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Subscribe to RSSSen. Frank Lautenberg, an 89-year-old Democrat from New Jersey, has announced his will retire instead of seeking a sixth term. NBC's Brian Williams reports.
Updated 3:40 p.m. ET: New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D, won't seek re-election next November, a Democratic source confirmed to NBC News.
Lautenberg, the 89-year-old senator who served for almost two decades in the Senate from 1982 through 2001 before returning for a second term in the upper chamber in 2003, will not seek another six-year term.
"I will be traveling to my hometown of Paterson tomorrow to announce that I will not seek re-election in 2014. This is not the end of anything, but rather the beginning of a two-year mission to pass new gun safety laws, protect children from toxic chemicals, and create more opportunities for working families in New Jersey," Lautenberg said in a statement. "While I may not be seeking re-election, there is plenty of work to do before the end of this term and I'm going to keep fighting as hard as ever for the people of New Jersey in the U.S. Senate."
The decision clears the path for Newark Mayor Cory Booker to pursue the Democratic nomination for Senate. Booker, who's built a high national profile with his work as mayor, had provoked some public sniping from Lautenberg for seeming too quick to assume that the longtime senator would necessarily retire when his term is up in 2015.
Another Democrat thought to be eyeing the seat, Rep. Frank Pallone, effusively praised Lauternberg in a statement.
"I have peen proud to serve with Senator Lautenberg and even prouder to call him a friend," he said. "I look forward to continuing to work together in the coming months to continue to address the issues that are important to him and New Jersey. Like all New Jerseyans, I am grateful for his service to our state and our nation."
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Thank you Jaysus!
At 89 he has NO business being in the Senate now.
Everyone who clamors for "term limits" where is the call for "age limits"?
I don't care how healthy someone is, it is well documented our acuity diminishes as we age...
Them are the facts whether we like it or not...
Yeah...we want Booker.
Booker will be the COP in the Senate to book those guilty McBums such as McCain, McConnell, and McCarthy.
Makes me want to move to NJ just so I can vote for him. I do admire and respect Cory Booker. He is a voice of reason on the Sunday morning shows. That and you all know I think he's pretty damn easy on the eyes!
Best of luck Mayor Booker!
But look at it this way, Feisty - at age 89, he's almost old enough to run for Pope now..... :)
I've had the pleasure of meeting Cory Booker a couple of times, and he's very genuine. He cares about the people he represents. I'll be happy to help with his campaign, and I think he's got an excellent chance of being elected. The Repubs in NJ don't have anyone who can touch him in terms of both substance and popularity.
Hey, JoAnne in PA
How does it feel like to an ex-pope? No pope has tried this since the advent of i-pod.
Maybe Sen. Lautenberg is emulating the Pope, and will plan to go fishing together with the Pope.
Alert: avoid hunting trips with Cheney the Dickk.
Finally I agree with Feisty! Time to get rid of the old antique white men dinosaurs controlling the Democratic Party.
"If the Democratic electorate is tilted toward the young, the Democrats' leaders are tilted toward the old!"
"...when you look at the top Democrats in the House, you don't see young faces. The ages of the ranking Democrats on the Appropriations, Ways and Means, Education, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, Foreign Affairs and Judiciary committees are 70, 79, 65, 71, 70, 69 and 81. The three party leaders are 70, 71 and 70.
And because House Democrats, unlike House Republicans, don't limit most of their chairmen to three two-year terms, old geezers can stay on and on. House Republican chairmen, in contrast, have often chosen to retire after their three terms.
You get a similar picture when you look at leading politicians in the nation's largest and one of its most Democratic states, California.
Jerry Brown, elected governor at 36 and 40, has now won that office again at 72. The state's two U.S. senators are 77 and 70. They began their political careers, as did the leading House Democrats, way back in the 1960s or 1970s".
We all do, Layton. And we respect Lautenberg for his many years of service. He's done a fine job representing the good people of NJ, and fighting the Progressive fight.
Hard to say goodbye to an old friend, but Booker will fill his shoes nicely - and then some.
2014 Senate seats:
Frank Lautenberg makes 4 retiring including Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), Tom Harkin (D-IA), Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) with 4 more still undecided, Dick Durbin (D-IL), Karl Levin (D-MI), Thad Cochran (R-MS) and Tim Johnson (D-SD)
Including those 8 a total of 35 seats will be voted on, 21 Democrats (60%), 14 Republicans (40%). Yet the odds of the Democrats retaining the Senate majority are better than even.
