IS REPUBLICAN VOTER OUTRAGE RISING?

The content of national Talk Radio and several of the major cable TV discussion programs suggests that Republic voters may becoming vocal, passionate and energized as a result of so-called "moderation" on the part of certain Republican senators.
In the spotlight are Nebraska's Hagel and Ohio's Voinivitch. Both have shown unusual shiftiness and a streak of cowardice in their ability to vocalize potential opposition to President Bush's U.N. ambassadorial nominee, John Bolton.
The votes of these two are important as members of the Senate Committee expected to vote on Bolton as early as Thursday (5/12).
If Bolton cannot win endorsement of the Foreign Relations Committee because he can't get enough Republican votes, what does this say about Republicans who received a mandate last November?
What is wrong with Republican senators who apparently do not like being Reoublicans, but take positions more akin to Democrats. What is the motivation for Republicans who insist on walking on eggs to appear somewhere between the ideology of either party? These and similar questions are being asked by growing numbers of Republicans and Conservatives.
Failing answers as to why several Republican senators suddenly seem to fear their role as members of a majority, Republican voters may finally become a force to be reckoned with.
Only if conservative and Republican voters swamp their renegade senators with phone calls, letter, faxes and all other manner of protestations will these squishy moderates finally turn the corner and start doing the work they were elected to do by their constituants.
It will be interesting to see how intense the wave of protests becomes. While the Bolton committee vote is important, it is but a prelude to future even more important senate votes on judicial confirmations, and eventually on Supreme Court appointments.
Republicans already know that their ranks contain squeamish, spaghetti-spined senators like Snow, Collins, Chaffee and Specter. So far these sorry personalities do not have the ability to give the Senate over to the losing minority, though they often attempt to do so.
It is bad enough to have to go to lunch with the aforementioned quartet. What really hurts is when formerly reliable members of the majotiry start acting like the well-established Gang of Four.