Members of your party that you want to loose re-election to the senate in 2006?

[Virginian87]

I don't want anyone to lose, simply because minority status blows.  But if I had to choose, it'd be Hillary Clinton.

[Virginian87]

Who, in your own party, do you want to loose re-election to the senate in 2006?

For me, it's Hillary Clinton and Bob Byrd.

You rock! 

Since I don't have a party, I'll have to go based upon my ideology.  With that said, Byrd is definitely on my list.  "Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.) - KING OF PORK"

"They call me 'The Pork King,' they don't know how much I enjoy it." - Sen. Robert Byrd

Hahahahaha!!! The pork king.... I could say something about that, but I won't. That's one of the reasons I hate Byrd, he's a racist and stupid, PLUS he wastes so much money.

Byrd may have done some questionable things in the past, but he is not stupid.  On matters of Constitutional law and Senate history and procedure, he is one of the intellectual heavyweights of the chamber.  

I'm no racist, but let me ask you this:  
If the only way to be respected and to get ahead politically in Nazi Germany is to join the Hitler Youth, would you do it?  Then think about Byrd's situation with the KKK.  That might have been why he joined in the first place.

[Virginian87]

None of course. There are a few that I would like to be replaced by someone more liberal, like Feinstein.

Wow.  ---^

[Virginian87]

Feinstein voted for CAFTA. I'm not a big fan of Democrats who vote to outsource more American jobs overseas and south of the border.

WTF?? CAFTA wasn't a bill to send jobs overseas. It's a trade bill. The only way you'd loose your job for it is if you are too lazy to find a better job than one that *might* go over seas.

A lot of high-tech jobs are going overseas. Not too long ago the comparnies were trying to claim that there'd be a shortage of 50 million (or something like that) programmers by 2005. Now there are 3 million fewer high tech jobs in America then in 2000. High tech jobs were supposed to the wave of the future. Where I went undergrad, the number of people wanting to major in CS halved between the Fall 2001 and Spring 2002 semesters.

Sending high-tech jobs overseas will not be a consequence of CAFTA.  If high-tech jobs are to be outsourced, they will go to Eastern Europe, India, or China, not to some third-world Central American country.

[Virginian87]

Feinstein voted for CAFTA. I'm not a big fan of Democrats who vote to outsource more American jobs overseas and south of the border.

WTF?? CAFTA wasn't a bill to send jobs overseas. It's a trade bill. The only way you'd loose your job for it is if you are too lazy to find a better job than one that *might* go over seas.

A lot of high-tech jobs are going overseas. Not too long ago the comparnies were trying to claim that there'd be a shortage of 50 million (or something like that) programmers by 2005. Now there are 3 million fewer high tech jobs in America then in 2000. High tech jobs were supposed to the wave of the future. Where I went undergrad, the number of people wanting to major in CS halved between the Fall 2001 and Spring 2002 semesters.

Sending high-tech jobs overseas will not be a consequence of CAFTA.  If high-tech jobs are to be outsourced, they will go to Eastern Europe, India, or China, not to some third-world Central American country.

I didn't claim that CAFTA specifically would cause this.

You put it in response to a CAFTA post, so it looked like you did.

[Virginian87]

No, the way you'd lose your job is by working minimum wage for a big corporation that wants to pay even lower wages by outsourcing to poor countries.  Doesn't depend on how lazy you are.

The farmers will be the ones hit hardest by CAFTA.

It will also have a negative effect on workers in Central America.

It's predicted that the sugar industry in Texas and Louisiana will be hit hardest.

[Virginian87]

Joe Lieberman is not a bad guy.

Now that Zell Miller is gone, I honestly can't think of any Dems I'd like to see replaced, besides Lieberman. 

Zell was once one of my favorite Democrats.  Then he had to speak at the RNC...

[Virginian87]

Yeah, and what a speech he gave.  He should become a motivational speaker.  hahaha . . . Hey, can I have a fantasy dream ticket for 2008 and put Perot/Miller together?  Just think of it . . . at least 4 years of catchy Southern sayings.  hehehe

Dana Carvey would like that...

You bet he would.  Caught one of his classic comedy pieces on HBO a few weekends ago.  I miss that guy.  I wonder what ever happened to him.

He made really crappy movies like the Master of Disguise.

[Virginian87]

Byrd was in the KKK for a brief period 60 years ago. I don't hold it against him anymore since his views have changed.

How much did his views change when he voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964?  BTW, on Republican (of many) who supported it was Gerald Ford.

What does Gerald Ford voting for a bill have to do with current members of Congress?

[Virginian87]

Only three or so Senators: Chafee and the two idjits in Ohio. Ideally, I would replace 70 or so Senators (40 or so Democrat, 30 or so Republican), but this isn't an ideal world...

I got to hand it to Lincoln Chafee for sticking with his party.  Once the Republican Party was full of people like him and they would win in Northeastern states like New York and Connecticut regularly.  The moderate New England Yankee Republican is all but extinct today.