It will be interesting to see a library named after him. In Ireland it would be a betting shop.
why is this "breaking news" in red? i don't even know who this grandpa is.
i bet he can't even drive. may as well take away his DL to keep the streets safe.
the sooner we get these older (and probably racist) guys out of Washington the better it is for the U.S.A!!! i hope he did not own slaves.
I'm in my 40's, but I don't have any problem with someone in their 80's continuing to work. They may not have the physical stamina of younger people, but they likely have a vastly superior experience pool to draw from than we do.
As to this Senator, I wish him well in whatever he does next.
LMAO JoAnne!
Said to the hubby the other day, picking someone who is under 80 would be a good start... ;o)
Run Mayor Booker.
Typo alert:
How does it feel like to an ex-pope? No pope has tried this in more than 600 years
since the advent of i-pod.Just google it on my i-pod.
Sorry.
Layton being the good liberal Democrat that you are I'm sure you'll find a way to vote for him anyway.
Ask fisty I'm sure she knows the ins-and-outs being from Illinois and all.
Feisty...Usually I agree with your posts and witty humor, but I'm afraid I gotta disagree with ya on that honey. Let's not stereotype all Octogenarians as needing to be put out to pasture. My Godmother is 85 and she might move a little slow, but she's sharp as a razor. She's on top of current events more than people half her age. In fact, she told me to tell you to f yourself!!! LOL!
(I'm being funny/sarcastic of course Fiesty).
Feisty, JoAnne, Job1 and all my libbie friends. Off topic but I watched Jimmy Fallon this week and his jokes about the Pope were soooo cute.
Well, so the Pope is resigning and everyone is upset. But, in all fairness, the Vatican said he gave two weeks notice!
As you know, it's Lent and people are giving up alcohol, chocolate, sex. And, one guy is giving up being the Pope!
When they're voting for a new Pope, if one isn't chosen after a vote they send black smoke up. When they finally vote a new Pope in, they send White Smoke up. Then a guy gets on twitter and says "when do you think we'll enter the 21st Century?"
The Bachelor is down to 4 girls to choose from. When he chooses one, they will send up a cloud of white smoke!
Okay, I have to stop watching late night! My honey has to get home earlier so I'm not bored! It's all his fault! LOL!
Big deal! Just the democrats changing underwear, as usual.
Apologies as that wasn't my intent.
My Grama was sharp as a tack until she passed at 98 - still wouldn't wanted to have her as a Senator.
What I meant was, I don't understand why someone would want to work right up to the day they die. As in Lautenburg's case, he has served his constituents well over the years,.
Why not retire at 75 or 80, enjoy time with your family and make way for some fresh new talent?
I like her already! LOL Give her a {{{hug}}} for me will ya? ;o)
Probably because you have never worked a day in your life except maybe to walk out to the mail box
From many acccounts Reagan was somewhat senile while in offfice. COuld remember his lines and his part, though.
ozzie - you're beyond lame. Such a miserable excuse for a person!
So, let's see.....assuming he wins the Senate seat in 2014, then in 2016 he'd be a charismatic, likeable young rising star who'd only been in the Senate for two years but who'd gotten some pretty good national exposure at the previous Presidential convention, and who had a natural gift for relating to voters, especially the middle class - so maybe he'd have the, ummm, audacity of hope to think he could take on Hillary Clinton and win the Democratic nomination for president, and -
- oh, what am I saying? Like that could ever happen in real life...... :)
Some people are just not "wired to retire" as she says. It's all about self-realization as to how effective you are in a given job. At least this guy had sense of enough to retire before being almost half dead like Strom Thurmond was. He was such a zombie that his Aides had to ram thier hands up his ass to make lips move and the only reason he retired was because they ran out of Depends in Washington!! LOL
Good riddance!! Let's get some people who won't just blame guns for everything and actually start to work on the real problems with crime and it's causes.
Another liberal that's tired of living the lie that is the Obama administration.
And telling the elderly in our society to go home and get out of the way isn't? So what does that make you all? Now if you want to talk term limits I could possibly agree with you.
Ha Booker, Frank can take him with him.
Let's see what the lying Booker's emails show.
