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Obie appointing Senators (current and former) now in hopes that the members of the Country Club won't turn on one of their own.

Kerry and Hagel deserve the John Tower treatment.

[Theodore R.]

When he came to the Senate in 1961, John Tower was one of the five most conservative senators in the body; by the time he left in 1984 he had thoroughly ditched his conservative past. He opposed Reagan’s “Star Wars” and also bucked Reagan on King Day. The current TX Republican most in the Tower mode is state House Speaker Joe Straus, who as a youth had chauffeured Tower around.