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How sweet it might be…
His eventual opponent isn’t even chosen yet, but Nevada Democrat and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is already running weak enough to lose to either of them, according to recent polls. Both Republicans considering runs against Reid, a list that includes Danny Tarkanian and Sue Lowden, were shown to be polling significantly higher than the Democrat incumbant.
Of course, Nevada is typically GOP territory and Reid has been a business gifts-getting, major ass for the better part of his current six year term, so it ought not be surprising. Tark would best Reid 49-39, while Lowden would get the job done with a closer shave at 45-40.
Tarkanian seems the best bet to overcome any Reid resurgence. Get it done, Nevada GOP! Make it so.
Specter switch isn’t much of one
After amassing a measly 40-percent conservative voting record and voting with the Republicans just over half the time, it came as a surprise to no one – except perhaps partner-in-RINO John McCain – when Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter flipped from GOP to the Democratic Party this week.
In an incoherent speech that rambled on about the GOP moving “too far to the right” (actually, it’s been suffering a severe leftward drift toward Specter’s side), about the only thing Specter didn’t blame the GOP for was plotting the spread of mesothelioma – and apparently only because his speech writer needed more time.
Considering his voting record, Specter’s switch matters only on paper; as long as Franken prevails in his election fraud victory, the Dems will have a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate for the next couple years. Which is great, when you think about it; no longer can anything Barack does be blamed on Republicans going forward.
This is the Dem majority’s mess, like it or not.
The good news is, Specter was facing a primary challenge from a real conservative in the Pennsylvania GOP, who now should sail to the nomination. And there’s no guarantee the Dems will nominate Specter. Even if they do, let them have him. He’s 79 and shouldn’t be running for a sixth term anyway.
While we’re at it, let’s show the rest of the RINOs in the Senate the door, too; it may bury the GOP in the short term, but it could very well save the party’s conservative soul.
Dems vow revenge if Coleman succeeds
If Norm Coleman succeeds in proving election fraud (which is pretty darn obvious in this race) in his re-election bid against SNL candidate Al Franken, the Democrats in Washington are so drunk with power that they have vowed to never give Senator Coleman a moments rest; they will hound him with ethics probes for the entire six years, or until they lose their majority, whichever comes first.
While otherwise acting like mold killer, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who bears a distinct resemblance to the hindquarters of his party’s animal symbol, is proving that even in overwhelming victory, the Dems are sore losers.
Minnesota is growing, but House delegation may shrink
The Land of 10,000 Lakes make soon have a solution to lake pressure. According to new estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau, Minnesota is growing, but not fast enough. Since the 2000 census, in fact, the state is believed to have gained just over 300,000 new residents, moving from 4.9 million to 5.2 million.
If the trend continues unabated into the 2010 census, that could mean the loss of one U.S. House seat from the Minnesota delegation; currently, Minnesota boasts eight U.S. Representatives, but that number could retreat back to seven in the next census. Although Minnesota’s population base is growing, it is not growing fast enough to keep pace with the highest-growth states, such as California, Texas, Florida, Georgia, Arizona and North Carolina, all of which have grown by 1 million or more.
Louisiana and North Dakota were named as the only states to shrink since 2000; North Dakota’s losses are minor, but Louisiana’s losses numbered nearly 60,000, most of the population shift attributable to the migration following Hurricane Katrina.
Time will tell if Minnesota’s growth is too slow to keep their current Congressional delegation; in the meantime, we need to call back all our snowbirds from their Las Vegas hotel before the counting begins in earnest.
Pelosi Congress taking it easy…
When campaigning last fall for a shift of control to the Democrats in the U.S. Congress, Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi promised a Dem-controlled House would be, “a hard-working body putting in five-day weeks.” According to several Web site reports surfacing this weekend, even that simple campaign promise has been broken by the 11-percent-approval-rating Pelosi-led Congress.
An anonymous House of Representatives staffer recently revealed to NewsMax.com, among others:
“We sometimes have days with just one hour of votes from 3 to 4 p.m. on renaming post offices before calling it a day,” the staffer told NewsMax.
“No votes are scheduled on Fridays this month. And Pelosi hopes to close the House down for the year on Nov. 16.
“Pelosi made a big deal of saying she would make the House work five-day weeks. You can see how long that lasted.”
One has to wonder, with the Dems in control, how long it will be before the days of $6,000 cordless phone battery purchases return with a vengeance.
