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...Give 'em Zell: a rash of babies born to Republicans in wake of Jeffords' decision are named Zell in a cheap attempt to lure Georgia Democrat Zell Miller over to the GOP. The clumsy effort will backfire in 2019 as the "Zell vote" consistently goes Democratic in an effort to balm years of psychological damage caused from being stuck with such a name...
...Wall Street learned to love gridlock. Under New Democrat Bill Clinton, the traditionally Republican bastion figured out that when Democrats couldn't spend what they wanted, Republicans couldn't cut taxes what they wanted and the whole place shut down over the budget seemingly every fall, things went pretty smoothly. Clinton managed to cut the deficit and do some trade deals, and of course Greenspan was on the job. Enter boom...
...Republicans prepared to respond in kind by wooing a Democrat across party lines...
...Congress since 1974, when he was elected as the Green Mountain State's lone U.S. Representative. In 1988, his constituents voted him to the U.S. Senate, where he now holds the chairmanship of the Education and Labor committees. If he does leave the GOP to be either a Democrat or an independent, he will reportedly become chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee. Jeffords would also maintain his seat on the powerful Senate Finance Committee...
...Political observers do not expect leaving the GOP to hurt Jeffords? reputation in Vermont. His constituents, who rank among the nation?s most progressive voters - their other Senator, Patrick Leahy is a liberal Democrat while their Congressman, Bernie Sanders, is an Independent Socialist - are reportedly reacting positively to news of Jeffords? defection...