Jeffords: Mandate for the Middle (HA!)

The New York Times ^ | 11/30/2002 | Jim Jeffords

[FLCowboy,]

Wonder if he wrote this before or after his overture to the Republican leaders to caucus with them IF he could keep his committee chairmanship......

[TennTuxedo]

Jeffords is a nobdy these days and what does his opinion matter outside of his home state? Actually, I would like to thank Jeffords for helping to create the mandate for George W. Bush's Administration, that the voters of the United States gave President Bush on election day in 2002.

[TRY ONE]

"more than two million private sector jobs have been lost"

Even better Jim, several Federal jobs have been lost including your Chairmanship on the Senate Env. Committee for the RATs.

heheheheh

[chiller]

Several points immediately came to mind...

...Economy; it is remarkable we have any growth at all after economic hit of 9/11. Resiliancy!
...Education funding; Didn't 'W' take Teddy K's plan pretty much as is? Funding is up. (albeit wasted)
...Poverty; Didn't Clinton Admin. reclassify 'poverty' about 3 years ago. Isn't $17,000- now considered poverty line?
...Environment; this one ticks me off. Jeffords knows damn well that 'W' is RESTORING many environmental regs. to what they were during the Clinton Admin. The new ones went into affect a few weeks before he left office. "Gifts" for wascally Wepublicans.

....but then I thought...what's the point...they can half-truth themselves out of existence.

So...never mind.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Leftist media such as the NYTimes and ABC/NBC/CBS/PBS/CNN ignoring their duty to fully and impartially inform the public about such things as all the 'Toon scandals

The New York Times is part of the (literal) press, just like a book publisher is--and the First Amendment rules out the idea that it has any such "duty" as you describe.

Broadcasters in general and PBS in particular do have a putative legal obligation to be impartial, but that's fool's gold because all free, commercially successful journalism is anticonservative. Commercial broadcast journalism merely apes commercial print journalism and takes on its perspective. And all journalists call that anticonservatism "objectivity."

[leprechaun9]

That is, James "Scarlet Letter" Jeffords!

[ricpic]

The guy's a walking gas bag.

[johnny7]

Little “Dimmie” Jeffords. What a puss-bag. One of the gang of 9 who voted against the Homeland Security Bill.

More interested in environmental issues than the security of our nation.

The man is walking feces... along with the other 8 who voted nay.

They are not fit to lead and their electorate is not fit to vote.

[aristeides]

Jeffords, still a Republican at the time, easily won reelection 66-25 against his weak DemocRAT opponent in 2000. I read here on FR a couple of days ago that Gephardt made a deal with popular Socialist VT Rep. Bernie Sanders back in 2000: if Sanders didn't run for the Senate in 2000, he would get sweet committee assignments. (Nancy Pelosi is now creating doubt about whether she will honor Gephardt's deals.) My question: was Gephardt protecting Jeffords, and, if so, why?

[aristeides]

Nobody trusts him , he probably has less influence than any other Senator, and he's not fooling ayone with the "Independent" label.

Somebody chose Jeffords to deliver the DemocRATs' weekly radio address today. Who makes that choice, the DNC and McAwful?

[aristeides]

Why doesn't he just become a Democrat? That's what he is.

The Clintonistas think he's more useful to them as an "independent," a "moderate," and a "centrist."

[aristeides]

Has Jeffords given a public explanation yet of his vote against the homeland security bill?

[shiva]

[Starboard]

Since the election, my decision to leave the Republican Party last year has been subject to new scrutiny. The attention on my personal decision, while understandable, is misplaced.

Statements clearly aimed at his constituients in Vermont. Because of his 'personal decision' to switch parties, the state now has a senator in a political no man's land. He's in full spin mode to keep the people of Vermont from realizing just how significant his miscalculation was.

[Grampa Dave]

It is obvious that Jeffords needs mandatory drug screening tests to see what the hell he is on. Whatever the drug/drugs are, his sense of reality is gone.

[hosepipe]

It's not easy to take the democrat out of the party BUT it is damned near impossible to take the democrat out of the democrat. All you end up with is a RINO{Republican in NAME only}- Himself

[TigersEye]

bttt for later

[Darlin']

"If the new, razor-thin Republican majority abuses its power and moves forward with an extreme agenda that overlooks the concerns of the many and benefits only the privileged few, there will be repercussions. "

Do tell ? Well, come January when Repiblicans take over the Senate, one of the first repercussions that razor-thin Republican majority brings is a Judas will have to give up the gavel of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Now, from where I sit, that ain't no bad thang at all.

[Theodore R.]

"Farmer Jim" is one of those people who give VT a black eye. Ultimately, though it is the people of VT who are responsible for this black eye.

[Morgan's Raider]

I read here on FR a couple of days ago that Gephardt made a deal with popular Socialist VT Rep. Bernie Sanders back in 2000: if Sanders didn't run for the Senate in 2000, he would get sweet committee assignments. (Nancy Pelosi is now creating doubt about whether she will honor Gephardt's deals.) My question: was Gephardt protecting Jeffords, and, if so, why?

Don't worry about Bernie - he'll be well cared for by fellow traveller Bela Pelosi who is a member of Sanders' own neo-bolshevik 'Progressive' Caucus.