Reply #5: I am as disgusted by this as anyone here. [View All]

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That said, politics is like sausage making, in fact, making a Yorkshire Black Pudding. Lots of blood goes into the process and you cook it twice. Boil then fry. When it boils, it really, really stinks.

Somewhere in the devilish details lurks what is not being said. Even so, we can, from experience, extrapolate to a degree of accuracy . You can bet that for Joe to maintain face, and to keep his vote within the caucus, he will be paying some heavy prices. Surely, if he goes off the reservation in his Homeland and Gov. Oversight Committee, his political corpse will be tied to weights and sunk in the Potomic with great speed and alacrity and he has been told that as well. You can cut a committee's budget to the bone, you know. Make staff go away. The same can be said for his senatorial budget and staff.

Also, something tells me that he has been told that 2010 has the great potential to be a real hell on earth for him, should he stray too far, once again, from the fold. Little things like massive campaign support for a real Dem opponent, like Lamont, can happen with a swipe of a pen. Lots of senators can be up there, as well as a popular President or Vice-President, in rather ricky-tick manner. More than once as well.

Somewhere along the way, tough deals are being hammered out, in the service of hitting that magic 60 and Joe holds very few cards. As usual, we aren't being shown the sausage making.