Posted on 03/08/2011 12:04:36 PM PST by george76
Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), the most senior member of the Senate Republican Conference, said Tuesday he will oppose the House-passed proposal to make drastic cuts to the federal budget.
He is the first Senate Republican to publicly state his opposition to a plan that Democrats have blasted as reckless.
Lugar, who is facing a Tea Party-backed challenge in the 2012 Indiana Republican primary, is taking a political risk. But he and other centrist Republicans have concerns about steep spending cuts that will eliminate funding for some federal programs in mid-year.
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Vote the RINO out anyway.
It’s very sad.
As I said @ post 51, Dick Lugar did some great things for Indianapolis.
Traitor. Make an example of him and run him out of the Republican party.
Boo! Hoo!
Lugar has flip flopped and now say’s he’ll vote with the party.
No matter. State Treasurer Richard Mourdock is gonna take Lugar out in the primary. A majority of county party chairmen have already endorsed Mourdock.
As an oldster, I can remember many moons ago (little Indian lingo there) when President Nixon anointed Lugar his favorite Republican politician.
Of course, in hindsight, Nixon wasn't quite the conservative I thought he was back in my ute.
Yup, Tricky Dick only looked conservative next to liberal trash like Jack Kennedy and Nelson Rockerfeller.
So a young Daniels followed a prominent local Republican into politics. He parted ways with Lugar in 1982. “Runt,” really? Is this the best you can do?
“I misunderstood the question” is codespeak for “OMG, my phone system just melted.”
If Mourdock runs, he has my support. I’ll oppose Lugar in the primary even if he has only token opposition.
Mourdock has announced.
http://www.richardmourdock.com/
Do you have some info that says he’s wavering?
No, I just lost track. I’ve been concentrating on my career.
I missed the announcement too but he IS running, already announced, and claims support from 75% of Country GOP Chairs.
http://www.richardmourdock.com/
Richard Mourdock has my whole-hearted support.
And pretty soon a real right wing candidate will correct the GOP in referring to its candidates and states controlled as "Red"
Red is for communists, and up until very recently, retarded RNC Chairmen and Fox News hosts.
Lugar has now reversed his field and will support the cuts. He even said he would prefer the cuts be even deeper.
So, in the space of one hour, between entering the caucus room and exiting, he did a 180.
Claimed he hadn't understood the question...
Either senile...or desperate...
All three ~ he’s senile, he’s opportunistic, and he’s desperate.
Good for you! It took me a year of mailing back their “surveys” and berating them over the phone, but they finally got the message that I’m not giving to the RNC in its current “configuration.” The Club for Growth (they’re the guys who RIFFed Bennett in Utah last year) are “taking a hard look at Lugar and Hatch. These two a$$holes joined the Senate on the same day ( Jan 3, 1977) so they’ve been there for 34 years! If they stay any longer they’ll be having wheel chair races in the Senate chamber. Time for both of them to go!
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