20 Kasım 2004 Cumartesi

Bipartisanship or Sneaky Senate Move?

CNN is reporting that the job of Secretary of Agriculture has been offered to Democratic Senator Bob Nelson of Nebraska. This would be the second Democrat to join uber-Republican George W. Bush's cabinet after Treasury Secretary Norm Mineta. Obviously, a move to show the fact that the president can embrace a spirit of bipartisanship, right? A reaching out, across the aisle, for the betterment of the nation, right? Well, maybe so, or maybe not. Senator Nelson's seat is in a state with a Republican governor. So if he left to become Mr. Top Aggy, the Senate split would suddenly have 56 republican senators which would put them a lot closer to the 60-person filibuster-proof majority.



File this under "Things that make you go hmmmmmmmm..."

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