 49 then the 49 still lose.
> No state can have more than 2 senators. The Vice President is President
> of the Senate and shall not have a vote except on a tie and the party of
> the vice president controls the senate when the seats are equally
> divided.
>
> Screw the media and the talking heads and their garbage about the
> Democrats taking control of the senate... Read the Constitution!
> DEMOCRATS get the senate with 50 (D) 49 (R) 1 (I) and Joe... nice try
> but (I/D) means squat. If your "D" has weight, so would the "I" in (I/D)
> and that's 2 (I) and 50 (D) and 49 (R) or 101 senate seats. DO THE MATH
> THEN CALL YOUR SENATOR AND INSIST THEY FOLLOW THE CONSTITUTION AND THE
> ARTICLES THAT SPELL OUT HOW THE GAME IS PLAYED!
>
>
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