Posted on 01/07/2005 7:31:36 AM PST by LoneGOPinCT
WASHINGTON -- As President Bush and the Republican Party plot policy strategy for 2005, Northeast lawmakers are shuddering.
They see increasingly strong evidence that the GOP isn't too troubled by the concerns of this blue corner of the country. They know Bush not only lost Connecticut and the Northeast in November, but virtually ignored them during the campaign. And voters in the six New England states and all the states that border them have been shifting away from the Republican mainstream for more than a decade.
The diminished attention from the GOP is likely to make it tougher for this region to get federal support - financial and otherwise - for a number of services and programs the area counts on.
Low-income energy aid probably will be one casualty. Amtrak will have to fight harder to survive, let alone get federal dollars. A new round of military base closings could hit New England, notably the U.S. Naval Submarine Base in Groton. Road money won't come easily. Energy and environmental initiatives will be questioned and often squelched.
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Duh, really? I never saw this coming. < /sarcasm>
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Payback is a b!tch!
Huh? I thought that the blue states were so well-educated and affluent that they were subsidizing the rest of us.
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RINO's get their "comeupance"
Is this person joking?
New England has been a quasi-socialist conglomeration for decades. Where else could the Democrats locate such sterling candidates as Mike Dukakis, John Kerry and Howard Dean?
What a bazoo.
Ahhhhh. I feel better now.
Great, cut Amtrak and the naval yards and we can kiss two Republican Congressmen from CT good-bye. Shays may be a RINO, but he keeps the majority a majority.
Pay my state back all you want, but spite toward states that actually still vote Republican for Congress isn't going to be good in the long run.
"A new round of military base closings could hit New England, notably the U.S. Naval Submarine Base in Groton."
Yeah, right. With Electric Boat just down the road and Subase New London training every submariner in the fleet, I'm sure that's what they are gonna do, you know just because CT isn't a red state.
Crybaby fearmongers.
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When there was a bustling defense industry, we were.
Now, all those high paying jobs are gone.
So was the illusion of job security.
I gotta dig out some references, but there are democrat senators that vote more often with Bush than Shays...
Obviously, the solution is for CT to convert its naval facilities into peanut farms and sugar plantations to pick up some of that $$$ that's currently flowing south like the Mississippi.
Connecticut only gets back about 67 cents for every dollar it sends via Washington to states like Mississippi and Wyoming. I don't see what's so conservative about making that situation worse--particularly when Connecticut has three Republican Congressmen and a Republican governor.
Zell Miller, maybe. Party loyalty in the House is much, much stronger than it's ever been in the Senate.
The problem with RINOs is that they like to work with Democratic Presidents. We've found that when there's a Republican in office, they very easily fall in line behind the leadership and vote their way most of the time.
Politicians live by "pork", and there's no reason that "pork" has to be given to the blue north-eastern states when the south and west are "redder". I'm sure if Kerry won the election his state would expect a good share of "pork".
I am with you but there is one base that SHOULD be targeted and that is Hanscom AFB with NO active runway for military planes! Hanscom could easily be moved to any number of bases with an active runway and if MITRE doesn't like it -- tough! It has nothing to do with a red or blue state but efficiency for Hanscom which is only still there because of the former Kennedy clout -- should have been closed in the last round of base closings!
My opinion on the energy subsidy is that New England chose to do nothing about getting natural gas into the state or upgrading their infrastructure so tough. That again has nothing to do with red or blue state. That has to do with not bailing out states that wouldn't take care of their own problems. Spent nine miserable months in Groton, MA, and saw how archiac a lot of the infrastructure was -- less than impressed.
Funny thing is that this situation doesn't change Boston's attitude toward the rest of MA at all.
Beacon Hill has no idea even what the names of the towns are between Rt 128 and the NY border, let alone what they might need.
And that's the case whoever the president is.
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As a native NY'er, I say that what is happening is only the natural result of idiocy and socialism. The minds of the people are so corrupted beyond anything normal.
As far as closing the submarine base, I don't think that makes much sense.
bump for saturday
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