281,171 signatures so far!
Posted on 05/30/2008 6:22:46 AM PDT by kellynla
We currently have 191,604 signatures.
If only Congress were a bunch of “do-nothings” because we’d probably better off if they did nothing.
Thanks. Signed it.
mine said thanks for signing. (about 3 mins. ago
Yah! Tried again, it worked.
Thanks!
“As of about 8:30 pm Thursday, the petition had about 150,700 signatures. Gingrich aims to get 200,000 signatures by this coming Monday.”
Well, they’ve already hit their Monday mark:
“We currently have 210,275 signatures”
Speaker of the House is not a king and hold him responsible for things he tried to do but couldn’t accomplish due to reasons beyond his control - ranging from Presidential vetoes to outright sabotage by jealous House colleagues who wanted personal power more than accomplishing agenda they were elected to do, or to required super-majority in the Senate, or to some Republicans (OK, Bob Dole) who saw Newt as potential competitor for President and sabotaged him by making a deal with Clinton during 2005 budget shutdown, or to the malignant press coverage, or due to the shortage of time left to craft and push other urgently needed legislations (unless one is just a one-issue proponent) like the tax reforms and welfare reform which has been vetoed twice before and finally signed by Clinton before 2006 election because it was very popular with American people, etc. etc. - is either politically immature or driven by desire to discredit one man who was truly a leader of conservative movement and thought, if unfortunately not the Republican Party, for the good part of the last 20 years, through Republican and Democratic Presidents and administrations.
Newt is not a perfect man (nobody is) or a perfect leader (nobody is) but knocking off imperfect men and leaders is what gave us McCain as presidential candidate - think about that next time you chose a leader of splinter “Conservative Party” and whether he/she will accomplish more than what Newt is trying to achieve or at least move forward with his party-unaffiliated organization American Solutions for Winning the Future...
/End of long run-on sentences rant.
Thanks, nutmeg!
I done did it. ;o)
all you wrote is true. Thanks for a thoughtful reply.
I do not agree with supporting Newt but I do agree with
Drill more pay less.
Lets work for conservative leaders who will not betray us after getting to DC.
The anxiety I refer to is with the oil speculators who are largely responsible for pushing up the price. The drilling I refer to is new drilling in new fields. Part of the problem is that the companies are drilling at maximum in the existing fields. We need to tap new fields to alleviate some of the supply problems while also agressively pursuing new technologies and ventures that will move us away from oil in the future. No one energy source will suffice or last us in the long run and the more opportunities we pursue simultaneously the better off we are going to be.
Of course. They are drilling at maximum. No question of that. As they pointed out in the School of Mines, one should place one’s mine where the minerals are, so drilling in existing fields seems appropriate.
281,171 signatures so far!
560,738 Signatures - it's growing in leaps and bounds!
560,738 Signatures - it's growing in leaps and bounds!
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