Posted on 11/11/2005 5:49:45 PM PST by Yosemitest
Rush is right on this. Where was he on the Toomey-Specter race? Out to lunch, I believe.
BTW... please feel free to share this with everyone you know I don't have a ping list...also, just as I was sending this I got a call from the Republican Congressional Committee asking for a donation -- I told the lady that I did contribute a week ago to the party, but I'm so mad at the GOP right now I'm not sending a dime and I invited her to pass that on... she asked why I was angry and I told her one word: ANWR.
Anyway, here is the email:
You Rocked the House!
Dear Carolyn,
Thanks to your efforts, we have won a stunning victory in the House of Representatives for our treasured wildlife.
Yesterday afternoon, House Republicans yanked the Budget Reconciliation Bill off the House floor. But the real victory came Wednesday night, when proposals to legalize harmful oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and off our coasts were dropped from the bill.
Yesterday afternoon, House Republicans yanked the Budget Reconciliation Bill off the House floor and with it a proposal to legalize harmful oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and off our coasts. This kind of conservation win is almost unprecedented in this Congress, and it happened because of your efforts!
This week, thousands of wildlife supporters from across the country rocked the House, calling their Representatives to let them know that America’s great wild places aren’t for sale.
Over the last several months, you’ve sent more than 120,000 messages to Congress. And your donations have helped us place crucial ads like these in key Congressional districts --advertising that has helped mobilize America’s pro-wildlife majority, and steel the resolve of our allies in Congress.
Thanks to you, polar bears, caribou and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s other special wildlife have a reprieve from Big Oil’s senseless and ceaseless drive to drill in their home. And Florida and other coastal states need not sacrifice their coastal areas to offshore drilling.
Unfortunately, the battle to save the Arctic Refuge’s wildlife from harmful oil drilling is far from over.
As you know, the Senate last week passed its own budget bill that legalizes drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Senators Ted Stevens (R-AK) and Pete V. Domenici (R-NM), who will serve on the House-Senate conference committee on the bill, have made it clear that they will not agree to any final measure that does not include Arctic drilling.
Indicted former House Majority Leader Representative Tom DeLay (R-TX), a drilling proponent, has also made his intentions clear. He’s quoted in today’s New York Times saying that "chances are very good" that the drilling provisions will reemerge. Representative Richard Pombo (R-CA), who inserted the drilling provisions into the House bill, indicated to the San Francisco Chronicle that he would be unwilling to support any final bill that didn’t include drilling.
So, while we’ve won an important victory, our work is far from finished. America’s wildlife is counting on us to keep standing up to Tom DeLay, Richard Pombo and others in Congress who would sacrifice the natural legacy we leave our children and grandchildren.
In the days ahead, I’ll be writing to let you know how to help secure final victory for our polar bears, Arctic foxes, and other beloved Arctic wildlife. We'll need your continued help to support the heroic moderate Republicans and Democrats who won this round. They need to know that America's pro-wildlife majority stands with them as they prepare to again face off with DeLay, Pombo, Stevens, Domenici and other drilling proponents.
For the moment, though, please accept our gratitude for all you’ve done so far. Your efforts are making a difference!
Sincerely,
Rodger Schlickeisen
President
Defenders of Wildlife
Some of these RINO's represent districts which would otherwise elect Democrats. But others are merely grandstanding.
ANWR Drilling, if done with care, could help the United States with reduce dependance on Saudi oil.
Amen!
I like that photo; it's truly great work.
In the very, very moderate state of New Jersey.......we have so many moderates starting with CTW that we have such an enormous surplus of unemployed very, very moderate politicians. All of this makes it very very difficult to put a true Republican in office because this surplus tends to clog up all the ballots and essentially presents moderate, wishy-washy politicians to many voters in this very, very moderate state who really prefer real Democrats to moderate, quasi-Democrat lites.
I live in Arizona and I think Kyl is a great senator. Too bad he doesn't get the recognition he deserves because McCain is always in the spotlight. Grrrr....
I am disappointed to see my Congressman, Jim Gerlach, on this list. He is a 2 or 3 term rep from the PA 6th. He barely won re-election in 2004, 51-49, against a Soros-funded, MoveOn.org lefty from Montgomery County. The 6th is a relatively evenly divided district, and should be ground-zero for the 2006 House races.
Gerlach originally was a fairly staunch conservative. Unfortunately, Gerlach seems to be thinking the way to stay in office is to head for the squishy middle. He didn't back the President's social security reforms, and now this ANWR thing. Rather than fight and win in the arena of ideas, he sells us out in a desperate effort for the soccer-mom vote. I thought he'd have a tough race as it was, now I really doubt whether he'll be re-elected.
"In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit."
AYN RAND
These people must die! And please don't ask if I am being metaphorical, I haven't decided yet.
Kyl get's recognition from the RIGHT PEOPLE, and that's what counts.
Sensenbrenner has been pretty good as Judiciary Committe chairman, and there's been no love lost between the RATS and him. Why is he joining the RATS over this?
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