Democrats currently hold 53 seats in the United States Senate.
67 sitting Senators are not up for reelection. If none leave, say to serve in the next President’s cabinet or something, they will bring 30 Democrat seats and 37 Republican seats to the 113th Congress.
33 seats are up for reelection. An analysis of these races by Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, resulted in 16 that will probably go Democrat and 9 that will probably go Republican, resulting in absolute balance between parties at 46 to 46.
According to Sabato’s analysis, eight races can’t be called. These are:
1. Florida – Rep. Connie Mack IV (R) and incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson (D) are neck and neck, with a large number of undecideds.
2. Massachusetts – MA is a deep Blue State, but Republican Sen. Scott Brown (R) has been making all the right moves lately. Politics isn’t all about the issues, and to the extent Brown can make this race more about Bay State blue-collar culture, and less about specific issue stances, the better his chances become.
3. Missouri – Incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill (D) is trailing all of her potential GOP challengers at Rasmussen, but the primary won’t be until Aug. 7, so it will be awhile before we know who is actually running against her.
4. Montana – The incumbent, Sen. Jon Tester (D), is running about even with the likely GOP challenger, Rep. Denny Rehberg (R).
5. Nevada – Rep. Shelley Berkley (D) is running to unseat appointed incumbent Sen. Dean Heller (R). No clear advantage to either at this point.
6. New Mexico – Democrat Jeff Bingaman is retiring. The parties have yet to choose their candidates.
7. Virginia – Democrat Jim Webb is retiring. The likely ballot this fall will be George Allen (R) vs. Tim Kaine (D). Many say this will be the most competitive Senate race in the country.
8. Wisconsin – Democrat Herb Kohl is retiring. The Senate primary won’t be until Aug. 14.
If Sabato’s analysis is correct, the race for partisan control of the Senate will be agonizingly tight.
Democrats created the HHS mandate requiring ALL health insurance plans to provide birth control, sterilization and the morning-after abortion pill, thus forcing Americans who oppose these activities to choose between paying for them, which would violate their consciences, or else stop offering health insurance to their employees.
Democrats and their lapdogs in the media lied about what the HHS mandate and the Blunt Amendment were about. Rather than admit the HHS mandate was a gross abrogation of our First Amendment rights, they claimed Catholics and Republicans were trying to deprive women of access to birth control, sterilization and the morning-after abortion pill.
Thank you all for your kind words and prayers.I could not ask for a more loving,caring group of people to call my friends.Chrissy,I was surprised to hear we’ve had the same experience.I’ll definitely use the Nature’s Sunshine HS-2,if you can tell me where to find it.
While I was doing transport,I worked one Saturday even though I was really sick.When I got back to the office I called DW and told her when I got home she was taking me to the emergency room.I had a fever of 102 and an x-ray showed I had pneumonia in my left lung.The doctor said my blood oxygen level was 72 and by law I couldn’t leave until it was at least 90.I spent over an hour breathing albuterol through a nebulizer.He said I probably have sleep apnea,but my body has adjusted to the low oxygen level.
When you start thinking death can come quickly it puts things in perspective.I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in a slower,more innocent time in America.Life was far more family-oriented and less cynical.Dad went to work,Mom took care of the house and she was always there when you got home from school.When mom said: ‘wait till your dad gets home’ it really meant something.
When somebody fom the neighborhood or from church suffered a hardship we didn’t whine about the government helping out.We offered anything we had to help because they would surely do the same.
Between my junior and senior year in high school one of my classmates got pregnant and her parents had to take her out of school.Now they have daycare for student mothers because it’s so commonplace.
We went from pickup baseball games at the park and reading 10 cent comic books to who had the fastest car or the loudest 8 track tape player.We cruised the local root beer stands and parked in the back row with our girl friends at the drive-in movie theater.I won’t go into details–I’m a gentleman.
