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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.

It was Ronald Reagan that attracted Democrats like my family to vote for him. Even though I remember my folks bitching about, "tax cuts for the rich," they still voted for him. Why, because "he had balls." I am worried that GWB is the strongest we will ever get on the War on Jihadists

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.

I'll agree with an upper limit of two years for the "new tone," after all the bile it bought GWB, but when we had the "hammer" in the House, we got Medicare Part D and budgets with almost no fat to cut or veto, save one stem cell bill. As far as the Senate, I don't know what I like least, its rules or the 17th Amendment.