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.
I believe he also said a party had to believe in something and could not be all things to all people.
A FReeper put up a thread saying Linda Graham held one by phone.
p.s. One would be accurate to call this post of yours a 'strawman argument'.
Yup, softball and scripted.
We need more like him. Ask several posters to this thread who crave RINO compromise.
The legacy of the name is an issue, but the rest of your assessments are simply not following logic. In fact, I don’t think you can, so let’s drop it. Because I am nothing if not drop dead logical. Your Reagan response was blitheringly illogical, but I’m sure you don’t realize that.
(and you can’t touch that “what about the 100 or so other third parties, not to mention the human nature issue. You can’t even begin to counter those, because there is NO counter.)
Based on these definitions, I bet you agree much more than you disagree.
Prove me wrong. Or right.
Commence.
Your being an obtuse ass and arguing in straw extremes.....I don’t think you can process any nuance, and you cloak your lack of intellectual ability in the purity of your own irrelevance.
No one would not. But thanks for playing.
Do you not see the result of compromise or did you miss Obamacare, the Border, Amnesty and the Behenghazi investigations/FF et all going nowhere?
you want more like that? Keep compromising more libs into office with Rs on their names so the Dems dont have to stick their necks out so far.
Or is modern/recent history also a strawman?
I remember another political philosophy that thrives on nuanced politics. Democrats.
NL doesn’t want to properly define the terms, because that would expose the weakness in his argument and knock him off his self imposed high horse.
Stop. Back up. Try again.
another straw argument by someone way over their head.....
no, this is like playing chess with a pigeon...NL craps the board, knocks the pieces on the floor, and struts around like he’s made a point.
Please, my friend, don't make it personal. We are on the same team here. Let's work on education and helping one another become more effective as a unit. K?
He’s like that comedian, throwing around terms, but not using them correctly.....
I don’t think we are on the same team, and assessment is not personal, or shouldn’t be taken that way.
I don't see Norm in that light. If I don't, I bet there's some validity and rationale for my impressions... Suggestion: back up, allow the definitions to be accepted, and have a (much more productive) discussion.
Compromise in the modern venacular means Republicans bowing scraping and bending a knee to whatever liberals demand.
It means conservatives forget that electing pro abort repubs has a direct effect of very dead babies.
It means out military gets sexually assaulted in record numbers with the full blessing (in the idealistic sense) of the last GOP candidate
It means any number of things we all know by heart. So I ask why is it exactly we should abandon our principles to gain the benefits of vaccusucked baby parts, buggered servicemen, dead Mexicans and dead SEALS et all?
Because that aint straw. It’s real and the very direct result of electing ‘compromise’ Just so we could WIN!
Look what we won.
Bro, in the 12 step program that I am part of, they always tell me that I have no power over other people, places, and things. All I have power over is my attitude and immediate actions. They tell me that I shouldn’t take anyone else’s inventoty, but only find where *I* have been wrong and where *I* can make an amend. I clean my side of the street, only. It’s a really good way to live!
He made it personal a long time ago.
No we are not on the same team. He is good with more of the same and I am not.
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