Is it time for Senator Mitch McConnell,Republican Leader - United States Senator for Kentucky,to go?

me | 7/19/08 | me

[mdittmar]

Is it time for Senator Mitch McConnell,Republican Leader - United States Senator for Kentucky,to go?

[mdittmar]

It’s time for all of them to go.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

It’s time for all of them to go.

"Throw out the bums! Even those doing a good job!"

No wonder Conservatives don't get taken seriously by so many in the ranks of power.

[mdittmar]

Even those doing a good job!

I'll play,name them,and how long they have been there.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Ok, I’ll go from the old guys to the young pups. Let’s start with McConnell. 24 years.

Jim Inhofe. 14 years.

John Kyl. 14 years.

Mike Enzi. 14 years.

Jeff Sessions. 12 years.

Wayne Allard. 12 years.

Sam Brownback. 12 years.

Mike Crapo. 10 years.

Jim Bunning. 10 years.

John Ensign. 8 years.

Saxby Chambliss. 6 years.

Elizabeth Dole. 6 years.

John Sununu. 6 years.

John Cornyn. 6 years.

Tom Coburn. 4 years.

Jim DeMint. 4 years.

Johnny Isakson. 4 years.

Richard Burr. 4 years.

Lots of young pups are still voting very Conservative. How many will turn out to be Lindsey Grahams and disappoint us immediately?

How many will be Lotts, Bonds, and Hitchinsons and slowly become more liberal as time goes by?

And how many will become McConnells and fight against socialism for decades to come?

18 Senators that I think are doing a great job. 8 of them wouldn’t be up for re-election if we had term limits, and none of them would be re-elected if the “throw them all out” crowd had their way.

[SunkenCiv]

:’)

[mdittmar]

8 years is enough,then they go home.

and now the rest of the story;)

Longest Serving Senators

Since 1789 there have been 1,897 Americans who have served as United States Senators.

Listed here are the twenty individuals who have served the longest terms as of January 3, 2008.

Senator		Dates of Service		Length of Service
1. Robert C. Byrd (D-WV)		January 3, 1959 to present		49 years
2. Strom Thurmond (R-SC)		December 24, 1954 to April 4, 1956 and November 7, 1956 to January 3, 2003		47 years, 5.2 months
3. Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA)		November 7, 1962 to present		45 years, 2 months
4. Daniel K. Inouye (D-HI)		January 3, 1963-present		45 years
5. Carl T. Hayden (D-AZ)		March 4, 1927 to January 3, 1969		41 years, 10.1 months
6. John C. Stennis (D-MS)		November 5, 1947 to January 3, 1989		41 years, 2 months
7. Theodore F. Stevens (R-AK)		December 24, 1968 to present		39 years
8. Ernest F. Hollings (D-SC)		November 9, 1966 to January 3, 2005		38 years, 1.8 months
9. Richard B. Russell (D-GA)		January 12, 1933 to January 21, 1971		38 years
10. Russell B. Long (D-LA)		December 31, 1948 to January 3, 1987		38 years
11. Francis E. Warren (R-WY)		November 18, 1890 to March 3, 1893 and March 4, 1895 to November 24, 1929		37 years
12. James O. Eastland (D-MS)		June 30, 1941 to September 28, 1941 and January 3, 1943 to December 27, 1978		36 years, 3 months
13. Warren Magnuson (D-WA)		December 14, 1944 to January 2, 1981		36 years
14. Claiborne Pell (D-RI)		January 3, 1961 to January 3, 1997		36 years
15. Kenneth McKellar (D-TN)		March 4, 1917 to January 2, 1953		35 years, 10 months
16. Milton Young (R-ND)		March 12, 1945 to January 2, 1981		35 years, 9 months
17. Ellison D. Smith (D-SC)		March 4, 1909 to November 17, 1944		35 years, 8 months
18. Allen J. Ellender (D-LA)		January 3, 1937 to July 27, 1972		35 years, 7 months
19. William B. Allison (R-IA)		March 4, 1873 to August 4, 1908		35 years, 5 months
20. Pete V. Domenici (R-NM)		January 3, 1973 to present		35 years
20. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-DE)		January 3, 1973 to present		35 years

[rurgan]

“I went to your home page. I agree with every single thing you said on it! I just don’t think that the Republican Party is headed in the right direction. If they don’t stop - and turn around - they will continue to lose elections. They’ve lost sight of that whole “smaller government” thing.”

