Standing Fast

The following Senators up for re-election in 2008 just voted themselves out of office yesterday by voting to strip the Senate Iraq supplemental of withdrawal deadlines. Which amazingly failed btw.

Norm Coleman (MN)-Deadman walking. The Dems could field a Chimp and knock Coleman out. Or a former late-night comedy writer.

Susan Collins (ME)-Used to be popular, but her "I'm a Progressive Rockefeller Republican" routine just ran out of gas.


John Sununu (NH)-The Democrats in 2006 took over the New Hampshire legislature for the first time in the Granite State since the regular use of the horse and buggy. Not looking good for John.

John Warner (VA)-This could be tough but if former Governor Mark Warner (D) takes John Warner on in 2008 as has been hinted, Jim Webb could be become the new senior Senator from the Old Dominion.

Pete Domenici (NM)-First the Gonzalez scandal, now this. The Southwest keeps looking better and better for progressives.


The Next Junior Senator from Minnesota

Disgraced former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay has been making the rounds lately promoting his new book and was on Meet the Press this Sunday representing the "pro-war" side in a debate with former Rep. Tom Andrews (D-ME), the director of the anti-war coalition "Win Without War". You know your side has trouble when the best representative you can get is a disgraced former Congressman that no G.O.P candidate would be photographed in the same football stadium with. DeLay studied the G.O.P index cards hard for this showdown; "Fight them over there so we don't fight them here", "911 and Iraq", "We can't surrender", "Cut and run", "Frontline on the war on terror". He was particularly outraged by the Democrat's demand for an exit strategy and deadline for withdrawal, questioning their patriotism. Interestingly enough DeLay used to have some good sense in how to deal with a situation when American troops are in harms way.

"The President now needs to show leadership, consistently and with great
clarity, from devising an exit strategy to developing favorable rules of
engagement, from defining the criteria of success to detailing the timetables of
operations. We have learned the hard way in this country that muddled military
missions lacking clear leadership hurt our national credibility while putting
our troops in harm's way."

Of course that was when we had a Democrat as a commander-in-chief and Serbia luckily avoided being labeled the front line of an endless battle with no clear ending by D.C based think tanks.