[seanc623]

I'd say the people punished are anyone who benefits from a conservative judiciary, because Daschle now has the power to tie all his nominees up and he'll do that for another 2 years if the GOP doesn't get the Senate back.

The GOP would not have lost the Senate in the first place if they had run candidates who believed in the Constitution.

[lasereye]

YOU: the only people that were PUNISHED by Gorton's loss were the Republicans

ME: I'd say the people punished are anyone who benefits from a conservative judiciary, because Daschle now has the power to tie all his nominees up and he'll do that for another 2 years if the GOP doesn't get the Senate back.

YOU: The GOP would not have lost the Senate in the first place if they had run candidates who believed in the Constitution.

Since you've changed the subject to why the GOP lost the Senate rather than whether anyone has been hurt by it other than the GOP, I take it you are admitting you're original assertion is wrong. So presumably you won't be making that erroneous assertion anymore.

As for losing the Senate because they "don't run candidates who believe in the constitution" whatever you define that to mean, I assume they've never run such candidates in your rocket scientist judgement. Therefore, they never should have controlled the Senate in the first place.

Perhaps what's really going on is you actually prefer that they don't control the Senate or anything else.