Can you make five copies of this and mail them? A public spanking like this deserves for its intended recipients to enjoy it.

stick it to ‘em, EPU

The absence of Dems in DC seems to be dropping the price of crude (a little over $115 as I write)quite nicely, thanks.

Reminds me of when Ahmadinejad shut his yap awhile back and oil prices stabilized.

A compromise between the only thing to do and the worst possible thing to do? I wouldn’t want my name on that!

We don’t need to wait to primary them (we should do it anyway). Remember the Myers nomination and the Immigration bill. I think this rises to that level. Flooding their offices with messages that they need to walk away from this compromise because it doesn’t meet the needs and desires of America is the right answer.

We want the TRUE all of the above solution, not one the places noxious restrictions on the only production portion of the bill. Keep the alternatives, fine. But America wants drilling!

I threw up a little in my mouth when I heard Saxby call in to Rush today. He and the other four traitors have gone too far. I wish Rush would have lit into him more, but he has more class than I do.

Question- Since what they’re talking about includes the imposition of special taxes on the oil companies, isn’t their proposed action unconstitutional if it doesn’t originate in the House?

is that they think that they have to show that they can compromise with the Democrats (on an issue that is favorable to the Republicans) in order to get elected.

They are quite dumb and deserve to go.

I already e-mailed my traitor Senator Thune. I got home from work and read this and about threw up. I do not not know if I am more angry, sick or hurt. Right now it is an intense combination of all three.

You know you do.

than I was hearing Chambliss on Rush. I rarely do this but I turned it off out of rage. We cannot get these guys fast enough. They need to be gone NOW.

I thought Graham was bad; Chambliss sounds like an utter and complete dolt.

Polite & respectful, however direct & unambiguous, to Sen. Corker.

I can see 5 republicans back peddling as fast as they can. They are going to expect criticism because of the compromised plan and will probably look for approval from the moderate republicans who helped get us where we are.

I listened to Senator Chambliss call Rush’s show today and I do not have the words to describe my disgust. We need to ban of the word “bi-partisan.” It is code for *compromising *our principles with the left. I am completely stunned by this gang of 5 undercutting what could be an awesome Republican issue. “Drill Here, Drill Now.” Let the Congressional executive order expire in September and fire each Republican who cannot stick to the principles that made this country great. A common sense energy policy the honors basic supply and demand dynamics could be a powerful tool for conservatives (and God bless the Republicans on the house side for sticking it out.)

Wow, we have got some house cleaning that needs done.

Well, for me, I’d leave Thune alone since we seem to have enough trouble getting South Dakota Republicans into congress, but I definitely hear you on Chambliss and Isakson down here in Georgia.

I’ve burned up Chambliss’ office phones on a number of occassions (I always thought Isakson was a moderate so I expected less of him) re: amnesty, the bloated pig of a farm bill, and now this.

They’ve been hanging out with Lindsey Graham too much.

Dole and Burr pleading with them to do whatever they could to stop this AWFUL unconstitutional back-room deal from taking place.

If I called Chambliss’s office from here would they ignore me or should I call his office Monday morning?

when your candidate recruiting ground is the Rotary, the JayCees, trade associations, etc. Far too many Republican politicians are simply good salemen, the R is the brand they’re selling. In The South, especially, if D were still a winning brand, the same guys would be selling it. Very few R politicians have much in the way of thought out political beliefs and even less in the way of thought out political methods. I believe this is why we’ve been so successful in coming up with messages that resonate with the res publica and dismally ineffective at actually implementing programs based on those messages.

It is the rare R candidate or officeholder who could hold his or her own in the political/philosophical debate that goes on here. Hell, there’s lots of them still who can’t/won’t use a computer – and are proud of it! It’s almost like the office culture used to be where no manager, and most were men, would be caught dead typing their own correspondence. I’ve worked for several even in the last few years who wouldn’t deal with their email; they’d have some staffer go through it and summarize anything that might be of interest to the officeholder – and this wasn’t because of the volume, which would make sense, it was because they just wouldn’t do it.

The Ds can field winning candidates with backgrounds in unions and other interest groups, as political attorneys, occasionally academia; these are people who breathe politics at both the intellectual and operational level.

We have plenty of political intellectuals and operatives at the staff and consultant level, but few run for office and because of the Republican “hail fellow well met” culture, the “staffer” types really don’t play well with either the candidate/officeholder types, who tend to see them as divisive, controversial, and “unfriendly” types. The very worst thing you can do in the Republican culture is cause controversy; doesn’t matter if you’re right and the other side is the vision of evil, you’re the bad guy for causing the controversy by pointing it out. The Ds and the media know this about us and their lynch mobs are almost always effective; we lynch our own, doing the Ds work for them.

