Posted on 05/26/2006 7:46:49 AM PDT by Reagan Man
BINGO
The 42nd Co-presidents of the USA
The 43rd Co-presidents of the USA
The 44th Co-Presidents of the USA
I have to quibble with the title; this was done with the full knowledge and support of the GOP "leadership", at least the portion not in the House of Representatives (they'll be added after the conference committee completes the sell-out).
Michael Reagan, those with the greater numbers rule the Senate (as long as they can avoid the filibuster) Like it or not, there are more Rino's+Democrats than conservatives. The Republican leadership lost control of nothing because they never had control. Instead, McCain and the gang of Rino's had the control all along.
No use crying over spilled milk or punishing the conservatives for the RINO's actions. What we can do is use the tools our system provides us and await the RINO crowd to come up for reelection and then beat them in the primaries with conservative candidates. Failing that, we sit out the elections where they are running. Better a wolf than a wolf in sheeps clothing.
Thus, I eagerly await 2008 so I can see the look on McCain's face when he doesn't get the nomination. Eagerly await when Lindsay Graham is up for reelection in a conservative state and pays a price for supporting McCain. But, I am not going to give up the ship just because it has been hijacked.
Check that; I skimmed right past the point where Michael wrote about Denny "I Quit" Hastert's attempts to become minority "leader".
I would have to differ slightly, in that only a majority of Republicans... can make a majority of Republicans look like fools. This is nothing being done to them- they are pulling out the pretty grenade pin all by themselves.
We had a right to expect that those champions of the conservative cause would have previously prepared and steeled themselves for the job that they willingly sought and campaigned for, and which was known to have been inevitable.
Now, it looks like they are all deer caught in the headlights... totally unprepared to go to the canvas.
An yet- who are we to blame when, here in Ohio, RINO Senator Dewine pulls 71% of the primary vote? Voters in other states have variously examined the mix of conservative and liberal republican candidates in their primaries, and made their choices accordingly.
By the evidence, it would seem that nominating truly conservative candidates would seem to be a bridge too far.
If we send these people to represent us... who do we blame?
Don't let this stuff keep you from supporting the conservatives we do have in the House and Senate. I say target The Whine and send the message, but don't stay home. That's exactly the wrong thing to do.
GOP Leaders Lose Control of Congress (Dems, RINOs exert more power than conservatives)
more evidence that we need a 3rd party. CAll it "Connection to the People's Party"
Platform
Domestic oil production and refining.
Reducing our imports of oil.
Close the borders and throw out the illegals.
Accept campaign contributions from the people and not big business and their lobby.
Protect and enforce the Constitution BY THE LETTER!
I think that those four issues, straightforward, will win dispite what critics and the current politicial machine throws at it.
Well put, from the sole remaining conservative in the Reagan family.
Kavanaugh - confirmed
Hayden - confirmed
ANWR - passed by the House
ROTFL!!!
The history of White House spokesman and W himself DEFAMING Reagan Conservatives as narrow-minded bigots...when they think they can get away with it... in this administration is simply beyond dispute. They would rather side with the Marxists in the Southern Poverty Law Center, and reiterate their phoney accusations.
To help maintain their protective camouflage as "conservatives" the White House will make a show of backing some conservative issues (but strangely do nothing about a lot of them), and give Lip-Service to safely-dead true conservatives at their funerals...
"Like it or not, there are more Rino's+Democrats than conservatives. The Republican leadership lost control of nothing because they never had control. Instead, McCain and the gang of Rino's had the control all along."
You are SO right, and I've believed this for a long time. The Republicans were never in the majority, and Feckless Frist was never the "majority leader". The RAT/RINO party IS the majority, led by Kennedy and McCain.
Helloooooo... FIVE YEARS OVERDUE.
Hayden - confirmed
So?! Porter Goss never should have been fired! [And my Congressman John Kline confirms that is precisely what happened...]
Negroponte should have been.
Now, by a lot of undenied reports, Hayden will be doing as Negroponte insists, and re-hiring some of the key Xlintonista RATs! OH, that'll really help our security.
NOT!
ANWR - passed by the House
It has before. It will be stopped by the RINOS and RATs in the Senate again.
The White House will not play hardball on this issue.
The only way the articles timing can be faulted is for being tardy. It would have been just as true in 2001. And the weakness of the leadership was so profound...they lost it to the RATS with jumping Jim Jeffords. Wusses.
And frankly a feckless White House. A seriously conservative White House would have long ago called for the internal party ouster of McCain and Specter. But the fact that they went the other way...
"A seriously conservative White House would have long ago called for the internal party ouster of McCain and Specter."
Oh, that it were so!
On the most important issue facing congress this year. Bush supported the Dems over the conservatives. If Bush brings pressure on the house to accept the senate's version than it will be official Bush is a Rino just like his father and no better than McCain or Specter.
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