Posted on 08/20/2014 3:45:40 AM PDT by Din Maker
The former U.S. senator from Vermont who in 2001 tipped control of the Senate when he quit the Republican Party to become an independent has died. James Jeffords was 80.
Jeffords had announced in 2005 that he would not seek a fourth term, citing his and his wife's health problems. His wife, Liz, died in 2007.
Jeffords served more than 30 years in Washington. He won election to the House in 1974 as a Republican.
He was the only Republican in the House to vote against President Ronald Reagan's tax cuts in 1981. A decade late, upset with President George W. Bush's opposition to the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act, Jeffords decided that was the last straw. In May of 2001, he declared he would leave the Republicans and caucus with the Democrats.
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Well I do agree with your post, but I was just wishing his family some comfort. I would imagine regardless of politics, they may be feeling somewhat sad today.
Very good.
I will say it. May he rot in hell.
Anybody else find this totally bad writing? Is it a "decade late" or "decade later", is it George W Bush 43, or his father George H W Bush 41? He 'jumped' in 2001 which was 20 years after Reagan's Tax Cuts (which worked!) and a further 10 years after "the last straw"? Nothing said about the deep efforts spent by the Senate Democrats to deny VP Cheney a tie-breaker in the 50-50 Senate if he had stayed GOP!
Lousy writing!
Now that WAS sweet and he was a POS.
I think your right. But I do credit Lott for that.
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