GOP is indeed stupid for its timidity

Herald Mail ^ | 5/31/08 | JAMES H. WARNER

[Recovering_Democrat]

I tell ya, the ‘rats ought to be ripped in two for their lameass responses to energy supplies.

McLame won’t do it: he doesn’t give a damn about getting our own energy sources either, does he?

Time for grassroots action.

[VideoDoctor]

A firend sent this to me via email last night

 

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545 PEOPLE
By Charlie Reese

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and
then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans
are against deficits, we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against
inflation and high taxes, we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don't propose a federal budget.  The president does.

You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on
appropriations.   The House of Representatives does.

You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.

You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.

You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme
Court justices – 545 human beings out of the 300 million – are
directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the
domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that
problem was created by the Congress.   In 1913, Congress delegated its
Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally
chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound
reason.  They have no legal authority.   They have no ability to coerce
a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking
thing.   I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in
cash.   The politician has the power to accept or reject it.   No
matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's
responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that
what they did is not their fault.   They cooperate in this common con
regardless of party.

What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive
amount of gall.   No normal human being would have the gall of a
Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating
deficits.   The President can only propose a budget.   He cannot force
the Congress to accept it.

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole
responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and
approving approriations and taxes.   Who is the speaker of the House?  
She is the leader of the majority party.   She and fellow House
members, not the president, can approve any budget they want.   If the
president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not
replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of
incompetence and irresponsibility.   I can't think of a single domestic
problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people.   When you
fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the
federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they
want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.

If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red.

If the Marines are in IRAQ , it's because they want them in IRAQ .

If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement
plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.

There are no insolvable government problems.

Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they
hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and
advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to
regulate and from whom they can take this power.   Above all, do not
let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical
forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them
from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.

They, and they alone, have the power.

They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are
their bosses – provided the voters have the gumption to manage their
own employees.

We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!


Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.

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What you do with this article now that you have read it is up to you,
though you appear to have several choices.

1.      You can send this to everyone in your address book, and hope
"they" do something about it.

2.      You can agree to "vote against" everyone who is currently in
office, knowing that the process will take several years.

3.      You can decide to "run for office" yourself and agree to do the
job properly.

4.      Lastly, you can sit back and do nothing, or re-elect the
current bunch.

YOU DECIDE, BUT AT LEAST SEND IT TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK,
MAYBE SOMEONE IN THERE WILL DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!

 

WITHOUT LEADERSHIP NOTHING POSITIVE HAPPENS.

 

IF THINGS DON'T CHANGE THEY'LL STAY THE SAME.

 

THE POWER RESIDES IN THE PEOPLE.

 

 

 

 

[WOSG]

Mike Duncan heads the RNC.
Lower profile than Mel Martinez, but a better GOP head.
http://www.gop.com/About/AboutBio.aspx?Guid=440ac9cd-8163-47f5-9c39-eb39d81a9b79

http://www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com/2008/02/08/interview-with-rnc-chairman-mike-duncan/

[WOSG]

“The Dems nominate far-left oddballs like Obama because it pleases the most motivated members of their party — i.e. the ones who come out and vote their beliefs, such as they are.”

AND WE ARE IDIOTS IF WE LET THIS LEFTWING GOOFBALL WIN!!!

http://no-bama.blogspot.com/

[EternalVigilance]

Courage springs from conviction.

The new McCain GOP has no convictions.

"The unrighteous man flees when no one pursues, but the righteous man is bold as a lion!"

[WOSG]

“No. we need to start another revolution.”

We have a ‘revolution’ every election. The leftists are going to throw the GOP bums out and leave the tax-hiking freespending progaymarriage proabort marxist-fellow-travelling weak-on-GWOT Democrats in, if we dont stop it. That will be the revolution 2008.

“Why start from scratch when the GOP already has the structure and apparatus to function as a a political party ?”

Correct, the 3rd party folks are purist big-fish-in-small-pond fools who will get nowhere.

“We just need to throw the RINO’s and feckless ass clowns out one by one”

TWO GROUPS ARE DOING THIS:
NFRA and Club for Growth
http://clubforgrowth.org

[EternalVigilance]

Shoot, the granddaddy of the NFRA orgs, in CA, endorsed liberal former Governor Mitt Romney in the Republican primaries.

What’s the CfG doing in this election?

[Popman]

We have a ‘revolution’ every election.

No we don't. That's almost laughable if it wasn't so sad.

We have in the House gerrymandering districts that almost guarantee re-election for even the most reprehensible representatives. Their constituencies and special interest protect them because they bring home the bacon, other taxpayers money

That my friend isn't a ‘revolution', it's looting in the highest order

[af_vet_rr]

We need to start another party.....

It's getting to that point. If the GOP loses in November (who am I kidding, they probably will), then all that will do is make the leadership and big money donors think they didn't attract enough moderates and they will simply shift further to the left like they've been doing. They are not going to realize that it's the Republicans on the right they need to be worried about. Hell, I have more in common with the libertarians than I do with what the GOP has become at this point. That's scary.

