Odds Improving for a Filibuster-proof Democratic Senate.

[calteacherguy]

WASHINGTON - The last Democratic president to enjoy a filibuster-proof Senate majority was Jimmy Carter 30 years ago.

But it now looks possible that in next year’s elections the Democrats just might attain the 60 seats they need to foil Republican filibusters.

Democrats now have 51 seats, if one includes independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, who calls himself an independent Democrat.

For the Republicans the 2008 numbers look daunting: there are 22 Republican-held seats to be defended, and six of them appear in jeopardy — not including, at this point, that of Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho.

The news Monday that Craig pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct charges stemming from a restroom incident at the Minneapolis airport is significant in the context of what is shaping up as an abysmal year for GOP Senate hopes.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20477656/

[BlooInBloo]

1. If the validity of that analysis rests on the fuckwad Connecticut voters doing the right thing...

... Then it's bunk analysis.

[Webster Green]

3. Senators serve for six years, so Joe is there for awhile..

We need enough new seats to tell that mutherfucker to eat shit and die.

[BlueStater]

2. Fuck Lieberman

That petty little asshole doesn't count.

[Nutmegger]

4. That's the only way we'll get true reform.

Since the Repukes will filibuster every damn thing. Fuck you Repukes!

And Fuck you LIARman too! That bastard continues to shame me and my state. He deserves nothing but scorn.

[MannyGoldstein]

5. What Excuse Will The "Fightin' Congressional Dems" Have Then?

We'll need to keep our powder dry so that the next time we don't have a veto-proof majority the Republicans won't be mean?