Already a trend for 2026 an probably beyond is clear. The Senate ain’t what it used to be. There was a time when being a senator positioned a person for the presidency. In the last few decades, however, that hasn’t been the case. Yes, Barack Obama (Zero) won after being a senator, and yes, both McTurd and Lurch (John Kerry) ran and lost. But Rutabaga—-Joe Biden—-did not run and steal a victory as a senator, but as a former veep. Likewise, Hillary Clinton (Cankles) did not run as a senator but as the Secretary of State.
In 2016, Trump beat both Rand Paul and Marco Rubio, and more recently, it is governors who seem to have more presidential traction. This is not a discussion of the 2028 presidential race so much as it is a foundation for the surprising announcements by a number of sitting senators that they will retire, some to run for governor (which was, for the longest time, exactly the reverse of how things worked.) Prior to this week, Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Tina Smith (D-Somalia, aka, Minnesota) and Gary Peters (D-MI) had all announced they would not run again. None of them are particularly old, well, at least, by current Senate standards. (Yertle was around when they invented baseball). Two of the three possibly open up their seats for genuine competition, i.e., Peters and Shaheen. Chris Sununu, the popular Republican governor of New Hampshire, probably would have won the NH senate seat, but he declined to run. The MI seat, which should have been safe D, is now a battle.
But the GOP has not received great news on other fronts. In Georgia, the backstabber Governor Brian Kemp, who easily would have won the seat from D Jon Ossoff, also said he will not run. Therefore, there are two fairly easy pickups for the Rs that now are street fights. But other senators are stepping down. Michael Bennet (D-CO) won’t even finish his term and will run for CO governor—-probably a shoe in. There are rumblings that both Tommy Tuberville, who just got to the senate, and Marsha Blackburn, will not seek reelection so they can run for governor of their states. While those should be safe seats for the GOP, Tuberville and Blackburn represented fairly reliable Trump votes. There is no guarantee their replacements will be MAGA. Thus, at present the Ds are in danger of losing three seats, the Rs none, but in reality probably only the MI seat will be contested unless there is a surprise in NH.
The question is why? DemoKKKrat Nate Moore today argued that it was perhaps congressional “dysfunction.” He may have a point . . . up to a point. The House has nearly ceased to exist as any kind of functioning body. They can’t produce a real budget. They can’t or won’t impeach any of the cabal’s criminal judges. Their “investigations” (i.e., Anna Paulina Luna) produce little. When Botoxic was Speaker, she wasted the last shred of effectiveness and legitimacy that the House had with her two idiotic Trump impeachments.
But does that go for the Senate as well? Currently we have a slight GOP majority completely hamstrung by four or five anti-Trump propane-inhalers, most of them older than the Nile. That has effectively enabled the DemoKKKrat MINORITY, which nevertheless sticks together, to block many of Trump’s appointees or policies. But because this gang of four or five can’t advance anything, all they have done is to steal the very last vestiges of Senate power. Mind you, much of that disappeared when John McTurd did his little thumbs down act, but the remaining skiddledippers are rapidly stripping away what legitimacy the Senate had left.
Thus, Trump is proceeding with a blizzard of executive orders—-far too many for the DemoKKKrats to county by finding some drunk judge in the middle of the night. But the unintended consequence is to force senators to seek greener pastures in governorships. When you don’t use a muscle—-particularly in the correct way—-it atrophies. That is what has happened to both houses of Congress. We have one party that is incompetent and party evil (the Republicans) and one that is entirely partisan and 100% evil (guess who?) That means that once in the majority one party can barely exercise its power competently or efficiently and the other, once in power, swings to horrid, total fascistic abuse. And it can’t get any better of some of the brighter lights, like Blackburn and Tuberville, leave. All we can pray for are superbly effective candidates in GA, NH, MI, TN, and AL and that the DemoKKKrats in their hate-rage step on their genitals . . . which they have proven perfectly capable of doing.
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