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It’s Not Just Earmarks Bans From Which Mitch McConnell Cuts and Runs

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  November 9th, 2010 at 09:54 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

This is truly appalling.

Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Senate Republicans, supported an earmarks ban and voted to ban earmarks. But he knew there weren’t enough votes for it. Now that it looks like there are enough votes, McConnell is lobbying furiously behind the scenes to kill the earmarks ban.

But the man has trumped himself in rank hypocrisy. According to President George W. Bush, back in 2006, McConnell begged Bush to pull troops out of Iraq to help Republican re-election chances in 2006.

He wanted to play politics with the war to help himself stay on as Senate Majority Leader.

This is disgusting. He should be ashamed of himself.

By the way, George Bush also says earmarks had something to do with the GOP’s fall from power.

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  • jmimac351

    Needs to be the GOP leader in the Senate. I have never liked McConnell and will never, ever trust him. When I hear him on TV he sounds like a jelly fish and has principles about as stiff. He is not the right man for the job and is part of the problem with the GOP.

    How do we replace McConnell?

  • drfredc

    There seems to be no end to why the Senate GOP leadership is really better described as GOP Losership.

  • http://www.flaliberty.org scorpio0679

    I completely agree! For some reason, JELLYFISH is exactly the right way to describe McConnell.

    Also, he reminds me of Ayn Rand’s character description of Wesley Mouch. Mealy-mouthed, slithering, saliva-juiced lips and a forked tongue.

    Ugh. Senate leadership MUST change. Isn’t McConnell up for re-election in 2012? Primary challenge? Any possible contender list out there somewhere?

  • AceInTX

    Please Please Please?!

  • jmimac351

    http://archive.redstate.com/stories/featured_stories/the_fix_is_in_reid_mcconnell_to_resurrect_amnesty_bill

  • jmimac351

    President Bush included this little snippet about McConnell because he doesn’t particularly care for him, thought it was outrageous that he would advocate such a thing, and thought he should be held accountable for it. The President has pointedly not critcized the current administration but he also appears to care about setting things right.

  • http://lheal.amplify.com Socrates

    Politicians more interested in the how than the why.

  • reaganauh2o

    Since I heard Rand Paul say he supports Mitch McConnell as leader on FNS, lets watch the dems self destruct and deny them the satisfaction of the civil war they are salivating for.

    Someone needs to be ready to primary that guy in 2012 starting very soon. Every senator who craps on Jim DeMint should have a target on their back. Let the frogs swim around in their pan of nice cool water as we apply the heat. They will be done by 2012. Hopefully they are smart enough to realize the flame from the stove burner is licking quite nicely around the pan.

  • chbroussard

    It doesn’t take but one bad apple to spoil the whole bunch. I’d going to be sick if all the work we have done over the last 18 months rests on Mitch McConnell’s shoulders. This guy is a major loser.

  • KBDay

    No. No. No.

    The Senate needs leadership. Presently there is none to speak of and there is none that is different than the status quo.

    To achieve real change, it is obvious McConnell is not up to the task.

    Too much is at stake. This isn’t about my wanting more Republicans in Washington (although I am happy about that of course).

    This is about our country.

    We are at a critical point in history. Too many entities around the world want to see us come to our knees. Right now the UN Human Rights Council is attempting to railroad our former president.

    Our monetary policy and foreign policy are both a disaster.

    Our federal spending is not only beyond the pale, it is plagued by record levels of fraud.

    We need statesmen. We do not need consummate politicians.

    And the comparison to Mouch above is spot on.

  • rsexteriors

    McConnell? Didn’t Rand Paul say today that he is supporting McConnell for Leader? WHY?

    Demint should run against him.

  • traversecityconservative

    Heard today that he is okay with earmarks that go through the committee process so he can bring home $ for Kentucky. I swear to God these idiots just don’t get it.

    http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/appropriations/128495-paul-defends-his-opposition-to-earmarks

  • Tbone

    in the Congress. It is this type of Congressional leadership that lost 2006 and 2008.

