I have to tell you I’m a little concerned about some members of the Conscience Caucus and more than a few folks who are trying to get in.
Let’s just start with Sen. Linc Chafee (R) of Rhode Island.
First, he’s against Social Security phase-out; then maybe he’s for it; then he can’t make up his mind. Tomorrow who knows? Doesn’t this sort of felonious flipfloppery and indecision start to have a corrosive effect on one’s chances for reelection?
Better to be in the Caucus than out of it, certainly. And Chafee’s still hanging on, if in CUP? status. But Reps. Simmons and Emerson seemed to know they were against phase-out from the get-go.
I know everyone’s got to dance once in a while. But once phase-out goes down in flames isn’t this the sort of thing Jim Langevin (D-RI) is going to use to clobber Chafee?
