The Weakest Linc

Why are the Republicans going out of their way to keep a liberal in the Senate?

BY Duncan Currie

February 13, 2006, Vol. 11, No. 21

LINCOLN CHAFEE, easily the Senate's most liberal Republican, didn't vote for George W. Bush in 2004. Instead, he lodged a "symbolic protest" by casting a write-in ballot for former president George H.W. Bush. Chafee's beef with the younger Bush? Iraq ("a very, very costly quagmire"), tax cuts, the environment, gay marriage, abortion, the deficit--Rhode Island's junior senator opposed the president's "far-right-wing" policies on all of them.

Sorry, the rest of this article is available only to subscribers. You have three options:

If you are a registered Subscriber, you can log-in to the site using the fields found in the left hand column.

If you are already a Subscriber but have not yet registered for online access, you can Register Now!

If you are not yet a Subscriber to TWS, don't wait any longer to Subscribe Now!

Subscribing today will provide you with instant, complete access to all articles in the current issue, as well as to all the back issues on the site. Each week you will be able to read articles from the newest issue even before print copies are mailed!

Privacy Policy