For those of you glad to see Senator Breaux gone...

[Hippo_Tron]

You may want to reconsider what this means. If Bush gets re-elected he probably will be re-elected with a senate majority larger than the one he has now. Probably a few supreme court justices will be appointed between 2004-2008. The GOP is probably going to start somewhere with between 50-53 senate seats. Frist will start introudcing the far right nominees and of course will will fillibuster. Without Breaux there will probably be no of Chaffee or Snowe helping us fight cloture or at least voting against these RW nominees. This gives Frist two senators that he already doesn't have to worry about. Then he will start negotiating with the dems until he convinces enough of them to vote for cloture. Every vote will count and they just might get 60 votes before the midterm election. A two year fillibuster will be very difficult if not damn near impossible. I'd suggest everybody think twice before calling somebody a DINO just because they vote with the Republicans sometimes.

[Miss_Cleo]

1. Careful. I got myself in trouble saying things more likely to be true

than that.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

2. Agreed! He is not Zell Miller afterall. His successor,

Chris John has a similar voting record and we should all support his election next year!

[Hippo_Tron]

6. I'm not sure John will be the leading dem trying to replace him...

I think the State Treasurer (Kennedy?) or former state AG Richard Ieyoub might jump into the race as well. Anyway they are all better than the GOP alternatives which consist of David Vitter, Bobby Jindal, and Suzanne Fuckface Terrel (if she hasn't already gotten the message that nobody likes her). The dems completely swept LA in 2003 and we can do it again in 2004.

[kentuck]

3. Breaux was a leader in a different time....

When the vandals took over, the times changed. Moderates such as Breaux and Miller failed to see that their politics of compromise was not helping to find "bi-partisan" solutions, but were really only assisting a radical right wing agenda. They were blind to the political reality that encircled them. They were living in the past and both were past time to go.

[Hippo_Tron]

5. That's a great point...

But when the neocons are in power you're kinda screwed.

[mlawson]

4. Didn't Breaux nag Gore to concede in November 2000?

Seems that I remember him and Torrecelli pompously declaring that 'Gore has but a few more days', then he MUST concede, and similar traitorous blather. And they did this more than once, I think, as if they couldn't WAIT for him to quit. I can never forgive Breaux for that.