Posted on 02/16/2010 4:32:43 PM PST by Schnucki
President Barack Obama is facing humiliation in this year's mid-term elections after a wave of desertions by Democratic senators who have retreated from tough challenges for their seats from a resurgent Republican party.
There was speculation on Tuesday that the next to join an exodus ahead of the November elections could be Blanche Lincoln, who represents the conservative southern state of Arkansas and is behind every putative Republican challenger in opinon polls.
The Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, is meanwhile trailing all his potential Republican opponents in his state of Nevada, and even Mr Obama's old Senate seat in Illinois is expected to be close run.
The White House was rocked on Monday by the announcement by Evan Bayh, a popular, centrist senator from Indiana, who became the fifth senator to confirm he will not run for re-election. The latest speculation of more senators coming forward will only add to President Obama's woes and raise the prospect his party could lose its majority in Congress.
The emerging consensus in Washington is now that the Democrats have only a 50-50 chance of keeping control of the Senate, where they currently hold 59 out of the 100 seats, in what would be a stunning reversal of fortune after the party's clean sweep in 2008.
It has already lost the 60-strong majority that automatically overrode procedural blocks, after little known Republican Scott Brown last month captured a Massachusetts seat held by the late Edward Kennedy for 47 years.
Other Democrats are expected to withdraw from fray before deadlines fall for standing in the midterms, when 33 Senate seats and all 435 House of Representative seats will be contested.
The ruling party's vulnerability was further underlined on Tuesday when Frank Lautenberg, the 86-year-old senator for New Jersey, collapsed at his home and was hospitalised
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OR,
Obama doesn’t care about the legislative branch and is purging his party of those he thinks might be disloyal to his dictatorship. He will go after Dems before he gets to the GOP.
Let the thing be pressed.
Something is going down if these guys are abandoning ship.
“I have decided to step down so that I can spend more time with my family”.....BHO.
Could happen ?
I suppose you’ve heard about the domestic military force that Obama envisions.... He will fail. He is not that smart. There are no affirmative action dictators. But we need to take him seriously never-the-less. He is damaging this country greatly already.
Just hope that Lautenberg doesn’t croak until after next
week - have to install some equipment in his Newark
office....
I guess we taxpayers will furnish Laut with the finest equipment our children will pay for! Nice gig if one can get it-— those old goats of the Senate know how to live large!
He is in the process of destroying the democrat party. My only worry is that the repubs will screw it up.
There is no such animal.
Obama is about to test the limits that he can try with Executive Orders. Mark my words.
“Evan Bayh, a popular, centrist senator from Indiana
There is no such animal.”
Around here a few people were overjoyed when he said he wouldn’t run but most did not care. Who is he supposed to be popular with?
Obama humiliated? Not hardly. In order to be humilitaed one must first have a sense of humility and a degree of shame. Obama has niether.
You know you’re a Marxist when......
You consider Evan Bayh a centrist.
Could just be they know they very well may lose re-election, and if they want to make big bucks, they need to NOT lose- going out on top is better if one wants to be a lobbyist etc. A loser would not be as highly-regarded or compensated.
Thank you British press for summarizing that in a headline that we’ll never see stateside.
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