Posted on 01/01/2009 10:36:07 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Congress has so few moderate Republicans that at least in the Senate they could squeeze into a Volkswagen Beetle.
Their ranks have dwindled in recent elections. Those who remain in politics have been marginalized by their own party, which has inexorably veered to the right over the last generation.
But this beleaguered minority has an opportunity to wield outsized influence on what President-elect Barack Obama can accomplish in Congress.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
“But this beleaguered minority has an opportunity to wield outsized influence on what President-elect Barack Obama can accomplish in Congress.”
They can, and will, repeatedly give him bipartisan cover for really stupid laws.
They sure fooled me.
A sentence that could only be printed in the LA Times. And the New York Times. And the Washington Post. And the Boston Globe. And the Philadelphia Inquirer....
And the L.A. times can name me some conservative Democrats?
The Senate they are referring to in this article: Exactly which planet is this?
If they think RINOs are a rare breed on Capitol Hill, they probably consider DiFi conservative.
Planet Hollywood
We did lose some Rhinos this year, getting Rats in trade. We still have Spector, the girls from Maine, McEgo and his first understudy Hagel. And a lengthy list of wannabe Rhinos voting for shrinking portions of our agenda in the wings such as McEgo’s second understudy Gramnesty, Voinovich, and Lugar. That list could easily be added too. Some of the wannabes might do better if provided with strong conservative leadership for them to follow. They’d have been livable with someone like Reagan in charge; without him they are pathetic. Their nature is to climb aboard any bandwagon. Bush didn’t even pull his little red wagon before its wheels fell off. For Obama they’ll volunteer to be the wagon.
How about a couple of conservatives?
It would be easier and a shorter list to name the non-RINO’s.
While not a certain indicator of Rinoism, run some though the ‘free trader’ chart and see how many end up as ‘free traders’:
http://www.freetrade.org/congress
Up is down, down is up, welcome to bizarro world. I want what he's drinking...
Hagel’s gone. We got Mike Johanns in his place. That’s a gain to the right.
In fact, I fully expect we'll be seeing a rubber stamp the likes of which we've never seen before. The (R)s will be glad to go along with the surge of socialism since they want that power just as badly as the (D)s but they have to pretend otherwise to our faces to be reelected.
I pray that I'm wrong and that there's a resurgence of testosterone from that flock of (R)epublican capons in congress, but it's not likely.
Maybe you could squeeze them in the back of a van like the illegal immigrants they support.
“inexorably veered to the right”
(/alternate universe)
Seems like they just have NOT learned anything, doesn’t it.
Incredible....
A semi-rino is a far more dangerous creature than a RINO. At least a RINO stabs you in the chest, not in the back.
RINO turds in big demand?
Of course the fools are in demand, the Dems need these backstabbing fools like Specter and Mclame and Hagel to shove their socialism up our wazoos.
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