Posted on 08/16/2013 5:44:13 AM PDT by cotton1706
In a New York Times piece about the frustrations of one citizen activist in Texas, some prominent Republicans who have not held an August town hall are listed. They include: Rep. Rodney Davis (R-IL); Rep. Tim Griffin (R-AK); Rep. John Kline (R-MN); Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn (R-TX); Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), the chair of the House Rules Committee; Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC); and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), who has “not announced any town halls but did participate in them in 2009.”
The Times profiled Katrina Pierson, a fierce Tea Party activist from the Dallas, Texas area who traveled across the state for Ted Cruz in 2012. She and Tea Party activists in Dallas have made fake milk cartons with the faces of Cornyn and Sessions on them to urge both to meet their constituents at least once.
Pierson, a Sessions constituent, told Breitbart News that constituents in the district plan on doing robo-calls to put pressure on him to hold a town hall. She said that “Texans are tired of the failed leadership delegation in our state” and asserted that the state elected Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) “to lead the fight against an abusive and intrusive federal government. “
“Senator John Cornyn and Congressman Pete Sessions have spent decades in office allowing this out of control spending, the dismantling of the constitution, and a runaway bureaucracy,” she told Breitbart News. “They have been complicit in the erosion of our rights and free market opportunities for tax payers in this country. We have paid them millions of dollars in salary to represent special interests, and we demand face-to-face answers.”
Pierson and her follow activists have organized a town hall on Saturday for Cornyn and have invited him to attend.
“As you may know, we the people of Texas pay Senator John Cornyn a salary of $174,000.00 per year. Over the course of a six-year term, that’s over a million dollars,” a flyer advertising the town hall reads. “Given that we pay the man much more than most of us make, it’s understandable that we would expect that Senator Cornyn would be so kind as to make himself available to us on a periodic basis, to discuss the critical issues facing our Republic and how he plans to address them. Apparently, Senator Cornyn disagrees.”
Pierson has offered to host a town hall for Sessions as well, and she indicated her frustrations with elected Representatives in Washington are similar to those of constituents in other districts who feel lawmakers are becoming more removed from everyday Americans they purport to represent.
“Since the Republicans don’t want to talk to constituents, then deluge them with e-mails and shutdown their office phone lines. Let the SOBs know they’re in deep do-do.”
They’re just biding their time till October.
I know what you're saying, and agree. I'm still getting flak here on FR about not voting Romney, and people getting offendid when I state the obvious: Romney and Obama are politically identical. (Ok, so there's one little bit of difference: Romney is a Fabian Socialist and Obama is more of a Radical/Revolutionary Socialist... but that's it.)
I got fed-up with the crap the Republicans do (and the GOPe apologists make) and made a satirical brochure:
The Tao of Republican Orthodoxy
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>> “Since the Republicans don’t want to talk to constituents, then deluge them with e-mails and shutdown their office phone lines. Let the SOBs know they’re in deep do-do.”
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> They’re just biding their time till October.
Is that when thy plan on surprising us with passing amnesty? (I wonder if that’d be enough to start the shooting... Well, in any case, an ‘aye’ vote on amnesty can certainly be construed as Treason, as defined by the Constitution.)
I’d love to see Cruz take up Pierson’s invite to a town hall and announce publicly that he would like to share the stage with Cornyn. Cornyn needs more heat.
The truism "Fight like hell in the primaries" is happening all over the country right now. That's a good thing, and to be celebrated.
My two cents. I've seen this question/debate in various forms happening constantly over time at FR - 'Vote Lessor of Two Evils' or 'Don't Vote'. And BOTH sides of the argument are greatly misrepresented. IMHO, it is a false choice and conservatives should rise above it.
I think everyone would agree that we are in a war. And this war is a long, hard slog. It will be fought over decades ... generations. In such a war there will be many smaller battles. In order to win the war, the generals map strategy that they believe will be effective in winning the larger war, even if that means they might lose a battle here or there. Sometimes that means retreat, in order to fight another day.
An example. MA is enemy territory. If the general thinks he can get a footprint in there, even a small one that could be held for some period of time, wouldn't he want to do so if it could inflict some pain and divert enemy resources? No conservative will win in MA. Brown is not even close to being a conservative. But compared to Fauxcahontas??!!! Srsly?! Why is this even a question?!
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Churchill and Roosevelt used that effectively with Stalin. War is hell. We must make tough choices, accept it and keep moving forward. Not voting because the current candidate is not ideal, should be rare, if ever. It's a battle, not the war.
What you call besmirching I call accurately describing.....
1.) If we stop donating to the RINOs, then we just MIGHT have a chance that they will actually change their anti-Conservative actions.
Remember, in politics, “Lack of Money speaks louder than words.”
The beltway GOP have shown they are happy to take money from Dems to push the progessive agenda. I don’t think they really care about small GOP base donors any more. It takes a billion dollars to run for POTUS. You don’t get that $20 at a time. You get that type of money from K Street and rich people buying support for their agendas.
