Senator Warner Retires

Senator John Warner: “All of you have joined me these many years to enable this humble soul to have a magnificent and very rewarding career in the United States Senate. My work and service to Virginia as a senator will conclude upon the 6th of January, 2009, when I finish — as the Constitution of the United States (says) on the first Tuesday of a new Congress — my career of then 30 years in the United States Senate.”

Senator Warner is an icon. He is a patriot. I regret his retirement. The Senate will lose a titan. Sans a Republican dynamo, two Democratic Senators will represent Virginia.