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Tuesday, November 7, 2006

Give Lautenburg's Seniority Back

Now that Holy Joe Leiberman is (sadly) going back to the Senate, its time to start a campaign to give Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) his seniority back....

When Lautenburg went back to the senate after retiring, he lost all of his seniority. If he had maintained his seniority status, he would be ahead of Holy Joe and take over Holy Joe's committee seniority. If Joementum is going back to the senate after pissing all over his party, then I think it only fair to give Lautenberg his seniority.

Yes, Holy Joe can be part of the Democratic caucus, but a message has to be sent. Joementum can keep his seniority, but Frank Lautenburg should get his back too.

And the upside is that it will really piss Joementum off.

Sunday, November 5, 2006

Election Countdown

I know that I have not used this blog in sometime. In fact, I have not blogged at all in over a year. I shut down the original Late Night Pundit blog which was hosted on its own server due to my lack of time to keep up with it.

Anyway, I hope to get back into blogging over the next several weeks but until then, here's my predictions for the 2006 mid-term elections. Take this with a grain of salt...

House: Dems pick up 37 seats to take control of the House of Representatives. This is probably a pretty mainstream pick. Most pundits seem to think somewhere between a 25 to 40 seat pick-up for the Democrats.

Senate: Democrats 51, Republicans 49. This prediction bucks the other pundits. Most seem to think that the Senate remains in Republican control - by either 1 seat or a tie with the VP vote keeping the Senate in Republican hands.

Anyway we'll see how well I did on Tuesday. Don't forget to vote!

---EDIT: Updated April 26, 2007
----> I should have posted this update after the election: I was pretty darn close. Underestimated the Dem pickup in the house, but correctly got the senate right (and very few people saw that one beforehand). Anyway...updating the blog and thought I'd gloat a bit. lol.