3 Democrats Drop Plans to Seek Re-election

[Erod]

FOXNews.com - 3 Democrats Drop Plans to Seek Re-election

WASHINGTON - With the 2010 election year barely under way, two senators and one governor -- all Democrats -- ditched plans to run for re-election in the latest signs of trouble for President Barack Obama's party.

Taken together, the decisions by Senators Chris Dodd of Connecticut and Byron Dorgan of North Dakota as well as Colorado Governor Bill Ritter caused another bout of heartburn for Democrats as they struggle to defend themselves in a sour political environment for incumbents, particularly the party in charge.

As 2009 ended, Democrats watched a string of their House members announce retirements and one congressman defect to the GOP.

Democrats, who have a 60-40 Senate majority that includes two independents who vote with them, now will have to defend four open seats in the Senate. The others are Delaware and Illinois, where Senators Ted Kaufman, who replaced Vice President Joe Biden, and Roland Burris, who replaced Obama, aren't running for full terms.

Democrats are either defecting or running from the fight. I'm particularly sad I won't get to see Dodd's concession speech after getting trounced by 20+ points.

It's fascinating to watch this suicide mission of the Democrats hurrying to pass all this crap nobody wants before they go down with the ship. It's puzzling, especially if conservatives do the right thing and undo it as quickly as possible once they get in power and regain the presidency in 2012.

 

[texmaster]

Only 57 to go

 

[phattonez]

It's no wonder that Chris Dodd dropped out. He was already losing in polls against basically anybody.

 

[Warspite]

Least we aren't fragmenting because our party has been half in bed with the Christian Right since the 70s. :rofl

 

[Erod]

Least we aren't fragmenting because our party has been half in bed with the Christian Right since the 70s. :rofl

Genius. Trash Jesus, yeah, that's a platform. LOL

 

[phattonez]

Least we aren't fragmenting because our party has been half in bed with the Christian Right since the 70s. :rofl

Nope, your party is just losing popular support because, in case you didn't know, people would rather do things themselves than have a nanny state.

 

[Warspite]

Genius. Trash Jesus, yeah, that's a platform. LOL

Who's talking about Jesus? I'm talking about the fundie hypochristians that tarnish the names of intelligent Republicans.

 

[Warspite]

Nope, your party is just losing popular support because, in case you didn't know, people would rather do things themselves than have a nanny state.

Correction: the party is losing popular support because Middle Americans don't want to *pay* for a nanny state, being the typical greedy consumers that are the product of heartless American capitalism.

Pardon the diatribe.

 

[Erod]

Who's talking about Jesus? I'm talking about the fundie hypochristians that tarnish the names of intelligent Republicans.

Yet you see refined intelligence in Pelosi, Boxer, Reid, Frank, Dodd, Obama......?

 

[Erod]

Correction: the party is losing popular support because Middle Americans don't want to *pay* for a nanny state, being the typical greedy consumers that are the product of heartless American capitalism.

Pardon the diatribe.

American bad. Socialist good. Gimme cookie!!

 

[Warspite]

American bad. Socialist good. Gimme cookie!!

Pretty close but no dice - I am not a socialist.

 

[Erod]

Pretty close but no dice - I am not a socialist.

Communist? Fascist? I give.

 

[Warspite]

Communist? Fascist? I give.

Social Democrat, tyvm.

 

[Erod]

Social Democrat, tyvm.

Splitting hairs. That's a socialist.

No offense, but if form holds, you're someone who has not yet made their hay in this world, and thus, hasn't had their hay taken away and given to someone sitting on a couch not attempting to make their own hay.

You will one day, and your views will change. That tends to be the cycle. Age and experience beget wisdom and realism.

 

[disneydude]

Genius. Trash Jesus, yeah, that's a platform. LOL

The "Christian right" has very little in common with the teachings of Jesus.

 

[phattonez]

Correction: the party is losing popular support because Middle Americans don't want to *pay* for a nanny state, being the typical greedy consumers that are the product of heartless American capitalism.

Pardon the diatribe.

:rofl, it's greedy of me to not want to give my money to some agency that will do whatever it feels like doing with it? I might as well give my money to my next door neighbor. He'll probably do more good with it than the government. At least he won't use that money in wealth destruction like the government does (urban renewal).

 

[Warspite]

Splitting hairs. That's a socialist.

Not really - socialism is supporting government ownership of the means of production, social democracy is supporting a "free" market tempered with social values.

No offense, but if form holds, you're someone who has not yet made their hay in this world, and thus, hasn't had their hay taken away and given to someone sitting on a couch not attempting to make their own hay.

I'm someone who willingly puts their hay in the pile to pay my debt to society, actually.

You will one day, and your views will change. That tends to be the cycle. Age and experience beget wisdom and realism.

Do you even know how old I am? :lol:

So far the only thing older conservatives have demonstrated to me is that age begets idiocy and delusion.

 

[Warspite]

:rofl, it's greedy of me to not want to give my money to some agency that will do whatever it feels like doing with it? I might as well give my money to my next door neighbor. He'll probably do more good with it than the government. At least he won't use that money in wealth destruction like the government does (urban renewal).

It's greedy of you to demand well kept infrastructure and the like but bitch about taxes constantly. Seriously - no wonder NHS is so much better than anything the US offers. :rofl

 

[Erod]

It's greedy of you to demand well kept infrastructure and the like but bitch about taxes constantly. Seriously - no wonder NHS is so much better than anything the US offers. :rofl

We don't "bitch" about paying for infrastructure. That's not what the money is used for, and you know it. It's used for ACORN, and a million projects designed solely to make people dependent on the Democrats for everything. They use it to buy votes, and nothing more.

 

[Warspite]

We don't "bitch" about paying for infrastructure. That's not what the money is used for, and you know it. It's used for ACORN, and a million projects designed solely to make people dependent on the Democrats for everything. They use it to buy votes, and nothing more.

Oh come on, I barely go a day without hearing someone whinge about taxes in this country.

Perhaps if people weren't so politically apathetic we *could* have things like NHS, the Shinkansen, 35 hour work weeks, etc.

 

[phattonez]

It's greedy of you to demand well kept infrastructure and the like but bitch about taxes constantly. Seriously - no wonder NHS is so much better than anything the US offers. :rofl

I don't demand it. In fact, I think it's at least plausible that it could be done privately.

 

[Warspite]

I don't demand it. In fact, I think it's at least plausible that it could be done privately.

Tell me, how many roads can you build from point A to point B?

 

[phattonez]

Oh come on, I barely go a day without hearing someone whinge about taxes in this country.

Perhaps if people weren't so politically apathetic we *could* have things like NHS, the Shinkansen, 35 hour work weeks, etc.

Yeah, France is utopia isn't it? No such thing as social instability over there. :roll:

 

[phattonez]

Tell me, how many roads can you build from point A to point B?

An infinite amount. Tell me, how many ways are there from your work/school to your house?

 

[Warspite]

Yeah, France is utopia isn't it? No such thing as social instability over there. :roll:

NHS = Britain
Shinkansen = Japan

I would argue that much of their social instability is the source of their eutopianism - if the government doesn't do something they like or does something they don't, they get fired up about it. Unlike here.