"Just curious, Why is Breaux retiring?"
Breaux received an offer of a huge salary to become a lobbyist.
Hopefully, he will be replaced by David Vitter, a great guy who supports the president 100% in the war on Islam.
I expect that you will hear a lot about David Vitter in the future as well as Bobby Jindal. Bobby Jindal is running for a house seat. Jindal is one of the most intelligent visionaries that has come on the political scene in decades. I am ashamed to say that Bobby Jindal, son of Indian immigrants, did not win the last Louisiana governor's race because of racism. Virtually everyone here who I spoke with said they "voted against Jindal because he is not white" instead of really voting for the Democratic candidate, Kathleen Blanco. Curiously, Blanco means "white" in Spanish.
According to the last polls, Bobby Jindal would get the House seat by 70 %. He's a Republican rising star. He will run for a higher office in the future - maybe indeed the Presidency. You can say the same about John Thune - he's another rising star.