Actually he made it his specific business to assist in the tax bill passage.

It turns out to be the big "Ed" bill that passed with ease in the house last week that lies at the bottom of this strange business.

Apparently the only way to stop this legislation is to kill it in a senate committee and no existing chairperson wanted to take the heat, so Jeffords was drafted.

And, the first sentence in the post above makes no sense, Jeffords has always voted via a different drummer.

If losing Jeffords makes the repubs more detestable, how does that help?

Seems to me if the repubs become totally dispicable, the end product is a one party system.

Personally, I don't want to see Buchanan or Duke on the national political stage, and losing Jeffords enhances the chance that they'll be back.