For many years, he hid himself in comfortable anonymity and played his role as the aristocratic little rich boy while he did SQUAT for Rhode Island in the U.S. Senate.

The exigencies of 21st century politics have exposed Chafee for what he is: an enabler. He is a lapdog for Bush, Frist and all of the running dogs of rampant capitalism.

Everything Chafee does is being engraved in the collective memory of the working people in the State of Rhode Island. No matter how much money he spends, no matter how much support he receives from the national Republican Party, he is going to retire to the life of a country gentleman in January, 2007.