No talent assclowns.
Posted on 08/12/2008 8:18:51 AM PDT by seanmerc
Last week, I wrote on efforts by House GOP members to draw attention to the fact that Nancy Pelosi sent House members home for the summer without a vote on domestic oil drilling. The American people want it, and the GOP House members are fighting for it. I also wrote on how big the energy issue is. It could be THE issue of the upcoming elections... an issue upon which Republicans could run AND win.
However, this is a new week, and whenever too much time passes, there is bound to be a new effort by the GOP to stall momentum and stab conservatives right in the heart. Who needs Democrats when so many GOP "leaders" act just like them? Now, we have the "Gang of 10." This group of senators (5 Republicans and 5 Democrats) claims to have forged a "bi-partisan energy compromise." In reality, we have a group of five GOP senators who are set on taking the winning issues of drilling and energy off the table and selling out to the liberals.
A report in Investor's Business Daily (IBD) sums up the situation perfectly: "If you thought Republicans were no longer 'The Stupid Party,' then you haven't met the senators who may have just destroyed the GOP's biggest hope this election year: the drilling issue."
IBD summarizes the issue as follows:
Sens. Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson of Georgia, Bob Corker of Tennessee, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and John Thune of South Dakota — remember their names if things go badly for the GOP this November."
(Excerpt) Read more at gopusa.com ...
If so this raises the cost of oil right after the lowering effect of drilling and will result in no overall decrease in oil price but will result in even more taxes "earned" by the government.
Political regulation at it's worse!!
These senators and their scheme should simply be ignored. Bipartsanship means giving the Democrats three-fourths of what they want. The Dems programs are bad for the country, period. And why give them a cheap victory?
“I heard Chambliss on Rush last week.”
He sounded like he didn’t know what he was talking about. It wouldn’t suprise me if he didn’t know what was in the bill.
These guys soooo deserve to lose. Too bad the American people have to lose, too.
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As simplistic as it sounds, I simply think these RINOs are being BOUGHT with the only things that mean something to them — POWER AND MONEY. The American public they were sent to Washington to support, protect and defend BE DAMNED.
The movie “Gangs of New York” really showed a story about how the liberals began and have perpetuated through crime, favors, thuggery, and corruption. Not much has changed — IMHO, Boss Tweed never died, and Tammany Hall never closed its doors. The same mentality is now out of control in Washington.
No talent assclowns.
>Conservatives need to be vigilant at the PRIMARY level from now on, lest we continue to send RINOs to Washington.<
Try and publicly support an Independent candidate or a Conservative Democrat on FR. Then watch the FReepers come screaming out of the corners about how RINOs at least vote for the Republican Party some of the time and you are a traitor if you refuse to follow Party lines.
It is of no consequence to them that the Republican Party has been supporting socialistic programs and ideas that originated with the Democrats, you too must fall in line.
Saxby and Thune are dead to me. Thune had so much potential too. Traitors.
IF Lindsey Graham is involved in it, you know it’s BAD for America. In my lifetime I have NEVER seen such arrogance!! Do they think they are the only elected Senators Americans have?? MY Senators represent ME!! They know what “I” want, and I can tell you right now, that it’s not what these arrogant fools want! Had they not done this, we could have kept the pressure on the RATS for drilling in ANWR. It’s time for a massive e-mail and phone calling session to let these five traitors KNOW exactly how we feel. The dirty rotten scumbags! Does anyone have their numbers and e-mail addresses handy?
Wouldn't surprise me either. An awful lot of our state legislators vote for bills apparently without ever having read them -- certainly without analyzing them.
If you can’t call them, go to www.senate.gov and contact them through their electronic forms. I’ve sent all of them 2 e-mails and will try to send them more as time permits.
Thank you sooo much. I had just asked if anyone had their contact numbers. ;o) They’re going to be sorry when we get through with them, and I must tellya that NOTHING will please me more than to get to tell that sorry pos, Lindsey Graham whan an insufferable pig he is! (apologies to the pig) LOL
It is rather pointless to complain about these RINOs when the majority here are planning on voting for the biggest one of them all and has been acutely instrumental in creating this sort of shameful Liberal/Moderate behavior in the GOP.
Cut the head off the snake to kill it. Or else expect it to grow and prosper, but don’t complain when it does.
Right On! Only when the sheeple decide to vote outside of the CORRUPT "Two-Party Cartel" will anything hopefully get accomplished. These 5 duds all not up for reelection (you've seen these scenes over the past 2 decades) so they carry the work for the elites knowing full well that the sheeple will forget & vote them in again at the 98% rate (higher than the old Soviet Unuion did). Doesn't that tell you just how corrupt this election BS is?
Call and call again. Dont let these scumbags ruin the country
Nan on drilling: No longer the hoax I knewIt depends how the drilling is put forth. But I don’t — that is not excluded, let me say it that way. It depends how that is proposed, if the safeguards are there. Now, mind you, 68 million acres — 10 million more acres in Alaska where they can drill. But if there’s — if we can get some great things, in terms of renewable energy resources; a renewable electricity standard; wind, solar, biofuels and the rest in that context, because if you make a decision only to go with the offshore drilling, you are increasing our dependence on fossil fuels and you will never free yourself of that addiction unless you invest in the renewable energy resources that are good for the environment, cheaper for the consumer and will reverse global warming.
If not for the 17th amendment I doubt these five would even be Senators.
Repeal the 17th!
I just called the offices of:
1. Senator Corker - to insist that he disavow this gang-of-10, tax-and-spend misfire, and that he immediately urge the President to call Congress back into emergency session to address domestic energy production. I also said that Sen. Corker needs to go to the House floor, to learn what REALLY needs to be done, instead of falling all over himself to endorse the first Democrat that mentions “drilling” no matter what else he says.
2. Senator Alexander - to immediately urge the President to call Congress back into emergency session to address domestic energy production.
3. Congressman Marsha Blackburn - to thank her for her presence on the House floor for this demonstration.
4. Republican Leader John Boehner - to thank him for his leadership on the drilling issue.
5. The White House Comment Line - to thank the President for returning to his duties, and demand that he call Congress back into emergency session to approve exploring and drilling for American oil wherever American oil can be found - and to condemn the “gang-of-10” tax-&-spend proposal as a violation of the needs and desires of the American people.
If not for the 17th amendment I doubt these five would even be Senators.
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Yes, the 17th was created to give power-mad pols the ability to bypass the voting citizen and appoint their own stooges into power. IMHO, that is the essence of the 17th.
Congress takes very good care of ITSELF. And the libs are working hard to remove as much control over law and policy from the VOTING citizen as possible — their modus operandi being the socialists they are.
"If voting actually could change anything, it would be illegal."
(source unknown, b/c it ain't me!)
That's why the Base has to get far more active in the nominations process. And not take "but we need to appeal to the moderates" for an answer. That is an unendingly slippery slope.
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