No brick or zot - in fact I agree with you completely, for those same “Blame Bush” reasons you elucidate. I would like GOP to stop at 49 seats in the Senate, setting us up for 2012. Dums hold (something like) a 24-10 advantage in 2012 seats, so it will be a very target rich environment. When Obummer is being run out of office in 2 years, he will drag a lot of others Dumocrats along on his coattails.
Regarding your suggestions, I don’t trust Illinois to elect a Republican quite yet; and, if Tommy Thompson announces or if it was in Scott Walker’s plans, I’d bump up Wisconsin.
Regarding NY (where I live), if Pataki steps up to take on Gillibrand I would bump up that seat to at least a “maybe”. Also, I spoke with a high-profile NY GOP insider yesterday who surprised me by saying Larry Kudlow is likely to take on Chuck Schumer - if that happens I will bump up that race as well. With the potential of Harold Ford duking it out with Gillibrand, Cuomo taking on Patterson in a primary fight for Governor, and Kudlow taking a real fight to Schumer, NY politics could be exciting this year in a way that precedes my memory!! Bring it!!
Why would Kudlow challenge Schumer when he could cream Gillibrand??
Why would Kudlow challenge Schumer when he could cream Gillibrand??
We need a majority in the U.S. Senate in 2011-2012 for 5 reasons:
1. John Paul Stevens (b. 1920).
2. Ruth “Vader” Ginsburg (b. 1933).
3. Stephen Breyer (b. 1938).
4. Sonia Sotomayor (b. 1954).
5. Anthony Kennedy (b. 1936).
Four justices are over 70, and Sotomayor has advanced diabetes. It’s possible all five could retire before Jan 20, 2013. 54 would be better, and a conviction-likely 78 Senator would prove interesting.
I want Clarence Thomas to be the swing vote on the Supreme Court, or better yet, Janice Rogers Brown.