GOP Official: If We Only Lose Eight Senate Seats, We Win

[RedEarth]

a further sign that Republican hopes are fading badly, the head of the Senate GOP's campaign committee has set a new goal for the party this Fall: Not to lose too many Senate seats.

NRSC chair John Ensign has moved the goal posts, according to the Savannah Morning News, saying that the GOP will have succeeded if they don't lose more than eight seats.

Ensign pointed out that if the Dems win nine seats they'll get to the filibuster-proof magic number of 60 -- at which point, Ensign warned, "they will be able to do pretty much whatever they want."

So if the Dems can't get to a 60-seat super-majority, the GOP will have won. Talk about lowering the bar.

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/06/gop_official_if_we_only_lose_e.php

[TexasObserver]

1. the Obama Factor may give us those kind of wins

[nomorenomore08]

2. Don't pull the stake out yet. The vampire could simply be playing dead.

nt

[madokie]

3. what pisses me off in all this is the part that says,

filibuster-proof magic number of 60 -- at which point, Ensign warned, "they will be able to do pretty much whatever they want."

[Joanne98]

4. The expectations game.. "If we lose we win"..

[SpiralHawk]

8. That's republicon-think, phrased in newspeak

republicons are honest

recession is prosperity

diapers are sexy

[aquart]

27. On to the purge, dear?

Totalitarians dissing other totalitarians. Piffle.

[babylonsister]

11. Yep, lowering that bar as low as it will go. nt

[BOSSHOG]

5. Wow John Ensign

Dems with 60+ in the Senate. That would really suck wouldn't it ratfucker.

I look forward to the gop going away party for bush.

[EOTE]

7. Yeah, can you imagine Wednesday morning?

Hey guys! We only lost the Presidency, 8 senate seats and 30 house seats! Break out the champagne, we won!!!!!!

[NewJeffCT]

17. I can see Fox now: "Dems fall short of filibuster proof majority in both Houses"

Should Howard Dean be fired?

[Rex]

6. Oh you are going to lose a lot more than that, 2008 will make 2006 look

like a nothing gain. The GOP is GOING DOWN.

[Freddie Stubbs]

9. Is Lieberman counted in that 60 to break a filibuster?

:shrug:

[nykym]

10. And even with

the magic number of 60 what makes you think they won't just keep pulling the lame ass procedural moves they have been using?

[jmowreader]

13. If we get 60, we need to make Hillary Clinton Senate Majority Leader

I for one would truly enjoy a few years of a senate led by someone with a personal case of the ass against the GOP.

[merh]

You haven't been paying much attention.

She doesn't have a personal case against the GOP - she likes McCain and Liarman and she used those same GOP operatives and supporters to try to win the nomination. Right now, she isn't too pleased with the DNC and a bunch of the dems in power.

[jmowreader]

30. Think back a few years...

I don't really think you can get over having government agents rifle through your panties, which happened to Hillary.

If you stick her in charge in the Senate...oh shit...now that Cheney has set the precedent that "fuck" is an acceptable word for senators to use, I wait for the day when she can tell one of the repukes to sit the fuck down, shut the fuck up and remember he's in a dead fucking party.

[truebrit71]

20. Um...no...I'd like a liberal in charge...Russ Feingold leaps to mind..

...

[gatorboy]

12. It's still an important bar, though.

How much work never gets done because of Republican selfish immaturity? Time to put the Repubs on the endangered species list and take away some of that Joe Lieberman smugness.

[NewJeffCT]

14. as long as we get enough seats to boot Lieberman

out of the Democratic caucus - or, at least strip him of his seniority and of chairmanship of any committees. If that happens, I'll be happy and consider it a victory.

But, getting 9 seats exactly might preclude that because Lieberman would be one of the 60...

[izquierdista]

16. The best outcome would be 58

Make that 58 Dems, Bernie Sanders, 40 Repubs, and 1 Loserman. Then he will be less relevant than ever, since all the Dems need to do to stop a filibuster is woo away just one. Could be Hagel, or Snow, or Spectre, but as soon as one jumps ship, that leaves poor old Joe holding the anchor.

[DainBramaged]

22. Libertraitorfuck would NEVER give us the margin to break a filibuster the GOP

You actually believe he would vote to break a GOP fillmybuster buster?

[progressoid]

15. And when the smoke clears, they will blame Bush

But they all happily supported and enabled the administration and the neocons.

You lie down with dogs...

[DCKit]

24. No, no, no.

It's still, always, Bill Clinton's fault. It doesn't have to make sense, it just IS.

[progressoid]

26. Oh yeah, I forgot about the Clenis.

:blush:

[spanone]

18. pass that bong please

[yellerpup]

19. Criminy! Who's doing THEIR math?

Probably the same person who put Bush's budget together...

[DainBramaged]

21. No bar to lower, they know they are dog shit

Talk about the party of defeatists, man they sound worse than we ever did.

[NewJeffCT]

25. Imagine if the media didn't support them?

They probably wouldn't even be a viable party!

[featherman]

23. Charlie Cook's latest on the Senate races - May 22: Dems +7 (likely +lean)

likely dem (1)
VA (Warner)

lean dem toss up (6)
Stevens (AK)
CO(Allard)
Coleman (MN)
Wicker (MS-B)
Sununu (NH)
NM (Domenici)

lean rep (2)
Collins (ME)
Smith (OR)

likely rep (2)
NE (Hagel)
Dole (NC)

solid rep (12)
Sessions (AL)
Chambliss (GA)
ID (Craig)
Roberts (KS)
McConnell (KY)
Cochran(MS A)
Inhofe (OK)
Graham (SC)
Alexander (TN)
Cornyn (TX)
Enzi (WY-A)
Barrasso (WY-B)

[TlalocW]

28. Maybe, but if democrats win enough so we can kick Lieberman's curb to the ass

Then we - and all of America - win.

TlalocW

[CANDO]

29. He's right...

as they've shown time and again they will filibuster anything and everything. If Dems don't have 60 votes, R's essentially "win".

[ThomWV]

31. Al Franken could be the key to our control of the Senate