[Hank Rearden]

With 55 seats in the Senate, there is no good reason that we shouldn't be getting a known quantity.

Now, now. You know very well the Republican Party can't possibly accomplish a damn thing without a clear 100-seat Senate majority - and maybe not even then.

It's going to take many years, and hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign donations, to motivate these guys.

So pay up, shut up and vote Republican all the way. Trust 'em.

[clawrence3]

No one says 100 are needed - 60 would do just fine.

[browardchad]

You know very well the Republican Party can't possibly accomplish a damn thing without a clear 100-seat Senate majority - and maybe not even then.

Now, now, it's called "incrementalism," remember?

Get with the program -- only 45 to go -- yay, team!

Wait a minute, why does that goal post keep moving further away?

[LS]

Hank, why do you even waste your time here? Why don't you inhabit the "perfect" Libertarian boards? Because you are in la-la land, where only "perfect" people are acceptable, and where no politician ever has to attract the votes of anyone but the ultra, ultra-right.

It gets old. If you ever bother to read history, you'd see that at ALL times, the great shifts in the country came about by VERY small margins of committed people; that there are ALWAYS cores of senators and congressmen who want to avoid the "extremes" on anything because they are too comfortable. But that doesn't mean that change doesn't happen. It does mean there is a political reality that has to be taken into account.

[NittanyLion]

Now, now. You know very well the Republican Party can't possibly accomplish a damn thing without a clear 100-seat Senate majority - and maybe not even then. It's going to take many years, and hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign donations, to motivate these guys. So pay up, shut up and vote Republican all the way. Trust 'em.

Don't worry Hank - the apologists are already telling me he'll nominate a JRB type for the next opening. Just keep those donations flowing - it's all strategery! He plays chess, not checkers! All hail our fearless leader!