Posted on 11/21/2002 1:49:36 PM PST by PhiKapMom
ALERT -- DON'T LET JEFFORDS STAY IN POWER!!!!!
ISSUE: We've won the election. Now, can our leaders make the right decisions... from the start?
Senator Jim Jeffords, the turncoat Republican from Vermont who switched to Independent and gave the Daschle Democrats control of the last Senate, is trying to keep his treacherous grip on political power.
You see, in return for his "favor" to the Democrats, the *former* Senate leaders (don't you love saying that?) allowed Jeffords to keep his chairmanship of the Environment and Public Works Committee. With the GOP back in power, he'll lose that seat for sure.
Or will he?
According to the Washington Times, "the election results were barely in before Mr. Jeffords' office put out feelers to his former party's leaders. The message? That the Vermonter would be happy to caucus with the GOP -- so long as he retained his committee chairmanship."
Don't think it could happen? Senate Republican leaders are *notorious* for shooting themselves in the foot, and might do it again -- unless they hear from US right away.
ACTION ITEM: As Gary Bauer puts it, "Senator Jeffords made his decision. He cost his party and the President two years of Senate gridlock. Now he can build character while being part of the new Senate Democrat minority."
We need THOUSANDS of conservative activists across the nation to get a *strong* message to the new Senate Majority Leader, Trent Lott, telling him to "JUST SAY NO" to turncoat Sen. Jeffords... and ConservativeAlerts.com has set up a quick- and-easy way to do that, a way that he'll be SURE to get the message.
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Please forward this to everyone you know who wants to see our leaders start making the right decisions NOW, and not fall into any appeasements of liberals in the Senate -- especially a turncoat like Jeffords. Thank you!
Sir Winston Churchill joined the Labour party for a while when he was a back-bench MP back in the 20's or 30's. Can't remember why, but it turns out that he did come back to the Tories a few years later. Seems like this kind of treachery was not considered so odious in those days.
Of course, I still want to see Jeffords suffer for his duplicity. Hope he likes his new broom closet in the Senate office building basement.
-ccm
1. Senator Smith left the GOP at a time when we had a majority of two or three seats, so his leaving wouldn't change anything.
2. Senator Smith continued to caucus with the GOP so that even if the Senate had almost been tied, his leaving wouldn't have changed anything.
3. Senator Smith's voting record has been more consistently conservative and Republican than many others who are supposedly loyal party members. The wicked witches of Maine and the idiot from Rhode Island are the most obvious examples. Even when he was a nominal independent, I knew that I could count on Senator Smith's vote for what was best for America more often than I could one of these others.
4. When Senator Smith left the party, his complaint was that the party didn't stand for the great principles that it claimed. When Jeffords left the party, he attacked the very principles that have led most of us to join the GOP.
Equating Senator Smith with Jeffords just isn't right. I disagree with much of what Senator Smith has done, but he wants the best for America and generally understands the direction that we should be taking. Jeffords is just a typical liberal idiot who would destroy everything that makes this country great. That difference is good reason why Senator Smith deserved to retain his committee chair and Jeffords does not.
WFTR
Bill
Forgive me, I'm British, so France is precisely that to me. ;)
Regards, Ivan
Please do not react hysterically to every rumor designed to cause mischief......
Lott wasn't going to do the Homeland Security bill--
Then he got a W-Boot-A-Gram.
(Send Lotts of those, Mr. President.)
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