For My Liberal Friends

I know how much my politically liberal friends are suffering these days. The 'new' congress is proposing all kinds of mean, nasty, conservative, evil, dastardly bills, laws and other treasonous acts.

Let me offer you just the tiniest bit of good news on the horizon. There are 34 congressional senate seats up for re-election in 2016. Of those, ten are rather secure seats for your guys and gals, plus a whole bunch of current republican held seats in blue or purple states. Additionally, you now get two whole years of crazy ass nonsense from an elephant run congress to stir up the electorate. Of course, you do still have that Hillary problem and the Koch brothers are already putting down payments on the election.

Oh well, good news -- bad news. Here's the list.

DEMOCRATS   (10)

Michael Bennet (Colorado)
Richard Blumenthal (Connecticut)
Barbara Boxer (California) retiring in 2016
Patrick Leahy (Vermont)
Barbara Mikulski (Maryland)
Patty Murray (Washington)
Harry Reid (Nevada)
Brian Schatz (Hawaii)
Charles Schumer (New York)
Ron Wyden (Oregon)

REPUBLICANS   (24)

Kelly Ayotte (New Hampshire)
Roy Blunt (Missouri)
John Boozman (Arkansas)
Richard Burr (North Carolina)
Dan Coats (Indiana)
Mike Crapo (Idaho)
Chuck Grassley (Iowa)
John Hoeven (North Dakota)
Johnny Isakson (Georgia)
Ron Johnson (Wisconsin)
Mark Kirk (Illinois)
James Lankford (Oklahoma)
Mike Lee (Utah)
John McCain (Arizona)
Jerry Moran (Kansas)
Lisa Murkowski (Alaska)
Rand Paul (Kentucky)
Rob Portman (Ohio)
Marco Rubio (Florida)
Tim Scott (South Carolina)
Richard Shelby (Alabama)
John Thune (South Dakota)
Pat Toomey (Pennsylvania)
David Vitter (Louisiana)