Posted on 11/09/2004 5:26:17 PM PST by FrankRepublican
People need to keep calling and not back down. Specter is in big trouble. I called Frist and Santorums offices in DC today after making endless redials.
Specter will also screw us on tor reform probably with Trent Lott and Richard Shelby of AL.
Received an email from Senator Inhofe today in reply to my phone call and email:
November 9, 2004
Dear xxxxxx:
Thank you for contacting me about the selection of Senate committee chairmen. As your voice in Washington, I appreciate being made aware of your views.
The rules for determining the chairmen and ranking members of committees in the United States Senate are decided by the party conferences. After a new Congress is sworn in, the majority party, (in this year's case the Senate Republican Conference), meets to determine its leadership for the new Congress. Committee assignments are given to returning and new Senators. Under Senate Republican Conference rules, the most senior members of each committee are usually chosen as chairmen and are limited to serving only six years. Once the committee assignments have been decided, the Republican committee members meet to recommend chairmen of each committee to the full Republican Conference. After this recommendation is submitted, a secret ballot is conducted among all the Republican Senators to approve or reject the recommendation.
When the Republican Conference meets to determine committee chairmen for the 109th Congress, I will keep your thoughts in mind. Again, thank you for your comments. Please do not hesitate to contact me again.
Didn't anybody in a position of Strategery think of the implications of all this stuff (Ahem!......Carl Rove?) before they pulled the plug on Toomey and sent Bush and Santorum out on the stump for this turkey?
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and on, and on...
Take back the language. Dobson is a civil rights leader. Its the liberal race baters are not (although Jesse Jackson used to be when so rightly compared abortion to slavery back in the 70s).
What does this say about Senator Specter?
But Arlen does support Hillary's confirmation to the Supreme Court. It's not like he's against All "Radicals."
Oh he's a team player alright. Just not for our team.
Excellent response from Frist.
He needs to force the rules change limiting filibustering of judicial appointees at the beginning of the new Senate.
Each new Senate gets to adopt its own rules according to the constitution. Carrying them over from new Senate to new Senate is only a tradition.
It's "mushrooming" as in mushroom-cloud if we see Specter's lizard-like face in the Judiary Committee.
“The Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have the responsibility of voting for chairman,” Santorum said in a statement released by his office.
Republican politicians have a responsibility to, in order:
1) Do the right thing.
2) Do what reflects the will of their Republican supporters who voted for them and determine party ideology.
3) Do what reflects the will of the American people as their duly elected representatives.
Sometimes all three point to the same decision.
This is one of those times.
What is NOT a factor is seniority. It may be important within the beltway, but the average conservative/republican/voter/American couldn't care less about how long some old panderer has managed to fool his constituency into keeping him in office.
And those who would care least would be the unborn.
Is the author calling us out? Ooooo-kay. That's just fine. I guess I will have to send 2 emails per day and make 2 calls per day until they vote in January. In fact, I think I'll bump it up 1 for each remaining week. What is that? 10 weeks left. 10 emails and 10 calls a day. No problem.
How's that?
The democrats and their liberal allies in the media (and even those like Specter in the Republican party) refuse to recognize what has happened to this country, vis-a-vis the conservative base. Well, the conservative base has always been the proverbial "silent majority".
Not anymore, pal.
We were awakened years ago during the Clinton years. We fought, but our voice was barely making it through the liberal-media fog that blamed everything on everyone else but Bill Clinton.
The internets [wink] emerged. Free Republic and other conservative outets on the web grew.
Then 9/11 came and us conservative, God-fearing, patriotic sons-a-bitches had enough. We had enough of the question like "What did we do to make the terrorists hate us? Boo-hoo, boo-hoo..." We had enough of the liberals intellectually siding with the terrorists. We had enough of the liberals telling us that it was our fault for what happened. Enough was enough.
2002 was a clarion call and the beginning of a fundamental change in this country.
The 2004 primary was notice to all the lefty RINO, panty wastes like Specter. Right or wrong, the only reason you made it through the primary was many Republicans had faith in W, not in you, Senator Specter. Unfortunately, you have mistaken the people's faith in W as an endorsement of you, your politics, and your linguini-spined, liberal BS.
We are rejecting the liberal mentality as a whole, regardless of your party. Get ready, because its coming.
The 2004 election was a loud voice, booming for everyone to hear, "We're here. We ain't queer. And, you need to get that liberal crap weasel agenda outta here!"
So, come 2006 and 2008, everyone needs to remember these lessons.
We're taking this country back from the gay-baiters, the race-baiters, the fear-mongers, the class warfare whores, and all the other people who have been telling us how to live for the past 30 years. The PC crap isn't going to run our lives anymore. You will NOT tell me how to pledge to my flag. You will NOT tell me that I have to "respect" other people's lifestyle choices.
F' YOU!
If you don't like, leave.
If, however, you want to live in freedom --the type of freedom that God has intend us to live in-- then get on board and join our fight.
We are the modern minutemen. We are rejecting the rules that have been forced on us by the liberal aristocracy that bows down to the entitlement-driven, welfare state, socialist mentality.
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"Conservative activists may be hard-pressed to sustain their push against Specter for two more months."
Wanna bet?
If he can convince us that he's a good choice for the Chairmanship then they will vote for him, but if we're still tying up their phones and email when time comes for the vote; he's out.
He didn't help himself Sunday by saying Bush didn't get a mandate.
I think he'll crack under the pressure.
Bork Specter.
While Karl is generally brilliant he underestimated Reagan Democrats and social conservatives which is why he couldn't win PA or MI in 2000 or 2004.
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