If Daschle loses, who's our new Senate leader?

[The Chronicler]

Two words:

Dick Durbin.

[Hubert Flottz]

1. Robert Byrd!

Ted Kennedy!

[AlamoDemoc]

2. Chris Dodd

[mitchtv]

13. Chris Dodd yeah ,so we can lose the rest of the Senate

get yer pink tutus ready

[mitchtv]

15. New Rule: No leaders from Red States

real Dems only please. How about Boxer?Hillary? Schumer? Time for the contributing states to be heard.

[mitchtv]

14. Chris Dodd yeah ,so we can lose the rest of the Senate

get yer pink tutus ready

[Cyrix]

27. No Byrd

He's horrible on civil rights.

[newyawker99]

41. Hi Cyrix!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[cheezus]

3. Byron Dorgan

powerful Democrat from a rural state.

[aldian159]

44. Same problem Daschle

If you are from a red state, you will have to be way too moderate to be an effetive leader.

[cheezus]

60. he's a very effective leader. does a good job in the role of moderate

I'd love to have a far lefty, but it's not going to happen. Byron does the job and does it well. And you'll note -- he's moderate red state guy, but no friend of bush

[Jane Austin]

54. But easy ridicule target. Hair looks like a toupee.

n/t

[Christiandem]

4. ROBERT BYRD

Daschle was such a horrible leader these past 4 years... Time to move on.

[The Chronicler]

7. Byrd is already pro tempore, and he's like 90.

[genius]

12. He's 86 and going strong

[Confident]

9. No - Senate leaders should NOT be former KKK members!

[OSheaman]

5. Barack Obama

Hehe, I wish.

[The Chronicler]

8. Too green. (nm)

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. Have we got any Kucinich types in there?

[Cyrix]

28. Kennedy

Best choice IMO.

Plus we shouldn't make the mistake ever again of having a leader from a red state. It forces them to back down to the repubs FAR too much.

[Paradise]

10. Daschle Wins!!! :) n/t

[vet_against_Bush]

11. Lehey, Pat. My pick, Russ. nt

[dolstein]

24. Lehey's a wuss

Don't get me wrong, he's a great guy. But he's still a wuss. Dick Durbin isn't.

[phish420]

53. How do you figure that?

He's been standing up against Cheney, he stood up against the war, he stood up against the RIAA...Lehey kicks ass.

[Auntie Bush]

66. Yeah Lehey!

[Emboldened Chimp]

16. Carl Levin

'Nuff Said.

[slestak]

17. Joementum!

NOT.

[Warren DeMontague]

38. LOL

n/t

[Stinky The Clown]

18. Wanna watch Repub heads explode?

Sen Clinton!

[RememberWellstone]

34. Excellant!

LMAO!!! I think it would be a great choice before '08!! She is awesome.

[ProudToBeLiberal]

58. umm you mean 2012 right?

Kerry's going for a second term too.

[Radical Activist]

19. Richard Durbin

He has the experience on the Hill, he's well liked, and he has a great liberal voting record. No one would do a better job than Durbin. Obama isn't the only kick-ass liberal Illinois is sending to the Senate.

[Doctor_J]

20. Stabenow

or maybe Murray. Or, my third pick, Feingold. Or Durbin.

[Bryan]

21. The Hon. Edward Kennedy

A massively connected blue-state Senator whom the President trusts implicitly and who would irritate the Party In Opposition to no end. It's obvious.

[doubleplusgood]

22. somebody with a backbone

who doesn't look like they should be spraying the vegetables in the produce dept.

[dolstein]

23. Dick Durbin would be great, but Harry Reid is next in line

Reid's expected to win reelection handily this year, but he's had some close scrapes before.

I think Durbin would be a great choice. I think he comes off rather well on TV, and he's tough and partisan, without being obnoxious.

[ciaobox]

25. Russ Feingold

[stevietheman]

26. Feinstein n/t

[jefferson_dem]

29. Hillary!

[julialnyc]

30. Shumer

[Toucano]

62. You are correct!

Chuck is the one. He's got the behind the scenes skills and the media savvy.

I want him for our Senate leader regardless of what happens with Daschle.

[Thrill]

31. Reid deserves it

[Orangepeel]

32. Daschle will be our majority leader

someone else would be the minority leader. Let's hope Daschle wins.

[JHBowden]

33. Dick Durbin nt

eom

[Democat]

35. Tom Harkin?

He seems like a possible good choice?

[TheDonkey]

36. Daschle better be the Majority Leader

I'm sorry but I'm ABR

Anyone but Rethuglicans

[Warren DeMontague]

37. Uh.... Someone with balls, please?

I mean in a metaphorical sense. Doesn't need to be a man.

For the record, I like Dick Durbin a great deal.

I think we should give Barack a little time to settle in.

[demokatgurrl]

40. That would be Barbara Boxer. n/t

[Warren DeMontague]

52. Nobody likes Barbara more than me. I'm very proud to be re-electing her

this year.

She's polarizing, but that doesn't bug me a bit.

[Warren DeMontague]

55. I apologize, I mis-spoke there.

I meant to say, "Senator Obama".

:)

[sangh0]

39. Whoever the Dems decide to replace Daschle

.

[0007]

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[strategery blunder]

64. Off topic, but thanks for your sig.

I saved the hotline info to my cellphone's speed dial.:)

[iwantmycountryback]

43. Russ Feingold

[welshTerrier2]

45. if Daschle WINS, who's our new Senate leader?

Daschle embodies much of what is wrong with the Democratic Party ...

i hope he wins ... we need his vote ... but we surely don't need more of his useless, wimpy leadership ...

it's time for him to step down ... and, fwiw, i strongly agree with the poster above who said that our new Senate leader should not come from a red state ... Daschle has been forced to make way too many compromises to keep his seat and he's pulled the whole party down with him ...

[Radical Activist]

47. Still gotta say Dick Durbin

Daschle seemed just right in 94 as the anti-Gingrich. He's out of place now and needs to be removed.

[Rebellious Republican]

48. Thats a better question!

:toast:

[Padraig18]

46. Agreed: Dick Durbin.

Sen. Kerry has let it be known that whether or not Daschle wins, he wants Durbin--- a FIGHTER!

:)

[snippy]

49. I hope to hell that the democratic Senators know a lot more than I do

about who they should elect as the democratic leader. I will be happy to trust thenm with the choice. I do think it should be someone in a safe democratic seat though.

[Padraig18]

51. That would be Durbin.

He was just re-elected overwhelmingly in 2002. :)

[snippy]

59. Durbin would be fine. n/t

[BootinUp]

50. I'd like it to be Hillary, or Durbin.

[Pepperbelly]

56. They will sort it out for themselves. It is not a popularity contest nor

anything that us rank-and-filers need to worry about. The gig is about who works and plays the best with the personaities that populate the Democratic Caucus.

[Zero Division]

57. I'd like to see Daschle win and the Dems pick a new leader anyway

Durbin would be a great choice. Harkin would be another (I'm very proud of the fact that he comes from Iowa). I'm sure there are other great choices, as well. I don't like the idea of Byrd. I heard he's horrible on environmental issues.

[scheming daemons]

61. Two Fein choices...

Russ Feingold

or

Diane Feinstein

[truebrit71]

63. Dick Durbin. Absolutely.

Barack Obama will have to settle for the V.P. slot in 2012.

[Bleacher Creature]

65. Harry Reid

That's my prediction, not my pick (which is Dick Durbin)