Posted on 05/25/2006 6:03:24 PM PDT by neverdem
No, there are more conservatives than RINOs. But it's not that many, about a dozen, depending on the issue. Just go to the link where it says, "Grouped By Vote Position." In the NAYs ---36, there are only 4 dems.
I totally agree with you. The American people need to flood these schmucks with calls, letters, and emails. I can't believe these lunatics are so "in your face" like they're royalty and we're their subjects. This mess absolutely turns my stomach. I pray that the voters send all of them back to the real world. We need to clean house in DC.
Don't worry Rudy is in the wings along with Condi.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1638178/posts
Play by Play from the Senate Floor action today..
Let's do the math: 42% of the Republicans in the Senate voted yes
90% of the Democrats voted yes
58% of the Republicans voted yes
10% of the Democrats voted no.
Clearly, a high plurality of the Republicans screwed the pooch on this vote. You find the usual suspects here: Chafee, Collins, DeWine, Voinovich, McLame...and some are overall good conservatives if the ACU ratings are reckoned: Bennett of Utah has 87 lifetime rating, McConnell of Kentucky has a 90, Warner of Virginia is an 81, Gregg of New Hampshire is a 79.
I hope the "let's abandon the Republicans" crowd can clearly see the problem isn't with the Republican Party as a whole, and I hope they work to change it instead of walking completely away and turning the federal government over to the 'rats.
See the breakdown by percentages above.
REMEMBER !! this is not the vote that counts.. this just gets its to conference with the HOUSE bill which is FAR BETTER !!.. we need to put the heat on the conferees..
I just printed the source document of the bill and the Senate voting record. Then when the shti hits the fan in a year or two, I have documentation to present to liberals.
You'll notice I changed what you wrote a bit.
Will everyone please now STFU about Santorum. Pennsylvania doesn't even have much of an illegals problem and he still voted the right way on this.
Hope lots of people read this posting!
It would be good to see the list of incumbents up for re-election in 2006 and see who were the good guys and who were not.
No, 58% of the Republicans voted no, i.e. 32 out of 55 pubbies voted Nea. Otherwise, I agree with your sentiments. Staying home or voting that would give control of either House in Congress to the dems can rarely do any good. The exceptions for me are when the RINOs are especially egregious, particularly with the Second Amendment.
As a Missourian, I applaud our Senators.
As a Missourian, I applaud our Senators.
So, we have nine Dems and nine Republicans who are on this committee. Of the nine Democrats, all voted for the bill. Of the nine Republicans five voted for the bill and four did not. That means you have fourteen out of eighteen who will be pushing for this thing in conference.
Given these odds, it is obvious the house members will have to make a determined stand for what's right. Those "sinators" never like being told what to do, and our president will be pressing them very hard to give an early Christmas present to his buddy Vicente.
It is in our favor that this is an election year, and every member of the house is up for re-election. They will be less willing to cave if they understand that their constituency will give them the boot if they sell us out.
What difference does it make? We, the conservative republican base, have given the republican party control of both houses and the WH and they still bend to the whims of Kennedy and Reid? Anymore, if the WH race was between Kennedy and Bush, I would probably vote for Kennedy! At least I know what I am getting with that vote? If the republicans have a secret motive for voting they way they did in the Senate, they damn well better soon announce it! I am obviously not happy with our elected majority......
Byrd bucked his party line and voted no. Is that election-related?
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