I remember how things were and see how they are now and I can’t help but feel sad for those who will never know what it was like to have pride in who you were,where you lived,what you did and found satisfaction in never asking anybody for anything.
I COULDN’T CUT THE DEFICIT IN HALF BECAUSE RECESSION WAS DEEPER THAN I THOUGHT
OBAMA FOLLOWS HIS OWN ADVICE TO ‘GO BIG’ ON VALENTINES DAY–TAKES MOOCH FOR EXPENSIVE MEAL AT A TOP DC RESTAURANT
A thought just occured to me.Can you see these two rolling in the hay?
‘Move your ass,Barack,I can’t see the TV screen.’
Actually,when they roll in the hay Barry feeds it to her.
PRE-SCHOOLER FORCED TO EAT CHICKEN NUGGETS BECAUSE LUNCH MOM PACKED DID NOT MEET GOVERNMENT STANDARDS
This may be the most disturbing story of the day.Now we’ll have federal lunch inspectors to make sure your kids are eating government approved meals.How did we ever get to this?
OBAMA THE GREAT
“The world will little note,nor long remember
Barack Obama, because contrary to his own opinion, he is the nation’s worst president. He is an arrogant, hyper-partisan, race-baiting, committed socialist — a man whose deliberate attempts to transform the nation into a banana republic, with pictures of himself on the side of every building, have been thwarted only by his need to win one more election.
Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution:
“The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States.”
The power to tax and spend is essential to the administering of government.
Taxing and spending require that Congress pass a budget.
The federal government’s fiscal year begins on October 1st.
The House and Senate Budget Committees are supposed to begin consideration of the up-coming year’s budget in February and submit a budget resolution by April 1.
If Congress fails to pass a budget the President is willing to sign before October 1st, the federal government is not supposed to continue functioning.
The DEMOCRAT-MAJORITY Senate has refused for nearly THREE YEARS to pass a budget, forcing Congress and the President to squabble repeatedly over short-term temporary budget resolutions to keep the government functioning.
While refusing to do their most important job, Democrat Senate leaders have continued to collect their six figure annual salaries and accrue seniority toward their very handsome retirement plans.
These same Senate Democrats absurdly blame their failure to pass a budget on Republicans.
Grab your favorite drink and get comfortable–my cup runneth over.Over my shirt,my pants,the keyboard and the desk.Damn,that coffee’s hot.
Tonight the Pharaoh speaks to his subjects.They all marvel at his oratorical skills.Personally,his voice is like dragging a sled down a dry sidewalk. Unfortunately I will miss the show due to previous committments.I plan to arrange the spices in the cupboard in alphabetical order.
My guess is the speech will go something like this:
‘inherited a mess…worst economy since the Depression…’
‘call on republicans to work with me…blah,blah,…bipartisanship…blah,blah’
‘tax breaks for millionaires…pay their fair share…blah,blah’
‘opportunity for the middle class…blah,blah’
‘renewable energy…blah,blah’
‘job not finished…need more time…blah,blah’
I heard a snippet on the radio this morning that he may have a surprise announcement on energy.Could it be he realizes that he stepped on his own penis when he nixed the Keystone XL deal?His opinion hasn’t changed and certainly won’t.But if Newt is the nominee,he will disembowel him over it,especially if gas prices spike as predicted.
The GOP elitists are pulling that tired ‘date night’ crap to show how they get along.Why don’t they just rent a Howard Johnson’s and get it over with?Because they’re not screwing each other–it’s us.
DEMOCRATS’ THREE YEARS WITHOUT A BUDGET IS ALL ABOUT DECEPTION
Today marks 1,000 days since these yellow rat bastards have offered a budget.You can guess why.
A GOOD (AND LUCKY) NIGHT FOR ROMNEY
I didn’t see the debate–I go to bed too early.From what I’ve read he had Newt on his heels.
He better do something–he’s outspent Newt $7 million to $.0007 million.
