Why a vote for Sharron Angle could steer Senate to the left

[RamboLiberal]

While Republican Sharron Angle has called Harry Reid a liberal voice for special interests, it is Angle who may become the best friend of liberals in Washington should she defeat the majority leader.

As the Senate’s top-ranking Democrat, Reid serves a dual role in Washington: representative of Nevada and chief driver of the Senate agenda.

Take Reid away and there will be a new man at the wheel. And any way you slice it, that man is going to have a history of bending further to the left than Reid, which could have implications for national policy that would play out in Nevada.

As poorly as Democrats are expected to do on Election Day, it’s highly unlikely the party will lose control of the U.S. Senate. So if Angle deposes Reid — which no one in official Democratic circles is yet willing to publicly acknowledge could happen — that sets off almost immediately a firestorm over who should ascend to the caucus leadership: Illinois’ Dick Durbin, who ranks No. 2, or New York’s Chuck Schumer, who is No. 3.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/oct/28/voting-right-veering-left/

[FSogol]

1. Unreced.

:puke:

[pnwmom]

2. Dream on. Any new Majority Leader will still have to keep

the blue dogs on board --and with a slimmer majority to work with.

[emulatorloo]

3. The senate doesn't need another Racist with a "Second Amendment Remedies" fantasies

Don't know how the author came up with this.

[vi5]

4. Oh please. Unless they make Franken leader....

or Feingold (who probably won't even be a Senator) then pretty much every single solitary Senator is beholden to big money corporate special interests.

[zbdent]

7. Franken as leader?

Ooo, that would be delicious ...

Talk about getting media coverage!

[BootinUp]

5. Counting down.....

[customerserviceguy]

6. It doesn't matter who the Senate majority leader is

Assuming the Democratic Party is still the one supplying that person. The Senate is going to be a more conservative body as a result of Tuesday, and even if it weren't, they'd still have to get things through the House, and that's clearly going to become more reich wing.

[Ozymanithrax]

8. This reminds me of the "don't vote if your Hispanic" ad.

With Republicans in control of the House, legislation, what gets through, will move as far right as possible to go.

Only by holding the House would it be possible to move slightly more left, and that is not going to happen. Republicans created massive misery and then used it to get back into power.

[wisteria]

9. I doubt any of our majority leaders would lean farther left than Reid.

And, I am hoping and praying Reid pulls this out. It would be bad enough if Angle was elected, but if Shumer becomes our majority leader,I think I may have to drag myself away from politics and the Democrats. I will always be a Democrat, but I just couldn't stand to watch Schumer suck up to the camera over and over again.