John Cordes

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For those of you decrying the new Democratic Congress, the Senate is in a dead tie between the two parties, unless you include Lieberman in the Democratic camp on all legislation, which he is not. As it takes 60 votes or more for cloture to bring a bill up for vote, the "Democratic Congress" has seen every potential vote on energy, which has incidentally inlcuded provisions for expanded drilling, road blocked by the Republicans eight times this year alone. By the way, McCain has voted against any renewable incentives over 25 times and has never voted for it. So grid lock is a more accurate description of the current situation, and when it comes to energy legislation, grid lock is directly attibutable to the Republicans. The Democrats will offer the grand compromise on off shore drilling in exchange for renewables incentives and new regulation on oil futures trading. Remember that Bush who never weilded a veto during six years of Republican controlled legislation, has made it clear he will veto the Democrat bill anyway without Anwar in the mix, so again, the so called Democratic Congress would be ten votes short in the Senate from over-riding. So count to 100, divide by two and rant on about the Democratic Congress doing nothing.