Posted on 04/23/2006 5:59:31 PM PDT by SirLinksalot
Who cares if GOP loses Congress?
By Joe Scarborough
Who really cares if Republicans lose Congress? Certainly not GOP leaders in the US House.
As the Wall Street Journal reported, the Republican pigs running Congress are wasting more money than those big-spending Democrats ever did.
Last month's deficit was the highest ever. But while Rome burns, Republicans obsess over their earmarks.
Conservative Republicans. What an oxymoron.
There is nothing conservative about the party to which I once proudly belonged. Like millions, I am disgusted by my party and their leaders.
A handful of responsible adults still understand the need for reform. But don't tell that to GOP bulls who have been trying to spend money like drunken sailors since they were empowered by the Revolution of 1994.
Some revolution.
A decade later, Republicans have given America the biggest deficit ever. The biggest debt ever. The biggest trade gap ever. The highest spending increases ever. A 110% increase in the education bureaucracy. A 100% increase in the Justice bureaucracy. An 88% increase in the Department of HHS. More pork projects than ever before. More earmarks than ever before. More reckless spending projects than ever before. A bigger, more wasteful government than ever before.
Why the hell should conservatives work to put these whores back in their perches of power?
Could Nancy Pelosi's Congress be worse?
Not on the spending level, because George W. Bush would have the courage to veto her outrageous spending bills. Sadly, he has shown no such fortitude with his own party in charge.
It is disgusting. It is also a problem I diagnosed two years ago in my book. But Republicans weren't listening then and they won't listen now.
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You took that completely out of context. I was not suggesting anything other then what GWB has to do as POTUS / CIC is to only look at options that are truly available and implementable to him. I was suggesting nothing about you.
Perhaps you didn't mean to, but you seemed to imply that anyone disagreeing could not be an adult.
Thanks for the response.
You'd clearly be surprised -
As I said before our enemies have suffered one strategic defeat after another in the last 4 1/2 years...we have not suffered one. If our enemies could easily hit us here they would have done so -
And I never said more doesn't need to be done. What I've said to you is at this time in our nations history our country can ill afford to have the anti-American ilk of the Democrat party in the majority of any branch of Congress.
Regards,
Excellent post.
I fully agree with Joe Scarborough. Moreover, I am glad that he is making this statement. Two observations:
1. I cannot understand the obsession of the Republicans with their own self-destruction. Consider the poll taken on this site. Only 41% of FReepers will vote republican this election cycle. Compare that to, say, the last election for GWB. I bet it was better than 99%. My point is that the republican losses are due to a loss of the base. How difficult is this to understand??? Scarborough is explaining how they are the instruments of their own demise.
2. Sitting out this election or voting for a conservative 3rd party (e.g. the Conservative Party) makes sense. As many have pointed out, it might be a tactical mistake, but I think it is strategically correct. Send the Republicans a message. Maybe after an election cycle we will get better ones that we can vote for.
We are going down the tubes. A USSC justice will not slow that down much, if at all.
For the most part, the only time 'moderate Republicans' will give us conservatives the time of day is when they want our votes.
Unless the pubbies do a 180 on border control, I'm staying home in November.
Again, nothing was meant by it. It was simply a poor choice of words by me -
I was simply trying to convey the real world constraints that a man in the serious position of GWB (POTUS/CIC) has to deal with (or that all of us in the adult world have to deal with...if we are going to be truly effective). -
In the meantime, you would let the Rats take over the country. Well, it wouldn't take long for them to destroy it. I hope not too many people share your unserious, childish, egotistical approach to politics.
Oh, for God's sake, be real.
Yes, Bush made a bad choice in Miers, though I'm not sure she's a RINO. He backed off that choice when conservatives revolted, and he appointed a real conservative. That's not what would happen with a Rat president.
Roberts is proving to be a good conservative. I'm sure Alito will.
I may be looking at this wrong but what makes you think the President wouldn't be Impeached and found guilty by the Senate? If the Democrats controlled both houses of Congress, the Republicans wouldn't have a chance.
Remember it was the Senate, controlled by Republicans, that didn't find Clinton guilty. There really wasn't a trial as we would know a trial. The Republicans , as usual,, didn't want to make waves. Or sometimes I think those FBI files, that no one looked at that were in the White House, might have had some thing to do with it.
"I'm staying home in November."
Well, don't complain to me when the Rats are shoving it up yours.
I've been on both sides of this issue Dev. I left the R.P. in 2000 because I could see what Bush was going to do on immigration. In 2004, I still voted for him.
In 2003 I voted for Schwarzenegger over the objections of many in my state. I was pelted for years over that choice.
Do I want a person like Kerry or Hillary in there? I most certainly do not.
At this stage in the game, I simply cannot support Republicans. I know that is going to tweak a lot of people, but that is the way it's going to be this year.
If you don't like this, I'd suggest you get on the horn and let the White House know it's headed for a serious train wreck if it doesn't get it's house in order.
If the R.P. grants amnesty to the illegals in our nation, I may NEVER vote R.P. again.
There are more reasons than immigration, but that will do for now.
If they throw Bush out of office, it will be an unprecedented move that will make the Democrats seem even more vengeful and extremist than the Republicans looked in 1998. Moderates and independents will move away from them, and there wouldn't be a chance in hell that a lunatic like Hillary Clinton could win in 2008 then.
The Democrats are stupid, but they aren't THAT stupid. They know full well what the political ramifications of impeachment are, so they're not going to go all the way with it. The GOP Senate knew the same thing back in 1998, which is why they didn't go all the way with it.
Bush is not being impeached. That's a red herring designed by certain people to try to motivate the base, but it's not going to work. Fear mongering the electorate won't get the GOP votes in November- results will. If Bush wants to avoid an impeachment headache, he should tell the GOP Congress to get their asses in gear and do something positive. Trying to scare his base is not going to work.
maybe a Rat House would be a good thing. Two more years of Pubbie spending and inept leadership gets us nothing. And if the Rats win the House all they'll focus on is impeachment for two years.
The Pubs will have a lesson for generations of what happens when they govern the way they have. And the Rats will tie up all resources on impeachment and little else. Those who govern least govern best. [Flame away].
67 posted on 04/23/2006 6:38:09 PM PDT by Swanks
How could we tell the difference?
"The GOP Establishment should be taught a lesson "
Jamie Gorelick as a Supreme Court justice is too much a lesson for the country. I guess it's Mr./Ms. Perfect-Conservative or nothing for some. In order to keep the insane left from taking over, I can vote for Mr./Ms. Adequate-Conservative.
Hey Joe, how's your best friend Gary Condit??
I think even the democrats would be hardpressed to grow domestic spending like this republican congress has...
and that is saying something
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