Unless Democrats can recover lost ground, it appears likely that the 2010 elections will produce the biggest crop of freshman Republican senators since the 11 who arrived in 1994, and possibly even the 16 who were part of Ronald Reagan’s landslide in 1980. Across a wide range of issues, the potential GOP Senate class of 2010 leans right even when compared with those earlier groups — some contenders hold positions on the far frontier of modern American politics. Next year could bring to Washington the most consistently, and even militantly, conservative class of new senators in at least the past half-century.
Ah yes, wingnuts from the far frontier of militancy — they boldly go where no man has gone before.
The article is actually pretty good, but this graf sticks in my craw. (Hmmm. “Graf In My Craw” would be a decent name for a punk band.)