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Again, you can say it until you're blue in the face. It still doesn't make it true to some. And I can live with that. The fact is that no one gave a crap about CFR, before Bush was elected or after. It was McCain who kept pushing it on the Sunday morning shows, and he got his Dem buddies to push it as well. With the Dems in control of the Senate, they pick and choose what they want to focus on. There is no way on God's green earth that CFR would have even been discussed in the Senate if the Republicans were in control. So, is it best to continue to let McCain cry about CFR, or, get it off the table (and into the courts) which will ultimately prune the bill to what Bush wanted anyway? You say unprincipled, I say startegy.

There is no way on God's green earth that CFR would have even been discussed in the Senate if the Republicans were in control.

The Senate isn't the center of the universe. The CFR bill came out of the House... The House with a Republican majority.

If you want to know why the Republicans don't have a majority, don't look to one man (Jeffords) look to the Republicans themselves. I frankly don't see any difference with the Senate now than when Lott was so called leader.....The Democrats were always in charge, they just didn't have a majority.