Reply #29: Assuming you had Senate control ...

[chicagiana]

Assuming you had control of the Senate you simply would refuse to confirm any nomination for VP. True, if the Republicans had a majority in the Senate, (whith a Democratic House) you would probably have to accept another Ford situation and take it to the mat during the next election.

It is VERY true that you need 60 votes to convict. But the House would be able to embarass the hell out of Republican Senators if they stood behind the president after the truth comes out of House Impeachment hearings.


Personally, I find it far more likely to make gains in the Senate than in the House. People overstate the influence of Rush Limbaugh and Next Gingrich in the 1992 "Redpublican Revolution". Republicans had made gains in state houses and managed to tilt Congressional districting in their favor. The Republicans will be VERY hard to knock off in their safe little white worlds where people read their conservative newspapers and watch Faux News.

I really think the Democrats will reverse the trend in the next election. But we have all been wrong before. KKKarl Rove always seems to come out with a fresh game plan and he's ALWAYS effective. And lets not forget that so many districts are now saturated with those goddam Diebold machines who's results are impossible to validate yet seemingly beyond legal challenge. There is a HUGE hurdle that will need to be jumped for Democrats to retake the house in 2006. Unfortunately, that seems to be the only hope left for Democracy in America.