Posted on 12/29/2010 3:23:30 AM PST by Scanian
The lame-duck session of the 111th Congress proved one thing beyond a doubt: the Republican Party does not represent the interests of conservatives. Despite the midterm election tidal wave, in which the Republican Party gained 63 House seats (eclipsing its historic1994 success against Clinton), congressional Republicans failed to leverage their victory into political clout and collapsed like a house of cards in the lame-duck session.
The last two weeks ought to have sickened conservatives. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell spectacularly failed to hold his caucus together to even delay ratification of the START treaty until the 112th Congress is seated in January. Republican leftists Olympia Snowe and Lisa Murkowski sided with Democrats to end the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, forcing the gay agenda from the streets of San Francisco right into the U.S. Marine Corps. Congressional Republicans agreed to cut FICA taxes for Social Security (which is underfunded already) and expand the Democratic Party's welfare state constituency by extending unemployment benefits -- in exchange for maintaining current tax rates for a paltry two years. The deal will add billions to the deficit. Tea Party darling Scott Brown, mocked by Obama for driving a truck in his insurgent 2009 campaign in which he stole "Ted Kennedy's seat" from the Democrats, voted for Obama's agenda on all of these issues.
Give the Democratic devils their due. They are astute students of Machiavelli.
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“The RNC is not a consideration in my thoughts. the RNC is merely a group that once was worthy of receiving my contributions but is obsolete since the advent of online direct contributions.”
I agree. My friends and I have been contributing to individual campaigns and will continue to boycott the RNC until they finally get a clue. Which may never happen.
When you can get a national political party convention organized over the net go to it.
Dollars to doughnuts you can't quite get it done.
Some of them were also led to believe that the only way we are going to get those new facilities is by signing on to START. Without START all the other treaties taken together rather limit our ability to modernize our reprocessing sites. Every now and then we have to reprocess the fissionable material in the nuclear warheads to make sure we have stuff that works and not just duds.
What that means is that they had a Damned if you do and Damned if you don't situation.
Now, what about the Senators who ended up VOTING AGAINST improving our nuclear reprocessing sites? Were they doing it out of a sense of patriotism, or maybe because the Chicoms paid them off?
Really, you had a complex issue here ~ it should have been tossed over to the New Congress. Because it wasn't it is unlikely the enabling legislation and the appropriations required to make this treaty work will get through the next House of Representatives.
It's like the Democrat lackeys pushing a hurry up on START forgot that it's just a POS without action by the House, and they'd lost the House in November.
It's really up to John Boehner and his cronies running the House to kill START ~ and given a choice between killing START and bailing out Ohio who do you think will win.
The Republican Party is NOT finished.
However, The Republican Party will be completely TAKEN OVER, top to bottom, by the TEA Party.
This scares the living crap out of the RINO elites, hence the endless, mindless attacks by Karl Rove and many others against Sarah Palin and other conservatives identified with the TEA Party.
We don't need statemen to step up. We need good consivative patriotic Americans to take the statesmen down in primaries.
Those jokers need to start worrying less about losing their party and more about losing their country!
“Every now and then we have to reprocess the fissionable material in the nuclear warheads to make sure we have stuff that works and not just duds.”
Actually we don’t. From time to time we modernize our nuclear warheads by building new warheads but the fissionable material does not degrade.
The laws of physics have not changed ~ the “fissionable” material does degrade ~ which is why we call it “fissionable” and why it has half-lives.
“You find that with lots of folks from Maine - they don’t know the United States exists so they don’t care.”
I disagree strongly with your comment. I’ve lived in Maine for over twenty years, and on November 2nd we elected a TEA Party guy, Paul LePage, governor. He will take office in about a week. At that point in time, Maine will have one of the most conservative governors in America.
The GOP won control of both our State House AND our State Senate on November 2nd. The last time the GOP controlled the Maine governorship and the House and Senate was in the early 1960’s.
We also have a new Secretary of State, another conservative and a veteran of the Iraq War, Charlie Summers.
The reason Snowe and Collins keep getting re-elected is because the RATS run ultra, left-wing candidates against them. Snowe and Collins, in the eyes of many, look reasonable and mainstream when compared to these Ted Kennedy and Cindy Sheehan types.
Snowe is facing a primary challenge in 2012. Already, a conservative GOP man has announced his intentions to run against her in the primary. Collins is up in 2014. A recent survey by the Maine GOP showed that Maine Republicans want someone more conservative than Snowe in 2012.
There’s no shortage of liberals here.....after all, southern Maine is near Massachusetts.....but there is also no shortage of flag waving patriots. Per capita, Maine has one of the largest shares of men and women in the military.
I’ve been voting the Conservative Line mostly in New York for years now although I’m a registered Republican. Granted, I’m still not sure how that happened. Must’ve done it one of the times that I moved, but I really don’t remember when I did it.
“The laws of physics have not changed ~ the “fissionable” material does degrade ~ which is why we call it “fissionable” and why it has half-lives.”
Yes and the half life is about 10,000 years. We have such a solid state system we don’t have to worry too much. The only way it would be degrading is if it was leaking and we have sensors that monitor for it.
I hope you are right. The GOP has got to change and soon. We only have so much time to get it right. I think McConnell and Boehnor are going to continue to resist the Tea Party influence but if we can get enough new folks voted in they will be ovewhelmed.
There are also problems involving the effect of very low levels of alpha particle emission on housings for the warheads. It's good to remanufacture the devices at regular intervals if only to replace the housings and replace the electrical detonation devices.
Well, to me, “statesman” is a positive term, meaning an elected official who puts his country’s needs ahead of his own. A “politician” would be some one who says and does whatever he can to stay in office, and to hell with his country. I guess it’s all how you define your terms.
I think I said that. From time to time we build new warheads.
They are not the problem. The people from Maine and Massachusetts are the problem.
The people from Maine just gave control to a new GOP governor and legislature. Snowe or Collins should be primaried, whoever is up first. If successful in the general election, then do it again on the other one.
Massachusetts voter registration is slightly more than half independent, 38+ % rat and about 11 % GOP. We might be able to do better in Maine, but I have my doubts about Massachusetts. Insisting on a true blue conservative could backfire with a Ted Kennedy clone replacing Brown.
Stukc on Studip .. The GoP Senate faction fails to yield to reason and logic.. barks a lot and then rolls over.. again..
They have two years.
Then they are done if they don’t do what is right for America, beginning on January 5, 2011.
Mitch McConnell is a joke, and should be canned after the Lame Duck debacle. We need someone who will strike fear in the heart of Senate Democrats.
Only Jim DeMint comes to mind. He accomplished the only bright spot in the Lame Duck session—got Harry Reid to can the vote on the omnibus spending bill.
McConnell proved he was Obama’s bitch in the Lame Duck. I call him “Bitch” McConnell now.
Did you hear the Texas congressman talking to Mark Steyn on Rush’s show today?
I didn’t catch his name but he claimed that the 111th Congress pubbies were in a big hurry to finish the lame duck agenda because “we need to get done with this before all those new Republicans get here.”
I’d love to know how true that quote is and who it was who supposedly spoke it!
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