When will it ever end? That’s my money you’re playing with. I’d like to have it back sir.

should be holding the Republicans in Congress together on this issue. If Boehner and McConnell can’t pull this off then they don’t deserve those honored positions and it is proof nothing has changed.

Over are the days of watching McConnell say “Aw shucks” as Republicans defect on key issues of principal.

What’s going to happen when we have the conversation about our debt limit? Will our leadership have the moxy to stick it out and watch Obama dip into Federal Pension Funds, alla Clinton, to finance the Democrats debt load? Unless I start to see otherwise my bet is they fold like lawns chairs.

There are plenty of trees that line the mall, hang the corrupt bastards.

I think one of the biggest issues conservatives faced the last time Republicans controlled the House was complacency. Too many of us assumed our representatives would do what was right and we failed to hold them accountable. We failed by not making our voices heard. We failed. It does not matter if your representatives are republican or democrat, conservative or liberal, lame duck or incoming freshmen, THEY NEED TO HEAR FROM US. And on every issue if possible. Put their numbers in your speed dial and call regularly. Because if we don’t make our voices heard we will be the ones to blame. It is in our hands now as to whether or not this election matters.

And yes, if the don’t listen we fire them too.

http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2008/05/jerry-lewis-may-be-king-of-earmarks-but.html

“This one is all about Republicans and their refusal to give up their power to spend money at will and pass out “earmarks” like a bartender offering drinks on the house. The chief culprits are the House Appropriators, led by Committee Chairman Jerry Lewis of California and his 13 subcommittee chairmen known as “cardinals.”"

Cited as Wall Street Journal, but the original is no longer available or behind a subscriber wall.

And he’s now leading the fight against bloated spending?

In looking for stuff on Jerry Lewis, I came across this excellent article by Michael Barone from 2006.

http://politics.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/barone/2006/12/08/house-seniority-and-committee-leadership.html

Brian

Name names and give us some telephone numbers and email addresses.

Nothing like Pitch Forks, Torches, flaming phone lines along with the always popular snarky email to let “them” know we’re watching.

Hal Rogers seems no better than Lewis.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/11/06/1910821/rogers-will-need-to-slash-earmarks.html

And email addresses!

a new name for Liberal Republicrats has entered the lexicon. I’ve seen it in dozens of articles lately.

The term Moderate has become such a derisive and derogatory term that it’s rarely uttered without spitting in contempt.

So I guess the word has gone out that Liberal Republicans are to be called “pragmatists”. I’ve seen articles talking about a “Coalition of Pragmatists” and a “Pragmatic Caucus”.

Just like the press has decided to call Liberals “Progressives”.

The meme is going to be that this pragmatic caucus has been formed as a foil for the extremists and purists as represented by the Tea Party movement.

Mark my word…this is the way the Republican Main Street Partnership, The Republican Leadership Conference, and the the Tuesday Group started their subversion and the press is carrying their water.

Where’s my Prilosec.

We’ll see if JB is serious when he has the opportunity to dump Lewis from Appropriations and put in Flake or a reasonable clone. Lewis is the worst of the lot.

If Tuesday was supposed to teach these guys anything is that their seats are not safe. Keep going in that direction and they will find themselves out of a job in two years.

Ron Paul is a huge fan of earmarks and repudiated the last year-long ban. What is to become of Ron Paul under this scenario. Heck, he thinks earmarks are patriotic, as long as you don’t vote for the final appropriation bill.

On the RMSP PAC, they have quotes from 2 Beltway insiders, Olympia Snowe, and Gingrich. From the latter: “It’s impossible to create a right-only majority in America,”…”The key to electing Republicans to more offices and have a bigger majority is to be more inclusive.”

These stupid Republicans to understand We the People don’t want earmarks or compromising with the Democrats? DeMint and McCain just don’t get it. I am so ticked at AZ for sending McCain back to D. C. I thought they had brains down there but obviously I was wrong. RINOs have to be stopped and that wil be the next mission for the Tea Party. Micheal Steele and the RINO’s have to go. We can’t wait until 2012. Somehow we have to get them to understand the message.

Almost all politicians (or their “SO’s”) have become the guest you most fear to have over your house. They somehow think that it’s right and proper to take everything they can get their hands on while on the way out.