[af_vet_rr]

Yep. All those vetos, all that standing up for his nominees when Congress stalled 'em, all that holding the line against Kennedy's education bill....

Yup, Bush wore his arm out with all of those vetoes - he must have vetoed what, 8-9 things over the past seven years?

[Christopher Lincoln]

Why not put this to the test by actually providing facts?

[Christopher Lincoln]

Obviously, Social Security must be reformed, the sooner the better.

I think this point is beginning to sink in. I haven't heard recently of anybody calculating when the Social Security trust fund will be exhausted. Perhaps people are figuring out that the crisis will come, at the latest, when Social Security begins to draw down the trust fund. It will then become clear to the dullest mind that the trust fund is a fiction, and no fund at all.

[okie01]

In defense of the stupid party, people are swayed more by emotion than facts and the left is expert at stirring up emotions, especially fear, hate and jealousy.

But facts can change minds. And would enlighten many.

Still, the stupid party refuses to bring these facts forward -- or even argue its own case.

The GOP leadership is wanting -- for ideas and for courage.

[supercat]

The leadership of the GOP/RNC are run by spineless, gutless, gonad-less good for nothings, IMO. They are the reason we’re in the toilet bowl today.

The problem isn't that they're spineless. The problem is that they know that if conservatism was allowed to work, they'd lose all raîson d'être. While they try to appear spineless, that's a front for the fact that it's better to be thought a wimp than a traitor.

[dayglored]

> Maybe he did give me a ride home and yes, I let him buy me an ice cream cone but I swear that’s as FAR AS HE’S GONNA GET.

Heh, good retort!

I'm looking for a link to that silhouette graphic of the rhino humping an elephant... AHA! There it is...

[ImpBill]

Thank you. I could identify with much the Libertarians believe in short of national defense. And while I would be the first to admit that I believe our current drug policy is an abject failure, I don't agree with the "it's your thing, do what you want to do", view of many Libertarians either.

I am more in line with the Constitution Party "platform".

[danamco]

An e-mail from a lame duck an d STUPID Florida Senator who need to be unseated!!!

This is a copy of an email from Mel Martinez in response to my request to open up ANWR for drilling. The response is dated 4/29/2005.

Dear Mr......:

Thank you for contacting me. I appreciate hearing from you regarding the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), and I would like to respond to your concerns.

Finding new sources of domestic energy is critical to our national security. Today, our nation is 58 percent dependent on sources of energy from the Western Hemisphere, including 14 percent from Venezuela. Judging by recent political developments, Venezuela is not a stable or reliable source of oil for our country.

Hugo Chavez has actively been seeking new markets, such as China, for Venezuela’s oil, which would leave us struggling to replace a sizable percentage of our country’s needs with most likely very little warning. With today’s soaring oil and gasoline prices, we need to be forward thinking about world events and their effect on our oil supply.

We also need to think globally about environmental issues. Drilling in ANWR using the most advanced technology and strictest environmental regulations will keep environmental impact to a minimum. Drilling technologies such as multi-lateral drills and directional drilling are just two examples of ways we are now able to minimize environmental impact. Other countries are not necessarily following the same strict environmental standards used in the U.S., and this puts us in the position of exporting our own environmental concerns to countries with much looser environmental standards.

Drilling in ANWR - in a part of Alaska that was set aside by the Eisenhower administration in 1960 for oil and gas exploration, with overwhelming support from its population and congressional delegation, and under some of the strictest environmental standards in the world – is a sound and balanced approach that will help alleviate our dependence on foreign sources of oil.

As a Floridian, I share your concerns of a ‘slippery slope’ effect as it relates to offshore energy exploration, and rest assured, I remain firmly opposed to drilling off Florida’s coast. I have also receive assurances from the administration to keep in place Florida’s moratorium on offshore drilling through 2012, extending it to areas currently not under moratoria, such as the “stovepipe.” In addition, I will be introducing my own legislation in the U.S. Senate to make the moratorium on our Gulf coast permanent, and buy back any open leases.

As we address the need for development of domestic sources of energy, Florida’s moratorium on offshore drilling will remain firmly in place as one of my highest priorities. Again, thank you for sharing your thoughts with me. If you have any additional questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Martinez will never get another vote from me or my family.

[WOSG]

EV, go to the CfG website and you can learn.

In NM, they want Pearce over Wilson.
They support Shaffer in Colorado, a classic conservative GOP vs Liberal Dem race.
McClintock in the Cali open primary. They are running ads against the RINO there.

they want Young gone in Alaska. They are willing to take on RINO big spenders, and they’ve beaten several so far, inclduing Gilchrest this cycle.
And of course, so many liberal Democrats in conservative districts, so little time. MANY key races there that CfG is targetting.

EV, let go of your obsession with a race that is over and look at the races right now. We can salvage 2008 for conservatives by defending and winning the right races in the House and Senate.

[WOSG]

Obama winning will be revolution, a bit like 1917 ...

http://no-bama.blogspot.com/

[WOSG]

This thinking is why i am all for helping the Republican *conservatives* that we can.
If the RINOs lose but conservatives win, then, maybe it would wake some people up.