You know the ones that he claimed were never sent, interesting twist here as the Booker administration originally claimed there were no emails. The city originally stated it did not have any documents about the donation. It later admitted in a January court hearing that emails existed, but argued they did not have to release them because they were shielded by mayoral executive privilege, contain personal information and are deliberative in nature. The city also argued Newark Mayor Cory Booker was not acting in his official capacity as mayor when he accepted Zuckerberg's pledgeJudge Rachel N. Davidson rejected all those arguments, noting for instance that a press release on the City of Newark's own website touts Booker's involvement in the donation as mayor and that all of the emails in dispute are maintained by Booker's executive assistant in Newark City Hall. The judge also noted that Booker's role as mayor is repeated in statements about the donation that are mentioned on his campaign website, as well as in some of the emails that are being sought. on the Oprah Winfrey show.
As for the emails themselves they show the typical anxieties and pathologies of corporate executives and politicians when embarking on any hostile takeover.
I hope he ends up in jail sharing a cell with Corzine.
The irony is rich – even the corporate executive trying to market philanthropy for brand benefit thinks the plan is not local enough. If only Sandberg knew Booker was getting ready to ditch Newark for higher office, then maybe she would realize it was never about Newark and all about Cory Booker sucking up to his donors on Wall Street
Hopefully one of the journalists hosting Booker on the “all Cory, all the time” tour will ask him why he thought the $100 million given to destroy New Jersey schools is his personal bounty business, and not a matter for public scrutiny.
Ronald Hussein Reagan- Just the fact that you are using the name "Hussein" in your lame attempt at defiling the name of one of the greatest presidents in the history of our nation shows that the real name of Barrack Hussein Obama is an abomination on this country. The sadder truth is that it fits Obama to a "Tea".
I think your referring to Trent Lott;
ozzieyo1 . . .
ozzie, I stated my thoughts above. Why you choose to call me a criminal because of them is beyond me. Grow up and get off of the computer. You've nothing to say other than reciting the garbage that you let permeate your tiniest of brains. Note to you, it was the GOP in the last election who kept getting caught while trying to skew the vote.
The Democrat Party is in some real trouble in the 2014 Senate elections:
Lautenberg, Rockefeller and Harkin are retiring - these were automatic wins!
Levin might step down next
Begich, Hagan and Franken are vulnerable
Menendez is embattled over soliciting underage prostitutes in the Dominican
Good.....enough is enough! 89 for FTLOG! Term limits AND age limit! 12 years in the Senate (for an entire life time is more than enough) and 85 is too generous! House should be limited to 6 years and NO more than 12 years total to serve in the House and Senate of the United States.....no life-time pensions either, until you have served ALL 12 years!
usa1967: "Good riddance!! Let's get some people who won't just blame guns for everything and actually start to work on the real problems with crime and it's causes."
You tell 'em, usa! Who on earth wants the guy around who originally proposed the "Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act" in 2007? People that the government has placed on the terrorist watch list should be able to buy whatever weapons they damn well please.....right?
jimreaper - only demented and delusional individuals believe Reagan was even close to a good President. He was certainly NOT great and was already in the first stages of Alzheimers when he was re-elected.
President Obama will be listed as one of the top 10 in our country. Too bad you are such a disgusting moron you don't realize facts!
And no Arthur66 - it is the Republicans who will be in trouble in 2014. Their ratings are taking hit after hit as more and more people realize they don't give a damn about the country.
Add "anti-Senior" to Feisty Jen Redhead's list of proclivities
A mayoral adviser outlined a rough plan to spend $315,000 on efforts such as polling, focus groups, mailing and consultants. The foundation has spent at least $2 million on such efforts since.
And none of that $2 million spent on p.r. helps Booker’s personal political ambitions?
SeekingSanity:
Who else is on your "list" of "Presidents who weren't close to being good"?
Teddy Roosevelt? Thomas Jefferson? Abe Lincoln?
Reagan was listed the 6th greatest President by a 2005 Wall Street Journal poll of Presidential scholars and 8th by one conducted by CSPAN in 2009. I trust them more than your bitter, partisan smears.
markl323
"why is this "breaking news" in red? i don't even know who this grandpa is"
this grandpa is one of the founders of Automatic Data Processing(ADP). i worked with him at ADP in the 60's and he was a pretty regular guy back then in spite of his million$.
but it is past his time to retire, stop mucking around with gun control (gun safety as they are now calling it) and enjoy the rest of his days in liesure. N.J. has some of the toughest gun laws in the country right now. it took me six months just to get a change of address on my firearms ID which included a new set of fingerprints and full background check.
if he truly wants to stop or even slow the gun violence it needs to be at the street level with gangs, drug dealers and gun runners. laws will not stop those people from getting guns as they don't abide by the laws anyway.
just sayin!
