Posted on 10/02/2008 7:03:28 AM PDT by Cboldt
I live SC too, and probably not too far from you. I called Grahams office and asked them where he stood with the bill. which they said he was for it. I told them come election day I will not vote for graham, and will do everything in my power to cause him to lose.
Bullfrog
I am going to quit driving slow and idling less. Why should I bother being conservative with fuel consumption when all we have to do is demonstrate a crisis in the trucking industry and they will nationalize it!
Maybe someone can answer this.
They say part of the problem is inflated values of homes, so does that mean this bail out will reduce the size of my mortgage to an under inflated value?
The appreciated value of my home has dropped so shouldn’t my principle also drop since it was the crooked mortgage industry that artificially inflated it’s value when I purchased it four years ago?
This Wall street welfare bailout is a disaster!
I’m also proud to be able to claim Jim DeMint as MY senator. Gresham Barrett, the only SC rep to vote no, is from my district. I wonder how much Graham had to do with the yes votes by the SC (R) delegation? As much as I hate to vote Dem, at this point I will probably be joining you in voting for Conley.
hear, hear....
Check out Bob Conley’s website (http://www.aimhighwithbob.com). He is far more conservative than Graham. He stated opposition to the bailout, he’s for a flat tax, he’s for drilling offshore as well as in ANWR and he believes in secure borders. I have a call in to his campaign manager to try and find out why he is running with today’s Democratic Party.
I heard him on Mark Levin yesterday and wished he were the Republican candidate for president. He said he’s got a website to lend support to truly conservative legislators but I can’t remember what its address was. I’m still smoked that my two senators Hatch and Bennett didn’t back him on his anti-earmark bill, and I told them so.
In fact, in the long term, I am convinced it will do more harm than good.
That bailout. Brought to you by the same guys who gave us freddie mac, so you know it’s going to work and is risk free.
...and he was one of the 25 who voted NAY. His Nay vote was not what my Senator’s Nay vote represented. Senator Johnson is up for reelection, and suffering from a brain injury. The Yeas and Nays in SD are probably 300 to one against the bailout, so he is allowed a token Nay. I don’t think the same thing applies to Senator Demint.
Got delayed about an hour, the front page of the newspaper says that Senator Johnson A MEMBER OF THE SENATE BANKING COMMITTEE, said in a statement issued just before the vote, that he struggled with his decision.
Amen, Brother DeMint. The numbers of such good men are dwindling.
If only McCain had taken the lead on an alternative solution like DeMint proposes here. Now, he has forced Sarah Palin to go out and try to defend a solution she hates with every fiber of her being. She will have trouble lying about her position on this.
He has a PAC in place to help elect conservatives to the senate. The site is http://www.senateconservatives.com and they are looking for supporters...
FYI...Dubh
Beautifully stated Senator DeMint!! Thank you Sir!
Good read, thanks for posting.
He was on the Glen Beck radio show this morning. He said he had been in the negotiation room, and when he suggested that the approach being pushed by the administration was incorrect, he was uninvited.
He also said that none of the people in the room had strong confidence that the 700 billion dollar authorization to the administration would resolve the economic tumble that is underway. They are uncertain that it will "work" at all. Also that a fall is inevitable, the only question is how fast - this measure is aimed at slowing the rate of slowdown, perhaps to make it less perceptible. Like boiling a frog - can't raise the temperature too quickly, they jump.
Other of his remarks were generally that Congress has been spending beyond its means, and that the public debt, on the order of 10 trillion dollars, simply can't be sustained.
He sounded "good," as in not dispirited, and he spoke with conviction and resolve. But he is also disappointed, He's the only Senator, as far as I'm concerned, who shouldn't be ashamed. The rest of them deserve to be shamed - even Senator Coburn who is usually a darn good fiscal conservative - he ought to be ashamed for not taking this opportunity speak out, and urge Congress to abandon it's reckless disregard for fiscal reality.
Not going to happen. DeMint has strong support here in SC and don't be too surprised if a conservative democrat named Bob Conley becomes our new junior senator.
He was ripping Barney Frank on his television show last night. Beck had a segment, fashioned after the television show, The People's Court.
The case he laid out against Frank was damning. Guilty!
The Democrats want to tax us into prosperity, Bush and the Republicans want to, bail us out, into prosperity.
No Thanks to both!
bttt
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