Posted on 12/31/2007 8:05:15 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Oh, sorry.
Leaving aside the insincerity of Obama-who would just as soon outsource our domestic policy to Mexico-he did have a point.
I know India is our ally in a lot of areas, but I want American presidents to work for Americans, not Indians, or CCP prinelings in Red China, or bureaucrats in Brussels running the EUSSR.
It's really disturbing when you look at this presidential field and realize that there's only one-maybe two, if you include that fruitcake Alan Keyes-candidate who is actually competing for the votes of Americans.
I gotta correct my post. MS lost a congressional seat somewhere along the way, and they only have 6 folks to arm twist the other 530 folks in DC (not counting the POTUS and VPOTUS.)
It is a good reward. But more important, it will be fresh spine to the Senate where too long Lott ran cover for the Rats and the RINOs.
That’s ok. I probably should have made it clear it was sarcasm for those who don’t know me.
“It’s my home state. I love the place.”
Double oh, at least I annoyed you in a good way, sticking up for your state.
For his career he seems to have an unimpressive grade, somewhere between sixty and seventy according to Americans For Better Immigration.
For the past three or four years it's improved significantly though.
I still wouldn't have taken a chance on this guy, especially when you had a sterling congressman like Pickering waiting in the wings.
It makes you wonder what kind of backroom deals led Barbour to make this appointment.
How about if you let the rest of us get a general idea of who the man is before you blast off on your single issue pet peeve.
I might end up agreeing with about his Puerto Rico stance, but first I would just like to find out who he is and the reasons that Barbour chose him.
Roger Wicker’s record as a Congressman is out there for all to see. He’s actually had a fairly conservative voting record, with a career ACU rating of 91.5 (a bit lower than Trent Lott), although he has not been very good at cutting the size of government (which is not atypical for members of the Appropriations Committee, where pork is king). However, this is Mississippi, and there are plenty of other candidates who are even more conservative than Wicker and who would have just as good a chance of winning the general election, and none of them have made a concerted effort to campaign in favor of a corrupt, anti-American, liberal Democrat.
I hope GOP voters in Mississippi get a choice in the primary. While Congressman Chip Pickering (my first choice) has recently expressed his lack of interest in the Senate seat, I believe that there are plenty of other conservative Republicans in the state who would be more trustworthy than Wicker in the Senate.
Wicker is definitely still an improvement over Senator Lott on the illegal immigration issue. I’m also still waiting for Senator Craig to finally retire so that Lt. Governor Jim Risch can hopefully replace him in the U.S. Senate in Idaho. The more “anti-amnesty for illegal immigrants” U.S. Senators and the more “anti-amnesty for illegal immigrants” U.S. House members, the better it truly will be for the long-term future of the entire U.S. and for the successful defeat of long-term socialism from becoming part of the U.S.!
Thanks
We'll need all the help we can get if the GOP gets wiped out in the Senate next year, which looks increasingly likely.
Senator Ensign is great, but I don't envy the job he has.
LLS
Puerto Rican politics is not like the US two party system. There are three parties a Statehood party (PNP) a status quo party (PDP) and an independence party (PIP). Conservatives or libertarians along with fidelistas and other marxists tend to be in the PIP they want total self rule and self determination for PR. The statist want to be like any other US state with the power to elect senators and reps to serve them in washington. The status quo party wants to retain the current status of PR with the US this is they party of the current governor. The politicians in PR affiliate loosely with the US parties for the presidential primary there with the extreme right and extreme left in the PIP usually sitting out. The oddity is that the leadership of the other two parties is usually split along our typical idealogical lines with no preference to their PR party.
Pickering publicly asked Haley to drop his name... he said he will serve again someday... but he really meant what he said about watching his family grow up and being there for ALL of it.
LLS
It seems like the only people willing to run for office are the ones you wouldn't want within a hundred feet of a legislative institution.
I’m still not convinced at this point that the GOP will definitely be wiped out in ‘08. Congressional approval is presently at its lowest levels ever, and it doesn’t make any sense for a majority of voters to decide that it’s better to maintain the Democratic majorities in both Houses of Congress when the very same people also still give Congress its lowest ratings ever.
I am very familiar with Puerto Rican politics. There are three local parties that split not on the usual conservative/liberal line but on how American they feel: (i) the most pro-American are statehooders; (ii) those that are generally pro-American but feel more “pro-Puerto Rican” are in favor of the status quo (where PR is a territory of the U.S., subject to federal laws without voting representation in Congress or a presidential vote, but not currently subject to federal income taxes), although lately a lot of openly anti-American politicians have been running for the party; and (iii) those that are “pro-Puerto Rican first and in many cases anti-American (including the far-lefties that you mentioned) in favor of independence. Between 45%-52% of the population is pro-statehood, between 44%-51% are pro-”commonwealth” (status quo), and between 2%-6% are pro-independence. I have never heard of any conservatives or libertarians in Puerto Rico that support the Puerto Rican Independence Party-—the party’s platform is further left than that of the U.S. Green Party.
While there are plenty of conservatives who support the pro-”commonwealth” Popular Democratic Party (which is historically aligned with the national Democratic Party but which has never made being a member of the Democratic Party a requirement for membership), Aníbal Acevedo-Vilá is very liberal across the board. He worships at the church of Big Government, has been increasingly anti-American and anti-business in his rhetoric (he is about to be indicted for corruption by a federal grand jury, and among his few remaining supporters are the handful of Marxists, environmentalist wackos and other leftists that always seem to get media sympathy), and is as despicable a character as has ever served in Congress (he was Puerto Rico’s non-voting Resident Commissioner in the House from 2001 to 2005; he was thankfully replaced by pro-statehood conservative Republican Luis Fortuño). I know that Congressman Wicker has long been allied with the pro-”commonwealth” Popular Democratic Party, presumably because he is so opposed to U.S. statehood for Puerto Rico that he would rather have Congress keep sending over $18 billion a year to Puerto Rico without collecting federal income taxes from residents that don’t work for the federal government, but he really “jumped the shark” when he appeared in a campaign ad with Ted Kennedy to support a corrupt, anti-American, liberal Democrat.
You might be right about the House-there's some low hanging fruit among the freshman Dems that the GOP should be able to pick off-but I don't see how the Republicans avoid losing three seats, at least, next year.
Aside from Schaffer-and maybe Gilmore-I can't think of any good candidates running for an open seat, the NRSC has no money-and for good reason-and most of the horrid individuals the Dems are running, e.g. Mark Warner, the Udalls, Jeane Shaheen, are unfortunately very popular.
This is no surprise. Ever since Pickering withdrew from consideration, everyone was expecting it.
Wicker wasn’t the best choice possible, but he’s overall an improvement over Lott. The biggest problem is now there’s an expensive special election to replace him in Congress.
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