Now that the Democrats control more seats they also get to reshape things in the Senate (via AmericaBLOG):
Senate Democratic leaders plan to cut Republican committee seats to reflect the new balance of power in the upper chamber, according to Democratic aides.
Republicans will lose at least one seat on most committees and may lose as many as two on some of the larger panels, such as the powerful Appropriations committee
But the Republicans don’t like that. They are stomping their feet and crying over this plan:
Don Stewart, spokesman for Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), said Democratic and Republican leaders had not yet met to negotiate the new committee ratios. He questioned whether the Senate would automatically follow precedent on the issue.
“There’s lots of precedents for lots of things,” said Stewart. “None of that stuff is going to start until everyone is back in town and we know how many members we have.”
Precedent being the key word there. This is how things are done in the Senate and now Republicans want to change it. Perhaps if they listened to the American voter, instead of ignoring us and doing what they wanted, then they wouldn’t be in this position.
Here’s something else the Republicans need to remember, which i posted about the other night. The American voters diminished the minority party in the worst approved Congress in history. That shows that the American voter knows it was the Republicans that destroyed the 110th congress, yet the Republicans refuse to listen. Keep that up and watch what happens in 2010. Republicans need to start listening and stop demanding.