Comments on: A thought regarding the 2010 elections (House edition).

By: bk

bk — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:02:22 +0000

By: Russ Martin

Russ Martin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:40:43 +0000

How about 12. No retirement. No health care. And they must return to live in their district with their former constituents. This would solve a HUGE percentage of problems in this country.

By: pharos

pharos — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:47:04 +0000

Great observation with this post, but next time, could you perhaps leave the person’s actual age out of the table?

It was unsettling to see the words “Barney Frank” and “69″ in such close conjunction to one another .

By: kyle8

kyle8 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:43:24 +0000

but if something like that happened now in days the conspiracy theories would be off the wall.

Of course I suppose that it is possible that it was a conspiracy.

By: scarlos

scarlos — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:33:53 +0000

where something like 8 Republicans died between the November elections and the start of the session, which flipped control to the Dems.

By: JoeG

JoeG — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:39:59 +0000

Then we will add a R seat even though it’s a D state.

They have very carefully crafted lines to lump as many Rs in one district to make the other 4 safe D. No way can they do it for 5 of 6, so I suspect they’ll keep the 4 safe Ds.

What would be nice is if we could win the House, Senate and Goobner so that we could split them 3/3

By: IJB

IJB — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:17:51 +0000

There was a Congress, I don’t remember which one, that actually saw a slew of deaths throughout the term, enough that the control of the House actually flipped from one party to the other.

Obviously, there’s aren’t enough oldster Democrats to overcome a 30-seat hole.

But looking at the ages of these guys, you’ve got to figure that some of them aren’t long for this world. (For example, Waxman was taken to the hospital just *today*.) When you look at that, and then the illnesses that have already altered the terms in the Senate, you have to wonder how much issues with age are actually going to handicap the Dem agenda over the next 18 months.

My guess is that it will not be an insignificant factor…

By: kyle8

kyle8 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:17:16 +0000

He has never shied away from the worse sort to name calling and race baiting. And he is fairly close to being a Bolshevik on policy matters.

By: Janice Cantore

Janice Cantore — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:03:41 +0000

is eactly what you have stated, that the congress flip back in 2010 but only because I would LOVE to see queen nancy have to give up her speakership. Not enough botox in the world to fix her pinched face after that

By: clement

clement — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:23:22 +0000

For instance, Louise Slaughter has downtown Buffalo and downtown Rochester and not much in between for her district. That is one of those battles that would be nearly impossible to flip.

By: Aaron Gardner

Aaron Gardner — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:02:16 +0000

By: paulincolo

paulincolo — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:56:22 +0000

to remember, the state legislators. These will be the people responsible for the partitioning of congressional districts after the census and 2010 election. It is imperative we have as many republican state legislatures that we can get. Otherwise, the dems will continue to have the gerrymandered advantage for congress.

Work, work, work, volunteer, volunteer, volunteer, support, support, support.

By: bobojake

bobojake — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:13:07 +0000

20 years combine House and Senate will stop the Mafia style elcrapo that is going on. This is true for all elected officials in Washington DC.
Kerry, Schummmmmmmmmmmmer, Kennedy, Hatch, Mccain, Reid, peloski, color them gone.