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Posted on 03/27/2009 8:22:28 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
On my wall I have a copy of an old fashioned Senate roll call sheet – the handwritten tally from the clerk recording the passage of the original law creating AmeriCorps in 1993. There were hash marks next to just seven Republicans.
Yesterday the Senate approved a bill authorizing a tripling of AmeriCorps. It passed 79-19 – with 21 Republican votes. That’s right, more Republicans voted for the measure than against it.
In 1993 those Republicans who did support it were mostly moderates. This time supporters included conservatives like Roger Wicker and Thad Cochran of Mississippi, Michael Enzi of Wyoming Bob Corker of Tennessee and John McCain of Arizona.
I’m thrilled. It’s a great bill that will do more for the country than many things the Congress has done in years.
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Significantly, George W. Bush supported AmeriCorps as did his Domestic Policy chief, John Bridgeland. This may not seem important now when Republicans are hardly asking “What Would W Do?” but Bush’s support broke the historical pattern in which national service was seen as Democratic programs.
And one more person played a key role: John McCain. During the 2008 presidential campaign, McCain endorsed the Kennedy-Hatch legislation, powerfully signaling that AmeriCorps now had bipartisan support.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.wsj.com ...
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This is why I’m skeptical of a Republican “revival.” So they revive? So what?
I would argue that having guys like Bush and McCain on board does NOT make the support for this abomination bi-partisan. It STILL lacks support from conservatives, no matter what the author of the article says.
You're right. It doesn't, except that the drive-by media labels Bush and McCain as "conservatives," and hence, the GIVE Act had "conservative" support.
Like Fannie and Freddie, Americorp could very well have started with good intentions - and actually help quite a few people.
But ask a politician, particularly a left-wing one - to non-politicize a Gov’t sponsored group of 750,000? Impossible.
This has the potential to eventually evolve into America’s Brown-shirts. Under whose control and when, I can only guess.
Just like Hitler had the Hitler youth, Obama has the Obama youth. I wonder if their shirts are going to be brown.
Obama also has his union thugs to do his bidding. Americans better figure this out fast in order to defeat this antichrist (Obama). He and all the democrats and Rino’s who think working with the antichrist is a good thing need to be thrown out of office and fast.
Tis insipid BS must be ripped out of the government and buried.
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BTW, I don't consider President Bush a RINO. And as much as I may dislike John McCain, I don't consider him a RINO either.
To me, people like Giuliani, Schwarzenegger, Christy Todd Whitman, Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins and Arlen Spector are RINO's.
January 19, 2001
Look who supports Americorps
Michelle Malkin
The press release doesn’t cite liberal cheerleaders of the program. It cites Republican after Republican, from Arizona Sen. John McCain to Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum to Missouri Sen. Kit Bond and ex-Ohio Rep. John Kasich, praising Clinton’s monstrous creation. (snip)
There is strong support.” Kasich, once a staunch budget hawk who led the campaign to eliminate AmeriCorps, now believes Clinton’s community service cadre has “done some really great work.” Other GOP members of the Senate and House who initially opposed the creation and funding of AmeriCorps but now support it include: Utah Sens. Robert Bennett and Orrin Hatch, Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell, Montana Sen. Conrad Burns, Ohio Sen. Mike DeWine, New Mexico Sen. Pete Domenici, New York Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, Montana Rep. Rick Hill, Mississippi Rep. Charles Pickering, and Illinois Reps. John Porter and John Shimkus. Where have all the fiscal conservatives gone? Have these Republicans forgotten the countless examples of AmeriCorps-sponsored projects that paid participants to lobby for left-wing causes? (snip)
http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2001/01/19/look_who_supports_americorps
AmeriCorps attorneys = Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps. 2003 - Equal Justice Works redesigns its AmeriCorps program and receives a three- year funding commitment from the Corporation for NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE (CNCS).
Awards dinner raises $734,000. ________________________ Law School students selected for 2007 Equal Justice Works “Summer Corps Program” - Summer Corps members work on a broad range of issues, including civil rights, community economic development, death penalty, housing and workers’ rights. THOSE SELECTED INCLUDE:
Erica Rancilio with GLBT Justice Project (NOTE for those who don’t know (GLBT=LGBT) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT or (GLBT)and ————Morgan Williams with NAACP. http://www.law.tulane.edu/tlsNews/newsItem.aspx?id=2154 “Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps” plays a crucial role in closing the gap between the supply and demand of legal assistance. CAN YOU SAY LA RAZA? And who knows what else...——>(Lizeth Cervantes La Raza Centro Legal San Francisco) http://www.equaljusticeworks.org/regions/west 2008 “Summer Corps Program” MEMBERS IN CALIFORNIA http://www.equaljusticeworks.org/regions/west/summercorps
Don't feel bad. We've seen this in California for 5 years now. In many cases Schwarzenegger was the only Republican to join with 100% Democrats -- and the media still calls it bipartisan. It is no different when McCain, with or without his squishy comrades(R), crosses the aisle.
How do you see McCain as different?
What position(s) does he hold, or not hold, that distinguish him from that bunch?
McCain opposes the Federal Marriage Amendment but did any of those other people vote for the Defense of marriage act, as McCain did?
I don't have time to address the rest now, but will be back sometime over the weekend.
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