Posted on 09/14/2008 9:09:57 AM PDT by Delacon
Shut it down. W will be blamed anyway.
They have never even answered any letter of mine on anything.
Aw, gees...just when I thought the GOP finally had found a pair of stones, this comes along...
“The problem with a shutdown is that the MSM ALWAYS sides with the Dems and will hammer Republicans daily for pulling the plug on government services”
Whoever listens to the MSM is already voting for the Rats. Should we govern the country to please the MSM?
If the ban on offshore drilling is extended, Bush needs to grow a pair and veto it. If he can’t grow a pair maybe he can borrow some from Hillary.
This actually would be the best way for this to play out. Bush should announce that he will veto any CR that extends the drilling ban. Dems don’t want this battle during election season with the real possibility that the republicans could retake the house. Pelosi and Reid are already trying to find cover for those whose seats are in jeapardy. A veto thread would force all those dems to come out and state where the really stand on the ban. Just threatening to do it will keep the ban extension out of the continuing resolution. But the Prez won’t do it unless republican senators and congressmen put up a good fight.
Bush needs to put the country first on this. It is a national security issue. What does he have to lose. He is not going to be running for any public office again.
Yep, he can shoulder all the blame himself since he's not up for re-election. He can provide cover for the Republicans in the house and Senate and he can stick it to the dems at the same time.
That's my fearless Senator ~ NOT!
FLORIDA PING!
Amen, Kansas Woman.
On another topic, I took a red marker and made myself a "S {red lips} RAH" tee shirt and just wore it to a local bar. Most of the patrons are demonRATs, but the women loved it and the men were awe struck to see how the women reacted.
SARAH is a real season changer, kinda like the Pats losing Brady {but in reverse}.
I feel your pain. I transplanted from Michigan to Virginia in 1973. Now we have Jim Webb of Lies He Weaves and the retiring RINO John Warner.
The candidates: Jim Gilmore (R) is for drilling and Mark Warner (D) is against. Although, Mark Warner is still favored to win due to the "blue-ing" of Virginia and Jim Gilmore is not all that popular.
We hope and we pray that this whole drilling, gasoline, diesel prices, heating oil prices and Mark Warner's going along with Obama's higher taxes will turn the race around in favor of Jim Gilmore.
IMO, it isn’t just the removal of our dependence on other countries for crude oil- those who like us and those who do not.
It is the fact that the MONEY we send all over the world to buy crude that we can produce here is the issue.
That money will life our own economy, provide new jobs in all phases of the oil/gasoline petrochemical business.
The cost of gasoline should come back down dramatically, and that helps every household in the USA.
That is an array of jobs from the dirt drilling operation to the white collar office and sales jobs.
What don’t the Liberals and Environazis get in the country?
We have a perfectly good product that we can use, right here, and it eliminates the problems of long distance ship transport and the changes in leadership in countries that can blackmail us.
LLS
You’ve said it all. I’m with you.
I disagree. These calls should not be to all Senators. We need a tangible campaign issue. The economy is being hamstrung by the high cost of energy, thanks to the dems. Tie the high cost of energy to the donkeys on Nov 4. Isn't the GOP defending at least 22 seats in the Senate?
Use this as a campaign issue this fall - Vote Republician
“We need a tangible campaign issue.”
ND, we’re talking shutting down the government. As campaign issues go, you can’t get more tangible than that.
What happened the last time the GOP shut down the government? Clinton was re-elected.
Americans blame GOP for budget mess
Overall, Americans blame the Republican leaders in Congress more for the recent shutdown of the federal government, not President Clinton.
AMEN to your suggestion! I am looking up my Senators’ phone numbers as I type. If it means a “shutdown”, a “shutdown” it is!!
Perhaps the more we say it the faster they will get the message!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.