Rtruth and oddlycalm nailed it. My Senator, Lincoln Chafee, gets blasted all the time because he "didn't support the president", but he's really not much different than his farther. It just the party has shifted far to the right leaving him looking like a lefty. He's for balanced budgets, against unfunded mandates and for a tax break for the middle class, but not for the huge tax cuts for the wealthy that just run up the deficit with their back loading.