GOP Eyes 60-Vote Senate Majority

NewsMax ^ | 11/30/2004 | Joseph Taranto

[dangus]

They proved it already, did they? They are still more than a month from even opening the first session of their majority Congress, and you have already written them off?

This is the first time conservatives have had a majority. Remember, the Democrats took 60 years and majorities as large as 77-19 to f*** things up so badly. But you've alrwady written off the Republicans.

Pathetic.

And I ain't referring to the GOP.

[politicket]

So, he needs to remember that you will cut off your nose to spite your face?

LOL!! The GOP absolutely LOVE your type. It kind of reminds them of Barney, the President's dog.

Roll over zbigreddogz....GOOD BOY!!!

I think some voters need to get a spine...

[goldstategop]

We won't have 77 Senators. Imagine what we could do with a two-thirds majority in Congress. LOL. But its still fun fantasizing about it.

[HamiltonJay]

PA is safe, isn't anyone on the political horizon at this point that's going to unseat Santorum in an off year election.

[zbigreddogz]

Well, none of them have at this point, so I don't see why they would start now.

[zbigreddogz]

I'll get a spine after you get a brain.

[dangus]

Let's hope Byrd does NOT retire. WV is only just starting to tilt to the GOP. If Byrd goes this year, there will be few good GOP candidates to replace him, and the Demonrats will probably lock a newcomer in place, like they did in AR and LA. If he waits six more years, there will probably WVn Republicans with the credibility, exposure and clout to take the seat.

[zbigreddogz]

Yahhhh, riiiggghhhhtt. There are a BUNCH of Senators that are just itching to put themselves in the minority...

[KwasiOwusu]

"The GOP better be looking at losing seats in 2006 if their experiment with Arlen Specter and the Judiciary chairmanship doesn't pan out."

GOP will pick up seats in 2006.
We have always had mavericks in the GOP.
You are forgetting we had Republican Senator Oylmpia Snow (an East Coast liberal) who has continued to vote against president Bush on lots of important conservative issues, in the Senate this year, and still picked up 4 seats in the Senate this year.
If Specter plays plays the fool, all that its going to do is make Republicans in the South vote in even more conservative Senators to replace the 5 RATS Senators standing for reelection in 2006.
Conservative voters recognize that Republican candidates from the North East, like Specter, may not have to be so strongly conservative before they can win seats in the North East. That is a lesson the Democrats simply refuse to learn, and are paying the price accordingly as Tom Daschle can testify.
If you are a Democrat from a conservative , Republican state, then you can't vote like a rabid liberal in the US Senate, and expect to be reelected back home.

[politicket]

I'll get a spine after you get a brain.

WOW!! How do you come up with these catchy replies so quickly? I'm impressed!

Well, then again...maybe not...

[pete anderson]

and the economy keeps improving at home...

Should this not be posted under breaking news?

[HostileTerritory]

Do you have confidence in Ben Nelson's ability to win re-election against the current governor?

[Sybeck1]

David Pryor from Arkansas should be focused heavily on.

[NeoCaveman]

May I be the first to say Senator Mark Kennedy (R-MN) will be sworn in in January of 2007!

With retirements, 60 is possible but I will make the early prediciton of 58.

[JCEccles]

If Byrd goes this year

I think Byrd is going to hang on to his seat like grim death itself. He might well turn into the Democrats' Strom Thurmond.

[newgeezer]

They are still more than a month from even opening the first session of their majority Congress

"[T]he first session of their majority Congress"? Where have you been since '94?

But you've alrwady written off the Republicans. Pathetic. And I ain't referring to the GOP.

"Pathetic" describes what the GOP has even attempted -- much less done -- with a majority in both houses of Congress since 1994 (with the exception of the first two years without Jumpin' Jim Jeffords). We even got the White House in 2000, and still managed to pass only a token tax cut that piddles out after a few years. (Talk about adding insult to injury, Congress rarely ever puts sunset clauses on new taxes. Now, they put them on tax cuts?!)

The Contract With America was the beginning and the end of the conservative Congress. After 10 years of Republican rule, Bloated Big Government remains every bit as much the theme in DC today as it ever was. That's "pathetic."

[KwasiOwusu]

"I think Byrd is going to hang on to his seat like grim death itself. He might well turn into the Democrats' Strom Thurmond"

# 1, he can't defy age forever, Even Strom Thurmomd had to go eventually.

And # 2, unlike Strom Thurmond, whose seat was won by someone from his own party, a Republican, every indication is that cranky old Byrd's seat will be won not by a RAT, but by a Republican.

[mdwakeup]

Schafer is Conrad's ex-brother-in-law. Will never run against him.

[KwasiOwusu]

"We even got the White House in 2000, and still managed to pass only a token tax cut "

Biggest Tax Cut in history by far. There is nothing "token" about it.
Plus Congress only recently voted again to make most of the Tax Cuts permanent.

[HostileTerritory]

Pryor's not up until '08.