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tjwash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-27-07 06:59 PM
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23 Repubs leaving congress
Edited on Tue Nov-27-07 07:01 PM by tjwash
Rats...sinking ship...

Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott's resignation announcement on Monday was the latest in a wave of retirements to hit congressional Republicans, making an already difficult 2008 electoral landscape even more complicated for the minority party.

Party officials insist that the retirements -- 17 members of the House and six senators -- are simply the result of individual decisions and not indicative of a broader negative sentiment within the party. "I don't hear a drumbeat that 'We're not effective and I don't like it here anymore,' " said National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Cole (Okla.).

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intheflow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-27-07 07:01 PM
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1. No, not disillusioned with the party.
Edited on Tue Nov-27-07 07:02 PM by intheflow
More like hoping to cash in on lobbying jobs before the new rules go into effect. IOW, they don't give a damn about the party, as long as they get theirs. x(
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polichick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-27-07 07:03 PM
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2. Cha-ching!!!!!!!!!!! nt
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-27-07 07:53 PM
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3. Might be an upside to all the Repukes running away to be lobbyists ...
it might warm the hearts of the Dems (if they are overwhelmingly in charge) to have some of their former colleagues come groveling to them with buckets of cash, begging them for consideration of their special interests ...
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