Posted on 08/28/2010 11:29:13 PM PDT by neverdem
WASHINGTON The incumbent senator from Alaska is taken by surprise in a primary. A new conservative movement energizes Republicans in a furious response to a Democratic White House. Little-known insurgent candidates prepare to storm the Senate.
It is starting to feel like 1980.
While the 1994 Republican takeover of the House is regularly explored for insight into what might happen this polarized election year, parallels are emerging between the watershed Senate election of three decades ago and the campaign of 2010 as another conservative rebellion threatens to reshape the Senate.
In 1980, shocked Senate Democrats lost 12 seats in a rout that ended the Congressional careers of such notable lawmakers as George McGovern of South Dakota, Birch Bayh of Indiana, Frank Church of Idaho, Warren Magnuson of Washington and Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin.
Swept into office by the landslide victory of Ronald Reagan were a number of conservatives, including Jeremiah A. Denton Jr. of Alabama, Mack Mattingly of Georgia, Paula Hawkins of Florida, Steve Symms of Idaho and several others whose notion of the role of government and Congress was markedly different from those they succeeded.
They were labeled the accidental senators, candidates who won only by virtue of an extraordinary political environment. The culture of the Senate and party control changed overnight...
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Mmmm...I could go for one of those on the doorstep of the GZ mosque, or maybe the Crescent of Shame...if I'm gonna be called 'racist' anyway, might as well enjoy it.
Does that mean the Senate has to pass it? Besides confirming many high level officials, they confirm all judges for life as well as can pass treaties with only two thirds of a quorum! These marxist judges have been perfect pains.
I am not so sure about that. Can’t the House simply defund all the Obama garbage and prevent implementation that way?
They can't pass anything if the House doesn't send it. There is a reason the House is Article I, Section 2 and the Senate is Article 1, Section 3. The House is the most powerful, ahead of the Senate, Executive, and Judicial. It wasn't ramdom placement in the US Constitution. A Republican House can easily starve Obama's agenda.
Little-known insurgent candidates prepare to storm the Senate. It is starting to feel like 1980.
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