Jeffords Is On the Way Out

I just heard on Neal Boortz, and it's being reported on this blog and National Review Online (so, you know, consider the sources) that Senator Jim Jeffords (I-VT) is going to announce his retirement. So far it looks like just rumor, but NR's Eric Pfeiffer says it comes from "a very reliable source."

Jeffords, who was up for re-election in '06, apparently has decided he's had a good enough run. He originally ran as a Republican, giving the Republicans a majority in the Senate, but then he dropped his party affiliation and started voting pretty much straight-ticket Democrat, so I have to wonder whether he could have been re-elected anyway.