A Republican Congress in 2010?

Powerline Blog ^ | 08/14/2009 | John Hinderaker

[fiscon1]

Byron York says that Republicans are "thinking the unthinkable." They could retake the Congress next year:

It's a possibility many Republicans speak of only in whispers and Democrats are just now beginning to face. After passionate and contentious fights over health care, the environment, and taxes, could Democrats lose big -- really big -- in next year's elections?

[Kandy Atz]

If Conservatives don’t have a majority in 2010, we’re all doomed.

[allmost]

Party designation makes no difference. Fiscal conservatives need to slam the brakes on this train wreck.

[FiddlePig]

The over-reaching, arrogant and “thugocracy” methods this administration and their nut left allies... are alone breathing life into a currenty moribond and idea free GOP.

If by chance the Repubs win in 2010, will they again disappoint us?

[Disambiguator]

If Conservatives don’t have a majority in 2010, we’re all doomed.

"...doomed"

[tennmountainman]

“If by chance the Repubs win in 2010, will they again disappoint us?”

If the GOP retains the same leadership in the house, senate and RNC...they will disappoint.

A big point that this article fails to mention is that at the same time Klinton was overstepping his power, Newt Gingrich was pushing his 10 GOP points.

There was GOP leadership then. There is no leadership now.

[hosepipe]

“Its not who votes but who counts the votes that count- Joseph Stalin..

[freespirited]

Clinton is, I think, much smarter than Obama. He had a basic understanding of economics that Obama lacks. And in a pinch, Clinton didn't really believe in much of anything, while Obama is a hard leftist, by American standards.

Well said.

[buwaya]

Of course they will disappoint us.

We are not the sum of all the people that the Republicans as a whole need to please. A lot of the people they will have to please we would consider deluded, irrational, self-interested, short-sighted, or what have you - but they exist, are necessary, and will have to be accommodated.

Governance in a democracy is an exercise in compromise, and thus inherently creates a degree of disappointment for all.

A mature view of politics requires an acceptance of the likelihood of disappointment.

[buwaya]

The House has excellent Republican leadership. We have a very disciplined Congressional delegation, more so than in any Congress I can recall, even in 1993.

And it goes without saying, but they are far more disciplined than the Democrats.

We do not have a Gingrich, true, because our present Republican leadership is low key. Perhaps too low-key, but that remains to be seen. Gingrich had to get into highly-publicized squabbles with the Democrats to generate enthusiasm against Congressional Democrats. The Democrats seem to be doing that chore all by themselves this time.

The Senate is another matter.

[Dr. Sivana]

There is no chance that we are going to get the Senate. Most of the seats up in 2010 are Republican. The most we can hope for is to boot some RINOs and special cases like Chris Dodd (and even he will only be replaced by a RINO in CT):

