I appreciate that the GOP is united (sans Snow, Collins, Specter before he became the defector, et al) but it’s easy to stand united when you have almost nothing to lose.

Let us be honest here - every GOP member in contentious districts, the very few not gerrymandered, would have to fight the “Democrat Attack Machine” irregardless of how they voted on the recent spat of socialist drivel.

The trouble I see with this Patriot Days Idea is that it sounds good until the GOP regains power with the same incumbents who sat and did nothing when they had power last time.

How are voters to trust that we won’t get a lame duck congress with the same old largess and waste as last time? Because the GOP promises?

Use me once shame on you. Use me twice…

At least with Obama and the fast tracking of socialism we’ve got a chance that the whiplash will wake people up whereas if we get more cowardice from the GOP (voting no to spending when it’s only symbolic) we’ll lose our Representative Democracy without so much as a whimper from the people.

The word is bullcrap, as in we’re tired of it from you and every single person we elected to uphold and defend The Constitution and our rights, freedoms, liberties and the defense of our nation…. You know, what you were sworn to do before God and country.

Since taking office, the current administration has committed to legislation or simply ordered by fiat, blatant violations of their Constitutional authority…..and have never been challenged to any real degree by you or anyone else.

Push is coming to shove. If you and the rest of the folks don’t get off your duff’s and do what you are sworn to do, we just might not have any more elections to try and restore what remains of America as a nation of free people.

Now please do us a favor and stop posting on websites, stop sending out bullcrap-laden mass-mailings ostensibly just begging for money and do your job.

Have a nice day.

Moe (and everyone):

I’m not exactly sure what the problem is here, so please spell it out…. I’m serious in that I didn’t make any threats to anyone. I simply and yes,VERY strongly, told a sitting Congressman and the rest to do their job.

If it’s the ‘no more elections’ thing, that is meant as our friends on the left will do everything in their power to stay in power, including, in my opinion, finding a way to cancel the 2010 mid-term vote. Probably should have worded that differently.

Apologies for starting the day off badly for you and anyone else.

(PS: The ‘reply to this’ feature doesn’t work through my Blackberry).

The in the House GOP on things is great, but to a point what do we do with Congressman No(Paul)?

That’s not the only question I have either. How is your plan to gain back districts that were GOP and now Democrat? I hope that the Lyle Larson’s as canadates are not ones the party will fall back on as a rule.

In all the years I have been at RS, I have never heard such bitter, contemptible and rude behavior. Is this what we believe it will take to win, attacking every congressman that posts here and fanning the flames lit by trolls who walk away as we self immolate?

Perhaps I am a bit old-fashioned, but there was a time when people would actually prefer some intellectual engagement on the issues. Admittedly, everyone has there own style and indeed many are frustrated with the current status of our party. But resolution of these issues requires honesty, ideas, discussion, decision making and acknowledgement of successes.

Perhaps a good place to start is admitting that Congressman Sessions has been there many times for us and is putting into action what he believes are sagacious programs- such as the Patriot Program. Is he perfect and are we always happy with his decisions? Silly question to which the answer is no. But Mr. Sessions didn’t come here claiming to be a perfect being in search of approbation. EH came here to engage us and perhaps gain some comments with substance.

Now if one actually takes the time to read and understand the program it appears to be a pretty good start. Perfect? No, but are we seeking perfection or a place to start; a place from which we can establish ourselves and grow? I say the latter and we could use some ideas around which critical mass could start to be achieved.

So in my humble opinion, if you want to throw rocks go to Iran. However, if you want to provide comprehensible, material comments which will lead to our party’s resurgence let’s have the debate or hear your accolades.

A final note to Congressman Sessions; this works two ways my friend. It you post here, my experience has been that engaging folks who have serious queries or ideas to share will do more to build support than launching blogs and walking away. The latter is potentially viewed as self promotion or fund raising- which we can frankly be exposed to in many other venues.

Respectfully, Congressman Sessions, your letter seems just like the form letter and phone calls we receive at my house. The caller goes through the same spiel, words sound almost identical. At the end of the call, I tell them I’ve heard all of this before. Since 2006 for sure. And I don’t see that any of you have done anything different from what got you into this spot in the first place. I also tell them, we’re holding off right now. Will probably help in the future and on individual candidates we really can believe in.

