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This along with Jerry Lewis (R-Redlands) really hurt California's mostly inland Republican Congressional delegation. These were the two longest serving members. The Democrats gaming of California redistricting is nearly complete. I hope other states with majority Republicans drawing the boundaries are gerrymandering the Hell out their Districts, because there are going to be significant losses in California.
1 posted on 02/29/2012 3:02:01 PM PST by Smogger
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To: Smogger

rules committee chairman..........like the Maytag repair guy.....no one in DC has any balls to enforce any laws or back the Constitution.....so the need isn’t there.


2 posted on 02/29/2012 3:05:06 PM PST by Doogle (((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Smogger

An articulate voice for conservatism with an ACU lifetime of 91%. This is not good for California Republicans.


3 posted on 02/29/2012 3:18:35 PM PST by Tex-Con-Man (T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII 2012 - "Together, I Shall Ride You To Victory")
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To: Smogger

El Monte

Please, hear my plea!

Cucuroo carucha (chevy ‘39)
Going to el monte legion stadium
Pick up on my weesa (she is so divine)
Helps me stealing hub caps
Wasted all the time

Fuzzy dice
Bongos in the back
My ship of love is
Ready to attack

Primer mi carucha (chevy ‘39)
Going to el monte legion stadium
Pick up on my weesa (she is so divine)
Helps me stealing hub caps
Wasted all the time

Fuzzy dice
Bongos in the back
My ship of love
Ready to attack
Won’t you please hear my plea

Primer mi carucha (chevy ‘39)
Going to el monte legion stadium
Pick up on my weesa (she is so divine)
Helps me stealing hub caps
Wasted all the time

Fuzzy dice
Bongos in the back
My ship of love
Ready to attack


4 posted on 02/29/2012 3:26:19 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Smogger

That’s 2 Republicans who have announced they are retiring. The party that has a bunch of retirees going up to the election is the normally party that loses the election. Are we looking at another All Democrat government? If that happens forget about europeanization. We will go way past Europe and most of us will be wondering whey we didn’t get out when we could.


5 posted on 02/29/2012 3:28:26 PM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson.")
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To: Smogger

He calls himself an institutionalist.

We don’t need more of that.


6 posted on 02/29/2012 3:29:40 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; Impy; Clintonfatigued; randita; BillyBoy; GOPsterinMA; Coop; RygelXVI

Dreier got a raw deal in redistricting, and it was clear from the get-go that he had nowhere to run for reelection. I wish he would run for the Senate against Feinstein, since he’s conservative enough that he’d be the most conservative Senator from CA in over 50 years but has the type of demeanor that won’t scare off moderates in California. Alas, that’s not gonna happen (he doesn’t have the fire in the belly to run statewide).


7 posted on 02/29/2012 3:39:02 PM PST by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll protect your rights?)
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“I've been doing this a long time. I am now 59 ... There are other things I want to do.”

Translation: “ I have been doing this for a long time. Now I want to cash in and make some real money. After 45 years in Congress, I have full access to the Capital and all the members of Congress and I know the ones that are open to bribes. So let the "Lobbying" begin.”

10 posted on 02/29/2012 4:24:40 PM PST by Tupelo ( 2012 TEA PARTYER but no longer a Republican)
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To: Smogger

Just what did he do to prevent the democRats from pushing through this disastrous health care bill?

As has been posted earlier. I guess his position is just not needed.


11 posted on 02/29/2012 4:34:51 PM PST by puppypusher (The World is going to the dogs.)
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To: Smogger; AuH2ORepublican; randita; fieldmarshaldj; calcowgirl; scrabblehack; GOPsterinMA; ...

Don’t overreact. When the map was released this outcome was a certainty. A guy who has flirted with retirement as much as Dreier wasn’t gonna run against a fellow incumbent Republican in the 31st (which was really his only option)

A while back I did my amateur analysis of the CA races.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2756014/posts#13

We have 14 seats that should be safe, down from the 19 rather safe seats we have now. I pegged 3 more as probable wins, for 17. That would be minus 2 seats provided we don’t win any of the other many competitive seats, which we could.

If Obama wins the state by 20+ points again that would not be good.


12 posted on 02/29/2012 4:54:12 PM PST by Impy (Don't call me red.)
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To: Smogger
Dreier is what one would call a "lifelong batchelor," who was supposedly "outed" several times but in a quiet way (not with national exposure, as with the rumors of Mark Foley before the email expose).

When his district was solidly Republican, this never became an issue. If, however, he were forced to run against a Democrat in a Democrat district, this would become the issue on Day One.

-PJ

17 posted on 03/05/2012 2:26:27 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you can vote for President, then your children can run for President.)
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To: Smogger

California is done. Get out if you haven’t already.


22 posted on 03/05/2012 3:25:21 PM PST by Jim Noble ("The Germans: At your feet, or at your throat" - Winston Churchill)
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