Chafee will vote No.
 

Serious question - what the hell is the difference?

Chafee will vote No.
 

If the vote really mattered, you have a 50/50 chance Chaffee would vote yes.

Alito doesn't need his yes vote. This is as sure a sign that Alito is going to be confirmed as the Dems letting Ted Kennedy manage the filibuster - if it had a snowball's chance in hell, Ted would be sitting down.

Chafee will vote No.
 

You are kidding right?

He votes against Alito because he is worried about Roe v. Wade being overturned (which is one way to insure Democrat control in this country for the next fifty years) and just because of that you don't seem him any different than Dems?

What about Free trade? Business climate? Tax Policy? Health Care reform? Welfare Reform? Moderate Republicans seem to be the only people left who really care about fiscal prudence. If you can't see a difference between Lincoln Chafee and Patrick Kennedy you are a blind man.

If after the next election, he is the fiftieth Republican it will be the most important political "difference" in the country.

Chafee will vote No.
 

I cannot recall a single important vote in the last 4 years in which Chafee voted with the GOP.

He undercuts his own party more than Snowe - while feeding the papers with useless "bi-partisan" fodder every time he does so"

You're problem is calling him a "moderate" Republican in the first place. He is "ultra-liberal" Republican - if that - that votes the Democratic line.

If he's the 50th Republican, The Dems will carry the day 51-49*

* Or 53-47, depending what kind of mood Snowe and Collins are in.

Chafee will vote No.
 

1. You say "Liberal Republican" as though it were a bad thing. If done rightly, its a great "have your cake and eat it" gig. No morality police and no taxes. You're actually insulting yourself.

2. I too am wondering whether Alito will get confirmed. I'd watch the hearings more closely, but its unicorn hunting season.

Filli-bust
 

Cloture 75-25.


My over/under line on tomorrow: 57-43

Filli-bust
 

Aren't there 4 dems already for, and only one R against? And that's not counting Snowe.

Filli-bust
 

So you're taking the "over"?

Chafee will vote No.
 

Yes, and by any historical notion, George Bush is a Southern Democrat. Morality police and big spending. George Bush is Fritz Hollings.

Chafee will vote No.
 

Son, Fritz Hollings ain't no old-time Southern Democrat. If you're going to send this here compliment G.W.'s way, compare the boy to George Wallace. Now THERE is a God Fearing Southern Democrat who shares the Bush values.

Chafee will vote No.
 

Anybody else wonder how much better our society'd be if the Federalist Society accidentally got cross booked at the same hotel as the Adult Movie Awards one year?

Every woman in America should make it her duty to fuck at least one serious freak in high school. If we could just get these people laid - not even well - just laid... we'd all be so much better off. I know this is an awful task. If I had a vagina, I couldn't imagine anything more disturbing or disgusting than a young Spencer Abraham or Ed Meese drolling over me, mini-jowls flapping.

But this needs to happen, for the Republic.

Chafee will vote No.
 

Ahem.

Chafee will vote No.
 

Kid yourself. Shinnecock would let you in, with a pass on the fee, before the Federalists.

And I mean that in the most complimentary sense.

Filli-bust
 

Looks like we ended up right in the middle of your original 64-36 o/u and my 52-48.

Coincidentally, I received a fund-raising letter from both the RNC and Sen. Snowe. Wondering which one should get my money now.

Filli-bust
 

As it happens, I received my fundraising letter this weekend from Sen. Frist, so fortunately I'm not conflicted.