So reports CNN via Dave Wissing:
Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee, who flirted with changing political parties in the wake of President Bush’s re-election victory, says he will stay in the GOP.“My Republican colleagues have let me know that they want me in their caucus,� the Rhode Island senator said Monday.
Unlike Jeffords, whose switch changed the partisan balance of the Senate (and netted him a boatload of gratitiude (i.e., a Chairmanship) from the Democrats), Chafee has very almost nothing to gain by switching, as he would go from the majority to the minority. And to put it bluntly: being in the minority sucks (less som in the Senate than in the House, but still).
On the Outside Looking In
Chafee decides to stay Republican, cites others who want him to remain in the party. Uh huh…me thinks a 55 to 44 majority has something to do with his
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