Senator Falls Ill; is It Good for the GOP?

Brian Doherty | December 14, 2006

Doug Bandow at the 4Pundits site sniffs at the way Washington media has turned Democratic Senator Tim Johnson of South Dakota's brain surgery after a possible stroke into political gamesmanship: if he, uh, well, dies, then his state's Republican governor gets to name a replacement--and goodbye, Democratic majority in the Senate.