JimReaper. EIther you have a creative memory or went to school in Texas. Regan was lucky not to be impeached for his role in Iran /Contra.
In an odd way, he's popular for some of the same reasons Obama is popular - both essentiallly likable people. Unlike say, Mr. Nixon who I believe was impeached not for the Watergate burglary but, for his essentially mean personality. They needed to have something on him to get him out of office but, if he were likeable there's no way they would have made it stick. BTW I'm not saying that any of this is a good thing. ANd the middle part of my name is in response to all the nits who refer to the President as Barry Hussein Soetero, etc. Glad you like it.
You seem to not be seeking sanity well enough. Your response seems to be the typical liberal reaction when they are incapable of thinking of a clever thought of their own. Rather than coming back with any remotely- intelligent statement to support your claims you resort to the insults and name-calling. I guess I'm not really surprised.
Ronald Hussein Reagan - I believe that you have the creative memory; Nixon was never impeached. And Obama's middle name IS Hussein, you dimwit.
jimreaper - no, seeking sanity in the Republican party but, alas, there is none to be found as crazed individuals like you prove daily. I can support any claim I make. I have yet to see you make an intelligent claim so, keep trying. Oh wait, you haven't even tried!
Colorado-Man - no Nixon quit before they could impeach him. Please try to keep up!
As Nixon quit before they could impeach him, then he was NEVER impeached. Seems like maybe YOU need to keep up, SS.
How can you even think this, in good conscience, while your savior is pretending that he did not direct the 'Fast and Furious" debacle? And of course the blood is barely dried on the Benghazi massacre that he is trying to pretend never happened. And of course he thinks that he is above Constitutional law, thinks that he can rule as a dictator, and, who could forget that, he thinks he's the new "hired gun in these parts". Face it, this guy sucks as a president.
Rlquall - I never claimed he was impeached. Reading comprehension not your strong suit is it? Try to have someone read, then explain the content of my post, then hopefully you'll understand. Probably not but it's worth a try!
jimreaper - where is your anger over the more than 20 who were killed in embassy and consulate attacks during the Bush Administration? Oh, that's right, he was Republican so it doesn't matter! I forgot! You are gutter trash and a filthy excuse for a human being - but the perfect Republican!
Please fill us in on the whole Nixon impeachment proceedings leading up to his resignation. I was unaware that this occured. Unlike the liberal Clinton, I didn't know that anybody even started on the paperwork to impeach Nixon. Please enlighten me.
We get rid of one POS for another POS, big deal.
SeekingSanity- You ought to be "seeking an assylum". You are the quinessential bitter liberal. And, of course, the name-calling reinforces my earlier comment.
These are the articles of impeachment on Richard Nixon prepared in 1974 before he resigned in disgrace...you are enlightened now.
Article 1
RESOLVED, That Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanours, and that the following articles of impeachment to be exhibited to the Senate:
ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT EXHIBITED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN THE NAME OF ITSELF AND OF ALL OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AGAINST RICHARD M. NIXON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, IN MAINTENANCE AND SUPPORT OF ITS IMPEACHMENT AGAINST HIM FOR HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANOURS.
ARTICLE 1
In his conduct of the office of President of the United States, Richard M. Nixon, in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his consitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has prevented, obstructed, and impeded the administration of justice, in that:
On June 17, 1972, and prior thereto, agents of the Committee for the Re-election of the President committed unlawful entry of the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in Washington, District of Columbia, for the purpose of securing political intelligence. Subsequent thereto, Richard M. Nixon, using the powers of his high office, engaged personally and through his close subordinates and agents, in a course of conduct or plan designed to delay, impede, and obstruct the investigation of such illegal entry; to cover up, conceal and protect those responsible; and to conceal the existence and scope of other unlawful covert activities.
The means used to implement this course of conduct or plan included one or more of the following:
In all of this, Richard M. Nixon has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.
Wherefore Richard M. Nixon, by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.
