The contingency plan for losing a Senator was to panic.

[bunkerbuster1]

That's my take-away from this week.

Apparently our genius leadership had no plan in place if, say, Byrd were to take ill and become completely incapacitated. Or heaven forbid, to have something around in case, you know, that safe seat in MA were to fall.

What kind of responsible leadership doesn't have a backup plan?

[Wapsie B]

1. One that's out of touch with those who aren't big donors, suffering from the beltway mentality

that plagues so many in D.C.

[DrDan]

2. it sure seems like it, doesn't it

well . . . I guess you could call bringing back the old campaign-gang a contingency plan. Not a particularly confidence-inspiring one, however.

[SoCalDem]

3. Another good reason for term limits.. Senators & house reps

need to focus on the "people's issues", and not on their vote-blocs..they need to learn to present good legislation that will stand on its own merit. A more "fluid" senate *& house would go a long way toward curing what ails us all now..

We have a "crony-system" that pretty much guarantees that little will ever get done ...that is.. things that help the broad-base of the populace..

"I'll support your shitty bill, if you support MY shitty bill" is not my idea of good governance.

and with realistic term limits we would not have the utter panic when an fully-ensconced elder dies.

[Journeyman]

4. And who leads with their main weapon making an emergency, last minute campaign visit?. . .

Why wait until the last moment to send the President in for a desperate, last pitch gamble, when they could have sent a team of campaign advisors in months ago and forestalled the need for last minute fear?

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

5. chess. that's just what they want you to think.

I am dying to see how the pretend-to-not-have-the-first-clue plan unfolds.

[Leopolds Ghost]

7. This is part of an elaborate judo-chess match set up in 2004 to sucker the R's into complacency!!11

[notesdev]

8. It's the master plan

They planned not to have a clue... Obama is the master strategerist, just you wait and see!

[cascadiance]

6. Something tells me that deep inside someone like Rahm *doesn't care*!

If losing a seat like MA keeps the corporatist power structure over both parties (and people like him) in power still. Think outside the party divide. I'm guessing others who have more allegiance to the corporatist power structure and their own behinds have the same mindset too.

That's the problem when the cancer of corporatism has infected our government so deeply.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

9. What's with the Rahm thing? Did Obama fall into a well or something?

Last I checked Rahm works for Barrack Obama.

[Marr]

13. Well, see-- Obama is a chess-playing, master politcian.

Except he's completely manipulated by his hired underlings.

:P

[KittyWampus]

10. my lingering anger has to do with the fact the party infrastructure didn't even bother to scapegoat

some poor bastard and can them.

Couldn't they at least pretend to care?

[bunkerbuster1]

15. Wonderful point.

"It sucks, but it's nobody's fault, so let's not get angry about it."

[eridani]

11. They don't give a shit about losing Dorgan to health care "reform" either n/t

[Marr]

12. I suspect this bill is going to move forward regardless, because all that

"60 vote" garbage was just a DLC excuse for pushing corporate legislation. I'm sure they'll take this opportunity to make the bill even worse for the average citizen, and call it "compromise", but I think the thing will proceed. If it's stopped, it'll be the House that does it. I hope they do.

[paulsby]

14. one that's not a responsible leadership. reminds me of WTO

prior to the WTO coming to seattle, mayor paul "i am not a wuss" schell believed there simply couldn't be riots HERE in oh so sophisticated seattle, despite the fact that there had been riots previously when the conference happened in europe.

so, when the wild rumpusing DID happen here, he of course OVERreacted, passed unconstitutional no free speech zones, cops had to fly out of state to get pepper spray, etc.