Posted on 12/16/2010 6:06:07 AM PST by IbJensen
BTTT
Hate to be the bearer of the bad news BUT until we get a real conservative(no RINOs) majority (over 60) in the US Senate we will not accomplish the start of the rollback of the Gov.
In all fairness, the new ones haven’t been seated yet and there are not enough GOPers to really prevent anything - although many of them are at least trying to make it difficult. There are, of course, the usual RINOs, but what do you expect from them?
The other thing is that the tax bill got rolling and then the Dems surged up and started nailing all sorts of other things to it in one last-ditch effort to get goodies and bring down the country. I think there are several GOP congress critters who are now saying that they are reconsidering their vote for the tax bill, simply because (as usual) it has morphed into something else.
You know the system in this country ~ a new Congress will begin as provided for in the 20th Amendment as follows:
1. The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
2. The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 3d day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.
The OLD CONGRESS which is dominated by Democrats and their running dog lackeys is still in business.
Politicians would be more likely to seek out a conservative base if it didn’t mean dealing with this type of sentiment.
Neither speaks well for those porking out this bill, and the Tea Party should be vetting primary challengers for the GOP porkers here.
A truly asinine statement. So you are saying what prevents the likes of Cornyn from seeking a conservative base is the fact that we don't want him porking up a tax bill with earmarks? Up yers. You're the type who would demand pro-lifers take it easy on Guiliani.
and the lack of hiring by CEO's.
What a rant.
But the only real bad thing in the compromise is the estate tax change, and frankly considering it’s only for $5 million and up, even I hardly care.
We had a significant victory here that should help us achieve permanent repeal in 2012.
Having visited both East Berlin and Cuba, I can say, and you all know, that much of what the progressives want will ruin this country. “The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance.” has never been truer than it is today.
Well, come January 5th the GOP will be out of excuses. They better get a spine and get working on the restoration of the Constitutional Republic.
My new congressman is actually my former one term congressman and he’s proven himself. In some 18 years in state and national politics he hasn’t become wealthy and only drew some $4 million in donations in his career (Aside from this year when he spent that much fighting union money).
In 16 years as a state senator he was a founding member of Michigan’s “NO” caucus due to his record of having never voted for a new tax or tax increase. In his two years in Nancy Pelosi’s house of representatives, he didn’t keep an apartment in Washington DC, he slept on a cot in his office. When gas was over $4 a gallon, he didn’t head for home during his summer break, he stayed in DC and demanded that speaker Pelosi return and deal with energy policy. One of the last things he did before the 08 election was vote no on the bank bailout both times. The NRCC stripped him of money and called the race a lost cause. He lost by a whopping 2%.
We the people of this district have chosen to return him to Washington in January and Washington had better listen. As for the voters of America, maybe its time to stop looking for stars and start looking for people who do the right thing quietly.
Politicians would be more likely to seek out a conservative base if it didn’t mean dealing with this type of sentiment.
- Rippin_______________________________________________
Nevermind, Rippin is a staffer for “Mike” McConnell...and we are a pain in the netheregion to these stuffy bureaucrats who can’t spell Republic.
We are past the point where elections will fix this thing.
We are entitled, as conservatives, to embrace fiscal responsibility, and the current omnibus spending bill is so incredibly pork-ridden that it is smokey-bacon-flavored. Also, that monstrosity funds Obamacare for a year -- something we vowed to defund. Finally, in 2006, when Republicans lost big, they didn't try to jam a spending bill down Democrats throats in the last weeks of the lame-duck. They punted to the Democrats.
If you guys cannot embrace conservative principles of -- at the BARE minimum -- fiscal restraint, or hopefully the higher embrace of freedom and individual liberties, then you are correct.
Then there is no point to reaching out to us.
Because at that point, you will be liberals.
You see, Democrats want to drive over the cliff at 90 miles an hour. Liberal Republicans argue it would be best if we drive over the cliff at 20 miles an hour. Conservative Republicans want to brake before the cliff, and the most conservative want to put the car in reverse.
and that’s BEFORE they cave to an even higher Death Tax even
How did you figure that out?
Did you notice that the article I was responding to attacked Republicans in the title and spent the next two pages complaining about positions espoused by Democrats and media types?
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