Posted on 10/09/2005 3:28:25 PM PDT by Pukin Dog
No, the people of Pennsylvania in both the primary and the general election voted for the guy. They are responsible.
There are ways to make RINOs toe the line, and they don't depend entirely on the Republican leadership in the Senate. How many bills has Bush vetoed? How often has he disciplined dissenting RINOs by taking away their pork? How often has he punished his enemies when they got out of line? No wonder he can't control the party.
The RINO's as a block can stop anything that they want. They have that power. It is the people who elected them that gave them that power.
LOL.
I don't agree with you, but that is funny. I'll give you that.
As accurate a picture as can be painted about the current lot of Senate Republicans.
yessem....as was I.
I suspect -- but don't know -- a lot of this has to do with intraparty Senate rules, like the Republican rule term-limiting chairmen (I don't think the Dems have a similar rule). Or maybe it's FBI files? I asked on another thread how the Dems enforce party discipline, but no one answered. So I'm asking again if anyone knows.
But giving up without clearly citing WHY is, well, disingenuous. If the President can't win with the Senate holding out a 60 vote hurdle, he ought to make that an issue. It is a constitutional crisis, but the President seems to be not bothered by it.
You are 100% correct. I always watch FNS, and Brit did ALL the spanking today.
LOL
Are you sure you're not a female? This back and forth...it's almost hormonal! ;)
Welcome to FR.
Actually RINO Lindsay Graham said much the same things as you are saying. I hated to, but I agree.
I said she had 'quite the activism'.....
..but if you heard what I heard, you surely don't seem to have the imprint I have of Brit practically hissing this in Kristol's face.
It was a very sharp retort.
And activism can be skeleton wannabe's if a vetting committee is out for blood.
Spector never made such a promise. He promised to move Bush's nominations along in commitee and get them promt hearings and a vote. It would be completely unethical to pledge to support nominees without knowing who they might be.
Its safe to call this not a game of checkers but of Grand Master Chess. On Monday Specter took the podium claiming that a
potential maelstrom had been avoided by the appointment of Miers. After that Schumer spoke an said that the President was in a "box". Specters body language bespoke great confidence and a sense of personal triumph. Schumer's attitude was one of being still in the Majority. There was something humiliating in it all. Then as we watched the Presidents body language in presenting
Ms Miers, well let us say that he acted as though he did not want to be there or was not even there so was his lack of enthusiasm and pride in presentation. The question is whether this is real weakness or contrived weakness. In high stakes chess like this and with a climate and culture of declining trust in officials and in institutions righteous anger and mistrust is completely understandable.
Unfortunately, that appears to be never. They've been there forever and show no signs of leaving until they die in their chairs.
I'm not going to get old waiting; we need to develop some parallel paths to independence, independent of Big Stupid Government, because the Republican Party sure as hell isn't going to fix, or even slow the growth of, BSG. That's now painfully clear.
If only we knew what you knew eh?
I read that Santorum owed Specter for supporting him when he ran. And isn't Santorum going to be running against Casey (who I believe is very popular)?
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What's up with this "Fuzzy math"? Looks like AJC signed up in 2002.
WHOOPS
What about Specter, didn't mention him, perhaps because he would have lost his primary without Bush and Santorum's support. With that support Specter only got 51%.
You did mention, Chaffee.... just look at what the National Republican Senatorial Committee is doing to fellow Republican and Chaffee opponent Mayor Steve Laffey:
ANNCR: “Have you seen this guy Steve Laffey?”
AD: “I’m Steve Laffey…”
ANNCR: “In his TV ads, he complains about oil companies… But he’s the same Steve Laffey who ran a company selling oil industry stocks on Wall Street. Profiting from offshore drilling. The oil companies made a fortune. Steve Laffey made a fortune. Now Laffey says he will . . .”
AD: “. . . stand up to the special interests.”
ANNCR: “Slick. Steve Laffey. Laughing all the way to the bank. The National Republican Senatorial Committee is responsible for the content of this ad.”
Link available at http://www.nrsc.org/newsdesk/document.aspx?ID=966
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