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Some called Jim Jeffords a traitor; others called him a hero. But when the
Republican senator from Vermont turned in his GOP credentials May 24 and
crossed the aisle, he trumped Dick Cheney's tiebreaker and tipped procedural
control of the 50-50 Senate over to the Democrats — and ground the
progress of George W. Bush's legislative agenda to an abrupt halt from which
it has yet to recover. |
