Jay Severin, a talk show host up here in New England thinks Harold Ford is a formidable candidate but I thought he's been exposed as involved in a nasty kickback scheme which should take him out of the running forever.
1- I really don't know what the R's are doing (except for an energy bill).
Never underestimate the appitite for govenment handouts and dictate. People want to have government pay their bills and tell other people how to live.
If the Republicans can't even defund PBS!, when they control the House, Senate, and White House they will have shown what they stand for, and are no longer worth supporting.