Who Gets the Senate Majority?
Republicans are pouring money into a campaign to gain a majority in the Senate, money that, according to the Times, Democrats can’t match.
Already, they have committed at least $17 million to television commercials in more than a dozen states from Florida to Hawaii, in most cases dwarfing what their Democratic opponents have spent. Their plans call for an effort that will exceed $100 million by Election Day, strategists for these groups said, far surpassing their efforts in 2010, a high-water mark for outside money in politics. …NYT
One of the organizations funding this effort is the US Chamber of Commerce… again… but never to the extent they’re opening their wallets this time, determined to bring down Democratic senators with damaging commercials. Karl Rove’s and Dick Armey’s groups are more than doubling their donations.
Cross posted from Prairie Weather
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Old white reactionary billionaires will be going all out to defeat democracy this year and they might pull it off too. As usual the electorate will be mostly clueless about who is really behind the curtain and what it really means.
Until the rules are changed, Democrats are hamstrung in the Senate, even with a majority.
The Dems would be better off to concentrate their money on efforts to replace Tea Party candidates in every office they’ve won in the state contests.
As far as the federal election, in my district, Fred Upton is being challenged by both a Tea Party candidate and a Democrat. Helping the Dem win, would defeat both the old guard and the Tea Party effort.
Or…you know…we could let it be. 2013 is likely to be a fiscal fiasco. The ruling ‘powers’ may very well rue the day that they chose to run. If the Republicans gain the House, Senate and President, they may find that they do not have a political party by 2016.
” If the Republicans gain the House, Senate and President, they may find that they do not have a political party by 2016.”
That could be the silver lining in a big loss for dems, BUT can you imagine how much they could screw up the country if they were allowed to pick up where they left off in their last outing? The old dynamic would continue: R’s make a huge mess of things. D’s try to pick up the pieces. R’s blame the D’s for not doing it fast enough and convince the electorate to give R’s another shot. 1 step forward, 2 steps back, ad nauseum…
@zephyr: it all depends on how badly they destroy it. FDR ran against Hoover’s policies in 1932 AND 1936. Obama ran against Bush’s policies in 2008 and then kept them all in place. There is kind of a big difference between the two.
Some FDR quotes:
Don’t forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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