  • acat
  • joecollins

    Six year term, so he is not up for reelection until 2014. Too bad. We’ll have to set our 2012 efforts elsewhere.

  • fpete13527

    Porky, spineless, cowardly, sneaky, and selfish.

    After all the hard work that this country has done to win last week, the covert undermining of issues and candidates that McConnell continues to exhibit are a disgrace beyond disgrace.

    Guess what, the entire country knows it too!

    After fighting for Iraq, and now hearing that MCConnell was prominent in attempting to cut and run form Iraq, like Harry Reid, I truly want to throw up.

    I will do all I can to support a candidate against him for both leadership change now and Senate seat change in 2012.

  • reaganauh2o

    Oh well…other RINO’s await. At least it’s not another 6 to get a crack at McCain again.

  • http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com ColdWarrior

    It’s government, government, government.

    I posted what follows back in March in response to another Diary by Erick:

    Look at McConnell?s bio ? he?s been in government his entire life. He?s never had a private sector, ?real,? job. Ever.

    Here?s the specifics:

    Professional Experience:
    Judge/Executive, Jefferson County, 1978-1985
    Deputy Assistant, United States Attorney General, 1974-1975
    Chief Legislative Assistant, United States Senator Marlow Cook, 1968-1970
    Attorney
    Intern, United States Senator John Sherman Cooper.

    Source: http://img.votesmart.org/bio.php?can_id=53298

    Now let?s look at Cornyn:

    Lawyer, then a judge, then a senator.

    Being a lawyer in a law firm is not ?business? experience, per se.

    Here?s the specifics:

    Professional Experience:
    Texas Supreme Court, 1991-1997
    District Court Judge, 1985-1991
    Partner, Groce, Locke, and Hebdon.

    Source: http://img.votesmart.org/bio.php?can_id=15375

    McConnell and Cornyn are insulated from real people and always have been. They have been in politics/government virtually their entire lives.

    They need to go home. As do McCain. Kyl. Graham. And many others.

    Here’s the original comment:

    www.redstate.com/erick/2010/03/23/mcconnell-conservative-dissatisfaction-is-irrelevant/#comment-62051

    I can see the 2012 primaries from my house!

    For Liberty,
    ColdWarrior, PC
    precinct committeeman
    ———–
    American first, conservative second, Republican precinct committeeman BY NECESSITY!

    Where it all started.

    ?The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.?
    - Edmund Burke

    The Concord Project: Fighting for Freedom in the Fall

  • rbirchtree

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  • chamberD

    You’re in Arizona, aren’t you? Do you think we could get Jesse Kelly to primary against Kyl in 2012?

  • http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com ColdWarrior

    I was just at a meeting tonight trying to put together a conservative slate for my legislative district. Earlier in the day I got status updates from other conservative PCs in other legislative districts about their efforts to achieve the same.

    Then I played out a scenario: imagine if a REAL conservative challenger emerged to challenge Kyl in his primary. And we got a significant number of the 30 legislative district Republican committees and a significant number of the 15 county Republican committees to vote to endorse that challenger. Then, that challenger could, in his campaign literature and on his signs and in his speeches note the fact that X percentage of Republican county and legislative districts endorsed him, not Kyl.

    It’s the conservative PCs (and tea partiers/9.12-ers/etc.) who are motivated to help GOTV in the primary for constitutional conservative candidates. Kyl has proven he’s not really a conservative.

    Jesse Kelly would do well against Kyl. I watched his debate against Gabby Giffords and he did great. I haven’t met Jesse yet but will. I will reach out to him.

    AZ Republican “insiders” told me he didn’t have a chance to win the primary. When I asked why, they said, “No money.” Well, he proved them wrong.

    Thanks for the great idea!

    ColdWarrior

  • After Seven

    Most people get the fact that Earmarks are a small part of the Federal Budget. But this is about setting the tone. If Boehner and McConnell get this wrong….I don’t see how the party survives the inevitable and predictable backlash. I suspect it would be catastrophic.
    Et tu Rand Paul…wow.

