Lincoln Chafee on the election

Tuesday Night was sweet victory. I watched some of the biggest assholes in Government in Colorado and across the country go down in flames. The thing is, I felt bad for Chafee. He was a sad casualty of this battle. His defeat was necessary because even though he didn't agree with Bush a lot of the time, his party affiliation became an enabler for Bush. I think Sheldon Whitehouse is a good man as well, but it is sad that it has come down to this, but the fact is being a Republican, especially in 2006, is not good and you probably deserve to get knocked off. Chafee even expressed some interesting sentiments on the election.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. --Two days after losing a bid for a second term in an election seen as a referendum on President Bush and the Republican Party, Sen. Lincoln Chafee said he was unsure whether he'd remain a Republican.

"I haven't made any decisions. I just haven't even thought about where my place is," Chafee said at a news conference Thursday when asked whether he would stick with the Republican Party or switch to be an independent or Democrat.

When asked if his comments meant he thought he might not belong in the Republican Party, he replied: "That's fair."

Chafee, 53, is the most liberal Republican in the Senate and was the sole Senate Republican to vote against the war in Iraq. That was not enough to save his seat against the winner, Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse, who shared many of Chafee's views but was a member of the dominant party in a state where Democrats far outnumber Republicans.

When asked whether he felt that his loss may have helped the country by switching control of power in Congress, he replied: "To be honest, yes."

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I also heard that he is going to try to block Bolton's renomination during the remainder of the 109th Congress. The fact is, he's not an asshole. Hopefully he finds a way to make a meaningful positive contribution to the world after leaving the senate.