From Politics1:Are more GOP US Senators planning surprise retirement announcements in the coming weeks? Apparently so. Check out this comment from Idaho Governor Butch Otter (R) to Newsweek: "We’ve now got five Republicans [retiring or resigning], and I guess there’s a few more that may make a statement, from what [US Senate Minority Leader] Mitch McConnell’s told me." Maybe McConnell thinks Ted Stevens (R-AK) is a possible retirement ... but the comment referred to "a few" more, not just one more.I can't seem to find the Newsweek article this quote was taken from but it is an interesting quote nonetheless. I can't really think of who else besides Stevens would be considering retiring though. I seem to remember hearing rumors and rumblings about Lamar Alexander (TN) and Thad Cochran (MS) a while back but I thought those rumors had been put to rest. Have they reconsidered? Is there someone else obvious that I'm missing?
