Senate Democrats hold high cards

It will be a tough election year for the GOP in the Senate, mainly because of the retirements of some popular GOP senators.

What I found most interesting about this piece was the item on New Hampshire. Massachusett's residents bolted that state for New Hampshire, partly due to the high taxes in Massachusetts imposed by a state dominated by Democrats. So what do those Massachusett's voters do in New Hampshire? They elect tax-and-spend liberal Democrats, just what they fleed from. Shows just how dumb and ignorant Democratic voters are!

John, Was not Mitt R. the govenor of the high tax and spend state of Mass????

John D:

You're a Rushbo idiot, you should stop posting comments before you dumb up the entire country.

2008 just won't be your year. Face facts and just shut up.

Unless you have some cheating up your sleeve, that is. Worked in 2000 and 2004 didn't it?

Here's a quickly thrown together list of vulnerable Republicans who are coming up for re-election in 08 and voted against healthcare for our children yesterday.

Range from very vulnerable to somewhat.
This will provide more good ammunition against the Wingnuts:

Michelle Bachman MN-6
Brian Bilbray CA-50
Gus Bilirakis FL-9
Steve Chabot OH-1
Barbara Cubin WY-AL
John Doolittle CA-4
Thelma Drake VA-2
Scott Garrett NJ-5
Sam Graves MO-6
Robin Hayes NC-8
Joe Knollenberg MI-9
Randy Kuhl NY-29
Thaddeus McCotter MI-11
Marilyn Musgrave CO-4
Steve Pearce NM-2 (he is retiring, but can be used against him should he receive the GOP nod for the NM Senate race)
Tom Reynolds NY-26
Mike Rogers AL-3
Peter Roskam IL-6
Bill Sali ID-1
Jim Saxton NJ-3
Jean Schmidt OH-2
Pete Sessions TX-32
Mark Souder IN-3
Lee Terry NE-2
Tim Walberg MI-7

Also, hopefully Jim Marshall will lose his seat.

The Repugs are always willing to sacrifice their future (Iraq) for a short term "victory". Hopefully there won't be any of the knuckledraggers left after 08.

John D wrote: "It will be a tough election year for the GOP in the Senate, mainly because of the retirements of some popular GOP senators."

Yeah, that will be the cause of the coming GOP debacle. It will have nothing to do with the disastrous war in Iraq or the 8 years of rank incompetence in the executive department.

Just keep telling yourself that Johnny. That delusion might make the 8 years of Hillary and a democratic congress easier to deal with.

I couldn't disagree more. This is Democrat bluff and bluster. If the Dems hadn't won the Congress in 06 I would say it would be a tough year.
But, the Dem liberals have bashed Bush since he was elected in 2000 and he isn't running anymore.
Secondly, they have made a mess of their governance. They Reid and Pelosi, Durbin and Schemer are mean and meaner. The 650 some hearings and botching the SCHIP bill.
This may sound silly but, Media Matters, a Clinton website took Rush's words out of context and Reid called him unpatriotic in a letter to Mike Mays at Clear Channel. Mays gave the letter to Limbaugh and he auctioned on Ebay. Betty Casey a Rush listner and philanthropist got the winning bid $2,100,100 and Rush matched it giving the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation where Rush is a board member the proceeds to educate the kids of fallen heroes.
Today Harry Reid went to the Senate floor with a rambling admission that it was a good charity and although he and Rush didn't get along he praised Limbaugh for his efforts and tryed to take some of the credit. The reason Betty Casey bought the letter she thought Reid and the other Senators had abused their power by having 41 Dem Senators sign a letter that was a lie on its face and having government to use government pick on a private citizen Rush.
I feel very upbeat about 08 with crazies like Cindy Sheehan running around bashing Bush and joining the usual suspects George Soros funded MoveOn.org and Media Matters a Hillary website. Jerry White, Springfield, IL

Actually, the country is better off with the Democrats "in control" of Congress since
they screw up everything they touch and nothing gets done in Washington. None of us is safe when Congress is in session, but at least with the Democrats, we know
they don't, won't and can't do anything. Geez, they can't even pass Hillary's Woodstock doper bill.

And Jerry White weighs in to sound even more out touch than John D.

Boy the eight years of Clinton 2 are going to be rough on some of these guys.

