[grace522]

Tom Cole is a foolish man.....one of the many reasons Republicans will get creamed in the fall. This party needs real leadership....and fast!

[grace522]

The farm bill fiasco has put the final nail in the Republican coffin........a ban on all earmarks won’t help if you continue to vote for bills like the farm bill. Words must be backed up by actions!

[Fishtalk]

I sit here astounded that the Republicans chose to send this Tom Cole character upon our TV’s! I don’t know the guy but he voted FOR that joke of a farm bill.

I have not heard a thing yet about drilling in our own country or the Maxine Waters socialist comment.

Instead I listen to bullying defense of out of control pubbie spending!

I ask again, ladies and gems....WHERE ARE THE REPUBLICANS?

No wait. Tom Cole....the NEW Republicans.

Conservatives, suck it up and shut up.

[Alas Babylon!]

Sometimes I get the feeling that guys like Cole won the booby prize. In other words, he got the job because nobody worth their salt would take it. The leadership knows they're going to get creamed this election, so they put Cole in charge so they don't get the blame.

The problem, of course, is that if you don't put up an intelligent, hard-fought fight you will lose.

Despite the problems in this country, the Republicans could have a chance if they'd fight back smartly. Lets take energy and the sky-rocketing fuel prices, for example. The Republicans should make a big fuss about how we're not drilling for more oil, and doing it for the little guy who is hurting. This is one thing they should push, and push hard. Any dems making remarks against drilling, like Durbin last week, should be specifically held up and ridiculed, and shown how folks like him don't care about the average American who is suffering due to high energy prices. Hit them hard, again and again. Push a bill that would immediately do away with 50 different gasoline formulas and go to a national regional standard of only a few blends. Push for legislation making it far easier to build new refineries now, ensuring that their construction can't be held up by some activist judge. Demand the debate on safe nuclear power be brought to the forefront of the national discourse, and fight for new nuke plants to take the load off of fossil fuels now.

This should be a charter document of the republicans right now, similar to the Contract With America from 1994.

Instead, all we get is McCain's global warming me-too-ism, and him equating ANWR with the beautiful Grand Canyon.

[maica]

It seems like the person who drew the short straw got to be the head of the RNCC. I cannot remember seeing such an UNcharismatic spokesman before in my life!!!

No one else in Congress must have wanted that thankless job this year.