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Joe Scarborough : Who cares if GOP loses Congress ?
Jewish World Review ^ | 04/22/2006 | Joe Scarborough

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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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 109th; 2006; congress; constamatooshinparty; deathspiral; demlittlehelpers; donnerparty; gop; potyellsatkettle; rinos; scarborough; unappeasables
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

He said the party he 'once' belonged to.... guess he's joined the dark side for real since going to MSNBC.


201 posted on 04/24/2006 8:49:31 AM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Ronin
****The Constitution Party is looking better every day***

If voting that way wouldn't guarantee Hillary in '08 I'd agree with you.

202 posted on 04/24/2006 8:51:51 AM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Mariner

Listen, staying home isn't the answer, you'll just become discouraged and possibly depressed.

There is a better way.

Call in sick from work.

Go to the bar, at 7:00 AM

Spend the day drinking, I mean ALL day.

Go to the race track in the afternoon, or maybe the casino.

Eat fried fatty foods and suck beers.

End your day by going to the nudie bar.

Grab a cab home.


You'll feel like crap on Wednesday, but you would have anyway.


203 posted on 04/24/2006 8:53:08 AM PDT by WhiteGuy ("Every Generation needs a new revolution" - Jefferson)
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To: MaineVoter2002

I agree the situation is bad for the GOP. My point was that FReepers, unlike regular voters, should be smart enough to understand that voting third-party, or not voting (it amounts to the same thing) are very destructive responses -- are at most good for the ego, but otherwise very irresponsible and dangerous.


205 posted on 04/24/2006 12:46:41 PM PDT by California Patriot ("That's not Charlie the Tuna out there. It's Jaws.")
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To: savedbygrace

No, you are demonstrating profound egotism and immaturity.
The entire country may pay the price for it, and I want to wake people up to the danger before it's too late.


206 posted on 04/24/2006 12:47:37 PM PDT by California Patriot ("That's not Charlie the Tuna out there. It's Jaws.")
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To: California Patriot
I agree. I think most Freepers also think like that. I think the dissapointed sentiment is directed more for the leaders to read and hopefully take heed and not as much to try to convince freepers to vote against the GOP. Perhaps it's a venting process. I also think that as election day approaches their will be a uniting of the party.

However, our leaders really do need to remember who voted for them and why. It's possible that if we do have a victory in 2006, it may not be as big as it could have been. I hope I'm wrong.

207 posted on 04/24/2006 12:52:10 PM PDT by MaineVoter2002 (http://jednet207.tripod.com/PoliticalLinks.html)
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To: MaineVoter2002

I hope you're right and the anti-GOP FReepers are just venting. But they sound really serious.

Probably most FReepers are pro-GOP even now. But they shouldn't allow the spoilers to dominate any of the relevant threads, which they often seem to.


208 posted on 04/24/2006 1:08:59 PM PDT by California Patriot ("That's not Charlie the Tuna out there. It's Jaws.")
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To: California Patriot

Oh 99% are not anti-GOP...they are very pro-GOP. If they were anti-GOP they would sit back and say nothing.


209 posted on 04/24/2006 1:13:04 PM PDT by MaineVoter2002 (http://jednet207.tripod.com/PoliticalLinks.html)
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To: California Patriot

What you doing instead is attempting to keep citizens from waking up to the real danger of foreign invasion.

It's really happening, but many are closing their eyes, and trying hard to believe that Republicans will rescue them if it gets REALLY bad someday. Ha.


210 posted on 04/24/2006 1:13:18 PM PDT by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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To: savedbygrace


I don't believe the current GOP will rescue us. I fully understand how weak they are on this issue. But the Rats would make the problem even worse. As a Christian, you should understand that we have to work with man in his fallen state, not expect virtue just because we insist on it. There is a difference between weakness, as in the GOP, and ill will, as with the Rats.

I am certainly not trying to "keep citizens from waking up." I've actually done some things to wake them up about foreign invasion. I agree that "many are closing their eyes," but don't blame me for that.

You should direct your fire at the open-borders crowd, not at people like me who agree with you but have a different idea of the right response.


211 posted on 04/24/2006 1:23:34 PM PDT by California Patriot ("That's not Charlie the Tuna out there. It's Jaws.")
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To: muawiyah
The point I'm getting at is that it's a spurious, modern "quote", and it's exceedingly popular among leftwingnuts but not among Republicans and Conservatives.

Hmmm. If you Google "The definition of insanity" you get 198,000 references, the overwhelming majority of which attribute the quote to Benjamin Franklin (though there are a small number which instead credit Albert Einstein). Based on the evidence, it appears likely that it is a legitimate 200+ year old quote rather than a spurious modern quote. As to its popularity, I do see a lot of left wing sites quoting it, but also plenty of right wing sites.

It seems like a fairly logical proverbial saying, which is why I used it myself. Do you have some objection to its contents, or do you just exhibit an automatic visceral rejection of any saying which has every come into contact with a leftist?

212 posted on 04/24/2006 1:23:55 PM PDT by dpwiener
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To: California Patriot

OK, fair enough.


213 posted on 04/24/2006 1:44:40 PM PDT by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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To: snoringbear
Frankly, it seems to me that it may take someone like Hillary winning the whitehouse to reawaken the conservative base and thereby cause them to become proactive again about nominating a "real conservative" ticket.

We might not have had Reagan, were it not for Carter.

214 posted on 04/24/2006 1:50:52 PM PDT by kevao
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To: rcrngroup
I don't think that GW Bush would ever have the guts or courage to use the veto pen

He was going to use it for the ports deal.

For ports, yes; against pork, no. How sad.

215 posted on 04/24/2006 1:53:25 PM PDT by kevao
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To: DoughtyOne
Good lord, do you think the troops in Iraq are being supported by giving away their homeland while they are serving in foreign lands?

Yeah, this ridiculous amnesty plan (a.k.a. "guest worker" program) is yet another way in which the Republicans disappoint.

216 posted on 04/24/2006 1:58:48 PM PDT by kevao
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To: Borax Queen; Paloma_55; nicmarlo
"How can it be a threat to simply indicate that I would rather go out riding my horse, fishing, camping, playing with my grandson than busting my a55 walking precincts and phone banking and donating $$$ for a Republican candidate who has given his loyalty to illegal aliens, corporations, and the party, and abandoned those principles stated above?"

Many loyal American conservatives agree.

217 posted on 04/24/2006 2:56:20 PM PDT by Czar (StillFedUptotheTeeth@Washington)
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To: Czar; Borax Queen; Paloma_55
Many loyal American conservatives agree.

Bump!

218 posted on 04/24/2006 6:00:03 PM PDT by nicmarlo (Bush is the Best President Ever. Rah. Rah.)
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To: nicmarlo

Yep.

The term "useful idiot" is ringing in my ears and I think I would rather be taking my grandson out and teaching him how to fish.


219 posted on 04/24/2006 7:27:31 PM PDT by Paloma_55 (Which part of "Common Sense" do you not understand???)
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To: Paloma_55; Borax Queen; Czar; janetgreen
The term "useful idiot" is ringing in my ears and I think I would rather be taking my grandson out and teaching him how to fish.

Who'd have thought you'd have better odds at getting the expected results from casting for fish than after casting your vote and getting a tricameral?

220 posted on 04/24/2006 7:44:54 PM PDT by nicmarlo (Bush is the Best President Ever. Rah. Rah.)
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