Wow, here's your chance, New Jersey. If you elect someone like your other Democrat senator, Bob Menendez, the two of them can go together on free Carribean vacations...maybe have a little group session with some 16 year old whores. Just like now, all they have to do is throw a few business favors to the donor who pays for the vacation. And if they get caught, not to worry...the mainstream media turds will bury any possible scandal!
jimreaper - idiots like you bring out the worst in me because you are below disgusting. You have no morals and no intelligence, no character, no integrity - you're crude, classless and tasteless - but good Republicans. Too bad for you I'm an very happy person!
Arthur66 - relying on a 2005 rating for Reagan? Try again. Every year he slips further and further down the list. He was one of the WORST Presidents in modern time - a good orator but a horrible President and his alzheimers was already taking a toll in his 2nd term.
Now little angry ignorant boys - I have plans for Valentine's Day with a great man who is intelligent, secure and loves having a smart, secure, intelligent woman! Go play with your toes - or whatever it is people like you do!
Way to go. He's got his pockets full now so move on.
Thanks, Jack. That could easily be read with "Barrack Hussein Obama" in place of "Richard M. Nixon".
Possibly prophetic.
So he called and told you he's going out with someone else then? Bummer.
When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.
Richard M. Nixon
Read more at #x1mFpY8PCkzPTP4p.99
Articles of impeachment were to be voted on by the House when Nixon resigned on August 9 1974. On July 27 1974 the House Judiciary Committee voted 27 to 11 to impeach Nixon. The full H of R was to vote on it the day he resigned. So the real answer is yes and no, both are correct he was being impeached but by resigning he ended the process.
On the subject of Reagan, how soon we forget history. Ronnie was responsible for the largest tax increase ever put on the middle and lower class. He also raised the National Debt by 2 Trillion (1980 Dollars) or almost 6 trillion in 2013 dollars. Please have your FACTS before you attack or defend your position. 60 seconds on ask.com and you too can have facts.
you're full of shlt. Go take your BOB to a nice quiet corner and commence.
Seeking,
He was well into dementia by the time he was serving his second term. Has anyone forgotten the side trip down highway one during the debates? I actually have a friend who went, with several other people, to receive some kind of recognition for their contributions to science. They were gathered in the Rose Garden to wait for the President. They waited a long time. Reagan finally wandered out, looking disheveled and confused. Whereupon the secret service hustled him back inside the White House. Then vice-president Bush awarded the honors and everyone went home. All were more than a little shaken by the experience.
Crude... classless... tasteless... wow what a @!$%#ing hypocrite? You too drunk to realize what the @!$%# you did there?
L O L. . .This ain"t nothin' but good ole "Joisey" politics! No different than "party machine" politics in MANY other states.
Suck it up...or get involved to make a difference...either way, we need people in our governrnents who will be there for us, the people, this country, not their own re-election and/or party politics!
Booker has no real spine. He pointed out something Obama said was wrong, and took it all back inside of a week. Booker will do nothing to change Washington, he has been compromised by the Washington system of pay to play.
CA ....
First hand knowledge I am sure.
Just one corrupt politician making room for another to step in. As if this nation needs some 89 year old dinosaur trying to fix the problems they helped create. Besides he can retire off the lavish perks and benefits he afforded himself while serving, and collect on all those IOU;s he stuffed in his pockets all those years of selling out the American people. Good riddance. Now lets get rid of the rest of them.
"The Democrat Party is in some real trouble in the 2014 Senate elections:"
LOL!!! The right said the same thing in the last election. Need I remind you what actually happened? In theory, the Democrats could be in trouble but then -- along comes the tea party. The tea party cost Republicans the Senate in 2010 and in 2012 and I see no reason why they won't repeat in 2014.
Colorado Man - I've got a nit on my sweater I need to have removed. You seem like just the guy. Yes, Ricfhard Nixon resigned because he just didn't want o be Presiden,t anymore. How's that? And I didn't even take the time to call you one of the many times your posts inspire.
Bye Folks. THe level of fevered ignorance and whining on this board is too much. Just be glad you have a man of intelligence, restraint and judgment leading the country and the world through perilous times. Obama is the best President since Eisenhower, at least.
I'm kind of hoping Cory Booker will run for governor of the Garden State.
Chris Christie will be one of the GOP darlings in 2016 if he's still in the governor's office... and I am not fond of that fat man.
Good, I hope Corey Booker runs. I would vote for him.
I usually agree with the liberals but they now slander one of the best Senators they have. 89 and a perfect voting record. One of the most successful businessmen in the government. He did not need a penny of his salary as he once employed 10,000 citizens. Please redhead, get a life.
cannonballer
Crude... classless... tasteless... wow what a @!$%#ing hypocrite? You too drunk to realize what the @!$%# you did there?
