Hey Lorie, might you think that the 'Not One More Dime' campaign might have some effect? Be interesting to know how the combination of SCC and individual senators cash positions were vis a vis both parties. Might be closer than we both think.

Just so, John. The "Not One Dime" campaign - combined with the actions of like-minded donors who never even heard of it - is the proximate cause of the RSCC's lagging in fundraising.

As evidence, note that the House GOP is well ahead of their Democratic counterpart, and the RNC has raised multiples of what the DNC has gathered.

We said, "Not One Dime" until all the judicial nominees had their vote, and we meant it.

A darned good thing, too, as the RSCC is sending money to help Lincoln Chaffee in his Republican Primary campaign. This is their policy; they helped Specter in '04, and others as well. Most of us would prefer our contributions to party orgs be used against the other party, not to influence intramural contests.

Yep, not one penny to the national organizations; what I give will be targeted to non-RINO's.

I keep telling the RNC and Melman they may as well stop sending the weekly letters. Not one dime will be sent to the national wimps. I'm in Va and i'll be da**ed if i'll let Warner get hold of even one cent of my money. I'll also support the democratic opponent of several RINO's. If the Rino's can stand to lose their jobs (and lots of them will) i can stand to live with another criminal Clinton in the White House for a short while. I figure the country will collapse within months of a democratic takeover since 90% of them have been identified as criminals in the past few months. Are you ready for an all out war in this country, it's coming to your neighborhood soon, thanks to the lefties and RINO's that ignore the public?

The Senate is far less responsive to the will of the voters (their employers) than the House, simply because the House is always having to account for themselves.

To predict all-out war may seem a bit extreme but I'm nearly 64 years old and I have never seen the political climate this poisonous. I place a huge amount of the blame on Stephanoupoulos and even more so, James Carville. They were responsible for the most rancourous, venomous and divisive political climate this country has ever seen and it doesn't seem to be abating as it should!

My only objection to throwing out offensive RINO Senators is that we are then stuck for 6 years with something even worse - at least 90% of the time! So I say, stick with the RINO you know but make really, really sure that that RINO knows you only voted for him in spite of his views and keep reminding him - weekly if you must - that he/she is on short tether in your mind. If enough of us do that consistently, we might be able to force them to pay attention.

Meanwhile, start looking around for acceptable, electable replacements the next time Bozo 1 is up for re-election.