[Poohbah]

The Impeachment was after the 1998 election. The procedings were going on during that fall. The Senate "trial" began in January 1999. When they all refused to even read the transcripts.

Yup. They found that it wasn't going to get them any markers from "the base," so they decided to not bother.

[Palmetto]

Yup. They found that it wasn't going to get them any markers from "the base," so they decided to not bother.

PRINCIPLES!!!

I got principles for sale here!

Principles! Only 1 "marker" needed to purchase some PRINCIPLES!

[Let's Roll]

This is slightly off-topic, but it seems to me that GWB wasn't veering to the left quite so much earlier in his term. Could this accelerated caving to the left be due to Marc Racicot - the RNC chairman. He replaced Jim ? - Governor of Virginia last fall. Any thoughts on this? It just seems to me that Dubya suddenly has a political tin ear and it could be the advice he's getting. Maybe Racicot is a rino? Any thoughts on this?

[Citizen of the Savage Nation]

Yup. They found that it wasn't going to get them any markers from "the base," so they decided to not bother.

Yep. That was my first election that I voted in, so I remember. As a matter of fact, I voted for Jim Rogan (remember him?) and he was elected, but pretty much all the other conservatives and Republicans on the ballot went down in flames. I still wonder to this day where the base that showed up in '94 went to. I'm here, where are those gutless wankers who cost us the Senate???