[holman]

"Special Ed" bill & "NE Dairy Farm Subsidy" bill is what this guy bailed over?

Why is the Federal Government even IN these areas?

Aside from Jeffords nitwittery, payback and a Just God . . . what's it gonna take to cinch back this centralized governance to only the narrow list of responsibilities set forth by the Framers?

Initiative and Referendum is what we need to scythe away vast chunks of bloated bureaucracy, beginning with all the regulatory acts. Then, only the activist courts will remain as the last defense of the Left.

[Boxsford]

Thanks for posting this. It's a good article

[tbeatty]

Yes, Lott created a leadership slot for moderate Senator Arlen Specter after Jeffords's defection, but the Senate Republican agenda shows no signs of enlightenment.

Here's your guide to bias. Moving to the left is described as being "enlightened."

I hope Jeffords gets absolutely nothing. Less than nothing. I hope he looks back on his defection as the biggest mistake in his life.

[Boxsford]

Explain more your idea about initiative and referendum. Who would vote; how would this work?

[Balding_Eagle]

a few senators actually wondered if he could possibly do the unthinkable--switch back

I don't know which would make me more angry, the fact that the Reps wouldn't take him back and stay in the minority, or the fact that they would take him back just to regain the majority.

What a b*st*rd, I wish him ill.

[MeekOneGOP]

Jim Jeffords:
RINO OF THE YEAR!

[SolitaryMan]

Yea, looks like a best seller! As of today, Amazon.com Sales Rank: 2,172. < /sarcasm>

[Tacis]

This sleaze's new friends don't trust him any more than his old friends do. If the good guys regain the Senate from the communists in 2002, this traitor won't have anyone that will talk to him. What the hell is going on in Vermont to be represented in both houses but such Amecican hating, extreme ultra-liberal wing nuts?

[bray]

Judas!

Pray for GW and the Truth!

[JZoback]

"the most depressed I have felt"

Well, there's always Prozac.

[LibKill]

I guess his thirty pieces of silver did not make him happy.

[aristeides]

That he switched over special ed is, I believe, just a transparent excuse. Maybe it was just bribery with a committee chairmanship, but I suspect the real reason was blackmail by the Clintons.

[Salo]

Ok, so this asswipe is the cat's meow in DC. How is he regarded back home in Vermont? Do the dairy farmers he used to get spread-eagled over his desk for still support him? Will all be forgiven when he runs again? Will he even run?

[AnnaZ]

Yes, Lott created a leadership slot for moderate Senator Arlen Specter after Jeffords's defection, but the Senate Republican agenda shows no signs of enlightenment.

 

So that's what spending OPM is known as today? "Enlightenment".

 

The New Republic, eh? No, thanks. I prefer the "old" one.

[Lancey Howard]

Indeed, one lobbyist recalls seeing Lott at a Washington dinner this summer and asking about the dairy compact. "His eyes were on fire," the lobbyist recounts. "He grabbed me by the arm and said, `I will never, ever let Jim Jeffords forget what he did to me.'"

Trent LOTT !!!?

[MistrX]

I always enjoy sending my weekly e-mail to Senator Quisling.

[teletech]

After reading this, I have a HUGE smile on my face. Couldn't happen to a nicer traitor! Payback, as they say, is a b***h!

[Fulbright]

Treachery leaves its own special kind of legacy. Jeffords will look back on his decision as a mistake.

[Lancey Howard]

Good riddance to Jeffords, who was never anything but a scumbag liberal anyway. He even voted against Bork and Thomas. He is exactly the type of spineless "moderate" that needs to be ejected from the party, and there are a few more out there. Primaries are critical.

[kayak]

"some bozo from Vermont"

Well, that's a start on describing the jerk. Doesn't sound exactly like the glory he was hoping for though ...... HaHaHa!

[nightowl_jg]

The lead Democratic negotiators, Representative George Miller and Senator Ted Kennedy, with Daschle's support, refused to make a Tora Bora-style stand with Jeffords.

Would this be a stand where you completely fold and don't inflict any real damage on your opponents?