[neverdem]

The good news? Just as things turn ONE WAY on a dime, they can be reversed just as quickly with a spine and a leader.

Say a prayer, please. We need Divine Intervention. Some of these pubbies make me sick.

[LS]

And, as with anything, what happens is that there is a core (maybe 20% of the people in any organization---in Congress, for ex.) who are committed. Then there are all the flipfloppers who, when the numbers change, go wobbly. This is why Sam Houston destroyed the bridges behind him when he attacked Santa Anna, or why George Washington stationed some of his best shots BEHIND the army, to "encourage" the men to stay with it.

So this is why elections are so important: no, Chafee wasn't a conservative. But when you get a majority, the "wobblers" have more incentive to stand their ground. The closer you get to a 50/50 vote, the more clout the wobblers on each side of the aisle have.

Rather than showing their "true colors," some of the Republicans are simply blowing in the wind so as to always feel like they are on the "right" side of an issue---because they HAVE no "true colors."

I love the Pres., but he has absolutely brought ALL of this on himself with that idiotic "new tone." It had it's time---perhaps the first two years---but after that, you must enforce party discipline or you have none.