it's quite demented to say that ideological overlap has vanished from the Senate!

The Senate is much more conservative as a whole.

A good number of Democrats vote for conservative measures. This chart is inaccurate and very subjective.

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Per wikipedia:

"Frequently following a moderate path, Chafee was pro-choice on abortion and supported the North American Free Trade Agreement. He took a moderate stance on taxes and government assistance to the needy. On social issues, Chafee was among the most liberal members of the Senate. He opposed the death penalty, school prayer, and the ban on homosexuals serving in the military. Chafee was one of the few Republicans to support strict gun control laws. He sponsored a bill that, if passed, would have prohibited the "manufacture, importation, exportation, sale, purchase, transfer, receipt, possession, or transportation of handguns and hand ammunition."

His son ditched the Pukes because they have gone so insane.

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In its 1986 rankings, the venerable Americans for Democratic Action rated Weicker the most liberal Republican in the Senate, by far—and 20 percentage points more liberal than his fellow Connecticut senator, a Democrat named Chris Dodd."[6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell_P._Weicker,_Jr.