True, but the lines between the two are definitely starting to get blurred. When McCain and Chaffee are considered Conservative and the Supreme Court makes a decision like that without even so much as a mousefart from the Republican dominated legislature something has to be done.
If some Senators and Congressmen have commented I'd like to know. I hadn't heard anything as of today.
Who's claimed that?
""When McCain and Chaffee are considered Conservative"
Who considers Chaffee conservative???
People here seem to forget the following RINOS who were as bad if not worse than the current crop:
Lowell Wicker
Bob Packwood
Mark Mansfield
Chuck Percy
As for the SOCTUS ruling, that should be delt with on the state level not the federal one. No where did the SCOTUS say that legislatures couldnt prohibit the seizing of land for private use. The ycan.
Read the corner today on NRO, they gave some good examplees of voters who've thrown out politicans for eminent domain abuse.
Fact is the GOP is more conservative today than at anytime between 1960 to 1980, and is no less conservative than it was in the 1980s
What do you expect a Repub Senator or Congress Critter to say about the Supreme's decision? They cannot overturn it, leave that one alone.
If I remember correctly, McCain was the main challenger in 2000, would you want him as POTUS now that his true colors have emerged?
Bush won his 2nd Term, IMHO, for taking on the GWOT, not backing down when the Media assailed him, Values, and JF'nK was no way going to be POTUS.
Just because the Dems claim there isn't a plan doesn't mean there isn't one. Do you really think War Plans are unclassified? Would it be wise to allow Tikrit Teddy to look at it, go off half cocked then have the contents all over Al Jazeera the next day?
By the way, speaking of endless deployments, we kept 45, 000 in the Gulf enforcing sanctions against Iraq for from 92-2003. We've kept 35K in South Korea for a half century.