You very well could be right, my FRiend. If you consider what happened with Ashcroft giving up his seat to Carnahan without a fight and then the whole Jumpin'Jim Jeffords debacle, you can actually make a pretty strong case that the GOP and Dubyuh werewilling to forfeit the Senate fer a coupla years so as to improve our chances in the 2002 election. Think about it...a 50-50 Senate with a Cheney tiebreaker and a bunch of RINO troublemakers like McStain ain't much of a majority, but the Vast Leftwing Medyuh Whore'd wouldda spun it as Dubyuh being unable to marshall his majority in both houses to pass needed legislation. However, by dropping the Missouri seat--for two years only--and allowing the ultraLib'ral Jeffords to become a RAT, it gave the GOP a Senator D'asshole to run against in 2002 and set US up fer a huge win in 2004 (with the RATS defending many more seats than the GOP and Dubyuh's coattails leading the way)!!
I know we're s'posed to be the STOOOOPID Party, but in hindsight, that was almost Sun Tzu-ian in its wisdom!!
FReegards...MUD