Posted on 11/09/2008 8:16:25 AM PST by Jeff Head
I have sent the following letter via eamil and fax to my two Senators from Idaho, Seantor Crapo and Senator-elect Risch. I am also sending it to all of the other 48 US Senators. In my estimation, it is time we informed all of our representatives, from the President on down, who they really work for and what our expectations of them are. In particular, since the US Senate does not have a fillibuster proof majority, it is time that the GOP Senators stood up like patriots and statesmen, instead of the wiley, self-interested politicians so many of them act like, and make a stand for our republic and the fundamental principles upon which it has been founded. I encourage all Americans to write similar letters, urging the GOP senators to take a stand on principle and not allow socialistic, and anti-American legislation to pass, even if it means they have to hold up all legislation through the power of the fillibuster.
TO MY SENATORS:
Idaho U.S. Senators Mike Crapo and Senator-elect Jim Risch
November 8, 2008
CC: ALL US Senators
Washington, DC
RE: Principled Stand on the Issues of the day using the fillibuster
Dear Senators Crapo and Senator-elect Risch,
I am writing this letter to you (to be delivered by email, fax, and the regular mail), to voice my support of the foundational principles that have preserved this nation's liberty, soveriegnty, integrity, prosperity, and peace throughout its history. These principles of sanctity for life, free markets, self-sufficency, national soveriengty, self defense, individual worth and effort, and personal and societal accountability and responsibilty are bedrock principles to the well being of our Republic and society, and they are also under relentless assault from forces both external and internal to our nation.
In that regard, I am urging my own senators, and all senators...and particularly all GOP senators...to stand for these principles throughout the term of the incoming Obama administration, and particularly when coupling that administration with their DNC majorities in the house and the senate.
But particularly in the US Senate.
The democratic majority was unsuccessful in obtaining a fillibuster proof majority in the US Senate and this gives rise to a critical opportunity for the GOP to resist the sure-to-come abject efforts of the President and his majority to further undercut and weaken these critical prinicples, as they have promised to do, and that their party has been assaulting for many years under the false-flag guises of societal justice and equity through wealth redistribution, a woman's right to choose to kill her own unborn child, public safety to infringe second amendment rights, mipsplaced compassion to reward illegal aliens with citezenship, and any other number of carefully crafted marketing messages to advance their agenda in these areas.
In particular, Senators, I am urging everyone I know, realitves, neighbors, friends, and acquaintences, to write similar letters.
Stand on principle Senators...the principles enumerated above, and resist the majority in the Senate who will be seeking any number of legislative efforts to undermine these principles I have spoken of. We will gauge your performance accordingly and will either vote to keep you as stalwart defenders of our Constitutiomnal Republic and the principles upon which is has been founded, or replace you with those who will do so accordingly.
Specifcally, use the power of the fillibuster to force the majority to either set-aside, or significantly compromise on their plans for all of the following:I believe that we cannot, and must not, get into a trap of hoping the worst for our country in order to politically defeat our opposition, as the democrats have done for eight years reagrding President Bush. Such a stance is completely counter productive and destructive to our nation and only leads to worse probllems. So, I personally and sincerely wish the best for and pray for the Obama administration as they take office, that our nation will be well defended and prospered under their leadership.
- The Freedom of Choice Act which will re-fund abortion with federal monies and remove almost all restriction to this ghastly procedure.
- The proposed nationalization of 401K plans, illiminating them in favor of a federal program tied to the Social Security fund.
- Any Comprehensive Immigration legislation providing a path to citezenship for illegals already in this counrty.
- The Obama administration's plans for raising taxes, using the fillibuster to get them to make permanent the Bush tax cuts instead.
- Any Obama plans to draw down our forces in Iraq or Afghanistan prematurely before our current military leaders feel it would be prudent to do so.
- Any effort to further erode or curtail individual rights to firearms, including any effort to reinstate the so-called Assault Weapon Ban.
- Any energy legislation that does not provide for rigorous develpopment of our own resources, drilling here and drilling now, and at-home refining of our oil reserves off the coasts, in the oil shales, and in the ANWR.
- Any effort to accept signature of the Kyoto Protocol in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
- Any effort to accept signature of the United Nations Law of the Sea.
But when plans are proposed that are contrary to those aims, then it not only becomes important to use reasoned dialog and whatever legal and political recourse available to us to resist such contrary plans, but it also becomes our patriotic and sacred duty to do so.
That duty can be discharrged without rancor and without wishing ill on our nation or our opposition...but it can also be discharged directly, with confidence in the principles upon which we stand, in an unflinching manner, and with faith in God above.
I urge my own senatros, the GOP senators inparticular, and all senators to discharge their duties to our nation and its citizens accordingly because we will also be watching and voting accordingly.
Thank you very much for your time and attention.
Sincerely,
Jeff Head
Emmett, Idaho, USA
74% percent of eligible people are registered to vote. 34% are republicans and that % is going down. This year many republicans voted for Obama. I will never be able to wrap my brain around that one.
Onward, Forward!
You might have spoken too soon. There are 57 Senators in the 111th Congress's D-I Senate caucus so far, compared to 40 in the R, and three races are still undecided. I suspect, that Al Franken will ultimately win one of those races through Democrat treachery, at which point I will have to start calling it the Roman Senate (during the last days of Rome, of course).
bttt
I expect Chambliss will take Georgia. He has over a 100,000 vote lead with 99% reporting.
Stevens has a very narrow 3,500 vote lead in Alaska and I expect he may well hold it.
My guess is 42 GOP, 58 DNC, maybe 43 to 57, or also maybe 41 to 59.
By the way, I've enjoyed your stickers, as have friends and family. When are you going to have the "Sarah 2012" stickers? :)
Same here, but I have two of the worst in the Senate.
Clinton and Schumer
Save me!
Pass the word...lots of other good messages there as well.
Bump
Good job, Jeff. It’s time for the Republicans to finally act like they are Republicans. It’s time for the opposition to *oppose*!
Amen and spot on to that. And they will have more than ample opportunity to do so during this administration.
Thanks for the BUMP...if you can, please write letters to your senators and pass the word to everyone you know.
it’s impressive that you get responses. Kay Bailey Hutchison just sends form letters and her staff doesn’t like me, at all. They can’t even get the title right on medical issues, sent from and replied to, my office. “Dear Ms. Nuckols, . . .”
Keep trying. At least they know that you and many others like you are out there and believe me, if those numbers get high enough, they will start to act accordingly.
At least one of Podesta’s “ethicists” from the Center for American Progress believes that it isn’t possible for Obama to over turn the destructive embryonic research funding rules:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2129294/posts
Obama has to deal with the Dickey amendment and the Hyde amendment.
A great letter. One that will bring cheers from those who believe in restoration of, or ,at least, some semblance of, the former Constitutional Republic. Unfortunately, I am unable to think of the names of any GOP senators who fit into that category.
IMHO, the final paragraph of any letter should read (from a soon-to-be outlawed document):
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. ,But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security"
Those principles men exhausted all recourse. We are in the process of doing so, praying with sincere hearts, that it will make a difference.
My Sernator Crapo, voted against the bailout, and is a strong conservative on 95% of issues, from gun control, to abortion, to immigration, to finance, national defense, etc.
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