Monday, October 31, 2011

A Republican Congress?

The Hill has an article titled "Dems increasingly call it a ‘Republican Congress’".  A Divided Congress makes sense, but to call it a Republican Congress seems a little strange.  Here is an example from the article:
“Over 240 days and this Republican Congress has not put forth one jobs plan,” [Cornell] Belcher told CNN anchor Anderson Cooper last month. Democratic operatives defend Belcher’s choice of words, even though Democrats control the Senate.
HouseDemocratsRepublicansIndependents
Senate51472
House of Representatives192242

The two Senate Independents are Bernie Sanders (more of a Socialist) and Joe Lieberman (more of a Connecticut Democratic Party Reject).  Both caucus with the Democrats.

There is one seat in the House of Representatives that is currently unfilled.

If this is a "Republican Congress", what would it take to make it a Democratic Congress.  Was the 111th Congress a Democratic Congress?

HouseDemocratsRepublicansIndependents
Senate58402
House of Representatives258177

Well, the numbers actually vary during the two years of a Congress, but these are the Democratic Party high water marks for the 111th Congress.

Maybe it is only a "Democratic Congress" when it is like the General Court of Massachusetts.

HouseDemocratsRepublicans
Senate364
House of Representatives12832

Regards  —  Cliff

  Ms Cornell Belcher is a Democratic strategist, who served as a pollster for President Obama’s 2008 campaign.

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