Posted on 07/22/2008 3:43:07 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
WASHINGTON, July 22 (UPI) -- Republican leaders in the U.S. Senate have freed GOP members to go against the traditional party platform if it will help them get re-elected, aides say.
The Politico reported Tuesday that the GOP leadership set their members free amid fears they could lose five or more seats to Democrats in November.
Republican leaders have told senators in tough re-election bids to side with Democrats on anything but energy and national security issues, a leadership aide told Politico.
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So much for core principles.....
Seems to me that is what got them into trouble in the first place.
What, they now need special permission to do what they’ve been doing for 10 years?
I see this more as permission to bitch about Bush. I am fine with that.
Repeat after me...
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I think you’re on to something.
If they want to win, they need to be different from DEMOCRATS. Otherwise the Democrats would win.
Meanwhile, I would wish that each Senator would vote the way they think is best for the country, NOT what is best for their re-election.
So I don’t mind them being “freed” from voting party line, but the idea that they should vote against our country’s interest in order to get elected is just wrong.
Politicians of both political parties have but one over-ridding principle - Get elected!
George Washington tried to warn us about aligning ourselves with political parties, but we didn't take heed and now the Republic is paying a dear price.
It will get worse before it gets better!
Do you believe in the Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny and Rudolph as well?
Those seats are in jeopardy not because of Republicans sticking to their values and the party platform, but from Republicans who have been running away from the things the platforms they were elected on. Proposing more of that kind of cowardice isn't going to help them a damn bit.
I smell a rat...
Hence the problem with the “republican” members of Congress. Instead of formulating positions on conservative principles, they are are formulating positions to get re-elected. They are no better than demoncrats. They disgust me.
Traitorous scum.
Weasels!
TERM LIMITS!!
They didn't get the hints in 2006, obviously.
Actually, I think the founders wanted the Senators to vote what was best for their state. The seventeenth amendment was truly a bad idea.
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