Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser.

Though Breaux was considered a popular politician in Louisiana he was unable to dictate his successor in the Senate. Since leaving office Breaux has spearheaded his own national campaign “Ceasefire on Health Care: Finding Common Ground for the Uninsured. He was also a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1972 to 1987.

John Berlinger Breaux (pron. : /ˈbroʊ/; born March 1 1944) is a former United States senator from Louisiana who served from 1987 until 2005.