[msnimje]

Keeping Chafee is not about his vote, it is about committee leaderships. We can either have him and have them, or not.

[supercat]

Keeping Chafee is not about his vote, it is about committee leaderships. We can either have him and have them, or not.

In the event that the committee leaderships boil down to Chaffee's vote, how certain are you that he wouldn't stab the Republicans in the back à la Jeffords?

[nopardons]

Exactly so.