Interesting comments from George Allen about being a rubber stamp for the executive:
Webb's focus on Allen's party loyalty reflects the dramatic turnabout in Virginia over the past six years. In his successful 2000 challenge to then-incumbent Sen. Chuck Robb, D-Va., also a decorated Marine veteran of Vietnam, Allen repeatedly said Robb embraced "Clinton values, not Virginia values," and he attacked Robb as a Clinton loyalist. "Heck, even Hillary Clinton doesn't agree with President Clinton 87 percent of the time," Allen would say on the stump. It worked for Allen in '00 to hang eight years of Clinton around Robb's neck. In '06, Webb will try to hang six years of Bush around Allen's.
How much has Allen rubberstamped for George Bush? 97% of the time.