That's my guess too that the Senate will block the 2-step plan. These are the Senators up for reelection in 2012.
Here are the Democrats up in 2012:
Daniel Akaka, Hawaii
Jeff Bingaman, New Mexico. How’s that border, Senator?
Sherrod Brown, Ohio. Ohio’s looking pretty red these days
Joe Manchin, West Virginia. Aw, I just got here.
Maria Cantwell, Washington
Benjamin Cardin, Maryland
Thomas Carper, Delaware. Win one for Christine
Robert Casey, Jr., Pennsylvania
Kent Conrad, North Dakota
Diane Feinstein, California
Kirsten Gillibrand, New York. We’re baaack. If we can just keep Al D’Amato from stabbing us in the back we might put up a decent candidate to beat an easy target
Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota. How does Senator Michelle Bachmann sound?
Herb Kohl, Wisconsin. As goes Feingold, so goes Kohl?
Claire McCaskill, Missouri
Robert Menendez, New Jersey. Chris Christie country may be ready for a change
Ben Nelson, Nebraska. Best known for the Cornhusker kickback to buy his vote on ObamaCare
Bill Nelson, Florida. Does Marco Rubio have a brother or a sister?
Debbie Stabenow, Michigan. Can we trade her for General Motors?
Jon Tester, Montana
Jim Webb, Virginia. He may be the last trace of blue in the state
Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island
We may not be in the majority, but all we need to do on most legislation is to bring over two, three or four of these folks to pass bills. They may want to have a whiff of bipartisanship on their resume when they face the voters.
Here are the two independents:
Joseph Lieberman, Connecticut. We love you Joe, but except for Isreal and National Security, you are still rather blue
Bernard Sanders, Socialist. Seriously, a Socialist. Can we stop saying that the left doesn’t believe in socialism?
Here are the Republican seats we will need to defend:
Scott Brown, Massachusetts
John Barrasso, Wyoming
Bob Corker, Tennessee
John Ensign, Nevada
Orrin Hatch, Utah
Kay Bailey Hutchison, Texas
Jon Kyl, Arizona
Richard Lugar, Indiana
Olympia Snowe, Maine. Is there a Tea Party in Maine. Can someone give them a wakeup call, please?
Roger Wicker, Mississippi
They all look like pretty solid red states and we should be able to hold them.
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