The dance card is being rewritten for the 2012 election with two key Democratic Senators bowing out....Connecticut's Joe Lieberman was elected as an Indy in 2006, but caucuses with the Dems...He is not seeking reelection.
Ditto for North Dakota's Kent Conrad, who is getting out of Dodge in 2012 as well. That seat could be a GOP pickup.
The way the seats line up in 2012, Republicans have a good chance at seizing the Senate by virtue of the high number of seats the Democrats are defending in that cycle.
Since I see President Obama likely to be reelected (not my choice, but just the way I see it), that will leave him a second termer facing both houses of Congress in the hands of the other party.
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You should wait to see who runs against the great and annointed one before you decide the victor, Jeff. You know the MSM will line up and bend over, but the American people are getting smarter every day. That was a great sermon the Prez gave last week, but voters are beginning to look like they want a president, not a preacher.
I see Pres. Obama re-elected and Dems. controlling Senate in 2012. Congress is what it is for now until we know better in 2011 how wind ins blowing.
MCM
What the mayor actually and rightfully said is that Obama would LIKELY be reelected.
The American people are not as smart as you give them credit for. Even more troubling is that smart people are not as smart as they give themselves credit for.
Obama showed that he can revert back to his campaign mode, in which he spoke without saying anything, yet tugged at peoples hearts. In fact, his call for civility is the height of hypocrisy in light of the rhetoric we have seen from him over the years. And it only appeals to our hearts since logic tells us there is no imminent reason to tone down the vitriolic debates.
Lets pretend for a moment that Obama is smart. Now obviously he was raised with a sever disadvantage because he was influenced by liberals. He went on to attend liberal colleges and spent all of his time with liberals. He had the luxury to hang out in the faculty lounge and fantasize about the way things ought to be and ponder all of the inequities in life as well as how government could fix them.
But now for the first time in his life he is actually measured on his performance.
Is he smart enough to see the wisdom and merits of conservatism?
It seems he has left many of the evil policies of Bush in place. Is that because he is powerless to change them or is it because he is smart enough to realize that his fantasies do not work in reality?
My point is that maybe it will not be so bad to have another term of Obama as long as he is kept on a leash by a pragmatic congress and hopefully soon to be senate.
I for one do not want both houses and the presidency to be monopolized by dunces such as Huckabee or Newt with simpleton concepts like laissez faire economics or tying the dollar's value to a rare earth metal.
One key goal of conservatism is libertarianism. That should mean limiting government to as much as is reasonably necessary. It should not mean eliminating it altogether.
That's the ticket (a pun intended) - just what we need: More GOPers in the Seanate to toally shut down the process and roadblock all bills . . . progress, eh?
Not like they have haven't already for over two years.
ANON 1:18
Let the games begin ... with you guys the need for a 'Central Bank' needs to be put back on the floor for debate. I think you people would just as soon stuff money in your mattress then have to deposit it in a bank.
MCM
Not much of a comeback, Mike, to 1:18's excellent post. And Dan, if we continue to spend as we have these past couple years, even guys like you, insulated from reality with government money, will be broke. There won't be any more money to mail to you.
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