Reply #16: A real majority. [View All]

[Buck Rabbit]

For example in the Senate we are the majority in name only, having the minority in available votes to cast.

There are 49 voting Democrats with Johnson being medically out counting Sanders as a Democrat. Because Johnson and Lieberman count in determining Majority with respect to Senate rules we had a technical majority, but in actual votes it is 49 to 49 with Lieberman being the tie breaker and always siding with the pubs on all non-domestic issues.

To reign in the power of the executive branch with a Republican President in 2008 we would need veto override majorities in both houses. That is possible in the House but would be really tough in the Senate. But the election of any Democrat as President would see the Supreme Court plus the constitutional fundamentalists in both parties in Congress pushing back the power of the executive branch.