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What do you think? Will this work?
1 posted on 12/22/2009 8:08:01 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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2 posted on 12/22/2009 8:11:30 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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If I pray, then I believe God can do it; if I believe God can do it, then I pray.

Yes, I do.

Stand with me. Anyone?


3 posted on 12/22/2009 8:16:17 PM PST by CincyRichieRich (Keep your head up and keep moving forward!)
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The Tea Party movement will have to merge with the Republican Party in the end, but it’s important that the Tea Partyers hold out for an improved Republican Party. In the end, the unifying, galvanizing force will be the candidates in 2010 and then, most importantly, the candidate in 2012—and that will have to be Sarah Palin if the Tea Party movement and Republicans are to each get the most out of their eventual alliance. Palin is the right answer to all the questions.


4 posted on 12/22/2009 8:17:54 PM PST by PaleoBob
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To defeat Obamacare, it is going to have to team up with the GOP.

They have that backwards, The GOP will have to team up with the Tea Party, Big difference.

5 posted on 12/22/2009 8:18:29 PM PST by muddler
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As I’ve said before, the GOP is going to have to accept and align themselves with the TEA Party Patriots in order to achieve any victory.


6 posted on 12/22/2009 8:19:28 PM PST by panaxanax (It's time for TEA Party Patriots to get an 'ATTITUDE'.)
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"The media don't seem to recognize the fact that there are many groups that wear the Tea Party mantle. Some are completely legitimate grass-roots organizations, like Tea Party Patriots (teapartypatriots.org). Others are also completely legit. Still others are consultant-driven not-for-profits in name and tax status only, and they are actually just using the populist anger in the country to line their pockets."

The columnist here is precisely right.

The Tea Party movement should be strongly supported, but political hacks who have siphoned off millions of dollars, like Sal Russo (of the "Tea Party Express"), should be sidelined in favor of the true grass roots.

7 posted on 12/22/2009 8:23:24 PM PST by research99
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To: Jim Robinson; pissant; ExTexasRedhead; Sparko; trlambsr; True Republican Patriot; 3IDVET; ...

Ping!!


8 posted on 12/22/2009 8:25:46 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2 million for Sarah Palin: What will you do?)
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This is where things need to focus today. These blue dogs.

Writing letters or sitting in Senators offices won’t work. (I tried some of that). The Senate is in the bag. Those 60 are all bought off and many insulated from elections for 3 to 5 years.

But the House. Different story. All those Dems could ensure their future by either switching parties or going against Obama on healthcare. They will all lose re-election next year unless they stop Obamacare. People need to put the focus and marches on those reps. It is the last chance, but a good one we have in my opinion.


9 posted on 12/22/2009 8:34:05 PM PST by SteveAustin
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This is where things need to focus today. These blue dogs.

Writing letters or sitting in Senators offices won’t work. (I tried some of that). The Senate is in the bag. Those 60 are all bought off and many insulated from elections for 3 to 5 years.

But the House. Different story. All those Dems could ensure their future by either switching parties or going against Obama on healthcare. They will all lose re-election next year unless they stop Obamacare. People need to put the focus and marches on those reps. It is the last chance, but a good one we have in my opinion.


10 posted on 12/22/2009 8:34:05 PM PST by SteveAustin
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Run a really controversial ad against one of the most susceptible RATS in the house. If it’s mean enough the State Run Media will give you all kinds of free time in denouncing it!


11 posted on 12/22/2009 8:34:58 PM PST by Nateman (If liberals aren't screaming you're doing it wrong.)
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“If the 215 who voted “no” on the first round stay firm, only three Democrats need to be turned.”

The problem with that analysis is that undoubtedly a significant number of those 215 were donkeys who were “released” by Pelosi from voting for the bill in order to maintain their electoral viabllty in 2010.

Of those who initially voted for the bill, if a handful get peeled from the herd for the final vote, rest assured that Pelosi will be leaning on those who dissented initially to get on board to pass the final bill.

I expect it can be stopped in the house (and I hope Stupak will be the one to do it), but given the groupthink that thrives among Dems, I think it will be a longshot.


12 posted on 12/22/2009 8:35:36 PM PST by Stosh
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Romney is an older version of Obama...says one thing but believes once in power he can change the minds of us “simple folk.”

I see no leader in the Republican Party. However, they have done what they could. Maybe these constitutional questions that are being researched in every state will save WE THE PEOPLE!

Until then, I will pray that God will have mercy on us and save us from those who want to hurt us most as a country. God gave us freedom and we now have to fight to keep it. It should not be! It should not be! God is the only one who can save us now!


14 posted on 12/22/2009 8:45:43 PM PST by Bobbisox (ALL AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE FREEPER...and COMPLETELY DUMBFOUNDED!)
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A test of the movement is directly ahead. To defeat Obamacare, it is going to have to team up with the GOP. The next few weeks will tell us a lot about the motives, and staying power, of the new activists of 2009.

Some good points in the article, but Hugh's not really in any position to be setting up milestones the Tea Party movement must meet to prove it's motives or legitimacy. And I doubt he'll be the only one trying to set parameters of what the movement must do.

It needs to keep its distance from the Republican insiders until the motives of the Republicans are better known. They can exert influence on the next house votes on Obamacare without taking direction from anyone outside the movement.

21 posted on 12/22/2009 9:17:27 PM PST by Will88
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Reid knows his career is over, HE DOESN’T CARE!


24 posted on 12/22/2009 9:43:17 PM PST by television is just wrong (one big ass mistake America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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Okay, let’s keep the pressure on - especially Nelson. The governor and people of Nebraska are really giving it to him. Let’s add fuel to the fire! Let him know we are not only sick of the corruption of which he is chief benefactor, but we will also be cheering for the Cornhuskers to lose big to the Arizona Wildcats in their upcoming bowl game!

Nelson
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Webb
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Landrieu
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Lieberman
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Phone: 202.224.4041
Fax: 202.224.9750

http://pushbackuntil.com

Be in D.C. for a massive protest on the day of the State of the Union Address! We need to ruin their “party” - no more status quo, no more business as usual - WE HAVE A COUNTRY TO SAVE!


34 posted on 12/22/2009 10:28:16 PM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable, and unambiguous clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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The only thing that is going to stop this Bill are the pro-life Democrats and the extreme Leftwing Democrats (public option) voting against the Senate version.

It will only take a few to do so.

35 posted on 12/23/2009 12:28:34 AM PST by fortheDeclaration ("Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people".-John Adams)
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Don’t start the revolution without me.


36 posted on 12/23/2009 2:54:13 AM PST by steelyourfaith (Don't start the revolution without me.)
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It’s gotta work and we all have to do everything we can, including risking jail and shutting down Washington, D.C. with protests.


37 posted on 12/23/2009 2:57:31 AM PST by WashingtonSource
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Shame on Hugh Hewitt for thinking that the Dems who voted NO the first time around were doing it out of a sincere belief that the bill was bad. It may be true of some, but far from all.

My Representative (McMahon, D-NY13) voted no because he is from a Red district and needed the cover. Nancy’s got a 40 vote majority, and can hand out “dispensations” like Halloween candy.

She’ll get the votes she needs with that kind of majority - it wasn’t anywhere NEAR as close as the totals seemed to reflect the first time around.


38 posted on 12/23/2009 3:59:23 AM PST by StatenIsland
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There is one MAJOR difference between the ‘Tea Party’ people and the GOP...a spine.


39 posted on 12/23/2009 4:02:17 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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