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Posted on 10/09/2008 3:52:44 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
SENECA — What happens in Washington, D.C., these days doesn’t translate well back home. That’s a message Sen. Lindsey Graham’s media coordinator can take back to his boss.
Kevin Bishop faced a tough crowd with tough questions Thursday as he tried to explain recent goings on in the nation’s capital to the Oconee Alliance, a public-private partnership organization that promotes the county.
“Does Sen. Graham and the rest of Congress realize the American people are ticked off?” Ray Stamm, a retired Fortune 500 CEO who has lived in Oconee County for 19 years, asked Bishop. “Washington seems to think it’s one big game.”
“It” was the politics surrounding the recent vote to spend up to $700 billion to bail out ailing financial institutions.
“If you don’t watch your business, you go bankrupt,” Stamm said. “If you go bankrupt, you go bankrupt.”
Questions and comments from the audience indicated Stamm was not alone in his view.
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I'm not sure they really care.
I hope this righteous anger builds to a crescendo that envelopes Washington. As Granny would say “your descendants, in the third and fourth generation, will feel the wrath of my vengeance”, let this be true (politically) for all of Washington.
You've got that right, FRiend. The outpouring of disgust for Gresham Barrett's vote on the bailout was huge, but he is still hiding under his desk like a stinking coward.
RE-ELECT NOBODY!
The same thing happened here yesterday when we had a visit from Tx. Rep. Conaway.....he got a earful from a room full of very unhappy constituents, including me.
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That’s probably the most counter-productive comment I’ve ever read on Freerepublic. Nice job.
Thank you. I don't support or accept everything a government official does just because they happen to have an "R" after their name. Barrett received an earfull BEFORE the vote, and most of us who knew him to be a good conservative believed that he would listen.
No such luck. He had simply waited until the bill was loaded down with an additional 150 billion in pork, THEN supported it. I know that he has received many, many emailes and phone calls, but he has yet to responed with so much as an explanation on his website. (maybe you believe that our elected leaders have no accountability to us)
Now, please explain how my comment can be "the most counter-productive" you've ever read on FR.
haha love the keywords
DeMint stuck to his guns and opposed the bailout. There are too few men of principle in our government.
You’ve got that right, FRiend. The outpouring of disgust for Gresham Barrett’s vote on the bailout was huge, but he is still hiding under his desk like a stinking coward.
I wondered why he didn’t show up for the Legislative Drop-In for the Assoc. of Realtors in Greenwood last night.
And they're predicting that the Do-Nothing-Dems will gain seats?
Words fail me..................
When I was at the Seneca Republican office Tuesday to pick up McCain/Palin yard signs I got some DeMint bumper stickers and told the guy there that he could keep the Graham stickers.
He said that he'd been getting a lot of that..............
“vote for nobody” or whatever the exact words were.
I assume that you are thrilled with the current crop of politicians, and that we should just re-elect them all, and maintain the status-quo.
THAT strikes me as "counter-productive". But then, I actually LIVE in South Carolina, and am partially accountable for who we send to represent us.
What precinct meetings have you been attending? How many county conventions have you attended?
Or have you just been hiding behind your keyboard sucking your thumb?
Now, if you simply want to sling childish insults, I have better uses for my time. I do not, nor will I ever approve of the actions of a politician based only on their political party affiliation. I am a Conservative first; and if the Republican candidate best represents my views, I will support them. The current crop in South Carolina, with the exception of Jim DeMint, do not represent conservatism consistantly. I do not believe in rewarding poor performance, and I believe that continuing to step and fetch for these RINOS while repeating "Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full" is ever going to change their behavior. Someone needs to call them out, and you obviously lack either the intellegence, or the testicular fortitude to do so.
Ya'll do whatever you want to up there, but the conservative voters in SC have had enough. It's time we got rid of Graham, Barrett, Wilson, and any other RINOS that we identify to rid conservativism of their cancer. It is time to take the party and conservatism back from the folks who attend all of the "precinct meetings" and "county conventions" just to hobnob with the bigshot RINOS. My commitment to my political beliefs is more than a vehicle to a "see and be seen" popularity contest, and I'm not going to lose a minute of sleep over whether you approve of them or not.
Good day.
You have no right to complain because you haven't done anything to affect the process. You whine about the GOP but you haven't taken steps necessary to change it, and somehow expect other human beings to cower to your will of how you think things should be done - even though you haven't even raised your voice to tell them what your will is in the most effective forums.
This is where you strike me as, well, infantile. You say it's 'time we got rid of Graham, Barrett, Wilson...' but then you don't explain how and don't lead by example by running against them or at least lobbying them via the precinct meeting/county convention/district convention/state convention.
You know, but until you can at least muster the cajones to become precinct president, you are really little different than a 3 year old throwing a tantrum.
Vote for Bob Conley,(D) Believe it or not, he is the real Conservative in the race.
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