[vannrox]

Comments?

[dmartin]

Get some rope.

Until we begin to hold each of these politicians accountable to the people we will continue down the same path. Far too many of them are comfortable with their positions and the favors that those positions afford them.

[clintonh8r]

Two words of warning for recalcitrant RINO senators: "Tom Daschle."

[af_vet_rr]

Not to put President Bush down, but how many of his promises were just campaign year politics? If you go back and look at every election from 2000 on back, most candidates promised many things that in retrospect, they knew they had no chance of implementing. He can't even be faulted if he was makings promises he knew couldn't happen, because that has become an accepted part of the way campaigns are.

[bayourod]

Senators are a bunch of prima donnas who must squeeze an average of $100,000 a month in contributions from lobbyists to keep getting reelected.

They live so extravagantly like royalty that they are confident that the "mutual protection" code of politics that they all observe will not be broken by any members.

Senators despise the White House because it detracts from their absolute power.

Their worse nightmare is being "daschled". We need to let them ALL know that we want them to support our President.

[lilylangtree]

Considering that the Republican Party has started to stab their constituency in the back by approving Specter's Chairmanship position, I don't hold out any hope for the Pubbies in '08.

[Independentamerican]

Whats up Grassley's butt ! Why would he not support the president.

[G.Mason]

"Comments?"

The smarmy Congress had better watch out for the presidential veto powers making some Senators and Congress critters look bad at home. ;)

At the least, even should they be able to override a veto or two, the mere fact that they will have to work hard will be it's own justice.

[Dahoser]

1994 all over again.

Republicans take over both houses, most significantly the House where they hadn't been in power in some 40 years, on the crest of the Contract with America. Didn't take long for deficit blowhards like Pete Domenici to declare the Contract null and void in the Senate.

Many of those same hoseheads, who also undermined the impeachment trial of William Jefferson Clinton, the only elected US President to be impeached, are still in place.

[Tarl]

Spector has done alot of things in the past to create serious concerns about his ethics but I also know that I have come to trust GW's instincts...he doesnt make foolish choices. I think the President has either got personal assurances from Spector or assurances from people he really trusts that Spector is the one likely to forge the presidents judges through to at least a vote on the floor which is where the Senate majority can have its true effect.

Whew a long winded sentence, Rush Limbaugh has pointed out that Spector may have been "using the press" to dampen the Liberals fears and thus have some freedom to garner enough Demorat agreement to avoid having to go "nuclear" to end the fillibuster threats.

I don't know enough of Santorum, other than his strong opposition to the Scotus decision on behalf of those two caught in the act of sodomy in Texas...but I DO TRUST the Presidents discernment in who he chooses to endorse.

[hlmencken3]

I have personal connections to Sen. Grassley's office and I can assure everyone that the author mischaracterizes Sen. Grassley's attitude.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

His plan, in direct opposition to that of the president, includes maintaining the Status Quo, and implementating yet more new rules and regulations to the tax code. These changes would "shift the burden of taxes from the poor to the rich", provide tax breaks for the poor, and implement programs that would increase deductions for environmental concerns.

Is Grassley becoming a Democrat???

[reformed_democrat]

I thought Sen. Hatch was taking over the Finance Committee chair. He currently chairs Judiciary, but he's term limited by Senate and House Rules to six years, as are all Chairmen. That's why Specter is next in line to chair Judiciary.

I don't know which committee Grassley will be chairing in the 109th Congress, but I don't think it will be Finance.