Right Thinking From The Left Coast
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Wednesday, November 20, 2002

Losing Your Chairmanship?  Priceless.
by Lee

Take a look at this article. 

But two weeks ago, voters returned the Senate to GOP control in the fifth consecutive cycle — a clear, if overlooked, rebuke to Mr. Jeffords’ unilateral action. So what’s an opportunist to do?

      Rejoin the Republicans. According to a senior Senate leadership source, the election results were barely in before Mr. Jeffords’ office put out feelers to his former party’s leaders. The message? That the Vermonter would be happy to caucus with the GOP — so long as he retained his committee chairmanship. Republican leaders rightly rolled their eyes.

My only hope is that the Republicans, in their quest to get as many votes as possible, don’t figure that his vote is worth letting him keep his chair.  I doubt it, but there’s nothing that the Republicans do that I take for granted any more.

(Link via The Angry Clam.)

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