Senate terms up in January 2009

[Muttocracy]

Let's make some lists and brainstorm about fixing up the Senate.

(I guess there's also the question of the empty senate seat to be filled after the election but that will be a later issue)

from http://senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/two_column_table/Class_II.htm
Their terms run from the beginning of the 108th Congress on January 3, 2003 to the end of the 110th Congress in January 2009.

Baucus, Max (D-MT)
Biden, Joseph R., Jr. (D-DE)
Durbin, Richard (D-IL)
Harkin, Tom (D-IA)
Johnson, Tim (D-SD)
Kerry, John F. (D-MA)
Landrieu, Mary L. (D-LA)
Lautenberg, Frank R. (D-NJ)
Levin, Carl (D-MI)
Pryor, Mark L. (D-AR)
Reed, Jack (D-RI)
Rockefeller, John D., IV (D-WV)

Alexander, Lamar (R-TN)
Allard, Wayne (R-CO)
Chambliss, Saxby (R-GA)
Cochran, Thad (R-MS)
Coleman, Norm (R-MN)
Collins, Susan M. (R-ME)
Cornyn, John (R-TX)
Craig, Larry E. (R-ID)
Dole, Elizabeth (R-NC)
Domenici, Pete V. (R-NM)
Enzi, Michael B. (R-WY)
Graham, Lindsey (R-SC)
Hagel, Chuck (R-NE)
Inhofe, James M. (R-OK)
McConnell, Mitch (R-KY)
Roberts, Pat (R-KS)
Sessions, Jeff (R-AL)
Smith, Gordon H. (R-OR)
Stevens, Ted (R-AK)
Sununu, John E. (R-NH)
Warner, John (R-VA)

[rpannier]

1. There are about 26 names on that list that need to go bye-bye

[bdamomma]

3. wow that is some list, time to Senate clean

I noticed my Senator Reed is up for re election, he's a good guy.

McConnell has to definitely go, Lindsay Graham too.

[Terry_M]

2. Landrieu, Pryor, Rockefeller

Voted in favor of further weakening our already weak system of checks and balances, and voted in favor of covering Bush's ass and against civil liberties and in favor of corporations committing crime. We should really get rid of them.

Anyone with accounting experience want to start a PAC to get rid of them? :P

[jtrockville]

4. I wish we could boot Mikulski (D-MD) out this time.

[mac2]

13. She turned on us

[Hippo_Tron]

7. You won't find better Democrats that can win in those states

Vulnerable Democrats in red states are going to vote with the GOP a lot when it comes close to re-election time. When it's not re-election time, they aren't great either but still significantly better than a Republican who will vote party line 90% or more of the time.

That's why we need to increase our majorities so that we don't need their votes to win on every issue.

West Virginia, Arkansas, and Louisiana aren't like Connecticut where we could do a hell of a lot better than Joe Lieberman.

[Individualist]

5. Vote for progressives

Anyone who continues voting for enablers is part of the problem, not the solution.

[slipslidingaway]

6. K&R. Five senators voted on final passage of the FISA bill

yesterday that included immunity for the telcos and, by extension, the Bush administration.

:shrug:

Baucus, Max (D-MT)
Johnson, Tim (D-SD)
Landrieu, Mary L. (D-LA)
Pryor, Mark L. (D-AR)
Rockefeller, John D., IV (D-WV)

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=2&vote=00020

[mac2]

8. They need to be replaced by a Progressive

[Muttocracy]

9. I guess another question is are any Dems particularly vulnerable?

I remember some group, maybe it was moveon.org?, publishing a dirty dozen type list of senators who needed to go, and another list of dems in trouble we needed to support.

It is interesting that so many GOP and less-than-ideal-Dems are up this time.

[mac2]

14. Yes...the ones who support amnesty and open borders

Neither party citizens want it.

[MADem]

10. It's massively R--and Trent Lott is gone, too, off to lobbying. NT

[mac2]

16. When they do crime and fraud they leave with their plunder

I call it "change of face law". That's Congressional oversight today. The kitchen in DC got too hot for them.

They can't leave the power and soon appear as lobbists or members of the "secret government" (Bilderberg Group, etc.). Since it is illegal to meet with foreign governments, or leaders possing as such, as a private citizen, they should be arrested for treason.

[orleans]

11. and here are the ASSHOLES THAT HAVE TO GO:

tim johnson (D-SD) A BIG FUCK YOU FOR YOUR VOTE ON THE FISA BILL TO GIVE TELECOMS IMMUNITY


mary landrieu (D-LA)A BIG FUCK YOU FOR YOUR VOTE ON THE FISA BILL TO GIVE TELECOMS IMMUNITY


mark pryor (D-AR)A BIG FUCK YOU FOR YOUR VOTE ON THE FISA BILL TO GIVE TELECOMS IMMUNITY


john rockefeller (D-WV)A BIG FUCK YOU FOR YOUR VOTE ON THE FISA BILL TO GIVE TELECOMS IMMUNITY

and the rest of the republicans on that list

[mac2]

12. Who was it that was so sick and returned to Congress?

Was it Tim Johnson? We could have done without him all along. His illness a fake to give power to Republicans?

Rockefeller also has to go because of the stripping of the mountains in WVA. He sits by.

Mary Landrieu is a Republican not a Democrat. She always or mostly votes with them like Lieberman.

[orleans]

15. yes, it was tim johnson

his illness wasn't fake though
"In Washington, D.C., on December 13, 2006, during the broadcast of a live radio interview with WNAX radio in Yankton, South Dakota, Johnson suffered bleeding in the brain caused by cerebral arteriovenous malformation, a congenital problem that causes enlarged and tangled blood vessels. He underwent successful surgery at George Washington University Hospital to drain the blood and stop further bleeding.<6> As of January 19, 2007, Johnson was undergoing physical occupational and speech therapy every day for three hours. This included strengthening exercises to gain mobility and work with parallel bars. His recovery was expected to take "several months."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Johnson_%28politician%29

[VP505]

17. Rockefeller ought to get

a double FUCK YOU, one for his vote and one for using his Intelligence Committee Chair to push extra hard for Bu$h's immunity!