OBAMA:ROE V. WADE GIVES DAUGHTERS SAME CHANCE AS SONS FOR ‘FULFILLMENT’
Rant warning!
When this festering piece of shit was a state senator,the Illinois version of the federal Born Alive Infant Protection Act came up in 2001,2002 and 2003.This boil on the buttocks of humanity killed it in committee all three times.There was a nurse who worked,ironically,at Mercy Hospital who testified before congress.I don’t recall her name.I do recall her tears and the way her voice cracked when she spoke of holding a newborn who had survived an attempted abortion and holding him until he quit breathing.Most of these innocent souls were put in a soiled linen closet until they died from neglect.The reasoning this spawn from Hell gave?The mother wanted to get rid of it anyway.Hey,Bamster,don’t want your daughters punished with a baby?Tell them to keep their f…king legs closed!I remember when my first daughter was born.So tiny,so frail,dependent on us for everything.How anyone can put such a precious gift from God in a closet to die is beyond my comprehension.Maybe one of you ladies who’s had children can tell me how you can do that.This,possibly more than anything, is at the root of my complete revulsion for this despicable bastard.
BOEHNER TELLS MEMBERS TO DRESS APPROPRIATELY–YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE
I’d show up in shorts,a Hawaiian shirt and sunglasses carrying a sign: “I’m going to Disney World,too.”
I’m such an asshole.
“The American conservative base has had to put up with being called stupid, racist, greedy and unfair for decades by not only the Democrats but the vast majority of the media. The pent up frustration of these decades is magnified by the fact that George H. W. Bush, Bob Dole, George W. Bush and John McCain would not or perhaps could not confront this.”
A NOTE ABOUT NEWT’S $300,000 FINE FOR ETHICS VIOLATION
In case you forgot–this was the last of 84 ethics violations filed by human pusbag David Bonior.All had been dismissed as frivolous.This is the same tactic the left used on Sarah Palin after she went back to Alaska.The last complaint was about a PAC Newt was connected to funding a college course he was teaching.They made a huge deal out of the fact he had to borrow the money from Bob Dole.A year,one full year later, the ethics committee found no wrongdoing in what he did but by that time the damage was done.Remember when you see these ads on TV that Romney is no better than a democrat.
ILLINOIS SENATOR MARK KIRK(RINO-IL)SUFFERS STROKE
Fearless prediction:democrats will soon be calling for Kirk to step down so our current governor and candidate for an orange jumpsuit can put Obama’s former seat in the hands of the true owners,the democrats.Keep in mind that Tim Johnson,dem. senator from North Dakota, suffered a brain aneurism which left him an invalid.The democrats refused to have him replaced for the rest of his term,almost two years and wheeled him onto the Senate floor when they needed his vote,much like the late and unlamented Robert ‘Sheets’ Byrd.
IMMIGRATION RELEASES ILLEGAL HAITIAN MAN BECAUSE OF OBAMA’S STUPID DEPORTATION RULES.HE THEN SLAUGHTERED THREE INNOCENT PEOPLE.
Hey,GOP–ever hear of Willie Horton?It works if you have the balls to do it.
This sounds just like when McCain surrendered two weeks before the election and told us we had ‘nothing to fear’ from Obama.This is the kind of bullshit we’ve been fed for far too long.
Keep in mind Dumbo gave Petrobras $2 billion for drilling and said we would be their biggest customer.A majority stockholder in Petrobras is George Soros,but that’s purely a coincidence.
REID:MILLIONAIRE JOB CREATORS ARE LIKE UNICORNS-THEY DON’T EXIST
What would a malodorous,wart infested reptile like you know about creating jobs,you smelly,four-eyed turd?
A SURE WAY TO KNOW WHEN A DEMOCRAT IS UP FOR RE-ELECTION–THEY TALK LIKE A CONSERVATIVE
If our nominee has any guts he’ll call out the Senate democrats for the yellow rat bastards they are.(You see why I could never run for office?)
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