  • PatriotForLiberty

    Talk about the Poster Boy for Term Limits… 25 years in the Senate this year and he hasn’t seemed to learn anything. Disgraceful after all the work we did that he’s cutting corners and not listening. Is it even possible for someone to run against him for Minority Leader? Sure hope so.

  • barfaulkner

    I have been thinking lately about being a candidate and I have come to the conclusion that: no man has a faultless life that somehow cannot be made to be evil. To get an honest person to run is to subject their entire family to such critical attacks on their very fiber of being. Now who in their right mind would do that? Johnson, Wisconsin talked about this very thing and the price that he and his family paid was more than we have a right to ask of a man. Is there not some ideas/means to obliterate these attack dogs? Mitch McConnell needs to be thrown out yes….but would he go down without being the “Reid” of 2010? I personally think that Coburn of OK would be a good senate leader. We do have to think of ways of getting truth and only truth back into the elections. If we do that, then we the people would again control our elected officials but until then…. seriously would you run???

  • peg_c

    I’m building a list of RINOs for ’12 and ’14 to defeat by contributing every way I can to any challengers. A friend in TX says they’re already working on Cornyn’s ouster (my bet is Hensarling).

    Grahamnesty is so obvious it needs no explanation. The guy is a festering sore on the conservative body Republican. McConnell the Jellyfish (how perfect) ditto. Cornyn’s reason for being is to reelect incumbents no matter how liberal, spendy, and anti-We The People. Argue about “quality of candidates” all you want but many of us believe that (contrary to the new assertion that Palin LOST the Senate win) we’d have had a much better chance at taking the Senate were it not for Cornyn working against the TP candidates.

    I lost it when Cornyn denied knowing who in the RNSC refused to send $upport to O’Donnell in DE after her primary win. He holds those purse strings and insults our intelligence when he says junk like that!

    WE are the boss of these people. They need to hear and see it.

  • gumbeaux

    My cry to all of this is NO CONFIDENCE. If McConnell can’t do without earmarks, he does not belong in OUR SENATE. I never trusted this guy anyway. Earmarks are a curse and patronage to buy votes. THE UNITED STATES SENATE IS NOT A COUNTRY CLUB! Get used to it or you will be gone when you come up for re-election. I bet McConnell privately smirks at the Tea Party Movement. We will smirk at him publicly when he is voted out.

  • davesinsanantonio
  • cam1

    to get rid of these RINOs. I can’t stand mcconnell, graham, snowe, collins, and the Precinct Project seems to be the answer. That’s what I’m doing myself to help my state improve its representation. Take a look at it. It makes sense.

  • jtlfromfredmd

    way these guys are coming out of the starting gate. I guess it’s still early and things are still settling down but there have been more than a few statements and actions that aren’t registering very high on my confidence meter. Is there any talk out there of another rally should we all feel that many of these clowns really didn’t GET IT. Just askin.

  • itrytobenice

    Anybody up and at ‘em?

  • mdd1956

    who says that union thinking about seniority should apply to the GOP.

    We need to change our whole way of thinking.

  • renny

    like the tea party demands, because they see the culture of scratching each other’s backs and running off with my tax monies as the law of the Washington elite, of BOTH parties.

    We have to convince the Reps. that times have changed.

  • http://www.flaliberty.org scorpio0679
  • NHConservative0227

    When will these clowns start to get it??

    Why is Rand Paul supporting this clown for Minority Leader??? Why not just elect Trey Grayson instead if Paul is afraid to challenge the RINO’s and will support earmarks?

  • NHConservative0227

    This is exactly why I have never donated any money to any politician. No matter how good you think they are, they always stab you in the back!

  • AceInTX

    …he also appears to care about setting things right.

    He sat back and did nothing for years as Democrats lied and distorted and destroyed the Republican Party….

    He deserves the same Scorn we give Lott, Frist and McConnell

  • AceInTX
  • chamberD

    I’m in LD30, a PC here, too.

    Were you saying, “Earlier in the day I got status updates from other conservative PCs in other legislative districts about their efforts to achieve the same,” meaning the efforts to primary Kyl, or both to primary him and that it be Jesse Kelly?

