218 votes?

[Telly Savalas]

What's the problem? We've got 233 Democrats in the House.

[Stinky The Clown]

1. Two words:

Blue

Dog

[Telly Savalas]

2. Please excuse me for fence straddling

but maybe Obey and that woman should have agreed to take the video camera and ambush one of the Blue Dogs in the hallway.

[Stinky The Clown]

3. That ain't fence straddling ... that's called .....

... a strategy!

[David__77]

4. I know the Blue Dogs are not monolithic. There are some from CA.

They are more likely to have a good position on Iraq, especially when their threat is from the left, not the right.

[unhappycamper]

7. Or perhaps these two words:

No

Spine

[AshevilleGuy]

5. 218 in the House might be easier than 51 in the Senate.

No one has even gone THERE yet...

[MonkeyFunk]

6. forget 51 in the Senate....

you need 60 to do anything.