Let's be honest. If the situation were reversed

[question everything]

if the Republicans had a slim majority that was going to disappear with one senator being incapacitated, and with the possibility of that Senator being replaced, by a Democratic governor, with a Democratic senator - and thus giving us the majority - we would be jubilant. Right?

All if fair in love and war?

Let's hope that Johnson will recover and that he can keep his seat until the next elections.

But let's also remember that to get anything approved in the Senate 60 votes are needed.

Last, if the worse happens and the Republicans do get control of the Senate, I cannot escape the irony that the White House would then have to rely on Trent Lott..

[Cha]

1. Nah, I'm not wishing

anyone dead..I don't care if he is a republicon.

[Vanje]

2. Jubilant?

Not this sheepherder

[Vincardog]

3. To get anything approved in the Senate 51 votes are needed

To break a filibuster in the Senate 60 votes are needed

[niceypoo]

5. To break a filibuster just wave a subpoena at Cheney and Bush...

...and the filibuster will magically evaporate

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. I wouldn't under the current circumstances. And I don't think any Democratic Senator would

wish any ill will for a republican Senator incapacitate by illness, just too have the balance of power shift. We aren't like that.

[gordianot]

6. The only real jubilation is by "corporate media."

They elicit enough disgust that almost transcends political divisions.

[freeplessinseattle]

7. well, I don't know about you, but I think most of us would have

mixed feelings, and any jubilation would be subdued.