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<blockquote data-quote="Lordtekk" data-source="post: 1042684" data-attributes="member: 37735"><p>T<span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">he thing that his critics miss is that President Obama’s administration has to plan their strategy on what is achievable during a particular time frame given the circumstances of the moment. Having a filibuster proof Senate majority was only possible under a specific set of circumstances. They began in April of 2009 when Senator </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlen_Specter" target="_blank">Arlen Specter</a><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"> decided to switch from a Republican to a Democrat.</span></span><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><a href="http://538refugees.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/specter.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://538refugees.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/specter.jpg?w=640" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a><span style="color: #888888"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'">Former Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA)</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Specter, a long time moderate, said that he was switching back to the Democratic party because of concerns over the direction of the Republican party but conventional speculation is that he was losing in the polls for the Republican Primary to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Toomey" target="_blank">Pat Toomey</a>for not being conservative enough. Specter wound up losing the Democratic primary anyway to Joe Sestak in 2011. But for a while, Specter was the 59th Democratic Senator.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">The 60th Senator, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Franken" target="_blank">Al Franken</a> of Minnesota, was locked up for months in recounts and legal challenges from a very close race with incumbent Norm Coleman. Finally, on July 8, 2009 after eight months of delays, Franken was sworn in as the 60th Democratic Senator (this includes the two independents who caucused with the Democrats). This was the first time Democrats had a filibuster proof majority since 1958.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">But six weeks later on August 25, 2009, Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy passed away. Technically, it could be argued that the Democrats still had a filibuster proof majority since cloture involves 3/5 of <em>sitting</em> Senators (59 out of 99 is roughly 3/5). But the Senate was in summer recess at the time so it may not have mattered.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">One month later on September 25, 2009 Paul Kirk was appointed to fill Kennedy’s vacancy while the special election was going on. Even then this was only because Kennedy himself had requested that the Governor of Massachusetts change the law a week before he died to allow an appointment so the seat wouldn’t be vacant for the remainder of the year. Had he not done so it could’ve been argued that the 60 seat Democratic supermajority would have lasted about six weeks.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">In November of 2009 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Attorney_General" target="_blank">Massachusetts Attorney General</a> Martha Coakley, in a poorly run campaign, lost <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kennedy" target="_blank">Ted Kennedy’s</a> seat to Republican Scott Brown effectively ensuring the end of the filibuster proof Senate.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">On Christmas Eve of 2009, the Senate voted to move forward with the Health Care Reform bill by 60 to 39 votes. As Vice-President Biden noted, it was a big deal.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">On February 4, 2010 Scott Brown was sworn in signaling the end of the super-majority.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><strong>Wrong he had it for 6 weeks not even close,swing and a miss. Anything else ?</strong></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lordtekk, post: 1042684, member: 37735"] T[COLOR=#333333][FONT=Georgia]he thing that his critics miss is that President Obama’s administration has to plan their strategy on what is achievable during a particular time frame given the circumstances of the moment. Having a filibuster proof Senate majority was only possible under a specific set of circumstances. They began in April of 2009 when Senator [/FONT][/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlen_Specter"]Arlen Specter[/URL][COLOR=#333333][FONT=Georgia] decided to switch from a Republican to a Democrat.[/FONT][/COLOR][CENTER][COLOR=#333333][FONT=Georgia][URL="http://538refugees.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/specter.jpg"][IMG]http://538refugees.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/specter.jpg?w=640[/IMG][/URL][COLOR=#888888][FONT=Helvetica Neue]Former Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA)[/FONT][/COLOR] [/FONT][/COLOR][/CENTER] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Georgia]Specter, a long time moderate, said that he was switching back to the Democratic party because of concerns over the direction of the Republican party but conventional speculation is that he was losing in the polls for the Republican Primary to [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Toomey"]Pat Toomey[/URL]for not being conservative enough. Specter wound up losing the Democratic primary anyway to Joe Sestak in 2011. But for a while, Specter was the 59th Democratic Senator.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Georgia]The 60th Senator, [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Franken"]Al Franken[/URL] of Minnesota, was locked up for months in recounts and legal challenges from a very close race with incumbent Norm Coleman. Finally, on July 8, 2009 after eight months of delays, Franken was sworn in as the 60th Democratic Senator (this includes the two independents who caucused with the Democrats). This was the first time Democrats had a filibuster proof majority since 1958.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Georgia]But six weeks later on August 25, 2009, Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy passed away. Technically, it could be argued that the Democrats still had a filibuster proof majority since cloture involves 3/5 of [I]sitting[/I] Senators (59 out of 99 is roughly 3/5). But the Senate was in summer recess at the time so it may not have mattered.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Georgia]One month later on September 25, 2009 Paul Kirk was appointed to fill Kennedy’s vacancy while the special election was going on. Even then this was only because Kennedy himself had requested that the Governor of Massachusetts change the law a week before he died to allow an appointment so the seat wouldn’t be vacant for the remainder of the year. Had he not done so it could’ve been argued that the 60 seat Democratic supermajority would have lasted about six weeks.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Georgia]In November of 2009 [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Attorney_General"]Massachusetts Attorney General[/URL] Martha Coakley, in a poorly run campaign, lost [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kennedy"]Ted Kennedy’s[/URL] seat to Republican Scott Brown effectively ensuring the end of the filibuster proof Senate.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Georgia]On Christmas Eve of 2009, the Senate voted to move forward with the Health Care Reform bill by 60 to 39 votes. As Vice-President Biden noted, it was a big deal.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Georgia]On February 4, 2010 Scott Brown was sworn in signaling the end of the super-majority. [B]Wrong he had it for 6 weeks not even close,swing and a miss. Anything else ?[/B][/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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