This is not new. It has been going on for … as long as there are unscrupulous politicians. Earmarks are just one way of paying off all those outrageous promises they made along the way or, an advance method to feather their nest.

Heck, look at Hilary Clinton when she left the White House. She took so many “souvenirs” that they had to go after her and publicly force her to give them back. Did that hurt her politically? I am pretty sure that she was a contender for President and was bought off of that run fo office by being offered Secretary of State.

So … Earmarks, Pork, Outright Theft, Voting Special Perks for Yourself … none of it is punishable by … anything.

The “Tea Party” has come to town. I hope, I pray, that they are able to undo the damage done. That they are able to hang on to and maintain their integrity over the next several election cycles (or even a few). I don’t want them to become a Political Party, I want them to watchdog the whole process and point out the few nuggets of gold as well as the lumps of … scat.

As for punishment, maybe along with the Tea Party we could bring back the public rite of Hot Tar, Feathering and Riding The Rail. Its publicly humiliating, its very painful and it leaves permanently visible marks.

you want real insight into the criminal behavior that is our Congress. Earmarks are simply the most visible symptom. Both parties, all Presidents going all the way back to Teddy Roosevelt (yes, the includes Reagan), have participated in the party at our expense.

Back ” in the day”, we always thought we would ultimately prevail because of the soundness of our reasoning and the obvious failure of EVERY lib solution. Balderdash— get somebody we trust to start a “Primary Fund” every time one of OUR morons votes for an earmark mount a primary challenge THAT DAY. Even our guys seem a bit slow, maybe the politician gene gets mixed in with the liberal gene.

We had candidates who stood by the GOP platform and the party did nothing for them. And, we as conservatives are also to blame. It seems that we eat our own if they are not perfectly what we want. Now, Castle and Crist were way too much to swallow. But, we criticize our own good candidates. Sharron Angle should have won and those Republican officeholders in Nevada who endorsed Reid should be stripped of any influence in the party. To vote for someone who disdains our Constitution and our freedoms and liberties, just because you are upset you did not get who you wanted, is heresy. The same in Colorado, the RNC lost that one for us. Get rid of Michael Steele. I was so excited when he first won. Boy, was that a mistake. And, we believe everything the liberal media tells us about a conservative. Why? We believed what it said about Sharron Angle who was in no way as radical as Harry Reid. Reid is so far left, you cannot see the middle any longer. He trashes his own faith’s leaders if they do not support the radical liberal agenda he stands for. He comes to Utah and tells us that our leaders have led the Church astray because of the right-wing ideology, and then says we have to get over the issues of abortion and gay marriage. He is just an apostate who is trying to mislead believers. We listen to the attacks on JD Hayworth. No matter what you say, he had a much better voting record in Congress than does McCain. So, go ahead and attack those who stand with us all you want. If you do so, you are the one who is defeating correct principles.

Oh, I forgot: Jason Chaffetz could defeat Borin’ Orrin Hatch in Utah as he is the most popular elected official in this state.

Holy crap! I mean, come on guys. Either you are just plain stupid, which I don’t believe, or you’re fully in bed with the liberal progressives (I know a double negative). Offer me a third option that doesn’t sound like black helicopter conspiricy theories, I dare you…

of sending less money to Washington, thereby not being in a position to ask for some of it back. This is what earmarks are all about – getting back some of our money. Let’s work on the new Republicans to push this agenda. Let every state keep more of it’s own money and no one will ever have to ask for another dime from the federal government. Then the states can decide what they want to do with their citizens money. And abolish the IRS, Fair Tax all the way.

are who don’t get it. WE THE PEOPLE want earmarks eradicated and that means in the lame duck session as well. We will be watching who supports the Omnibus bill and its earmarks because there are 33 senators who are running in 2012, democrats, republicans and independents. You can see a list of them in Wikipedia, along with info about each one. No way can we start decreasing the deficit with this kind of legislative action. We will be watching!!!

If your surprised that Reublicans and Democrats seem to act the same when
it comes to spending our money, you shouldn’t be. After all, George Bush outspent Bill Clinton and Barack Obama is a bigger war-mongerer than George Bush. Who said we had a two-party system.