Wikio - Jim Jeffords

Corporate Profits Follow Power (Sunlight Foundation)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:37:24 GMT

... and the May 2001 power shift in the Senate from GOP to Democratic control created by U.S. Sen. Jim Jeffords’ decision to leave the Republicans and become a Democratic-caucusing independent. In the first case, economists found “Republican companies” beat the market by 3 percent over the week after Bush’s victory was secured, and the “Democratic companies” lagged badly.” In the second instance,...

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McCain Lies (Making Light)

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:06:11 GMT

... to overcome procedural hurdles. Clinton got only 44 votes, all from Democrats and independent Sen. Jim Jeffords of Vermont. Fifty-four Republicans all voted no. “Just as with 9/11, we did not get to the point where we believed we understood what happened until an independent investigation was conducted,” Clinton said.

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Long Way Down (Talking Points Memo)

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 03:33:57 GMT

... for New England and thus are well to the left of the Republican party. He would be just another Jim Jeffords or Lincoln Chaffee - and they both felt very uncomfortable in the Bush era Republican Party. And this is why he has continued to caucus with the Democrats. But this has meant that Joe has had to walk a tightrope - he criticizes the Democrats enough to keep his popularity up with the...

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The Democrats Win (PowerBlog!)

noreply@blogger.com (Shaun Pierce) — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:18:00 GMT

... Sen. John McCain was very close to leaving the Republican Party in 2001, weeks before then-Sen. Jim Jeffords (Vt.) famously announced his decision to become an Independent. That's according to former Democratic lawmakers who say they were involved in the discussions.Former Sen. Tom Daschle and ex-Rep. Tom Downey said there were nearly two months of talks with the McCain following an approach...

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Reid / McConnell Lieberman Deal? (Political Animal)

Sat, 31 May 2008 17:42:00 GMT

... a change in majority to change control of the chamber. Things were different in 2001-2002, when Jim Jeffords' decision to leave the Republican Party gave Democrats control. Why did Mitch McConnell let Harry Reid set up the rules this way, when Tom Daschle didn't let Trent Lott set up the rules like that six years ago? (Here's the text of the , which allows for control to switch. By contrast,...

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McCain: GOP Mississippi Loss Bodes Well for Him (ScrappleFace)

Wed, 14 May 2008 14:55:14 GMT

... “Happy days are here again for the party of Nelson Rockefeller, Lincoln Chafee, Arlen Specter and Jim Jeffords.” Post This to Your Facebook Your Donation Fuels Family-Friendly Satire

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McCain Democrat (democrats.com)

Sat, 10 May 2008 18:41:04 GMT

... John McCain (R-Ariz.) was close to leaving the Republican Party in 2001, weeks before then-Sen. Jim Jeffords (Vt.) famously announced his decision to become an Independent, according to former Democratic lawmakers who say they were involved in the discussions. In interviews with The Hill this month, former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) and ex-Rep. Tom Downey (D-N.Y.) said there were nearly two...

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Today’s News Proves McCain is a Liar, Too (Never Yet Melted)

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:29:25 GMT

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Disasters (Gut Rumbles)

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:53:14 GMT

... regulations like projectile vomit and made heroes out of scumbags such as Henry Waxman and Jim Jeffords. What was the end result'WE'RE STILL ALL GONNA DIE!!!It's worse now than it ever was. Now, OBESITY is going to kill us! Potato chips are going to kill us. Playground equipment is going to kill us. BUGS are going to kill us now that we banned perfectly safe insecticides.We are too rich...

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Obama, a Liberal to be proud of (TwoConservatives)

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:16:00 GMT

... (who is no slouch herself with a "9" rating), and well to the left of Leiberman, Reid, and Jumping Jim Jeffords. He's earned that record with his broad view of government as the driver for everything that happens in this country. For example, in Barack Obama's America, it is the job of the government, using your tax dollars, to develop new technologies: "Deploy Cellulosic Ethanol: Obama...

