Going to be in the news again with a new book out. His justification for his actions:

...The taciturn New Englander claimed that when George Bush won the White House, he simply couldn't abide one party control in Washington, a dilemma he explains in his book.



"I think it's important to understand what happened and what can happen if one party gets too strong a control over the nation," he told Batchelor and Alexander. "It's important that we have a two party system that's actively two parties."

Jeffords contended that he had no choice but to wrest Senate control from the GOP, saying he told himself, "If you do not do it, then you forever will be responsible for all the things that occur because there's such domination of the system" - such as court appointments of conservative judges he disagreed with.



Oh, God, spare me. I'm racking my brains, but am completely failing to recall any such overwhelming concerns about a monopoly of power when the Democrats held both the White House and both houses of Congress. Nor do I see any obvious reluctance to go after such monopoly power.

If the Democrats take legitimate control of the Senate in the next election, by 1 seat, any bets on whether Jeffords switches back to Republican to prevent "domination of the system?"

Now, with Democratic control of major committees and the leadership in Daschle's hands, the Republican proposals for economic and energy recovery are DOA in the Senate.

Object of the game: make sure that the economy is a total wreck for the 2002 elections. Daschle and his crew don't give a rat's ass that this means suffering for American citizens. The only function of an American citizen in the mind of a collectivist politician is to vote him into office and keep him there.

The state of the economy is the last line of defense for the Democrats, since the war effort is not the Bush quagmire they had hoped for. Of course the bad news is that the economy may recover just fine without a government stimulus package, a concept inconceivable to a Democrat, so it may catch them by surprise.