This is still no biggie. Even if the GOP retains control of the Senate, the Dems have the House. That means Bush’s agenda gets watered down in any scenario. The only advantage of a GOP-controlled Senate is confirmations — of cabinet nominees, judicial nominees, Supreme Court nominees — and treaty ratifications (which are less partisan). I doubt an Alito-style conservative is going to fare much better in a 49-51 Congress than a 50-50 Congress, should the opportunity to nominate one arise.
http://www.dontmakehermad.com/ John Dias
This is still no biggie. Even if the GOP retains control of the Senate, the Dems have the House. That means Bush’s agenda gets watered down in any scenario. The only advantage of a GOP-controlled Senate is confirmations — of cabinet nominees, judicial nominees, Supreme Court nominees — and treaty ratifications (which are less partisan). I doubt an Alito-style conservative is going to fare much better in a 49-51 Congress than a 50-50 Congress, should the opportunity to nominate one arise.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
–Dwight David Eisenhower, “The Chance for Peace,” speech given to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Apr. 16, 1953.
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