To me and my family, the tsunami of the Obama Dem left is accomplishing everything in their agenda, and right now my distress is overwhelming any belief that the GOP will do a better job than the poor one they have been doing.

Since Nancy has decided to run the U.S. House like the old Soviet parliament and completely silence the Republican minority in order to railroad through legistlation, and unprecedented violation of custom and decorum in our nation’s history (as Erick pointed out last week), it’s not enough to simply vote no as a block.

Though I will commend you for maintaining a unified caucus on critical votes like the stimulus bill and going on the record in opposition so that the media can’t provide the Democrats with a fig leaf of “bipartisan support”.

Of couse, if there is some chance of actually defeating a measure, then by all means stand up and fight. But if the “fix” is in, then you need to go outside the box and change the script.

And by “changing the script” I mean do some theater. For instance, a mass walkout (leaving one behind in the chamber to prevent subsequent skulldruggery by “universal consent”) so that we see 240-0 type of votes - that would get attention.

Or how about wearig duct tape across your mouths to symbolize how the Republicans are being gagged during the floor “debate”.

Or there are other creative ways to visually get your protests across to a generation of Americans that live by visual cues and entertainment - to reach these people (which may at this point be a majority), you have to “speak” their language, which is not boring words but spectacle.

You’ll need to pick you spots, but at least, you won’t be the boring, predictable Republicans just following the old collegial rules that the Democrats have repealed - marching to oblivion.

The National Republican Congressional Committee has targeted Leonard Lance and Dave Reichert as two of ten candidates to be specially supported through their “Patriot Program”.

Leonard Lance and Dave Reichert just voted in favor of the higher taxes and increased regulation on energy. They voted to expand the federal government and to cripple the U.S. economy. These two NRCC Patriots supported the democrat’s “Cap and Trade” legislation.

Congressman Sessions, will Leonard Lance and Dave Reichert remain on the NRCC “Patriot” list after this anti-Liberty vote?

I wanted to thank everyone for the comments regarding my post. My goal was to alert people to our new Patriot Program and elicit feedback – and I believe I have succeeded.

The Patriot Program highlights the ability of our party to bring together people of various interests from across the country, who share common goals and beliefs. We have a long way to go, but this start provides these initial ten Members with the support and exposure they will need to fend off the Democrat attack machine.
I also saw someone asked about how we intend to go on the offensive as well – we cannot take back the House solely playing defense. I encourage people to check out our Young Guns Program. This program was begun by Reps. Cantor, Ryan and McCarthy during the 2008 cycle and has been brought in-house at the NRCC for the 2010 cycle. The Young Guns Program aims to provide challenger candidates with the support they need to succeed – but only if they work to meet mutually agreed upon goals for their campaigns.

Finally, I know there is some concern by people at Red State that we are only dropping occasional posts to serve our own interests. This could not be further from the truth. The NRCC, and I personally, want to be partners with the Red State community, We share a mutual goal of retiring Nancy Pelosi and as many of her puppets as possible. But to achieve this goal we need to be on the same page working together. Now this does not mean we will always agree, but it is important we maintain an open and honest dialogue. To ensure this happens I am hoping to set up a live chat on Red State after the July 4th recess to personally and directly answer your questions and listen to your feedback on how we are doing.

Thank you for your support and I hope you all have a wonderful July 4th as we celebrate our nation’s birthday.

I, too, thank you for coming to this site. In the Louisiana House, a
Republican (Rep. “Bodi” White) introduced a 15-cent surcharge
for monthly internet access. Ironically, the loudest opponents to this
bill were Democrats . About a week ago, I received a letter from the
LA GOP, in which they lambasted Dem’s for their tax & spend agenda.
Mixed signals. Obama recently announced that he is ready to deal
with immigration reform. Where does the GOP stand on that issue?
The GOP must clearly state their platform before I will support them
financially, or otherwise.

1. Is the Republican leadership going to discipline the members who voted for Cap & Trade? If so, how. If not, why not.

2. Any chance of you or someone coming back here to actually answer any of the questions or are you dropping by to just throw stuff on our wall to see if it sticks?