Commie Senator won't seek sixth term

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

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AP NewsBreak: Harkin won't seek 6th Senate term

CUMMING, Iowa — U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin will not seek re-election in 2014, the Iowa Democrat said Saturday.

The 73-year-old Harkin told The Associated Press in an interview, "It's just time to step aside," noting that by the time he would finish a sixth term, he would be 81.

Harkin said the move also would allow a new generation of Democrats to seek higher office.

The announcement comes as a surprise, considering he had $2.7 million in his campaign war chest and was planning a gala fundraiser in Washington, D.C., next month.

Harkin is a leading liberal in the Senate, chairing the health, education, labor and pensions committee and having served as a key salesman of President Barack Obama's 2010 health care bill to the wary left.

No Iowa Republicans have taken formal steps toward seeking the seat.

Harkin's decision eases the burden on the GOP, who have to gain six seats to win the majority in the Senate. The president's party historically loses seats in the midterm elections after his re-election. Obama, a Democrat, was re-elected last year.

http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-politics/20130126/US.Harkin.Iowa/

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

He supports the confiscation of assault rifles like most communists.

[TBoneTX 46,465]

I lived in Iowa when he was running for election. I think that he beat Roger Jepsen, a one-term Republican. He and Chuck Grassley were called "Tweedledumb & Tweedledumber" by the (not an exaggeration) radically far-left Des Moines Register. Jepsen really wasn't that bad. Grassley survives today.

Edited January 27, 2013 by TBoneTX

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

  On 1/26/2013 at 11:28 PM, Gary and Alla said:

He supports the confiscation of assault rifles like most communists.

Only gun nuts think that this is what summarizes a political career. I pity those that think that access to guns is the only thing that matters.