[Arizona Carolyn]

I've never written a vanity, but please feel free to write one of my behalf... as to the flames, I'm finding all the my way or the highway stuff by people tedious and childish and why we are in dire straits in the GOP. Common sense has to become the order of the day.. Conservatives can get elected here in Arizona (so far) but they cannot get elected in places like CA, NY, NJ, etc... we need to start at the local levels in those states and build from there... that is what people should be working toward... letters to the editors, and whatever else methods they can utilize... to convince people that liberal policies are not good policies... we need to get back to being a party that stands for something and convince people there is a reason to stand for what we do...

off my soapbox

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Who said Republicans were a bunch of spineless, unprincipled ninnies? Tonight’s news that every single House Republican voted NAY on the Democrats’ Generational Theft Act of 2009 is already breathing new life into conservatism. Notwithstanding tales of Republicans fighting for pictures of themselves yukking it up with President Obama, the congressional GOP — finally free from President Bush — is no longer apologizing for its conservatism.

Even better: Republicans are also rediscovering that conservatism can and should be fun. Rep. John Carter, a Republican from Texas, has introduced a bill that would create the “Rangel Rule.” Advancing the idea that everyone deserves equal under the law, Carter’s bill stipulates that anyone paying overdue taxes can write “Rangel Rule” across his/her returns and the IRS would be forbidden from charging fees or penalties.

House Republicans said their counter stimulus bill would create twice as many jobs at half the cost. Whose numbers did they rely on? None other than President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers’ Chairwoman. (Clearly, a right-wing nutjob!)

Here’s hoping Senate Republicans follow in-kind. Perhaps one might even have the audacity to filibuster.

Polls may show Obama to be the cat’s pajamas, but that doesn’t mean his policies make sense. Committing America to a trillion dollars in new debt is a path not to prosperity, but to poverty. Senate Republicans need to embrace their conservative principles now more than ever.

— Laura Ingraham
http://www.LauraIngraham.com

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