Voting for the Dems just to “show the GOPe” has got to be one of the most foolish and self-defeating things I have ever heard of.
The only thing that matters in DC are the numbers. Right now, the Dems have the majority in the Senate (a very tiny majority, but that’s enough) and that is what is enabling Harry Reid and Obama to get away with what they have been doing. Nothing started to change in the House, either, until we got a majority.
It’s the job of the leaders and whips to corral all the voters of their party and make sure they vote as a bloc. But it doesn’t matter when there aren’t enough of them. For example, not one single GOPer voted for Obamacare - but it didn’t matter, because there weren’t enough GOP votes collectively to make a difference.
I think all legal challenges to Cochran’s election should be pursued, and there should also be criminal consequences for people who knowingly voted in both the Dem and GOP elections (and for the people who encouraged them to do so, knowing that it was illegal). I also think pressure should be put on the local GOP by the emergence of new candidates to oppose some of the corrupt crowd that supported Cochran.
But voting for the Dems is the stupidest, most suicidal response possible to this situation.
I thought it took a GOP Senator, Olympia Snowe’s, help to vote it out of committee...