And by ‘favorite’ I mean either ‘one you’d like to see gone’ or ‘one who is on the cusp.’ Watching either type try to decide whether they can hold out another two years for a Presidential election – and whether there’s any point to it, given the way that this President’s approval ratings keep shrinking – should provide us all with many hours of innocent amusement for the next few months. Or not-so-innocent amusement.
My current candidate for the next round of spend-more-time-with-my-family? Alan Mollohan, WV-01. As Brian notes, Mollohan is a corrupt suckweasel who may get indicted soon; as Don notes, Mollohan is having fundraising troubles; and as Jim notes, people are lining up to get a stab at the privilege of challenging Mollohan for his seat. WV-01 is R+9; Cook lists it as competitive (“Likely Democratic“). And (again) like Brian, I suspect that the DCCC’s going to want to spend its money elsewhere next year.
Interesting times for the Democrats.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
Moe Lane
Steve Maley
KnightsofMalta
Dan Spencer
Dan McLaughlin
Barack Obama. (nt)
Third Street (Diary) Thursday, December 17th at 6:11PM EST (link)“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.” –Wilkins Micawber, “David Copperfield”
Johnny B. Gone!
michigan Thursday, December 17th at 6:21PM EST (link)Murtha is my man. What a crook and I read he’s being challenged in the primary by a couple of worthy opponents. This guy should have taken a powder back in the seventies after Abscam. I hope that the people of Pennsylvania in his district have increased their I.Q. since the last round.
Mine would be AR-1, Marion Berry
Jonah Shumate (Diary) Thursday, December 17th at 6:22PM EST (link)He’s 67 years old, voted for Healthcare, all the bailouts, and just this week the debt ceiling hike and the “jobs” bill.
Its an R+8 district by Cook, and Berry is nothing more than another vote for Pelosi.
All in all, I think he is on his way out because Rick Crawford, a true conservative, is running against him in the general. More on him here:
www.meetrickcrawford.com
I can't decide on a favorite...
Husker (Diary) Thursday, December 17th at 6:24PM EST (link)How about for the good of the country all of them retire.
All the Dems
Darin_H (Diary) Thursday, December 17th at 7:02PM EST (link)except maybe Dan Boren, we can throw out a liberal Republican instead.
A visionary coward says that anger can be power, as long as there’s a victim on TV – Flat Top, Goo Goo Dolls
Uh, No - Dan Boren Is *Horrible* Too, And Needs To Go (nt)
IJB Thursday, December 17th at 9:16PM EST (link)Dodd
clintonformccain Thursday, December 17th at 7:26PM EST (link)Chris Dodd would be pretty sweet.
No it wouldnt
redtillimdead (Diary) Thursday, December 17th at 7:49PM EST (link)He won’t win. If he retires, Blumenthal will win.
My fav is Ike Skelton. His district will be competitive, but if he retires, its safe R (R+14)
He’s represented the district since the 70′s, thats a little too long for me
Nancy Pelosi can kiss my asstroturf.
Sweet. If he runs and loses.
clintonformccain Thursday, December 17th at 10:06PM EST (link)I would enjoy seeing Dodd’s concession speech.
Skelton
proudgop (Diary) Friday, December 18th at 12:02AM EST (link)I think we can beat him this year. He says he is running again
Mine is Spratt of South Carolina
Durbin.
joayn (Diary) Thursday, December 17th at 8:58PM EST (link)Have you seen this guy lately? Has he had a couple of strokes or what? Ack, I can’t stand that man.
And what’s going on with old KKK Bird? Is he still alive or is it that Franco thing all over again?
America is an idea; a noble idea that essentially boils down to the shocking belief that the masses are in fact not asses. John Nolte
Dina Titus NV-3
Vegas_Rick (Diary) Thursday, December 17th at 9:03PM EST (link)Useless progressive who voted for all of Obama’s agenda prior to the spending bill just passed.
They let her vote no on that one because she’s tied with popular Dr. Joe Heck in a district she took from an unpopular RINO, Jon Porter.
“God is great, beer is good and people are crazy.”- Billy Currington
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” Calvin Coolidge.
Bill Nelson of Florida
sharonmcp (Diary) Thursday, December 17th at 9:27PM EST (link)The deal he brokered with Dirty Harry for his health care vote that throws the Medicare Advantage recipients under the bus, except those in the very wealthy and the very blue counties of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties is despicable.
“Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.” ~ Ronald Reagan
Voluntary Retirement Or Forced Retirement? nt
Swamp_Yankee (Diary) Thursday, December 17th at 9:42PM EST (link)nt
Weasel Wexler
popdaddy Thursday, December 17th at 10:20PM EST (link)I seem to recall the FL dem who never got around to moving to FL is on the golden road out to lifetime appointments living off the Federal government tit.
Unless,of course, the appointers change!
Matheson UT-2
saintgeorgegentile Friday, December 18th at 1:30AM EST (link)Just voted for “Son of Stimulus”. Probably part of a trade-off with Pelosi when she let him vote no on Healthcare. This Dog is Blue from Nancy putting the squeeze on.
Freedom is the glue of capitalism, that amoral wisdom of the markets that most efficiently allots goods and services to a citizenry.
-Victor Davis Hanson