Comments on: BREAKING: Mitch McConnell Surrenders

By: nateborn

nateborn — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:36:44 +0000

ABC has been doing a good job at pointing out the major flaws in the bill, and ABC is pretty liberal. Fox will naturally be spending substantial airtime discussing it. Polls show that the American people hate it already, with the major news networks (sans MSM) discussing it, it will only fuel the populist anger that is building.

By: irbobert

irbobert — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:12:00 +0000

I thought McMonnell was a rooster — but it turned out to be a hen in disguise.

By: bart

bart — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:09:51 +0000

Pretty stark contrast between Mitch McConnell in our darkest hour and George Washington at Valley Forge. You think George wished his troops had airport terminals and pressurized jet cabins to get through the winter?

By: joenitwit

joenitwit — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:54:36 +0000

… still require the bill to be read? If even one senator will ask for a reading (2000+ pages, three days minimum) when the vote comes up on Christmas Eve, the vote will go past Christmas.

By: audax

audax — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:51:22 +0000

…am sure that is “….conservative (NOUN) second…” LOL

Thanks for the link to your excellant site www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com Great new article on Red State about the “True person of the Year” being the conservative activist. I think the next best Person of the Year is the Precinct Delegate/Committeeman and all the others they bring into the fight with them. We OUTNUMBER THEM! Lets do it where it counts…at the local GOP meeting!

By: edweirdness

edweirdness — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:17:41 +0000

On 12/21/2009 Dallas Tea Party, 912 members demonstrated outside Kay Bailey Hutchison’s office in Dallas. Almost 200 showed up, TV was there, and more than a few conservative activists were vocal about Hutchison stepping up to resist Obamacare, and even more were angry that she was the 61st. to vote in favor of the pork laden, earmark loaded defense spending bill. Our troops are fighting for our principals in foreign lands. They if anyone should understand and respect politicians who resist the socialism that threatens our nation. Hutchison asserts that she voted for this bloated defense bill so as not to give the appearance that she doesn’t support the troops. Plain and simple, she waited till this bill’s passage was a fait’ accompli’, and then raced to get on-board. Republicans like this are dangerous. It’s time we set asside partisan self interests, and make a stand for Conservative interests! These RINO’s are back home for the holidays, let’s turn out thousands to visit these House and Senate members district offices and show them ‘we the people mean business”!

By: bs

bs — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:46:22 +0000

By: mutantone

mutantone — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:44:51 +0000

Can we call treason and oust them all?

By: ColdWarrior

ColdWarrior — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:28:41 +0000

I also try, over on ResistNet.com, to recruit conservatives to become Republican Party precinct committeemen. Here’s what a woman named Susan experienced in Indiana:

>>>

Hi Cold Warrior -

Regarding your statements here:

[Even the "good" consevative Republicans won't talk about it to the "unwashed masses" at the Tea Parties because they FEAR you will wake up and INVADE and TAKE back the Party -- and that means even they might get beaten in the primary by a better, more conservative non-professional politician candidate.]

This is so true because several weeks ago I actually went to the Repub Headqtrs in FtWayne, IN and talked to the man in there about p.c. positions. He actually tried to discourage me from becoming a p.c. He angrily made some remark about how “people who have not climbed the ladder in politics, earning their way up, should not be allowed to just instantly become a p.c. just because they want to!”

SUSAN

<<<

No matter. Whether the “good old boys” like the influx of RUBES should concern us not — “we” conservatives can replace the “good old boys” just like they did in Nevada a few weeks ago if we just invade the Party in sufficient numbers. We have the numbers. The Tea Party movement shows that. We seem to be lacking the basic knowledge of civics and how political parties actually work as well as the willingness to spend a couple of hours a month going to a local GOP meeting.

Audax, thanks for all the encouragement and information.

ColdWarrior

By: R.E. Finch

R.E. Finch — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:03:46 +0000

…but he’s a Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey nonetheless.

Those who died one Christmas Eve at Valley Forge fart in his general direction. (Hoping someone gets the Monty Python reference.)

