John Swallow is a conserative Republican it is not hard to see were he stands on other issues. For example lets take homeland security, the senate leaders aka Tom (puff) dashle has held up home land securty now for several months, infact anything that the President has asked for has made it threw the house with with ease because of a conservative majority but once it reaches the senate dashle parkinglots the issue. Even President Bush's federal court nominations have been blocked for the past two years. This is unprecidented in U.S history. never have a presidents nomonies been held up for a vote in the senate at this magnitude. The dem's have found that by keeping their liberal justices in office they can challenge the result or elction law in any state that has a liberal state supreeme court such as the Florida State court, or most recently the New Jersey Supreem Court, Law simply dosent matter to theese folks. As our Great Rep Jim Hansen said "Jim Mathison (Or Dave Thomas for those of us up North) is a democrat, just like I am a republican.... You are either a member of the Party of George W. Bush or you are a member of the party of Bill Clinton Al Gore and Tom Dashle" That pretty much says it all. sorry about the soap box but when it comes down to it we need to make one punch and that is republican if we want our freedoms protected. Remebmer, "This Land is our Land." Lets keep it a land of many uses and not a land of little use.