Sunday, September 2, 2007

GOP Hopes for Re-taking Senate Dimming


Photo of John Warner from source, WashingtonPost.com

That headline is good news if you're on my side of the aisle. What we need is a veto-proof majority, especially if a Republican retakes the White House. If there's a Democrat as our next president, a stiff majority in Congress is unnecessary, and maybe even a bad thing. The last thing we need is continued one-party rule, and a rubber-stamp Congress.

[Excerpt]

GOP Faces Growing Peril In 2008 Races
Senate Prospects Dimming


A Senate electoral playing field that was already wide open for 2008 has become considerably more perilous for Republicans with the retirement of Sen. John W. Warner (R-Va.) and the resignation of scandal-scarred Sen. Larry E. Craig (R-Idaho).

Republicans need a net gain of just one seat to take back control of the Senate, but they have 22 seats to defend, and campaign cash is conspicuously lacking. Warner's retirement raised to two the number of open Republican seats, and both of them -- in Virginia and Colorado -- are prime targets for Democrats.

Read the rest at: WashingtonPost.com

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