The goy casting stones has a record of always asserting my points don’t exist, claiming victory and the rest.
Like his fellow travelers down the lesser evil road, he simply cant address them ans keep on script.
It’s a fact that the gop has gone hard left. It’s a fact that we keep voting for them every election. It is a logical conclusion that they see this support and run with it.
My IQ is just fine. Others will remain stuck with their tongues firmly glued to that pole and wonder why they are alone doing it. Thanks for the ping. Just goes to show my debate byddy’s situational ethics extend beyond mere politics.
But I think we all see that plainly.
This is all really simple. Look at the people years out from the election conditioning us to go and vote for another lib. And when called on it, it’s one excuse after another. They never address the facts, pretend the points do not exist and bull on with their agenda.
And it is an agenda. Any conservative in truth would be out there rallying the troops to find and vote for conservatives. These guys totally ignore the words of the founders saying EXPLICITLY not to vote for things we know are wrong.
In FR’s early days, such people would not last long. In fact, supporting liberalism and liberals was frowned upon.
But today it seems we are so infiltrated that it’s allowed.
The best way of getting their goat would be to hold “empty chair” town halls. Get a spokesman who responds to questions solely with quotes they previously gave, while highlighting their voting record on the subject.
This would utterly horrify these politicians, and put them in a tight spot defending their record.
Well I’ll give our guy Rob Woodall in GA credit as he is holding townhalls and the one we are attending on the 22nd is likely to be pretty unpleasant for him. He voted agains’t Justin Amash’s ammendment and then gave some squishy reason that it would have meant NSA employees losing their jobs. We are furious about it. I would not want to be Rob on the 22nd.
Conservatives are to the GOP as African-Americans are to the DNC. But at least the DNC delivers free stuff from time to time. All conservatives get are the bills.
And they lost zero pay due to Sequestration, while they made others suffer.
The only logical inference to your position (politics cannot save us, but it can destroy us), is to make anything political as toothless and irrelevant as possible. Or to put it more succinctly, deconstruct the government to such a level that vilest conceivable leader has no way of “destroying” anything or anyone. Along with that, is a presumption that voting would be about as meaningless an exercise as it now, but for completely different reasons.
This is not a potential reality within the system as it stands. The vessel needs to be sunk and a new vessel built to replace it.
By virtue of your tagline, Sharky, I opine that the crashing fall of Christianity is the cause of all the increasing divisions, in both the intellectual warfare and in the tactical combat going on (among even the basically like minded) concerning all the endless compromising, as to when to compromise, or, to what large or minute degree to compromise.
NL and C.EW are consistently awesome posters, neither with whom I have found occasion to disagree, whether it be my good luck, or misfortune, it’s a jolt to read through a disagreement between them.
The “lesser of two evils” rule begins to become non-binding when its result repeatedly yields further demise in real terms, and/or in intellectual and political terms. Like banging one’s head into the proverbial brick wall. Eventually, after recognizing that we are pinned down into the wall under strafe of incoming demise and decline with no retreat, we contemplate doing something different.
The prez election will be close, but Hillary should win, particularly in a now solidly Marxist, socialist nation, where God and our traditions, morals, society and culture have been so marginalized. We have educated most of three generations for this moment, in direct
proportion to our own sloth and compromise.
We are now “fundamentally changed”. This alone should call for a radical departure from any more compromise and pithy talking politicians.
We LOSE, with or without the Republican Party, and it seems time has already run out on either changing or taking it back.
Third Party, in the mold of Tea can’t possibly be any more costly in terms of time and structuring and outcome than continually living on a wing and a prayer with the treacherous, monied, elite tyrants running the Republican Party.
Honestly, the radical Paul-approach is looking better and better, mostly because it is not popular, it wounds all sides of both parties and doesn’t seem to give a large damn, but aims relentlessly for an overhaul and course correction for government. A delicious prospect; to see some boats finally get rocked, with a course laid out to reverse and reduce the heavy handed oppression of the political and financial elite.
Just sayin’ there seems to me no viable runners out there so genetically steeped in the meaning of liberty and the Constitution (except those who use it for sound bites and flag waving) who have both the brains and ready organization of the Paul machine.
But a Republican I can’t be, not even one more time.
Thanks for the good words Rita, but you do realize that you just bought yourself a ticket to being called a drunk and a low IQ type like me right ;)
Soon you will have pictures of Yosemite Sam on a dragon posted as examples of your sin.
Don’t ask me what that was about but perhaps the poster of such incisive commentary will explain yet again how evil I am for questioning the ‘logic’ of slitting ones own throat...
C. Edmund, I like Norm. He’s a good egg, and ofttimes he makes very salient points. Certainly we, ourselves, have agreed on many points and civilly and intelligently argued other ones. I respect your intelligence and I remember you saying you respected mine. Norm is absolutely in our league.
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