Yeah, that was pretty much my points on posts 1.41 & 1.49. The reason for theses sites is to have some light-hearted debate, not to get verbally abusive. She seems to be wound a little tight. She claimed to have a date planned for last night. Hopefully he was able to get her frustrations worked out. I think she stayed home with her cat.
Booker in the Senate...wow..what a great progress that is going to be
P.S. ..... making the Senate more progressive.
In 2014, the Republicans take over the Senate.
well, I always want to see a competitive 2-party system, and history is one the side of the GOP because Americans voters have historically given the other party a chance in the 6th year of a president, such as 2006.
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But from what we have witnessed, the GOP has no chance in 2014. Zilch!
Pigotry,
If Obama keeps pushing his aggressive agenda, there could be a backlash like what happen in 2010. I am not making any predictions, but it is a possibility.
And you are dreaming for "We the People" see who the real self serving a$$holes are, and they lay within the GOP!!
The backlash came before the President had done anything, it was purely because he is black. I'm white and even I could see that. The GOP has spent their last two years in power at the state level, not building jobs like they promised but putting woman back in the kitchen where they think they belong. Until they stop trying to push their religious beliefs onto everyone they are not getting my vote. (I voted for Regan and George H Bush)
GOP Comeback - in 2014 the Democrats will retain the Senate and take over the House! Get used to it. The GOP is sinking like a large boulder!
you said that in 2012 too...moron
Because you guys did so well in the last midterm... ha ha ha... lost what, nearly seventy seats?
The masses are less then happy with their shiny new Obama tax increases... seeing his "tax the rich" for what it was... tax everybody... they're not too happy with the UNaffordable Care Act that's doubling their health care costs... they're wincing at the pumps paying for gas... they're groaning in the grocery store at the register... they're also getting uneasy with the deficit spend spend, spend orama... from the dunce, dunce, dunce Obama... I don't even think the lying media and voter fraud can help the few remaining RINOs and the moderate Liberals in '14.... because their constituents are starting to see past the propaganda and lies...
And Mousesj plays the race card!!! The last resort hysterical slander for Liberals with no substantive argument....
Fed Up - You really need to learn to count. The Democrats took an addition 4-6 seats in the Senate and took 8 seats in the House. Republicans lost numbers in both parts of Congress and would have lost more if they hadn't had districts redrawn in their favor.
You really don't know much, do you? Yet you scream it at the top of your lungs! You'd be funny if you weren't so pathetic!
I would still rather go hunting with Dick before I would go driving with Ted!
The only way GOP takes over in '14 will be as for the normal low turnout. The USA is showing to be more Progressive than those 'Trickster Pundits' has been hollering. As a result, Booker chances will be less of a success, rather than if it is in '16 when Hillary becomes the President.
GOP Comeback 2014
In 2014, the Republicans take over the Senate.
Only if Rand Paul gets an assault weapon and takes hostages.
Wow? what a choice, Dumb or Dumber. Both Pallone, and especially Booker, would be disasterious for the Country, as well as the State. The last thing we need is another Obama clone in the Senate.
Liberals ignore the facts will all this talk of taking over congress. Republicans that are up for re-election come from districts where they are widely popular. While some Democrats are already vulnerable. 2014 will have Democrats breathing a sigh of relief if Washington remains status quo, especially with how poorly the Obama recovery is going. The nothing is my fault endless excuses offered for the first term failures of Obama isn't going to work this time around.
"In 2014, the Republicans take over the Senate."
Oh, I didn't hear about that. So then she did get that job at that lesbian university.
Layton, I live in N.J. so you can share my vote.
Thanks, lisa! :)
Cory Booker---too chicken to take on Chris Christie!
Actually, Cory Booker and Chris Christie manage to work pretty well together. Still love this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHN0ZeS5c-4
Of course everyone realizes that this is the d**kh**d that hounded all of us with the 55 national speed limit for 22 years! Such a shame he is finally going away.
Oh boo-hoo!
Helped make Sammy Hagar's carreer!
It is time for many of those old buzzards to go and be replaced by younger people. I don't care which party they are in. sometimes it is just that they have been around too long sucking off the government teat.
baldeagle11, it seems like they all go in with the intention of making everything better and soon find out how it really works and they can't or won't buck they system. Sad.
