Such a prospect seems a distinct possibility after State Department spokesman Richard Boucher today declined to reaffirm the U.S. intention to seek a vote on this initiative irrespective of allied concerns.
The prime minister, who no longer enjoys a majority in the lower house, was expected to seek a confidence vote later this month as a prelude to elections.
He asked a Florida court to overturn the result of the election, and also filed a motion to seek a new vote in Palm Beach County, where a confusing ballot paper was said to have cost him votes.
House Democratic leaders have given conflicting signals in recent days, but they appear unlikely to seek a floor vote on extending just some of the tax breaks before Congress adjourns this week to campaign ahead of the elections.
In other words, what Palestinians seek out of a U.N. vote isn't an affirmation of their right to a state, but rather another tool in their perpetual campaign to harass, delegitimize and ultimately destroy Israel.
The simple truth is that the likelihood of someone making a legitimate argument in support of those who seek to steal the vote from millions of Americans is statistically as likely to occur as often as writers like John Fund mange to print an honest story on the topic something even more remote an occurrence than death by lightning.
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Many of the freshmen Republicans in the House who are driving the no vote have suggested that this is only a preliminary vote, and that going a few weeks before there is a final vote will just lead to the spending cuts they seek.
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California and others repeatedly questioned why Republicans would seek to weaken a measure that received strong bipartisan support in a 78-22 Senate vote earlier this year.
The referendum was also seen as a vote of confidence in Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is expected to seek a third term of office in 2011.
The vote is a significant electoral test before national parliamentary elections in September, in which Merkel will seek a third four-year term.
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