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Sen.King (I) of Maine may flop to GOP in 2015
Posted on 4/12/14 at 12:51 am
Posted on 4/12/14 at 12:51 am
thehill.com
If the GOP only picks up 5 seats in November King could end up being the tie breaker in the Senate. (Personally I think it's going to be a blood bath)
Says in the article that he has been a reliable vote for Reid. Guess he notices the tides are changing and likes to be on the winning side of things.
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Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), who caucuses with the Democrats, will decide after the midterm elections whether to switch sides and join the Republicans.
He is leaving open the possibility of aligning himself with the GOP if control of the upper chamber changes hands.
If the GOP only picks up 5 seats in November King could end up being the tie breaker in the Senate. (Personally I think it's going to be a blood bath)
Says in the article that he has been a reliable vote for Reid. Guess he notices the tides are changing and likes to be on the winning side of things.
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Posted on 4/12/14 at 12:52 am to SuperSaint
Sounds like he just wants to be in the "majority" and will likely keep voting the same way.
Posted on 4/12/14 at 12:58 am to LSUGrrrl
according to some publications the GOP will have a distinct advantage in holding the Senate for a while. Same with the house considering redistricting won't happen again until 2020 when I'm sure there will be some heartburn over gerrymandering.
Get us a Paul in office and I'm finally optimistic
Get us a Paul in office and I'm finally optimistic
Posted on 4/12/14 at 1:01 am to SuperSaint
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Get us a Paul in office and I'm finally optimistic
Posted on 4/12/14 at 1:13 am to SuperSaint
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according to some publications the GOP will have a distinct advantage in holding the Senate for a while.
I'd like to know the reasoning of those publications, because 24 of the 34 Senate seats coming open in 2016 are held by Republicans.
Posted on 4/12/14 at 1:19 am to NHTIGER
Posted on 4/12/14 at 1:31 am to SuperSaint
This link, included within the link you provided, fits in more with my line of thinking. 2016 is just the opposite of 2014 in terms of a very unbalanced ratio of one party (Dems in 2014, Republicans in 2016) having to defend so many more seats.
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Posted on 4/12/14 at 6:27 am to SuperSaint
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Sen. Angus King
Sounds like a whore.
Posted on 4/12/14 at 6:43 am to SuperSaint
Who gives a shite what is behind their name?
Its not what they call themselves, its what they do with their votes.
Its not what they call themselves, its what they do with their votes.
Posted on 4/12/14 at 7:27 am to Lsut81
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Its not what they call themselves, its what they do with their votes.
Well, even a RINO is still a vote for making the GOP the majority party, thereby keeping Harry Reid from being an obstructionist.
But King won't flip unless the R's are already the majority.
Posted on 4/12/14 at 3:39 pm to Bestbank Tiger
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Its not what they call themselves, its what they do with their votes.
Well, even a RINO is still a vote for making the GOP the majority party, thereby keeping Harry Reid from being an obstructionist.
As well as holding the chairs of all Senate committees and thus determining what and who is investigated and scrutinized and to what degree.
Posted on 4/12/14 at 3:39 pm to Bestbank Tiger
inadvertent duplicate post (sorry!)
This post was edited on 4/12/14 at 4:00 pm
Posted on 4/12/14 at 3:46 pm to SuperSaint
Would be just like Alario switching to the Republican party 
Manchin I can see, King I don't
Manchin I can see, King I don't
Posted on 4/12/14 at 3:47 pm to NHTIGER
quote:Indeed, and worth the repeat NHT.
As well as holding the chairs of all Senate committees and thus determining what and who is investigated and scrutinized and to what degree.
Posted on 4/12/14 at 5:59 pm to NC_Tigah
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As well as holding the chairs of all Senate committees and thus determining what and who is investigated and scrutinized and to what degree.
Indeed, and worth the repeat NHT.
A pertinent example of the importance of committee control:
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is the counterpart to the House Foreign Affairs Committee. These committees are the primary oversight committees to the affairs of the State Department, home to the the primary culprits in the pre-Sept. 11th Benghazi story.
Though so much of what we hear regarding the several House committees' work on Benghazi emanates from Issa's Oversight and Government Reform Committee and Rogers' House Select Intelligence Committee, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, under low-profile Chairman Ed Royce has been a bulldog regarding Benghazi, continuing its work and as recently as two months ago releasing a very informative and pertinent report. They are "on the job" regarding Benghazi.
Over in the Senate, that pillar of integrity Bob Menendez, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, after just four hearings (two open,including the Hillary appearance, and two closed) and no formal reports, put Benghazi to bed as an issue for his committee almost a year ago, on May 10th, 2013.
With a Republican Senate, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee would be joining in the call for a Joint Select Committee on Benghazi, and certainly would not have closed out their work on this issue, with NO reports of findings, 11 months ago.
Posted on 4/12/14 at 6:05 pm to NHTIGER
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Over in the Senate, that pillar of integrity Bob Menendez
NHT, you are a good man
Posted on 4/13/14 at 5:46 am to NHTIGER
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Well, even a RINO is still a vote for making the GOP the majority party, thereby keeping Harry Reid from being an obstructionist.
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As well as holding the chairs of all Senate committees and thus determining what and who is investigated and scrutinized and to what degree.
Absolutely!!
This is what I don't understand about people who insist on absolute purity in order to vote for a GOP in the general election. When they sit it out because the RINO 'is just as bad' it makes me shake my head. NOBODY is as bad as a DEM in congress or the WH.
I am all for fighting it out tooth and nail in the primaries to get the best possible person as our nominee, but when that fails and the second best person actually wins the primary, I will vote for them in a heartbeat over any DEM.
The DEM influence on our culture has transformed America into a much nastier, meaner, more divisive place.
Posted on 4/13/14 at 3:56 pm to SuperSaint
Angus King on Cheney's claim that waterboarding isn't torture:
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"Frankly, I was stunned to hear that quote from Vice President Cheney just now," King said. "If he doesn't think that was torture, I would invite him anywhere in the United States to sit in a waterboard and go though what those people went through, one of them a hundred and plus odd times. That's ridiculous to make that claim."
King continued,"This was torture by anybody's definition. John McCain said it's torture, and I think he's in a better position to know that than Vice President Cheney. I was shocked at that statement that he just made and to say it was carefully managed and everybody knew what was going on, that's absolute nonsense."
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