John Kerry

Corker was sitting next to Lugar. This means that he is "next in line", right? Compared to teh rest, Corker is relatively decent. Isakson is not amongteh most horrid either, but COrker seems to have better brains. Bythe way, anybody knows how this works, actually? Committee seniority, I mean. Corker is still a very junior senator, but he seems to have higher seniority in that committee than people like Inhofe taht have been in teh Senate longer. Does it go by how long they were in a specific committee?

One last comment: the whole Senate would be obnoxious if the Rs take over. And that's a major understatement.

OK, I lied, THIS is the last comment: on my way to work, after posting here, I heard Lugar's say how he wishes that his"friend Mitch McConnell" becomes majority leader, and how "we" all have to do our best to elect Romney. Iguess I feel somewhat less bad about his defeat now... And here is a link http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/08/11605668-lugars-goodbye?lite to what MSNBC calls Lugar's "scathing letter" - long, but well worth a read.