Posted on 02/09/2009 9:05:57 AM PST by kristinn
Jim Robinson delivered the following letter to the offices of Senators Arlen Specter, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe this morning.
The Honorable Arlen Specter
711 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Sen. Specter,
On behalf of the several hundred thousand members of FreeRepublic.com, I urge you to vote against cloture and passage of the so-called stimulus bill, or as we call it, the Porkulus Bill.
We appreciate your good faith efforts on improving the bill. However, statements by your Democratic colleagues show that they have no intention of abiding by the compromises negotiated with you. In short, the Democrats are playing you and the American people for suckers.
This bill needs to be stopped. If passed, it will pile so much debt on our citizens, with more indebtedness to come with TARP and the omnibus bill, that they will become slaves to that debt and slaves to government.
As you reflect on your votes today and tomorrow, I ask you to consider what our Founding Fathers would do in this situation. Would they sacrifice and endure short term pain for the good of the Nation, or would they vote to enslave future generations with unsustainable debt for short term gain?
May God save America from its government,
James C. Robinson
Founder and President
FreeRepublic.com
Veteran, United States Navy
FreeRepublic.com
P.O. Box 9771
Fresno, CA 93794
Awesome, Jim and Kristinn. Short and succinct!
Excellent letter.
How did the FReep go this morning?
WTG Jim!
WOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Right on Jim Rob! Thanks for posting this Kristinn!
Do you know if he was able to hand deliver it to them? Get a meeting or anything? I would hope that Jim Robinson of Free Republic would at least get a little bit of time from those sanctimonious bas.... Uh.. I mean Honorable Members.
They despise Free Republic, folks. It won’t make any difference in the end with these three.
I’m not saying it wasn’t the correct thing to do, to be crystal clear, it is.
Just noting what we are dealing with.
Excellent letter!
God Bless Jim for giving us all a ‘voice’ and delivering it by hand!
Thank you all very much!
Good job Sir.
Excellent! I especially like the final sentence...
I had a problem with the “Honorable” part. Otherwise, pretty good.
Good letter, makes the point clearly.
Specter will most certainly ignore it, since he is so self convinced of his perfection but it might affect the other two. Here’s hoping.
Even if those “cuts” stay out of the Porkulus bill, one dem senator said they would just put it back into the omnibus bill that would come later this year!
It’s a good thing, cause all the senators email boxes are full & rejecting any new emails!
Thanks Jim Rob!!!
Amen, and Amen.
Excellent.
I know you're being sarcastic, but to not follow proper protocol would be to negate any chance of getting their attention...
At the risk of revealing how ignorant I am on such things, I must ask why these three are allowed to remain in the Republican Party. Is anyone ever tossed?
Great job guys way to go!!!
Thank you, Jim....Well Done!
Agreed.
Signed....
Responsibility2nd
Leading by example does not get any better!!
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!!!!!!
Thank you and dittos!
Listening to Rush right now and watching Zero give his speech with the sound down. Zero looks very angry this morning. I think he is headed for a major meltdown...lol
One will be hard pressed to find so few words say so much. If porkulus bursts the bond bubble, we will see inflation like none of us have ever seen. Our savings won't be worth spit.
It's too bad that the media is so silent as to the contents of the bill - although the people are solidly against it, if more people really knew what was in this monstrosity, this 'Porkulus', they'd revolt.
THANK YOU FOR SPEAKING FOR ME & MY ENTIRE FAMILY!
Bingo.
Great letter: brief, to the point, and deadly accurate. The Democrats are playing these three Senators for fools, and I fear they will not be disappointed.
Well written. Not unkind, makes the point that this is a pork bill, not a stimulus bill. Huzzah.
Nope, only Democrats do that.
The real question is ‘what is good for America’. The bad effects of the Porkubus needs to be weighed against the even bigger bad of continued rule by Obama and the Democrats.
It’s a tough call, but I come out that job one is getting Obama out of there at the earliest opportunity.
The problem with the Republicans standing firm on this issue is that the media will immediately rev-up all the cliches. It will be pointed out that Big Banks and Wall Street Fat Cats got theirs, courtesy of the GOP, but that the crippled children waiting for cold soup are now going to bed hungry, due to ‘Republican greed’.
Further, and even more devastating it will make the very serious economic problems we have “the Republicans fault”, at just the point that it is slowly dawning on people that the people in charge are the Dems and they seem frantic, confused, corrupt and unprepared.
Given all this I have long thought the the truly best response of the GOP is the EXACTLY the one we are getting. The House unanimously votes against the Porkubus. The Senate passes it, with all Dems for it and almost all Reps against it. PERFECT.
As a result: Obama owns the deficit, Obama owns the increase in US Debt, Obama owns all the fatty lard attatched to the bill, Obama owns all the corruption, and most importantly: OBAMA OWNS THE RECESSION!
His congress has given his $1 TRILLION to fix the recesssion. We have been explicitly promised MILLIONS OF NEW JOBS.
The fact is we conservatives know that the government can’t make real jobs, govt. jobs in many cases are just another tax sink hole. The Stimulus is unlikely to stimulate enough to actually end the recession, and may make it worse.
This is a story that will pay dividends for years. While it is difficult to over-emphasize the real suffering and harm that the Porkubus will do, I still take solace in the fact that the end result of this vote is transferring total, visible responsibility for the entire financial and economic malise clearly onto the weak and puny shoulders of Barack Hussein Obama.
You gotta like that, folks! So, cheer up. We win either way. (I’ve already forgiven the three turncoats for this, given the above analysis. I think they are doing the GOP’s work here, if not America’s. Still without a strong GOP & Conservative movement there is no hope for America except to become France 2.0)
They didn’t read it, just like most on the hill didn’t.
Thank you.
Thank you so much for speaking for us.....
Excellent!
“...However, statements by your Democratic colleagues show that they have no intention of abiding by the compromises negotiated with you. In short, the Democrats are playing you and the American people for suckers.”
How true. I hope the three of them take that to heart.
If anyone cares to know, I was the lady with all her 5 kids there, leaving a message for the Honorable Senator not to saddle my children with this unprincipled, un-stimulus-related debt. I want to be able to tell my children that I did all I could to stop this unprincipled pork, and unconstitutional transfer of wealth.
My children were honored to be able to thank Mr. Robinson, in person, for his service to our country. They were also able to thank the Gold Star mom, for her son's heroic sacrifice for our country. I hope they always remember this day.
The Senators’ online form email still worked as of an hour ago.... (Although I havn’t got a reply yet)
Thank you Kristinn and send our regards and appreciation to Jim Robinson for us.
Well you and your entire family are quite welcome!!! :0)
I decided to watch Bambi live in Indiana. I think he’s bombing. The enthusiam in the applause is waining. I think I heard it would amount to $1000 a year to 2.5 million Hoosiers. Sorry, but that doesn’t even help someone for a month much less the year.
Excellent letter. A perfect combination of proper politeness and the truth.
A thoughtful analysis and I do not disagree in principle.
The problem with doing it this way is the short to medium term disruption of the Markets as well as the increased funding for entities like ACORN. I think that, once they are in place and empowered, they will never be dislodged save for a true revolution, and I don’t wish for that.
When he starts swearing in German PM me.
Thanks for all your hard work. Great job.
Thank you for going and representing us and future generations.
**eyes burning with tears***
God, don’t let us lose America.
Thank you and were all praying for all of you there.
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