constitution, two-thirds of the senate. you only need 60 to break the filibuster for don t ask, don t tell. politically for president obama if he s looking to, you know, gain some points with the liberal wing of the democratic party or the democratic party passing don t ask, don t tell would seem would do that more than the s.t.a.r.t. treaty. that s huge. if you come to the end of this lame duck session, if you look have the vocal liberals within the party upset, if you look at the polls, it s interesting, the rank and file liberals aren t nearly upset but if you can counter that with, i ve got $300 billion of stimulus in this tax deal and also i got don t ask don t tell repealed, and this was on the heels of an election in which the republicans won 65 extra seats in the house, a think a lot of democrats look at that and say for everything in this lame duck session, that s not the worst scenario. the white house would rather get it all and thinks it s a false choice between one o
republicans are basically offering the president a choice, take s.t.a.r.t. or take don t ask don t tell. you can t have both. he s going to want a vote. that s true, however we ve been through this before with the republican caucus essentially saying before last week that if you don t take action on the bush tax cuts we re not going to allow action on don t ask, don t tell. there are four moderate republicans like olympia snowe, susan collins, scott brown in massachusetts and lisa murkowski in alaska. will they break with their party if the rest of the party takes that approach, which i think they will. will those four or five, maybe dick lugar will join them, will they break with the party, say we ve made excuses once, we re not going to do it now joe lieberman said the other day it s more important to get don t ask, don t tell done now and wait on the s.t.a.r.t. treaty. you ll need 66 under the constitution, two-thirds of the senate. you only need 60 to break the filibuster
we re not going to allow action on don t ask, don t tell. there are four moderate republicans like olympia snowe, susan collins, scott brown in massachusetts and lisa murkowski in alaska. will they break with their party if the rest of the party takes that approach, which i think they will. will those four or five, maybe dick lugar will join them, will they break with the party, say we ve made excuses once, we re going to make excuses now. we want this vote now, then we ll get to s.t.a.r.t. joe lieberman said the other day it s more important to get don t ask, don t tell done now and wait on the s.t.a.r.t. treaty. you ll need 66 under the constitution, two-thirds of the senate. you only need 60 to break the filibuster for don t ask, don t tell. politically for president obama if he s looking to, you know, gain some points with the liberal wing of the democratic party or the democratic party passing don t ask, don t tell would seem would do that more than the s.t.a.r.t. treaty.
party or the democratic party passing don t ask, don t tell would seem would do that more than the s.t.a.r.t. treaty. that s huge. if you come to the end of this lame duck session, if you look have the vocal liberals within the party upset, if you look at the polls, it s interesting, the rank and file liberals aren t nearly upset but if you can counter that with, i ve got $300 billion of stimulus in this tax deal and also i got don t ask don t tell repealed, and this was on the heels of an election in which the republicans won 65 extra seats in the house, a think a lot of democrats look at that and say for everything in this lame duck session, that s not the worst scenario. the white house would rather get it all and thinks it s a false choice between one or the other, but we ll have to see. i want a pony for christmas, i don t think i m going to get it. we ll see. thanks very much. join the live chat now. he was a highly honored face of the birther movement, a decorated army d
will they break with their party if the rest of the party takes that approach, which i think they will. will those four or five, maybe dick lugar will join them, will they break with the party, say we ve made excuses once, we re not going to do it now joe lieberman said the other day it s more important to get don t ask, don t tell done now and wait on the s.t.a.r.t. treaty. you ll need 66 under the constitution, two-thirds of the senate. you only need 60 to break the filibuster for don t ask, don t tell. politically for president obama if he s looking to, you know, gain some points with the liberal wing of the democratic party or the democratic party passing don t ask, don t tell would seem would do that more than the s.t.a.r.t. treaty. that s huge. if you come to the end of this lame duck session, if you look at the polls, it s interesting the rank and file liberals aren t nearly upset but if you can counter that with, i ve got $300 billion of stimulus in this tax deal and