By: voiceasaweapon

voiceasaweapon — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:53:01 +0000

We all knew he would do that. When you hear him saying “Oh, Harry Reid is my friend”. Give me a break!

I would tell my family I won’t be home for Christmas and hold them there as long as I could.

By: billymills

billymills — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:43:01 +0000

McConnell’s running out and letting Harry Reid have his way and Sell Out OUR Country to the Democrats is EXACTLY what they did in 2006. NOW you can see where that has gotten us. IN A BLIND PATHETIC STORM OF ISLAMIC LEADERSHIP AND THE MOST CORRUPT GOVERNMENT IN OUR HISTORY WE NEED TO IMPEACH THE WHOLE GOVERNMENT FOR GRAND THEFT OF TAXPAYER MONEY.
It is my Personal Opinion, that if EVERYONE would STOP Paying TAXES and Deprive them, as they have done the American People, of their Paychecks and Jobs.. They work FOR US, FIRE THEM ALL, Every Last One of Them…………

By: vassar

vassar — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:03:55 +0000

Dixit insipiens.

By: vassar

vassar — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:02:51 +0000

That’s my only question.

By: djemi

djemi — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:50:11 +0000

Just moved counties so I’m back to square one in pursuit of my committeemanship. But if the rules are anything like the last county I lived in, I might need a waver being as I’m not a citizen until ’11. But have every intenion of trying.

By: edintexas

edintexas — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:23:55 +0000

“…the news of the entire day will be devoted to how awful this bill is.”

And we should actually believe that the MSM will be touting the abominations of the bill, rather than touting how wonderful it is? Maybe now it the right time for me to sell that bridge…

By: lynchsteele

lynchsteele — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:45:53 +0000

This goverment, for lack of a printable description, is not hearing the will of the people they are tasked to represent….as I recall taxation without representation caused quite a stir a couple hundred years ago…..whoever thinks this can continue now with politicians doing as they please is sadly mistaken….alot of us won’t take this without a fierce stand, take it to the limit, and reap what you sow, other countries have let their leaders know in abrupt fashsion, what in Gods name makes you think we’ll take this much longer….auf passen mien freunds

By: audax

audax — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:07:26 +0000

Cold Warrior is right on!!! If you take your kids to church you can SURELY take them to the monthly County GOP meeting. Good to have MOM there to support you! Are you already a Delegate? Are your frinds Conservative (noun) friends?? Did you get even more of your Conservative (noun) friends registered as Delegates/Committemen? All the RINO?s will be at the County Convention to keep you from making changes. They will try to stop you from going to the District/State/National Conventions! What a vacation for the family!! They will try and keep you off the Rules Committee. ?Why we can?t let these RUBES run our party? they?ll say. They will try to keep you off the Candidate Selection Committee. ?We can?t let them actully run CONSERVATIVES (NOUN) on the ballet?. They will try to keep you off the Platform Committee?..?why how dare those RUBES put something in the platform about liberty and freedom and life that would embarass us RINO?s? they?ll say?.YOU NEED TO OUTNUMBER THEM!!!!! If you take the time on Sunday you can take the time for your country!

By: shadowtax

shadowtax — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:35:28 +0000

The vote that was moved up was the final passage, which only requires 51 votes. Am I reading that right? If so, I see this move as more in line with what Erick suggested. Perhaps they don’t walk out, but they go on record with a No vote. They just waive the time allocated to the sham debate which won’t stop anything at a time when nobody normal is paying attention. I would not call that surrendering.

And, yes, I have seen the numerous posts clamoring for Coburn and Demint. They are great Senators, but I am not convinced that either has either the interest or the aptitude to serve in leadership, except maybe policy chair. They are voices of conscience and principle and are more effective without the constraints of partisan leadership.

GOP ranks are pretty darned thin right now.

By: nateborn

nateborn — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:49:42 +0000

Hotair had a good post about this. With a vote at 8 AM, the news of the entire day will be devoted to how awful this bill is. I think McConnell knows what he’s doing on this one. The full article is here: http://hotair.com/archives/2009/12/22/mcconnell-agrees-to-earlier-christmas-eve-vote-on-obamacare/