[Defiant]

Marco needs a history lesson. As I recall, they promised votes on those things, not passage. The goal was accountability, to expose those who did not support the amendments, etc. and let the people throw them out. The Contract, if memory serves, was 100 percent performed. They held the votes, they just didn't pass all of them. They did pass a balanced budget, and were conservative for a while, but the old RINOs in the Senate, led by Bob Dole, obstructed at every turn. The new lions soon gave in and became new RINOs, and settled in to old style pork barrel politics. That's why they were fired in 2006.

In essence, the Tea Party is giving them a new chance they probably don't deserve. We are getting rid of a lot of them and those we don't better behave, or there will be hell to pay in 2012.

[MontaniSemperLiberi]

True. Tom Delay and company convinced the Republican party that they needed lobbyist cash to win and they needed to deny it to the Democrats to get them to lose. The Republicans sold out to K street.

Now it’s time for Main Street.

[MontaniSemperLiberi]

I’m sure they will need to be turned out in 2012. One election won’t be enough. These old men are set in their ways and they’ll be damned if they are going let anyone tell them how to behave. Okay fine, off to retirement for them. The danger in the next two years is that they will be building their nest eggs with political favors.

[Shady]

Agreed, If the TP is successful in November, then it will be imperative that the GOP be cleansed of the RINO leaders and the fundamental creed of conservatism be LAW!