You have just said something with great wisdom.
I'm an old timer, Reagan/Jesse Helms Republican, and the GOP is headed for a cliff next year if they don't begin to act.
People vote their pocket books in front of ANY other issue. We are now having to stop driving on weekends. Gas prices must be addressed even if it's as simple as refusing to collect the federal tax during a period of time. This is the kind of economic struggle we last had in the Carter years, friends. The GOP Congress could also pass emergency legislation giving states freedom from EPA oversight to use uniform blends of gas.
If things go as they are, the GOP will be toast next year. And I don't want to hear this "Go back to DU," canard that is leveled at anyone who disagrees with the herd.
Would everyone just stop freaking out?
Denny runs the House and Delay will get the votes.
Be mad at these Republicans, I sure was a week or so ago when it was first posted. But be sensible and not jump off the damn cliff unless there's reason to believe they'll sabotage passage. So long as Delay is there, I'm not too worried.
The real question is WHY some of these Republicans are doing this. My opinion is that either a) They were perfectly fine with voting for passage so long as they knew the Senate couldn't pass it or b) they want something in return. Could be both. Either way, I'm not happy with this group. One of the few times the Senate Republicans look better than the House.
Express outrage to the Leadership in the House to lean on them, though I'm sure they are already being whipped for this letter. Express outrage to these particular Republicans. But unless Delay's lost his touch, this will pass the House so calm down.
And I don't want to hear this "Go back to DU," canard that is leveled at anyone who disagrees with the herd.
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I don't think you will, certainly with a clear number of people, including blind Bush-bots, as to what is really happening to the American people by virture of their Washington elitist/politically-driven agenda - I am an "ole timer" too, at least old enough to have experienced the Reagan years, and their grandure, as to what a President and Washigton could do FOR the American people, as opposed to what it is now doing TO the American people...it is really tragic, to see what the Repubs, in the absence of real America-caring leadership, has turned into.
We are on a precipice. We will fall hard, unless Washington has a "memory recall" as to WHY THEY ARE WHERE THEY ARE" and how the Repubs (we) worked hard for many years to give them the MAJORITY THEY NOW HAVE - WHICH THEY ARE USING TO NO AVAIL for the American people. It is gut wrenching to watch this ugly process...
And I don't want to hear this "Go back to DU," canard that is leveled at anyone who disagrees with the herd.
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I don't think you will, certainly with a clear number of people, including blind Bush-bots, as to what is really happening to the American people by virture of their Washington elitist/politically-driven agenda - I am an "ole timer" too, at least old enough to have experienced the Reagan years, and their grandure, as to what a President and Washigton could do FOR the American people, as opposed to what it is now doing TO the American people...it is really tragic, to see what the Repubs, in the absence of real America-caring leadership, has turned into.
We are on a precipice. We will fall hard, unless Washington has a "memory recall" as to WHY THEY ARE WHERE THEY ARE" and how the Repubs (we) worked hard for many years to give them the MAJORITY THEY NOW HAVE - WHICH THEY ARE USING TO NO AVAIL for the American people. It is gut wrenching to watch this ugly process...