Lincoln Chafee's new book Against the Tide: How a Compliant Congress Empowered a Reckless President has been added to my Amazon wish list although my Scottishness will likely have me try to just borrow rather than buy. Scott MacKay's reporting in the Providence Journal has the following from Senator Chafee:Amen! Linc's not going to be making any friends with the powers that be on the Democratic side of the aisle with this frank talk and writing. I've mentioned before that he's rich as Roosevelt but good for him in speaking truth to power. And shame on the centrists and opportunists that pass for "leaders". Finally, I noted in today's WaPo that Susan Eisenhower, channeling her gradfather Ike and surely part of the old "Establishment wing" of the GOP, is openly supporting Barack Obama.... I find it surprising now, in 2008, how many Democrats are running for president after shirking their constitutional duty to check and balance this president. ... Being wrong about sending Americans to kill and be killed, maim and be maimed, is not like making a punctuation mistake in a highway bill. ...
They argue that the president duped them into war, but getting duped does not exactly recommend their leadership. Helping a rogue president start an unnecessary war should be a career-ending lapse of judgment. ...
... Instead of talking tough or meekly raising one’s hand to support the tough talk, it is far more muscular, I think, to find out what is really happening in the world and have a debate about what we really need to accomplish. ...
If nothing else the 2008 cycle has the promise of change. Let's hope the media and voters and ... don't blow it. P/W
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