Party	State	Party	Religion	Prior Experience	First took office	Born
D	Arkansas	Blanche Lincoln	Democratic	Episcopalian	U.S. House	Randolph-Macon Women's College, Arkansas	1999	1960
D	California	Barbara Boxer	Democratic	Jewish	Marin County Board of Supervisors, U.S. House	Brooklyn	1993	1940
D	Colorado	Michael Bennet	Democratic	Unspecified	Superintendent, Denver Public Schools	Wesleyan, Yale Law	2009	1964
D	Connecticut	Chris Dodd	Democratic	Roman Catholic	U.S. House	Providence, Louisville	1981	1944
D	Hawaii	Daniel Inouye	Democratic	Methodist	U.S. House (HI-At Large)	Hawaii, George Washington	1963	1924
D	Illinois	Roland Burris	Democratic	Baptist	Illinois Attorney General, Illinois Comptroller	Howard University School of Law, Southern Illinois University Carbondale (JD, BA)	2009	1937
D	Indiana	Evan Bayh	Democratic	Episcopalian	Indiana Secretary of State, Governor	Indiana University, Virginia	1999	1955
D	Maryland	Barbara Mikulski	Democratic	Roman Catholic	Baltimore City Council, U.S. House (MD-3)	Mount Saint Agnes, Maryland	1987	1936
D	Nevada	Harry Reid	Democratic	LDS	Nevada Assembly, Lt. Governor of Nevada, U.S. House (NV-1)	Southern Utah, Utah State, George Washington	1987	1939
D	New York	Chuck Schumer	Democratic	Jewish	New York State Assembly, U.S. House (NY-9)	Harvard (BA, JD)	1999	1950
D	North Dakota	Byron Dorgan	Democratic	Lutheran	U.S. House (ND-At Large)	North Dakota, Denver	1993	1942
D	Oregon	Ron Wyden	Democratic	Jewish	U.S. House (OR-3)	Stanford, Oregon	1996	1949
D	Pennsylvania	Arlen Specter	Democratic	Jewish	Philadelphia District Attorney	Pennsylvania, Yale	1981	1930
D	Vermont	Patrick Leahy	Democratic	Roman Catholic	Chittenden County State's Attorney	St. Michael's College, Georgetown	1975	1940
D	Washington	Patty Murray	Democratic	Roman Catholic	State Senate	Washington State	1993	1950
D	Wisconsin	Russ Feingold	Democratic	Jewish	State Senate	Wisconsin-Madison, Oxford, Harvard	1993	1953
R	Alabama	Richard Shelby	Republican	Presbyterian	Alabama Senate; U.S. House (AL-7)	Alabama (BA, JD)	1987	1934
R	Alaska	Lisa Murkowski	Republican	Roman Catholic	Alaska House of Representatives	Georgetown, Willamette	2002	1957
R	Arizona	John McCain	Republican	Baptist[1]	Military, U.S. House	U.S. Naval Academy[2]	1987	1936
R	Florida	Mel Martinez	Republican	Roman Catholic	U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development	Florida State (BA, JD)	2005	1946
R	Georgia	Johnny Isakson	Republican	United Methodist	U.S. House (GA-6)	Georgia	2005	1944
R	Idaho	Mike Crapo	Republican	LDS	Idaho State Senate, U.S. House (ID-2)	Brigham Young, Harvard Law	1999	1951
R	Iowa	Chuck Grassley	Republican	Baptist	Iowa House of Representatives, U.S. House (IA-3)	Northern Iowa (BA, MA)	1981	1933
R	Kansas	Sam Brownback	Republican	Roman Catholic	U.S. House (KS-2)	Kansas State, Kansas	1996	1956
R	Kentucky	Jim Bunning	Republican	Roman Catholic	MLB Baseball player, Fort Thomas City Council, Kentucky State Senate, U.S. House (KY-4)	Xavier	1999	1931
R	Louisiana	David Vitter	Republican	Roman Catholic	U.S. House (LA-1)	Harvard, Oxford, Tulane	2005	1961
R	Missouri	Kit Bond	Republican	Presbyterian	State Auditor, Governor	Princeton, Virginia	1987	1939
R	New Hampshire	Judd Gregg	Republican	Congregationalist	Governor, U.S. House (NH-2)	Columbia, Boston University	1993	1947
R	North Carolina	Richard Burr	Republican	Methodist	U.S. House (NC-5)	Wake Forest	2005	1955
R	Ohio	George Voinovich	Republican	Roman Catholic	Mayor of Cleveland; Governor	Ohio, Ohio State	1999	1936
R	Oklahoma	Tom Coburn	Republican	Baptist	Physician, U.S. House (OK-2)	Oklahoma State, Oklahoma	2005	1948
R	South Carolina	Jim DeMint	Republican	Presbyterian	U.S. House (SC-4)	Tennessee, Clemson University	2005	1951
R	South Dakota	John Thune	Republican	Evangelical Christian	U.S. House (SD-At Large)	Biola, South Dakota	2005	1961
R	Utah	Robert Foster Bennett	Republican	LDS	businessman	Utah	1993	1933

[tennmountainman]

If you think Bonehead Bohinior and Mitch McConnell are examples of leadership. And that Michael Steele and the RNC are examples of leadership...what can I say, except they are not.

[buwaya]

I have no opinion on Steele, and the RNC certainly did a poor job in 2008.

But Bonior et. al. are doing an excellent job in Congress. The numbers tell the tale. They are not Gingrich-types that get their names in the papers, but is that what we want ?

[telebob]

The choice for 2010 is really effing simple: Either vote republican or reside in the enemy camp.

Talk about ‘leadership’, principles’ ‘values’, etc. is just wasted breath.

Either vote to defeat the commies or STFU.

[penowa]

“Its not who votes but who counts the votes that count- Joseph Stalin..

Looks to me like Soros' puppets, the same secretaries of state we had in 2008, will be counting the votes in '10. Not to mention more of them will be on the ballot in other states in order to get elected to count the vote in '12.

[Parley Baer]

We can only hope. Memories are sometimes short for the masses. Let’s see what things look like in November of 2010.

[coconut47]

We’ll what every Republican runs in 2010 they better get double the votes or they’ll be stolen like the last election.

[tennmountainman]

Gingrich was changed by power. But before power carrupted him, he LED A REVOLUTION in 94 and suceeded.

Give me Pence as Majority leader in the house. Make DeMint Majority leader in the senate and replace Steele, and I will be more enthustic.

The head leadership now are followers, not leaders

[Kenny]

Party designation makes no difference. Fiscal conservatives need to slam the brakes on this train wreck.

Exactly! This is how they manipulated the country into Obama, making the exciting races the subject instead of what's being done. Republicans, Democrats, Independents, I just wish the people could get back in power.