    At any rate, I’ll see what I can do here, in his district (AZ-8), to get some traction on this idea.

    Keep in touch.

  • Scope

    He is a Senator, Senators serve for 6 years. It is another 6 years to get a crack at McCain.

  • Scope

    Of all the Republican Senators that were just elected, I would have thought that Paul would be the first to not just go along with the status quo. I was sure he would shake things up in the Senate. He also backtracked on his support of banning earmarks. His dad, Ron, is a major earmarker, all while screaming for cutting spending.

  • Scope

    I thought Rand Paul would surely be the one to not go along with business as usual in the Senate. So far he is supporting the failed Republican so-called leadership. He was also against earmarks, but is now for them.

    If the new Senators don’t insist on changes in the Senate, we will be in big trouble come 2012.

  • deano64
  • chamberD

    . . . and join the “club,” the club becomes more important than the nation, and they have to do things the Washington way — or they’re ostracised and marginalized, like DeMint is.

    If the voters don’t keep these guys honest, put up barriers to their wayward tendencies (term limits, whether in fact or at the polling place), they get to DC and all of a sudden become part of the problem, not the solution. These guys are goal-driven: first the goal is to get elected; second the goal is to get elected, again — and that is done by playing the Washington way.

    At the first whiff of their disloyalty to their constituents, when the behavior runs counter to their promises – GIVE THEM THE AXE — and pronto! Pay attention and don’t be lulled by sweet-talking. Demand results.

    Every single Rand voter ought to be giving him hell: write, call, show up in person. Whatever. Just do it.

    Putting McConnell in charge is like giving the keys of the wine cellar to the town drunk — he has absolutely no will nor incentive to stand firm against his addiction, in this case, to power, but unhappily for us, not power with a principled mind and heart.

  • mjs_pa

    McConnell was wrong in advocating less troops. But Bush was stubborn and wrong by following a failed strategy.

    McConnell should have demanded Rumsfeld be fired and a “surge.”

    Bush pretended politics didn’t affect the way he fought the war……nonsense. He wanted to say “politics” didn’t influence his decisions. That in of itself is a political decision.

    What was it? a day after the election, Rumsfeld was fired/resigned. Soon there after Bush began exploring a different strategy.

    Maybe if he had listened to McConnell’s request for change without following his specific advice for less troops, we would not have had to suffer the last four years of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.

  • chamberD

    It should rather be: If the new Senators don’t insist on changes in the Senate, THEY will be in big trouble — TODAY.

    Call and raise hell, if your new Kentucky Senator exhibits wimpish characteristics, especially if he’s been promising to be a bulwark against the establishment and instead begins to show that he’s more interested in making nice with the senior senator from KY than FIXING what’s clearly broken.

  • Scope

    I read that McConnell begged Bush to pull troops out of Iraq so that the Republicans didn’t lose seats in the 2006 elections. He put the elections before our troops, and our success in the war.

    I don’t know what we can do to voice our lack of support for him keeping his Senate leadership position. There doesn’t seem to be a dang thing we can do about it.

    I watched DeMint on with Brett Baier (sp) last night, on his series with possible Presidential candidates. I believe he said he supported McConnell as Senate Minority Leader. I thought it was interesting for him to support someone who wants to crush him, and his Tea Party candidates, unless he is considering a Presidential run.

  • deano64

    PC here. I’m thinking once we have our new party leadership in place there should be no reason we couldn’t do this. Once Coldwarrior is elected Maricopa County GOP Chairman it should be even easier. Hint..Hint.

  • quasimofo

    Mitch McConnell.

    Ok, there’s one name to watch for the next election. Either represent THE PEOPLE and do our will, or face defeat. We’re making our lists, and you have to realize things have changed. No more business as usual.

  • Scope

    there will never be truth. Lying and making things up is now a requirement to be in the Democrat party.

  • burbmom

    Michael Williams ramped up a campaign to run for Senate when she said she would step down after the governor primary. Obviously, she broke her word, but we were able to get an early preview of Michael Williams. We may not need to wait until ’14 to have a conservative senator from Texas.

