[lbo-talk] The Politics of Fear

[JBrown72073 at cs.com]

>On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote:
>
>> It was filibustered in the Senate, and although there were 61 sitting
>> Democrats, it failed, since only 58 would vote to end the filibuster.

I don't even know that all 58 were Democrats.


>Would you happen to still remember the names of the infamous three who
>wouldn't vote for cloture?
>
>I wonder if they became Republicans under Reagan.  It was a time of 
>transition that way.
>
>Michael

The Democrats who were anti-labor didn't need to actually leave the 
Democratic party, the DLC made sure that the tent was big enough for them.

Jenny Brown