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...McCain blasted the GOP - and the White House - for the way Jeffords was treated. Then he communed over the weekend at his compound outside Sedona, Ariz., with the new Senate majority leader, the Democrats' Tom Daschle - a visit that sent Washington into paroxysms of speculation and forced the White House to call McCain's office to make sure he wasn't leaving the party. And what is Bush's response to McCain's distemper? A blistering rebuke? Not quite. McCain has been invited to a private dinner tonight at the White House. As one pro-Bush GOP operative said...
...Jeffords? After triggering the GOP's loss of the Senate and the biggest political humiliation of the Bush presidency, the newly minted Independent from Vermont might have expected rough treatment from the Bushies - or at least the cold shoulder. But, like McCain, Jeffords won a visit to the White House instead, for a meeting on education policy. Even Daschle received the new soap- suds treatment. For plotting the defection that embarrassed the president, Daschle, too, is being rewarded with a dinner at the nation's most famous mansion. Like McCain, he might want to bring his own food-testers...
...butterfly flaps its wings and causes an earthquake on the other side of the world? Judging by the way the geopolitical landscape is changing as a result of his defection from the GOP, Vermont Senator James Jeffords could be forgiven for feeling a little like chaos theory's oft-cited chrysalis. After all, relations between the U.S. and its allies - never minds its strategic competitors - had sunk to their lowest point in recent memory as the Bush administration rode roughshod over the concerns of its allies on everything from missile defense and China policy to climate change. Now, with...
...chose him: This quiet Republican Senator jumped ship from the GOP this week to become an independent, causing perhaps the most significant mid-term shakeup in the history of Capitol Hill...
...Only Jeffords himself knows precisely why he decided to shed his party affiliation for the less constricting and far more commodious mantle of independent. Whatever theories surface over the next weeks and months, the record shows that Jeffords had long-standing substantive disagreements with the GOP, particularly on the issue of funding for special education programs. He apparently felt the disagreements had reached a breaking point...