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Silly, Time-Wasting Resolution Passes in Vermont (Pardon My English: Conservative New)

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:24:07 GMT

... electing Pat Leahy and Bernie Sanders. Not to mention harboring the disastrously double-minded Jim Jeffords (whom we have to thank for the Senatorial career of Sanders, to begin with.)Still, despite its silliness, such dogmatic pronouncements by local government serve as reminders of just why we don't have a "democracy."When a thousand people in a town in Vermont think they have the authority...

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International Sunlight (Sunlight Foundation)

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:04:29 GMT

... in Canada, a major scandal is brewing. Imagine if back in 2001 the Democratic leadership bribed Jim Jeffords with $1 million to switch from Republican to Independent and thus tip the Senate majority into Democratic hands. That would certainly be a major national scandal. Well, that's what's going on in the maple leaf country. According to TPM : Back in 2005, while the former Liberal government...

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The Republican Party in Trouble: R.I.P. G.O.P. (Death By 1000 Papercuts)

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:25:00 GMT

... in the House, and in the Senate, with the VD in charge. We had it our way. Then came that bastard Jim Jeffords. I will never forgive him. He threw the Senate back to those Democrats, and it looked like we were going to have to compromise and cooperate. But then, as if to answer our prayers, came 9/11. Oh, I remember it just like yesterday. It was great. We once again had complete control...

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John McCain - Mr. Republican (The Crossed Pond)

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:10:38 GMT

... too when Democrats were openly being approached by fence-sitting Republicans such as Chaffee and Jim Jeffords (who did make the switch). McCain, coming off a very nasty loss that he took quite personally in the 2000 primary, and prior to to the 2002 cycle when GWOT fever took hold, and then 2004 when he reinvented himself (again) as a “party man”, certainly had every reason to consider it...

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Decisions, Decisions (Marc's Miscellany)

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:05:00 GMT

... are, in fact, necessary. Clinton, like lots of perfectly admirable Senators from Carl Levin to Jim Jeffords and beyond, doesn't have that extra bit. It's the difference between a person who has to change his policies to become more popular, and a person who makes policies more popular by espousing them. Obviously, that's a quality that exists on a continuum, but Obama seems to me to be much...

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Will Hillary Clinton's Campaign Contribution to Socialist Bernie Sanders Be a Campaign Issue? (newsalert)

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:54:00 GMT

Here's an old one from the Green Mountain Daily on Monday Apr 24, 2006: US Senator Hillary Clinton (D-New York) has contributed over $10,000 to US Rep. Bernie Sanders' bid for the US Senate to replace US Senator Jim Jeffords this fall. Obama also strongly supports socialist Bernie Sanders, here's the powerful video in which Obama shows what "change" means.Who likes socialist Bernie Sanders more?...

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What Should Ron Paul Do With All That Money? (Prose Before Hos)

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:33:31 GMT

... politicians like Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, Mike Gravel, Pat Buchanan, former Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords, and former Rhode Island senator Lincoln Chafee, and prominent independent politicians such as Ralph Nader, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, and Jesse Ventura. Though they may not share much on social or economic agendas, they do share a commonality towards reform on the issue that has...

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We're all Europeans, now. (Knowledge is Power)

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:17:18 GMT

... in the Presidency and gave him both houses of Congress in 2000, and again in 2002 after Jumpin’ Jim Jeffords beat McCain to the Independent punch. But what they ended up with for their efforts was “compassionate conservatism”. President George W. Bush increased federal spending from Clinton's 18.4% of GDP (lowest since 1966) to over 20%. Surpluses became deficits. Campaign financing was...

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Conservative Grief (American Thinker)

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 06:03:30 GMT

... in the Presidency and gave him both houses of Congress in 2000, and again in 2002 after Jumpin' Jim Jeffords beat McCain to the Independent punch.

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Liberals all up in arms that Conservatives want a CONSERVATIVE as President (Left Wing = Hate)

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:13:37 GMT

... McCain as a RINO (Republican in name only) and is in good company with Liberals like “Jumping” Jim Jeffords, Lincoln Chaffee, and others who claim they are republicans but are as way-far left liberals like Obama, Kennedy, Clinton, Byrd, etc…. It's amazing how easily and quickly the Liberal Democrats attempt to supress Free Speach in this country. We should start calling the Democrats the...

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