ROFL! GOP Senator Cornyn: Coleman Loss Could Improve Our Chances In 2010

[babylonsister]

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/senate-republicans/gop-senator-cornyn-coleman-loss-could-improve-our-chances-in-2010/

GOP Senator Cornyn: Coleman Loss Could Improve Our Chances In 2010

Now that Norm Coleman has conceded, Senator John Cornyn, head of the GOP’s efforts to win Senate seats, is out with a new statement locating the silver lining in the defeat:

“The implications of this Senate race are particularly significant because the Democrats will now have 60 votes in the Senate. With their supermajority, the era of excuses and finger-pointing is now over. With just 59 votes, Senate Democrats in recent months have passed trillion-dollar spending bills, driven up America’s debt, made every American taxpayer a shareholder in the auto industry and now want Washington to takeover America’s health care system. It’s troubling to think about what they might now accomplish with 60 votes.

“That’s why the American people will now have a particularly clear choice in next year’s election –- to continue down this path of fiscal mismanagement, more big government, and one-party control in Washington or to restore a system of checks and balances that will hold government accountable to its citizens.”

The argument appears to be that Coleman’s loss could have the surprising effect of improving GOP chances in 2010, because Dems will no longer need Republicans to pass major initiatives and will thus wholly own them if and when they come to be seen as failures.

[wryter2000]

1. OMG

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x459980

Someone in this thread was just saying you can't tell the reality from the comedy any longer. It's true.

:rofl:

[mwb970]

2. Strain at gnats much, John? /nt

[texastoast]

3. I have to agree

If we did in fact have a "supermajority" (see previous threads re Liebermann, et al), then "the era of excuses and finger-pointing is now over."

Time to bring it, Dems, or 2010 will not be pretty.

[DFW]

8. I posted this elsewhere: we have 60 Senators, NOT 60 votes in the Senate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5960762

There is, alas, a difference.

[AndyA]

4. Eat shit and suffer, Cornyn.

It shouldn't be hard for you to find some, you're full of it.

[blogslut]

5. Hey, John!

When they stuck you on that horse for your commercial, did they have to use a crane?

You so big and bad.

[DFW]

6. Ah, yes, our illustrious Senator Cornhole

The same guy who said he'd fight to the bitter end to see Al Franken never took his seat in the US Senate.

Now, suddenly, it's a blessing for his side. I think a real blessing for his side would be when the Republican
party shed its extremist loonies, and found a few guys like Jake Javits, Everett Dirksen or Nelson Rockefeller,
but no, they prefer fruitcakes like Imhofe, Kyl, and Cornhole himself. Keep that trend up and they might find
themselves blessed with 38 Senators after the 2010 election.

[demosincebirth]

7. Thats straight from the republican playbook! Pitiful, isn't it?

[gratuitous]

10. Oh yeah, EVERYTHING'S good news for Republicans

I could kick John Cornyn square in the nutsack and he'd say it was good news for Republicans. Allow me to demonstrate . . .

[spanone]

9. well, that's lemonade out of lemons, ain't it.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

11. Of course that's going to be the GOP strategy.

They tried a watered down version of the same in 2008. The Dems have been in control of the House and the Senate for the past two years! It's all their fault that the economy/wars/health care/etc. are in the state they currently are!

Now they've more fuel for their blame games even though we don't really have 60 votes in the Senate.