The recent Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll showing that Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA) is vulnerable means that Jim DeMint is all that much closer to getting his wish. I think the Democrats should make seventy seats in the Senate their explicit goal, and they should constantly remind everyone that they’re trying to give Sen. DeMint what he wants.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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dude, i have to share my correspondence with the daily news with you. it’s hysterical.
I really don’t see the advantage to 70 Dem seats if 60 isn’t enough to assure that traditional Democratic priorities are written into law. A new Dem senator from GA will just be another Landrieu or Pryor, and in the meantime a supermajority will just raise demands and expectations that will not be met. There will be no credible excuses for failure, so the anger against all Dems will only grow.
I’d much rather see Dem energy aimed at learning how to use its majority powers in Congress and the presidency as effectively as the GOP did — starting with obliterating the de facto 60-vote rule.