"A spate of retirement announcements by Senate Republicans this year have further complicated attempts by GOP strategists to begin rebuilding a party devastated by across-the-board losses in recent elections," the Washington Post reports.
The reason: "The common element in each decision appears to be the difficult path facing Republicans if they hope to regain the majority. Republicans control only 41 Senate seats and have 20 incumbents up for reelection in 2010, compared with 17 for the Democrats."
The Duplicity of Jim Cooper...
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...and the reporters who enable him. Both BTD and David Dayen catch Jim
Cooper in gross duplicity yesterday.
In an interview with Ezra Klein, Cooper talk...
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