the 'concession's ' for 2 or 3 republic votes...

[spanone]

~snip~ Mr. Obama has been frustrated by an array of forces, from an often bitter and personal history of partisanship on Capitol Hill to the near-extinction of Republican moderates in the House to the deep ideological gulf between the parties on economic policy. And as his aspiration of putting aside petty politics has met the necessity of winning legislative votes — no more than two or three Senate Republicans are expected to support him, which is two or three more than did so in the House — he has gone through a public evolution that has left him showing sharper edges when it comes to the ways of Washington.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/07/us/politics/07assess.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

[Hydra]

1. Good, the Kumbaya BS was ticking me off

Obama has 1/3 of the country biting, kicking and scratching trying to keep us in the dark ages for various reasons. They aren't going to stop that just because we're nice to them. We're going to have to move forward despite them, and they're going to hate us for feeding people and getting them back to work.

To them I say, "Screw you!"

[MiniMe]

2. Those 2 or 3 votes are necessary for this thing to pass

We only have 58 to invoke cloture, and that assumes that Kennedy shows up and Lieberman votes like a dem. So it may be only 2 or 3 votes, but they are important ones.