These guys like Graham, Chambliss, et al. (and, yes, McCain) just see one of those awful controversies and are compelled to step in and DO SOMETHING, and that something isn’t to achieve any political or national interest objective, it is simply to stop the awful noise of controversy. I think especially in Graham’s case, he stuck it out there in the impeachment, saw what it got him, and nobody’s going to get that man to do anything controversial ever again.

http://www.redstate.com/diaries/gamecock/2008/jul/18/energy-crisis-demands-oval-office-address/

I heard of the gang of ten proposal BEFORE the sit in.

You raise, but don’t answer, good points that can be answered and reconciled.

Yet, your incendiary and divisive caption will define redstate for many days.

Surely this sentiment is more backstabbing that anything the gang of ten did in a vacuum and at a time when people are crying, literally, for help.

I love ya bro, but the timeline refutes the charge.

I’m surprised and yes, aghast, that my Senator, “Weeping George” Voinovich, isn’t on this list. Senator Rinovich probably didnt get the memo or maybe they didnt want it to be the “Gang of 11″ Either way, George is toast as well. I say kick them ALL out and get Real Republicans in office. For good news tho, look to jack murtha’s next opponent. HEH Better vote this November!!

Its to late for someone to beat saxby(with a lower case) in the primary but after the gang of 10, and saxby’s support for amnesty I will now support(throw my vote away) Allen Buckley a conservative libertarian. I can get over the drug issue for someone that want give everything away to harry reid(with a lower case)

He definitely needs to be primaried. He voted for the Aids bill, and he’s compromised on the drilling issue. In addition to this, he indicated to me via email that he supports the global poverty act as well.

bsmacking of Lindsay Lohan Graham all the way up here in Michigan. The only thing I must say is that I agree with Achance-these guys aren’t selling conservatism, they are selling the R label. These guys aren’t conservatives, they are Republicans because they’re in red states. Bobby won’t save us in 2012 if these toolbags are supposed to have his back.

Seriously, I was disappointed when Vernon Jones lost the Senate nomination runoff. He’s responsible for his own campaigning mistakes, of course, but he really did have something behind the seemingly novel “conservative Democrat” label he ran on; indeed, his very affiliation as a Democrat is mostly due to DeKalb County realpolitik. Unfortunately, Jim Martin is too close to the wrong kind of Democrat candidate from this year’s field, philosophically.

Delicious! Pot-stirringly rendered.

However, my district 6 guy is out in front and on the floor of the house, while my 2 cenotaurs are running my country into the ground. We in IL don’t settle for crap-weasels as our senators, we vote in the fascists, religiously.

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I place the blame on this sellout on Lindsey Graham’s shoulders. It is simply unfathomable for me to comtemplate why there has been no RECALL effort to remove him, especially since the Gang of 14 sellout.
Seriously, SC may as well have a Democrat in the U.S. Senate for all the heartache that Graham has caused.
This much is clear, Lindsey Graham cares little about the Conservative Agenda. He wants to give 12-20 million lawbreakers citizenship, he was instrumental in NOT getting more qualified judicial nominees confirmed and now he’s selling us out on oil drilling.
I’m going to do some research into SC election law and see if a sitting Senator can be recalled. I would strongly encourage sickened SC voters to do the same.
Nothing will change with this fool until you change it. Begin the recall effort now.

it has been called to my attention that both Graham and Chambliss are up THIS year, having handily won primaries, and are both shoo-ins for November. This makes of my diary title a promise I am unable to keep. Ah well, my aim remains the same. I plan to remove these 5 skunks from the garden, and if it takes 6 years to do it, then so be it. But between now and 2014, I plan on rendering these guys inconsequential. I will have blood.

Sadly…I was saying the same thing about McGoo 12 years ago. I share your Goal EPU…my frustration is…with the current state of GOP Leadership…Little Lord Fauntleroy will be the Nominee in 2012!

{crap….now I’ve got to clean up my own spew….should have known better than to say that}

I’m on a conservative site and all of you guys are against opening up drilling off the coast of Florida and Virginia?

they would make this the “Gang of Shame”. Why in Heavens name are we always putting up with Graham leading groups that collapse like lawn chairs on this countries most important issues?

How about freezing these clowns out of any tangible bills or allocations they want?

Have our party leaders and GOP make them tin-cup their way for a year or two in the wilderness.

If Republicans tolerate this type of behavior, we will be in the minority for perpetuity.

THis is not bipartisanship, it is abandonment of common sense.