The loss of Lowell Weicker in the Senate was really a terrible thing. He helped keep both Democrats and Republicans honest.
Has there been another Republican liberal in the Senate since he left?
I actually remember him losing and not feeling very good about that. I didn't live in New England anymore but I knew something bad would come of it.
And Lieberman has certainly been a rotten Senator.
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Sen. Jim Jeffords of VT was certainly one, elected in 1988, the year Weicker was defeated... but he got fed up with the new regime pretty damn fast and quit the Republican party in May 2001.
Now he's retiring, and his seat will be taken by Congressman Bernie Sanders, founder of the Progressive Caucus in the House.
John McCain is not pro-choice!
