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.
If you were them, wouldn’t you?
And I thank you as well Laz. Even If I am a bit lacking in my knowledge of reloading ;)
Shut up, you unintelligent moronic Mongaloid babbling uninformed ignorant witless simple-minded mentally-deficient empty-headed lumbering dolt, SHUT UP! *SHUT UP!!!!*
You forgot drunk. That one is real popular with my other debate partner on this thread. He said it over and over so it must be true ;)
'All or None' vs. 'Incremental'
Which strategy is more effective is a legitimate question that conservatives should be able to disagree upon and still respect and think well of each other without resorting to personal attacks or name-calling which is the trademark of the RATs not us.
Which is why I believe in very limited government. As to whether it’s too late to save what’s here....you may be right.
“...hold ‘empty chair’ town halls.”
Great idea!
You two need to french-kiss and make up. I suspect you both have, as the basis of your disagreement, definitional differences. I suspect you agree much more than disagree. I would start again, Norm, you extending the first olive branch, and defining your terms rigorously. C Edmund is a very intelligent man so you will need to be exact in your definitions. Once those are established, I bet you two have very little to argue about.
Short version from my time fighting the landuse wars while I was Ed at off-road.com...
All us hardcore offroader types were naturally anti land closure. But when rubbr hit dirt, many chose to compromise with the greens and BLM rather than fight to keep areas/trails open.
today every one of the areas I was involved in is either closed, severely restricted, or was closed over endangered snarfblats then sold to developers who built mcmansions and malls....Oh and the Nevada solar plant too.
The people who chose to compromise were real upset once it was too late.
Incrimentalism means you lose a piece at a time. Eventually you are left with nothing. In no manual of strategy does consistent compromise over decades result in victory for the person giving away his ‘assets’. none.
We have a fundamental disagreement about a lot of things. I however, am always right. Humble too ;)
You make some awesome points, but I think the one above is just wrong. I don't think you have a true reading on a couple of things.
A: First, where there is good governance going on, and it is going on in a lot of places, it is Republicans doing it. It is not Democrats. It is not some third party. It is being done by the good conservative Tea Party type Republicans where they have power.
Point AA: Where there is good opposition to Obama going on, it is being done by Republicans like Cruz, Paul, Levin, Limbaugh, Palin, Sowell, etc. No effective opposition is coming from any Democrat and no third party types.
And B, and this is crucial, I don't think you have any idea what it takes to build a party appratus. It is massive.
And point BB: once you have a party apparatus, you have inherent problems. This is a human nature problem, not a "republican" problem. People in power like to, um, STAY IN POWER. This will never change.
It's WWII. You are Churchill. Do you 'compromise' and allow Stalin into your "Allies" team against the "Axis"?
And what is the cost of a restructure/teardown of the GOP while spending losa cash to do it we do not have?
Then what is the cost of the albatross of the name Republican that has been so thoroughly discredited?
Then you have to replace every single person on staff as they are either diehard or mercenary.
That leaves an empty building by the time you finish with hellacious dety and said albatross besides.
you are correct in that 3P is not cheap. But it is far cheaper than throwing cash down a rat hole to get nothing in return but the legacy of Republican failure.
LOL! Surely you gest. I get what you mean, though. However, my early history of being ruthlessly slandered is so much worse than the examples you pose that they are buried in the FR archives of nasty, like forever, unFINDable. :)
Being under water so much, one grows gills and forges on, or around, or under and over. Thx.
Me? No. I don’t want the death of millions on my conscience. Which we now have. With no set in stone certainty we would have failed without him.
But we are not talking genocide here yet. We are talking giving in to liberal Republicans...which as history shows, liberals in power/gaining enough power, comity genocide.
Best to stop it before it progresses that far.
Nope. quite serious. I’m a drunk Yosemite san on a dragon. Wow is me ;) there are pics to ‘prove’ it. So it’s claimed....
....another straw argument. Good thing Reagan and Helms realized that all you had to do was take over 51% of the party to change it, even if you don’t.
And ask Rush, Levin, Cruz, Paul, Palin, etc why they haven’t started 3P yet if its no more difficult.
And why haven’t one of the some 100 3p’s worked yet if its so do able?
And where will you find staffers for this new party who are immune to human nature, you know, like turf protection, love of power, greed, etc. What will you use to staff? Robot? Martians? Or are you of some naive understanding that there are people out there who want to be in politics but have no interest in their own power??
Where the hell will you find that?
There you go, logic and analogy again. What do you expect to gain with that???
Ronald Reagan on the importance of political compromise(in his own words)
Everyything is either pointless or a strawmann with you..
So you think we get 51 percent and that it... The people who lose all the perks of the current leadership/that they Provide are just gonna go along happily with a lot less and TEA rules without sabotaging the whole thing huh?
These are logical considerations. And you dismissing them only shows how little thought you put into your argument.
Instead of dismissing everything I say in these tender moments we share, you’d do a lot better than making an ass of yourself by such alynski inspired BS.
And then there’s the legacy of the name. Funny how many people/indys will never vote GOP because of it. SOLELY because of it. But as many elections have shown, the same candidates once in another party/with their platforms intact, win.
It happens and you know it. So thats no straw man either. But you just keep pretending I’m whatever you pretend.
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