2008: The Senate Matters

4:59 pm EST January 28th, 2007 | News | 6 Comments

Almost as important as the presidential race, the Democrats have a chance in 2008 to get a real solid lock on the Senate. There are 21 Republican seats currently up for grabs and of the 12 Democratic seats the only ones that would give me slight concern are South Dakota, Louisiana and New Jersey (while NJ is a safe Dem state, Lautenberg regularly gets low approval ratings). There are several GOP seats ripe for the picking, and if Mark Warner were to throw his hat into the ring in Virginia I’m almost certain he would win John Warner’s seat.

With Joe Lieberman (I) announcing that he could very well throw his support to the GOP in 2008 and with the Republican minority blocking important legislation like minimum wage and health care, we should all look forward to limiting the GOP to their southern base and pushing the Democratic majority towards a filibuster proof 60 votes for the next Democratic president (and the inevitable Supreme Court nominations he or she will submit).

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6 Responses to “2008: The Senate Matters”

  1. benny05 says:
    January 28, 2007 at 5:29 pm

    I wish someone would run in the primary against Mary Landrieu, but there may not be a good candidate out there. JMO, but she’s a DINO.

    Maybe John Kerry can throw some dollars towards Tim Johnson or whoever else in SD.

    I agree that Warner would be an excellent candidate in VA, but I have a hunch he’s hoping to be picked as VP nominee.

  2. benny05 says:
    January 28, 2007 at 5:29 pm

    Now Warner and Warner…I meant to say Mark Warner.

  3. Eryka says:
    January 28, 2007 at 5:54 pm

    Yeah can you imagine the voter confusion in Virginia in 08. Forget 60 let them win one more seat so they can jettison old Joe.

  4. James E. Powell says:
    January 28, 2007 at 7:07 pm

    benny05,

    There are always good candidates out there. It’s a matter of getting them to run.

    That said, as we saw with Holy Joe, the Incumbent Protection Racket trumps party, policy and people. It will not be easy to get rid of a servant of the oil business.

  5. Scott_api says:
    January 28, 2007 at 10:52 pm

    Oliver-

    I get what you are saying (Re: Filibuster proof majority for a Dem President) but my fear is that unchecked Dems will grow as bad as unchecked Republicans have been. Regardless of how you felt about the occupant of the White House, the 2 best periods of economic expansion in my lifetime were Reagan with a Democratic Congress ( I voted GOP back then) and Clinton with a GOP Congress (I had learned the folly of my ways, and was voting Dem by then). With that in mind, I do feel some trepidation at the thought of an expanded Dem majority in the House and Senate and a Dem in the White House. The opportunity for shenanigans scares me. As we have seen with the current administration, the lack of checks and balances, coupled with a lack of transparency tends to lead to abuses.

  6. Oliver Willis says:
    January 29, 2007 at 11:30 am

    I’ll take that chance.