Billmon: Playing for Keeps

John McCain, (R-Arizona) and former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Viagra)*** have both touched on something that's especially worrisome -- freaking scary might be the better term -- about the modern GOP and its approach to governing.

The Senate is ''not always going to be Republican,'' former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, the 1996 GOP presidential candidate, is reminding fellow Republicans. ''Think down the road,'' he advises . . .

''Someday there will be a liberal Democrat president and a liberal Democrat Congress,'' Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., told MSNBC last week. ''Do we want a bunch of liberal judges approved by the Senate of the United States with 51 votes if Democrats are in the majority?''

***That is as cold as it gets--Dictynna.