Ohio repub. house members = rats jumping ship.

[Botany]

<Nor do they mention the bleak prospect that running for re-election could mean spending millions of dollars and toughing out a difficult campaign, only to lose anyway.>

Go Debbie ... Go. 1/6/05 House Floor Rep. Pryce told me I was not a good American and
I did not care about thetroops because I questioned the 2004 vote in Ohio ... Pryce has been
one of the repug's biggest hatchet users for years .... I remember her role in the great b.j.
hunt on Clinton too.


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/washington/30cong.html?ex=1351396800&en=71845425d9b22b9d&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 — Deborah Pryce said she was fed up with ugly politics and being separated from her 5-year-old daughter. David L. Hobson is reaching the end of his time at the top of a powerful subcommittee. Ralph Regula will turn 83 in December, and he said he wanted to pass on his political wisdom to students and drive the flashy Thunderbird he had just bought.

None of these senior Republicans from Ohio, all of whom have announced plans not to seek another term in the House next year, cite their reduced status in the minority as a major factor in deciding to join the exodus of their party members from Congress. Nor do they mention the bleak prospect that running for re-election could mean spending millions of dollars and toughing out a difficult campaign, only to lose anyway

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1. Jeez, can they take a few colleagues with them?

Boy, that permanent Republican majority didn't last too long, did it? And now the spoiled little boys and girls so accustomed to having their own way and raking in all the perks are having to do some work for a change. Unsurprisingly, they don't like it very much.

The sooner these suppurating pustules of political pussilanimousness shamble off the national stage, the better for our country. Don't even wait for the 2008 elections, you fuckers; just go now.

[WCGreen]

2. Regula would have won re-election if he wanted to run...

He's been real good for Northeastern Ohio...

As for Hobson, I think he made the right choice...

And Pryce, I think she decided when she barely won re-election last time...

When she decided not to run, Jim Petro was the one who was set to run...

But Petro, I have read and also heard, is sitting this one out to run for the Ohio Supreme Court in 2010...