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[Senate] Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) gave a bleak outlook on the prospects for a Republican-led Senate in 2009.

During an interview with CNN’s Late Edition, McConnell told guest host Candy Crowley that the numbers were not in the GOP’s favor.

“We are not going to be back in the majority in the Senate next year,” said McConnell. “The numbers make that impossible.”

One thing that has to be remembered is that, thanks to the idiotic rules of the Senate, as long as the Repubs have a mere 41 members, which they're sure to have, they'll be able to filibuster all kinds of bills to death. Thus, the Grand Old Party may not "be back in the majority in the Senate next year," but it's a lock that its members will continue to block any rescinding of the hideous bills that the 108th and 109th Congresses foisted on the American people.