This could make things interesting...
From News.com.au
Interesting. This could either benefit or hurt the Republicans and the Bush administration. Either it could benefit them by enabling confirmation hearings to be held properly and legislation modified or toned down from the House, or it could hurt them by not enabling them to put up their hands and blame the Democrats for any hardships or woes over the next two years, as it seemed some commentators from the right were looking to do.
Then again, the Senator may well just get better, and this whole thing could add to nothing. But it will be interesting to see.
THE Democrats' razor-thin control of the next US Senate has been cast into doubt, with a senator undergoing emergency surgery after he developed stroke-like symptoms.
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If he had to be replaced, South Dakota law says Republican Governor Michael Rounds would name someone to finish the final two years of his six-year term. An election for a successor would be held in November 2008.
Interesting. This could either benefit or hurt the Republicans and the Bush administration. Either it could benefit them by enabling confirmation hearings to be held properly and legislation modified or toned down from the House, or it could hurt them by not enabling them to put up their hands and blame the Democrats for any hardships or woes over the next two years, as it seemed some commentators from the right were looking to do.
Then again, the Senator may well just get better, and this whole thing could add to nothing. But it will be interesting to see.
posted by Stuart at 10:50 PM
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