[fieldmarshaldj]

Abourezk was also responsible for helping sink the man that succeeded him, Sen. Larry Pressler. For years he went around making smears of Pressler with the leftist media in the state (I believe including one of Pressler being gay). The guy is a lunatic.

You might also add one-term (1965-67) NE Congressman Clair Callan, also perhaps one of the most leftist individuals the state ever sent to Congress (namely due to the loss by Goldwater in '64, Callan couldn't survive reelection). This 83-year old nitwit put himself firmly on the side of Anti-Americanism with the recent Iraqi action in asking a federal court if Dubya was guilty of "war crimes."

[Impy]

Were nutcases like him the reason the GOP gained more seats in 1966 than it had prior to 1964?