It means a certain pick up for the Republicans in the Senate, and one step closer to a GOP majority in both houses. Which means that even if we re-elect Obama (very likely if Mittens wins the nomination), that we’ll be able to thwart most of the damage he has planned for America in his second term.
Via Investor’s Business Daily:
Seems a little early to be trotting out the “I want to spend more time with my family” line, but Nebraska Democrat Sen. Ben Nelson used it today in opting to retire after 2012 instead of being retired by Nebraskans after 2012.
The 70-year-old Nelson’s surrender to electoral inevitability will save Republican political groups millions in ads against Nelson, who sometimes voted with the GOP but infamously provided a key Democratic vote for the passage of Obamacare.
“Simply put,” Nelson admitted, “it’s time to move on.”
This makes it easier, if not quite inevitable, that Republicans will regain their Senate majority from 2006. Harry Reid’s Senate is now 53-47, counting two independents who caucus with him. So far, eight senators, six of them Dems, have decided to retire instead of facing this already seething American electorate.
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The GOP would have to nominate a large number of Elmer Fudds to blow this one. Holding their own and grabbing four seats gives Republicans a majority in that body, which means the country could have a federal budget for the first time in nearly three years.
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