There's work to be done...
Posted on 08/30/2007 1:26:45 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Hello Everyone,
The last weeks have been busy for us on the road, and let me tell you the hospitality everywhere we’ve traveled has been amazing! While I’m sure you’re following what’s been happening in the papers and on the blogs, I wanted to share my impressions from my travels.
I’ve visited the Iowa and Minnesota State Fairs (and did you see our video of the butter cow?). I was glad to see so many fine, enthusiastic people stop by for some of the great fried food the fair has to offer and to share their thoughts and ideas.
This past Saturday I was at the Midwest Leadership Forum in Indianapolis, Indiana, with state Republican leaders from across the Midwest. I shared my concerns about the direction this country is headed, and where I think we can go.
We’re not having the kind of conversations we need to have on a range of issues, particularly the kind of threat we’re facing, on a global scale from radical Muslim fundamentalists who want to bring our nation to its knees and destroy our way of life.
We’re pointing fingers rather than finding solutions to the big challenges that face our economy and our prosperity. And for the first time in our history, we have a government that can’t do all the basic things we expect our government to do.
We need to be talking about these things and how to get back to first principles. And if you know me, you know my answers are not bigger government and more bureaucracy and higher taxes. It’s just the opposite.
Stay tuned for more updates as we travel around the country and talk with folks, and if we’re in your area we’d love to have you stop by.
Interesting. Thank you for posting this. It’s gonna be a tough election.
There's work to be done...
Ping!
Fredipedia: The Definitive Fred Thompson Reference
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Run, Fred. Run!
Voted YES on permanent normal trade relations with China. (Sep 2000)
Voted YES on funding for National Endowment for the Arts. (Aug 1999)
Voted YES on favoring 1997 McCain-Feingold overhaul of campaign finance. (Oct 1997)
Voted YES on allowing another round of military base closures. (May 1999)
Voted YES on cutting nuclear weapons below START levels. (May 1999)
Voted YES on allowing more foreign workers into the US for farm work. (Jul 1998)
Voted YES on visas for skilled workers. (May 1998)
Voted YES on allowing all necessary force in Kosovo. (May 1999)
I liked this, something I hadn’t noticed before. From the Fredipedia:
“If ever there was an invitation to corruption, it was the Clinton Administration’s plan for the reorganization of the U.S. Patent Office. It was pure Al Gore, right out of his “reinventing America” playbook. I know. I was one of three men hired to go to Washington in April 1997 to put an end to this treachery.
When H 400 passed the House of Representatives on a voice vote, with no member demanding a recorded vote, we knew we were in trouble. S 507 was set to be reported out of the Senate Judiciary Committee by unanimous consent the following week. We needed one member of the United States Senate with the courage to stand before the Committee and object to the bill.
We decided to approach Senator Fred Thompson, and when S 507 came up in committee he objected on the basis of national security. He had the courage to defy the President and Vice President, the Japanese government, the Chinese government, the Lippo Group of Indonesia, and eighty or ninety of America’s largest multinational corporations. America dodged a bullet in 1997 and Fred Thompson was the man who made it happen.”
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/23891.html
FRed’s gonna send Hirry packing to China...it’s where her money’s at it seems!
Thanks for posting this. It’s such nice and refreshing change to read about someone who speaks without a prewritten transcript.
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