Baldeagle -- While I am second to very few in my zeal for term limits, I will defend Lautenberg from the charge of "sucking off the government teat". As the founder of ADP (formerly Automatic Data Processing), which handles something like one-sixth of all of the nation's paychecks, and does other things as well, he could make more money just off of interest and dividends, given the size of his fortune, even in today's depressed environment, than he draws in salary as a Senator. Yea, he's been there WAY too long, but unlike some he isn't up there for the money or because he could never do anything else that would pay him as much.
The problem is their salary is just the tip of the iceberg. They get great jobs aftwards, because of thier influence. not to mention the perks they get.
The Supreme Court killed term limits, so no chance of that happening.
The point that THIS senator is a man who needs none of what you are talking about seems to escape you. Did you read the previous post?
GOP Comeback 2014, Actually Chris Christie and Corey Booker work very well together. They would be great for the state and I will be voting for both.
Maybe now NJ will realize that Booker and the rest of the Political Hacks have brought the state to its knees with Burgeoning Tax Hikes.
Sad the Senate will lose one of the few remaining Statesmen. I only hope the people of New Jersey will be wise enough to replace him with someone of similar character. Thank-you Sen. Lautenberg for you efforts to bridge the aisle.
Your head transplant is scheduled for next Wednesday - GOOD LUCK !!
"N.J. Sen. Lautenberg won't seek re-election, easing Booker's path"
Lautenberg has been a brain dead lib puppet for years.
A good chance to get rid of another gun-grabbing, tax-and-spend democrat. dont need any "hard core" republicans in there either.
Well...that rules out about 48% of the Senate and 65% of the House.
I thank God every day that our founders put the 2nd Amendment in the Constitution to protect us from the Liberals in this country
Well maybe someone that's not so stupid about toxic waste and gun crime will be elected that can do something right for the people.
The Pale Stale Male that the Dems hate so much. Go figure.
Did he really drink Old Frothingshlosh?
If Christie decides to run Booker will be toast..
He is going to. A little bird told me so!
he said if only just to piss off Feisty!
Dick (head) Durbin needs to go too! He is the most ignorant brain dead democrat zombi IL has even put in office, excluding Obama that is.
Crowbar - LOL what a moron you are! Keep it up and we'll watch you whine in 2014 when Democrats take back the House and keep the Senate!
Why on earth would Christie give up an easy re-election as Governor and a possible (though I still think unlikely) run at the Presidency in 2016 just to run for the Senate? He may be a lot of things, but he's hardly stupid, and I don't see him making what would be a lateral move (at best) for someone in his current position. What would be the point?
JoAnne in PA, I agree Christie is a very popular Gov. I don't see him running for the Senate.
The problem for the Republicans is their lousy agenda of self serving politcs and worn out social agenda. The problem for the democrats is their worn out social agenda and self serving politcs. Do we really have a two party system? Sometimes they just all look like parasites to me.
lisa, it really wouldn't make any sense. Right now he's the big fish in a pretty big pond (and I mean that in the metaphorical sense - I'm not one to joke about people's weight), whereas in the Senate, he'd be just one of a hundred fish in a pond that doesn't get an awful lot of good press. And while I don't have the stats to back it up, I think sitting governors do better in presidential races than sitting senators do. And if nothing else, as Governor, he could run as being the ever-popular "Washington outsider", which he couldn't do if he was a senator.
I think both Booker and Christie are smart enough to realize the career paths that would work best for each of them.
Always good talking to you!
Booker appears good because it was expected that anyone having his job would fail. Wait until he's expected to perform before you give him any accolades.
Now let this old fu ck go off and die a slow painful death from cancer or a car wreck. And Booker stay in the gettho.
georgeg- what a filthy excuse for a human being you are! You're despicable!
And you stay under your rock.
Best news I heard all day !!! This guy is one big HYPOCRITE - he belittled his first opponent Millicent Fenwick as being too old when she was in her 70's and this old coot is around till he's almost 90. I remember he used an organization I was a part of to combat drinking and driving. He asked us to show up at a .08 alcohol level rally and then proceeded to announce his re-election campaign. Even the Democrats in our organization were pissed off at him !! I would bet $1000 no one in New Jersey could name 5 things he has accomplished in all his years in the Senate.
Milicent Fenwick was the only dame I ever knew of to smoke a pipe besides my great-grandmother. Was the model for "Lacey Davenport" in Doonesbury, too, IIRC. So its's really past time for him to go!
