Look at Vermont, with two of the biggest @ssholes in the U.S. Senate (Jim Jeffords and Pat Leahy). That state isn't going to get a nickel of federal money for the next two years, even if al-Qaeda sends a billion Islamic terrorists to invade from Canada. VT now has a Republican governor (a conservative one, I understand.)
That's right. But that governor is going to have as much influence in the U.S. Senate as Paul Wellstone is.