Good news/Bad news for the GOP

First the good. The Republican won the "predictor" race in CA. It was close enough, 49.5% to 45% or 5000 votes, that the the dems can say, "This was a victory. We came within 5000 votes in a heavily GOP district of winning and were outspent more than two to one. See, we have the momentum." Or at least, that's what I would say. But the GOP can claim the victory, and in the end, that's what really matters. There's a reason you never h ear the winning side claiming a moral victory.

Now the bad. The Senate rejected the FMA vote 49 for, 48 against, well shy of the 60 needed to take it to vote. Interestingly, the GOP, while they knew they would fail hoped to pick up on the 48 positive votes they had last time. The GOP knew that since the last vote, the dems lost 5 votes against to 5 Republicans that supported the FMA. Math says that the vote should have had 53 votes to take it to vote. But they only came up with 49. Now the math says they lost support the biggest issue facing the country today. "I don't believe there's any issue that's more important than this one," said Sen. David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican.

I know I go through periods of paying attention, and not really paying attention, but did we catch Binny? Is Iraq now a stable state? Is health care fixed? How about Social Security? The deficit? The War on Drugs? Oh, I know, what about the new kid on the block, immigration? Must have been a really busy week leading up to the FMA vote for it to move to the head of the class.

Jackass.