Posted on 11/09/2004 7:04:16 AM PST by BlackRazor
Nobody wants to be on the losing team, Chafee included. The goal is to get the dims to switch.
Can anyone say "Primary"?
Norman Ornstein is nonpartisan?
Chafee: one who chafes.
Chafee is of course no help on most legislative issues, but I doubt very much that many freepers are even aware that he voted with the President and with the GOP caucus, repeatedly, throughout 2003-04, against the RAT filibuster of our judges.
Notwithstanding this crucial support, Hell, let's purge him and every other moderate in our caucus and turn the Senate gavel over to the RATS. Ideological purity at all costs. Yep, that'll help the President get his judges confirmed and his legislative agenda enacted.
Hehehe. Reverse Damascus Road conversion?
Just shutting his mouth would show more respect for his father.
Getting into another line of work is a good idea too.
RINO alert!
Is there anybody in Rhode Island that can be persuaded to run against this spineless little RINO in 2006? The republicans need to weed out the RINO incumbents wherever possible.
I guess he got to thinking, and realized it would really SUCK to be a dim-o-crat right now.
Let Chafee remain as long as he is useful. Not a second longer. After his comments he simply cannot be trusted.
Of course: it didn't matter. His vote wasn't needed.
If he votes to end filibusters against pro-life nominees this session they will pass and he will lose his job.
Great, a real powerhouse of a senator...way to be RI, next time pick a man with some cajones -
Of course his vote was needed, and it will be needed going forward. We were only 2,3,4 votes short of getting the 60 we need.
I haven't a clue of where you are coming from.
Ms. Morgan, you need to find a new job if you advocate lying about positions, especially about supporting the President. The party does not need your type. You'd be better off with the Democrats where that sort of thing is standard.
As for Chafee, he should have the courage to be who he is: A Kerry Democrat. He puts his finger in the air and waffles based on the direction of the political wind. He has no courage. He has no conviction. We don't need him. We are better off losing with a genuine Republican that winning with a dishonest RINO.
Of course he will remain a Republican. Only in a warped democrat mind would someone drop out of the majority party, thus losing status, power, and pork just for the leftist cause. One looks at the utter stupidity of Jim Jeffords, who switched himself into irrelevancy.
Mr. Chafee, Goodbye!
Of course, they can switch parties; that is one's perogative. But LEAVE the damn office and let the people appoint a successor until the next free election.
i don't know how you could not be aware of that.
Now, as you youeself frequently point out, it will be a very near thing whether a filibuster of a reasonable pro-life judge can succeed. Now, the votes of our moderates will be needed to stop the nominees.
They can't hide behind the Dems like they did before.
Our moderates didn't get their high NARAL ratings from voting against their voters' wishes on the filibusters.
Unless the filibuster is changed nominees will only be approved if they are acceptable to moderates with NARAL ratings of 83 to 90. Or if our moderates vote against their constituents' wishes.
It's a sure recipe for giving those seats to Dems.
Oh gee...aren't we lucky? I'm sick of Chafee, Snow, Collins and Specter. We should count the as 'Rats, they're more liberal than most actual 'Rats, and work with our 51 seat majority.
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