A few more dumbo acts like the Armenian Genocide Resolution and the lack of judgement of the Leader, Pelosi will be common knowledge country wide. A quick change of leadership is needed to save we Dems from ourselves.... Yellow Dog.

I don't agree with John D, or Jerry White, but I'm not certain that the Democrats have this all locked up at all. (By the way John D, compared to the Iraq War burn rate, you want to tell us all about the numerous tax and spend items the Democrats have passed?)

The Democrats have had the opportunity to reverse many of the atrocities that happened under Republican domination of government. UNLESS the Democrats fold, and go along with the Republicans, the Republicans can't pass ANY legislation.

So what's the record so far? The Patriot Act, FISA, wiretapping, torture, the Attorney General scandal, the Iraq War, Schip, the Iran condemnation resolution? The Democrats aim their guns, but NEVER pull the trigger!

More to the point in the Senate. You don't hear the media report that this bill and that bill have been killed by the Republicans again and again. You hear that the "Senate" killed these bills. Until the Senate Democrats stand up and FORCE the Senate Republicans to filibuster all of this legislation, it's only going to appear that the Senate can't do anything.

One last point. All of our WONDERFUL Democratic candidates for President and the Iraq War. How would all of you react if Bush came out tomorrow and said that he was going to keep the troops in Iraq for five more years? You'd be outraged! At the same time ALL of the leading Democratic candidates say if they were elected they wouldn't have the troops out until 2013! That's five f***ing years.

Dogjudge, I was referring to the tax and spend ways of Massachusetts that drove folks from Massachusetts into New Hampshire. Fortunately, the Dems in Congress have been stifled in their attempts to tax and spend.

Anyway, Joe, no cheating by the GOP in 2000 and 2004. Now, there have been many Dems who have been indicted for cheating in 2000 and 2004 and are now serving jail terms. And I can provide you links to all the hanky panky the Dems did in Washington state to steal that governor's race in 2004. Hmmm, the GOP candidate won, then won the fist recount, then won the second recount, but somehow lost on the third recount as votes mysteriously kept showing up in "warehouses."

And in regard to Romney and Massachusetts, the Dems control the state's legislature. Anyway, the taxing and spending occurred long before Romney became governor. That state has been in a tax and spend nightmare for decades now. Illinois is following that same path, thanks to the idiot Dems who keep voting the losers in election after election.

Yeah, John D's right, Romney totally gets a pass. I mean, its not like he enacted mandated healthcare in Massachusetts, now tries to call it something else, and backs away from it whenever he can...

http://www.time.com/time/columnist/klein/article/0,9565,1137628,00.html

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1626721,00.html

"BIG BUSINESS CANNOT SPEND ENOUGH TO GET THE PULSE OF THE VOTER"

AT&T and FOREIGN Owned Company VERIZON WIRELESS can't DATA MINE americans fast enough to get a pulse on the VOTE.

BUT AMERICA IS RESTLESS AND CONGRESS BEING CONGRESS INSTEAD OF BEING CONGRESS AND IMPEACHING THIS PRESIDENT OR CENSORING HIM EVERY MONTH UNTIL HE IS OUT OF OFFICE IS BEYOND ME.

IN AMERICA'S HISTORY HAS A PRESIDENT EVER DEMANDED FOR RETROACTIVE LIABILITY IMMUNITY ON A FEDERAL CASE THAT WAS LOST. I MEAN 100,000 OF INMATES WOULD LOVE TO GO BACK AND HAVE A RETROACTIVE REDUCTION IN THEIR SENTENCE BECAUSE .....CULTURE OF CORRUPTION CRIMINAL EXECUTIVE REPRIEVE ORDER BY ...THE POWER VESTED IN THEM.

SAME CRACK JUST DIFFERENT KIND. BUSH CRACK.

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Fortunately, the Dems in Congress have been stifled in their attempts to tax and spend.

Posted by: John D | October 19, 2007 4:49 PM
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Yeah, paying for your expenditures via taxes is so wrong, compared to the NO TAX and spend Republic Party, right? What's the National Debt up to now, Dumb Dumb Little Johnnie D, "the Joseph Stalin of Streamwood"? Almost $10 TRILLION dollars, right? What was it when Dubya entered the White House in 2001 - WAY LOWER, right?

And who's going to get the I.O.U. for Bush & the Republic Party's NO TAX and spend ways in from 2001 - 2006? Your children's children's children. (And mine.)