Okay, I remember Millicent Fenwick. Now I feel really old, too..... :(
But hey, thanks for your work against drinking and driving. As someone whose car was totalled by a drunk driver (from Wildwood!) several years ago, I can only wish there were more of you.
The man has been moribund for the last several years, so it's certainly time to give somebody else a chance. Maybe it's Booker, maybe not. But it will be somebody with a pulse.
BOOKER SHOULD STAY RIGHT WHERE HE IS - - - he is making a change
Booker hasn't done a damned thing to make a difference in Newark.
It's worse than it ever was. Ask any cop there.
This man has had a singularly unimpressive career in DC, or in other words, he is just a party hack who did what he was told to do. His big minute came last month when he brought the chairman of the NY/NJ Port Authority to his committee hearing to complain about too many people had free passes for the tunnels, the chairman of the PA then reminded him that he (Old Frankie) had used his pass to the tune of several thousand dollars since it was given to him. Frankie sat there confused until an aide told him what to say, which was " that is not the purpose of this hearing." Now you know why Old Frankie is on the way out. By the way, the Supreme Court of N J (dem controlled)issued Frankie a one time waiver to run for his seat after the regular candidate was indicted for lying in a traffic case. And you thought NJ was run by crooks.
I'm from NJ. They don't call this the Soprano State for nothing. I'd say we are giving Louisiana a run for their money as the most corrupt state. Read the book THE SOPRANO STATE by Bob Ingle and Sandy McClure and watch your hair curl.
lol Prof, good story. The old fossil didn't have enough remaining brainpower to know how hypocritical he was going to sound about bringing up free passes.
Where's the hypocracy? He was just complaining about the free passes given to other people -- not about his own! And besides, with his multi-millions, he could easily pay the tolls. Wonder if he will make the recent tax increase on "the rich" personally retroactive in his own case, and voluntarily give the Government the difference between 33% and 39.6% of his income for 2012, since it is so necessary and needed so very badly? I'm not much of a betting man, but if I were, think that I would know how to bet it!
Since the current senator is not seeking re-election, thus giving mayor Booker almost an inside track for his run on the senate. What poetic justice that the state of NJ has both a GOP governor that works well with the other side and that mayor Booker works well with the GOP. Seems that the dems can put a "W" in the upcoming NJ senate column... Especially since the way that the current GOP/T-Pers have been conducting business...
It's about God Damn time, that man has been in office since the Moses parted the Red Sea.
Hopefully, Brother Booker has learned to shut his mouth and not buck the Party.
yah, that's a no-no. The moderate McCains and Romneys of the world can even win the presidential nomination of the GOP party, but in the Democrat party, you have to toe the line on every liberal issue.
Or you're in big trouble. I think Booker will survive anyway. He's a big name. New Jersey Dems have nothing else at all, even the other senator Menendez is in deep shi'ite.
I'm from NJ and I lean a bit to the left (only because the GOP is stuck on stupid). He is the oldest fot in congress. Good riddance and he should take the other old fossil McConnell with him. Talk about not being in touch with your constituency. How does an 89 year old white man understand the needs of women, gays and other ethnic groups. If he even has all his faculties about him which I doubt.And this is the guy who ran several years ago saying that his oponent was too old (not as old as he is now). Booker can do no worse.
I think you would come up a pale second in an intellectual race with Frank Lautenberg. Apparently you pay little attention to the man and therefore you, as many others, are speaking from a position of total ignorance. If I get to be 89 I hope I can keep pace with him because he is running pretty fast. As far as understanding the plight of minorities he has been a champion for them before some of you were born. When he came back it was because they frafted him back; he did not seek the position. I don't agree with all his politics but he is passionate and honest more than most of them and again; sharper than a lot of the young dolts in the senate and the young dolts commenting here.
C'mon, he's too old even to be Pope! Sure he's very intelligent -- no dumba$$ ever built a business resembling ADP. That's hardly the point. Even the Cardinals over 80 can't vote anymore. In Canada they have mandatory retirement for Senators at 75. I'd love to adopt that, spending limits/public financing, and six-week campaign lengths from them (maybe along with no Electoral College), as long as they do it all at the same time. (Just let them keep the Queen and the whole monarchy thing, though.) And I'm as much for term and age limits now as I was forty years ago, even though pretty soon they would be affecting people my age, if we were to adopt them.