I don't think it's a question of if, but a question of when.
Someone posted this article, from Salon.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/03/26/moderates/index_np.htmlTake the time to get a free one day pass, it has lots of interesting information inside. For example, this nice quotes from Chaffee:
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When the president was elected, everyone was looking for a breath of fresh air -- Democrats and Republicans alike -- for the good of the country we wanted a bipartisan effort," Sen. Lincoln Chafee, R-R.I., tells Salon. "We were all so weary of partisan trench warfare, and now it is deeper than ever."
"The president's agenda has been so different from his campaign rhetoric," Chafee says. "He is pushing an extreme agenda, from the abandonment of Kyoto, to banning access to abortions for service members overseas."
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Moderates, says Chafee, "could have made a huge difference to the president," had he not abandoned them and tried to "bludgeon them into compliance."
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