This is what we have to look forward to in 2008? ROFPMGO (rolling on floor puking my guts out).
Posted on 11/09/2005 7:10:25 PM PST by sonsofliberty2000
House GOP leaders have decided to drop an Arctic oil drilling proposal from a budget bill.
Those 25 RINOS have chosen the "environmental benefit" of a wasteland over national security. I hope they are proud of themselves.
I do know that one of the GOP House members on the list of 25 is Mark Kennedy from Minnesota...
He might have made the same campaign promise that Sen. Norm Coleman did....Coleman promised to vote AGAINST drilling in ANWR...and he said he would honor that pledge...
Kennedy probably also promised that....and some of the others probably did also...
Also, some of them are coastal state Congresscritters that are also against off-shore drilling.
In the past we tolerated "RINOs" when they sided with the left on social issues. But cripes, this is about energy independence and ultimately national security. We always felt we could count on them on these issues but I guess no longer. The bigger question is who leaves the party first, us or them? Our tent ain't that big.
"Let The Bas@*rds Freeze In The Dark"
(old bumper sticker from the 70's)
Well, this certainly won't help them in '06.
If they become the minority Party again, they can look at themselves in the mirror for fault. They seem to be doing everything to make it reality.
Good luck. The Repub's are spineless now and in fact, have always been and where has it gotten them? Answer: Reelected to fill their pockets and spend our money. I thought, with the fight GW gave Gore things might be different BUT GW can't control the whimps in Congress and WE keep electing the REPUBS because they are better than DEMS. Wish I had a resolution--it makes one not want to go to the polls simply to perpetuate the self-serving asses.
Hastertt was talking about this very thing two weeks ago - The GOP has some dumb RHINO's among us - That is simply a reality - To then blame the GOP leadership about RHINO's coming out of mostly Blue States is absurd.
It isn't the GOP leadership fault fully - It is the GOP base who can't get more solid GOP guys elected in this Blue states -
Regardless, ANWAR is very much likely to be passed later in the process.
I agree.
I would rather see genuine RATs in Washnigton than RAT-like fake copycats.
I am beyond disgusted with these Republican'ts.
This is why so many of us have complained about fellow FR members' blind loyalty (the so-called "Bush-bots"). We have told them over and over that it is very unwise to align yourself and be loyal to a "party".
Be loyal to CONSERVATISM, not a party, as the RAT-like Republican'ts are sleeping with the enemy. They are sleeping with the RATs.
How many examples does one need to finally get it that Republican does NOT automatically = conservative?
The Democrats don't need to be in power. They are getting their agenda done more quickly with the Republicans in charge.
The Republicans in Congress are looking the National League in the World Series.
This is what we have to look forward to in 2008? ROFPMGO (rolling on floor puking my guts out).
But darn it, it just seemed so appropriate.
Bet this will pass muster.........
the perspective of the RINOs is different I believe - they feel these votes help them in their districts. its obvious that this group does not care if the Rs remain the majority, they only care if they retain their personal seats, even if it means they are in the minority. COllins, Snowe, Chaffee etc - feel the same way in the senate.
I see.
So fault lies with the base that they cannot turn out wins for conservative Republicans, even though the Republican Party is the one that recruits most of the candidates we're given a choice to support? Uh-huh.
Oh, there is an argument to be made we can start putting up our own candidates, and we are, but that's 25 or so years away from being a potent force in politics. In the majority of races we're stuck with the choice the GOP provides.
If the RINO's screw the GOP, and by so doing, us, it is the GOP's fault. They picked them. They don't enforce discipline. This is the result.
It's not a matter of money.
A budget bill requires only a simple majority -- it can't be filibustered. That is the reason ANWR was attached to the budget bill -- to avoid a Democrat filibuster.
SAD! PATHETIC!
Don't blame the stooge, blame the voter.
Go GOP, Go GOP ... go right out the DOOR! Aloha, its been nice known ya!
Today we have a party operating as the Democrat party of 1960, under the name of the Republican party. We also have a party operating as the 1970s Orange Party of Europe, under the name of the Democrat Party.
Today's Democrat party might just as well be a party in the old Soviet Union for all the hatred it harbors toward our founding principles. It can't get much more leftist without declaring a break with our present government and setting up a pseudo government in exile.
Today's Republican party is way left of center. It is content with a deminished military (compared to that of Reagan's) and is busy dismantling our nuclear weapons.
It has taken on the task of developing it's own great society programs, and is spending like there's no tomorrow, and like we're not already $6 to $8 trillion in debt.
This party was content to allow the International Criminal Court to become a reality without raising so much as a whimper. This party is content to allow our nation to be occupied by tens of millions of foreign nationals. This party is content allow people from terrorist states to enter our nation. This party was perfectly happy to finance China's assencion to a global destablizing force, now even a player in space.
This party doubled the spending for a department that is trying to destroy our children. It did not demand any concessions in return.
This party desperately wants to give away our sovereignty to multi-national entities. This party remained mute as the U.N. developed plans to take ownership of the world's oceans.
We do NOT have conservative leadership. We have two parties that are hell bent on destroying everything that our founding fathers gave to us.
Very little they do approaches the center any longer, let alone anything on the right.
house gop leaders have limp wrists.
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