It’s great to see that other people can see reality how it really is. I am so used to meeting either ignorant people or liberals or brainwashed people who don’t have a clue. It’s only here on Freerepulic that I have met others who think like I do.

I don’t however agree with your negative take on the Republican Party.

If you see the incredible odds that many good Republicans have had to go up against including their own President Bush then you would understand.

First of all Republicans had only a bare majority in the Senate of 51-50 and they needed 60-40 to get any bill passed in the Senate so that is why they couldn’t stop the mandatory government spending and ever growing monster that is government and that has built in growth into it.

You have to realize that progressives(Marxists) and the liberal media monopoly passed 100 years of marxist legislation that has grown government to the size it is and that practially all of that growth is built in in mandatory spending mandates. Again Republicans didn’t have a 60% majority and 100 years to repeal all of these laws that mandate SSI, Medicare, Medicaid, FCC, HUD,Welfare, HHS, FEC,EPA, IRS, Dept. of Education etc and so on ad infinitum.

You also have to realize that Bush has been very bad on many occasions as in Amnesty for illegals and signing Mccain Fiengold etc. So Republicans had to battle the president, the Democrats, a lack of 60% super majority in the Senate, 100 years of liberal/Marxist legislation, and the liberal mainstream media among other things.

Even so if you look at the votes Republicans vote the conservative way 90% of the time or 90% of them do. The Democrats/Marxists vote the oppossite way. The only thing that can stop the Democrats/Marxists and a McCain or Obama is the Republican minority in the Senate and Mitch McConnel. Those that fail to support the GOP help the Democrats achieve their goal of a socialist state and a starving populace.

If you want to see the threat we face please read this, “The sad road to socialism” to see what the Democrats have and are doing to the United States and her people: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048965/posts

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

8 years is enough for a Senator?

Is that what you are saying?

[mdittmar]

"8 years is enough for a Senator? Is that what you are saying?"

Yep!

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Wow, what a staggering amount of ignorance you are displaying.

You are aware that a Senate term is six years, are you not?

With that knowledge, how would you propose that we limit Senators to eight years? Change their term of service to two, four or eight years? Force them to retire after serving only two years of their second term?

[mdittmar]

That’s just mean spirited,I feel no love.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

You are suggesting ending the career of a man who has fought hard to protect your freedoms based on the fact that he has fought too long doing so.

If you don’t think that is mean spirited, then how is my pointing out your ignorance mean spirited?

[mdittmar]

then how is my pointing out your ignorance mean spirited?

See post 66;)

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

What’s your point?

[ChessExpert]

“Of course not. What a stupid vanity.”

I agree. It does not deserve the headline. Nor was any reason provided in the initial post.

I contribute dollars based upon the American Conservative Union's ratings of Congressional records. I give the full amount to anyone with a rating of 90 to 100, and less to anyone with a rating of 80 to 90.

As for voting, vote Republican. They are almost always massively better than the Democratic party alternative.

A “moderate” Republican may have an ACU record of 60. This compares to a Democrat's rating, in that district, of 20 or lower. So even a moderate Republican is much better than a Democrat. The gap between 60 and 20 is as great as between 100 and 60. Consider Norm Coleman vs. Al Franken in Minnesota. I'm not contributing to Coleman, but if I lived in MN, I would run to the booth and vote for Coleman over Franken. McConnell is better than Coleman, who is much better than Franken.

There are only a few liberal Republicans from liberal states. Their ACU ratings may go as low as 35. By the way Obamma's rating is around 10-15. Even liberal "RINO" Republicans vote better than their Democratic party competition. That vote can make the difference between winning or a losing on an important issue. In conservative districts, Democrats sometime fool voters by looking and sounding conservative, but on most of the big issues they will vote liberal. So don't be fooled.

I you are conservative, vote Republican. If you want to discriminate further, do so with your dollar contributions. Send a message with your dollars, not your vote.

[linn37]

Hell no. McConnell has held the democrats at bay since we helped give the senate go the democrats.