IT'S TUESDAY... SO WHERE EXACTLY DOES CHRIS SHAYS STAND ON IRAQ? VERY, VERY UNSURE AND WEAK-- A TOTAL LOSER

Yesterday I was driving around and that Norman Goldman fellow who subs for Ed Schultz was on Air America and he started babbling about Chris Shays being a flip flopper because he used to support the war and now he's against the war. Well, Norman, you're a day or two behind the news and Shays is a flip floppin flopper. Welcome to Chris Shays' Olde Tyme Waffle Shoppe.

A few days ago I thought too many sensible people got taken in by Republican rubber stamp/jackass Chris Shays' sudden call for a timetable to end the catastrophic occupation of Iraq. But day before yesterday Shays was in full backtrack mode, floppin' over his flippers. Apparently he was for the war before he was against it and is against it if you want him to be but also for it of you want him to be-- just vote for him, please, please, pretty please.

I don't know if Rove got to him or if Lieberman said he would stop campaigning for him or if they worked him over together, but Saturday Shays told CNN's Late Edition that "I haven't changed my position one bit. I just want to light a fire under this government... I support the war in Iraq," he asserted, really pathetically, as though Gonzales had his kids on the other side of the camera with knives held to their throats.

Now Tom Kean's light-weight little boy, Junior, was feeling very alone in his call for Bush to fire Rumsfeld and he's probably pissing his his bloomers. Look for some flippin' and floppin' down New Jersey way soon. Unless he cares that Ohio rubber stamp Pat Tiberi also is in full flip flop mode. Yesterday Tiberi told The Columbus Dispatch that Bush's phone tapping shennanigans "might have" been illegal and that "I can’t defend how the President laid out the need for [going to war in Iraq]. I don’t support Rumsfeld... If I were President, he would not be the Defense Secretary."


UPDATE: CHRIS SHAYS GETS A DISTINCTION FROM THE WASHINGTONIAN

And quite a distinction it was! The new issue of The Washingtonian just came out with a list of the Best and Worst in Congress, as rated by Capitol Hill staffers. Shays was voted the #1 most spineless congressman (closely followed by cry-baby flip-flopper Robin Hayes. Shays also made it onto the "Worst Follower" list, comfortably nestled between Ron Paul and Jeff Flake.