Mark Steyn - Bearish Voters Get Senate's Goat

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | July 8, 2007 | Mark Steyn

[Christian4Bush]

Steyn bump

[Taichi]

Saxby lost sight of why he was put in that office. Like most Senators he started thinking the office elevated him to some special status, a kind of House of Lords mentality.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

We’ll do worse than melt down their phones next time.

[incredulous joe]

“I say,...I say,...nahl. You little peoples thinks you got us on the run, nahl? I say!”

[Savage Beast]

The only solution I know would be a massive grassroots movement to impeach these Congressmen and the President—or perhaps a threat to do so. It would be very difficult to get such a movement going and to succeed with it. Is there any other way to bring pressure on them to enforce the laws?

[blam]

"We’ll do worse than melt down their phones next time."

Next Time?

Next time is now! They're still coming across the border while we're waiting for NEXT TIME!!

[sgtbono2002]

“If the answer is ‘build a fence,’ “ Lotthorn declared, “I’ve got two goats on my place in Mississippi. There ain’t no fence big enough, high enough, strong enough, that you can keep those goats in that fence.
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He might be right,but when I get tired of those goats jumping the fence I can shoot them and have them for dinner.

[wita]

...and my rant, “the US Senate is the most dangerous body of men and women on the face of the earth”.

So many pompous donkeys under one roof who think they are hung, when in reality there are a majority that ought to be.

There are at least two others on this forum with like commentary, I should know them by name, in order to ping, but at the moment I don’t.

[wita]

I hope everyone against the travesty thinks as you do! We would have to get organized. Maybe a 501c3 revolution committee.

[George W. Bush]

...the Great Electrified Goat Fence of the Rio Grande.

Well, okay then. Just build something across the border.

[processing please hold]

"the will of the Senate"

When I read that I thought about ancient Rome. Specter must like gladiator movies.

[tubebender]

I rarely listen to Hannity because 3 hours of RUSH is generally enough but I happened to be listening the day he made a complete stuttering, stammering fool of Voini#itch for his support for the Sell Out of America. Apparently Voino read some of the bill that night and voted against cloture...

[Melchior]

Would Haley Barbour take on Lott?

[metesky]

How about a massive grassroots movement to repeal the 17th Amendment?

[sinclair]

"I've got two goats on my place in Mississippi. There ain't no fence big enough, high enough, strong enough, that you can keep those goats in that fence. Now people are at least as smart as goats. SENATOR Trent Lott "

I seem to recall that when the Chinese built the Great Wall they used human bodies as part to the fill in the wall. Including him in our wall seems a satisfactory termination to Vacant Lotts tenure as one of the “Lords of the Senate” to me. If however we are too squeamish to bury him all the way we could at least do it from the neck down and could feed him on goat milk and cheese. I would volunteer to do the honors until his inevitable change of mind.

[ClaireSolt]

I think the senators compartmentalize their thinking and move on. When Reid outlined what they had to get done, none of it semed important to me. I heard Voinovich talk to Hannity and he concluded with a shrug, better luck next time on another issue. Then Lieberman suggested London style cameras in NYC when a major support for immigration reform comes from 911 families. They move on at their own peril, because Americans get the connections even if they do not and will insist on fixing this.

[Americanexpat]

The American people revolted on the issue of illegal immigration and there were some senators who were smart enough to get the message. The senate and government in general have always treated the people as uneducated yokels who didn´t know what was good for them. This time we told them they better look out for what is good for them if they want to keep riding the gravy train.

[Sal]

80% of 300 million people is a lot of people to cross. I included that in my messages to our would-be-rulers.

[LibLieSlayer]

Chip Pickering will replace Trent in 2012... unless Lott retires early. He almost quit this past time and there is little doubt in his retirement in 2012. I hope he yearns for early retirement.

LLS

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Hope that 80 percent is still angry in November.