  • Scope

    that so many here on this site, as well as other sites, keep saying, over and over, if he/she doesn’t change, if he/she doesn’t get it, if he/she doesn’t listen to us, then we need to replace them. I’ve been reading that sentiment for my more than 2 years here at RS. How many times does a politician have to keep doing what they do before we finally realize that if many haven’t gotten it by now, they will never get it, or change because we want them to.

    Mitch McConnell has been a jellyfish (good one) for as long as he has been in any leadership position. How many diaries have there been here at RS, many front pagers, about the disappointment after disappointment of McConnell’s actions time after time. Can we stop saying “if he doesn’t” and just accept that he never will, because he never has. Those in the Senate that will vote him in again as a “leader” meet the definition of insanity, and we are powerless to stop them.

  • mjs_pa

    McConnell was wrong for advocating less troops, but Bush was wrong and stubborn for refusing to change a failed strategy in Iraq.

    McConnell should have demanded Rumsfeld be fired and called for a “surge”.

    Bush likes to pretend “politics” didn’t influence his decisions. But this was because he wanted to be able to say: politics didn’t influence my decisions. That is in itself a political decision.

    McConnell was right in suggesting a change in the Iraq war was needed. The elections that followed his private meeting and Bush’s actions that followed the election proved that. The republicans were wiped out, Rumsfeld was gone, and Bush called for new strategy in Iraq.

    If only Bush had 1/2 listened to McConnell, maybe we wouldn’t have had Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid running the congress for the last 4 years. Quite possibly, we too might have been spared Obama as President.

    I hate these tell all books….and its unseemly for Bush to be revealing private conversations. Didn’t his administration complain non-stop about this for 8 years. It also comes to mind that they claimed executive privilege many times on such private conversations.

    While I’m in my Bush bashing mode, let me throw out this possibility: Bush’s book leak and his world series appearance just might have changed a few independent votes and increased the dem turnout for the recent elections. Maybe he’s the reason Angle, Buck and Rossi lost

  • bigredone

    I am a Rand Paul supporter. I was for him against McConnell’s hand-picked candidate, and I am for him now.

    I have, in writing, Rand Paul’s commitment to oppose earmarks. There is no equivocation.

    I suspect, although I have no basis for my suspicion, Sen.-elect would vote for a different if one comes forward. JMHO.

    Let’s don’t lose sight of the goal. We just elected our guys. Give them a chance to prove themselves.

    The Left wants nothing more than back-biting among our number.

    Stay cool. It will all shake out for good. We are gaining complete control. It is a marathon, not a sprint.

  • bigredone

    “I suspect, although I have no basis for my suspicion, Sen.-elect would vote for a different if one comes forward. JMHO.”

    This should read: ….Sen.-elect Paul would vote for a different leader…

    My fingers are faster than my brain sometimes.

  • bigredone

    Rand Paul is the same man for whom I voted.

    Don’t start the circular firing squad. It is what the Left wants us to do.

    Calm…calm…calm…now, isn’t that better?

  • reaganauh2o

    What I meant was it’s 4 more years to oust McConnell, not another 6 year term like McCain just bought and paid for. It will be interesting to see how long McCain retains his new found conservatism.

  • acat

    This is a binary problem.

    Either Rand is anti-earmarks or he’s pro-earmarks.
    Either Rand is supporting the current incompetent leadership, or he’s not.

    He cannot have it both ways. Neither can you.

    If Rand is “going native”, then it’s up to the People of Kentucky to remind him of his proper place.

    Too often, we get into the idea that it’s a “circular firing squad”. It’s more like trying to get the dog to quit pissing on the rug.

    Mew

  • chamberD

    It’s not better.

    What the Left wants is for us to just go away; “calm down” is what the opposition cautions just before they hit us below the belt. They want us to tune out, become demoralized, etc.

    What I’m saying is: Be alert — trust, but verify. Verify. That’s all I’m saying. And if these guys are found wanting, take action. No more falling asleep at the switch; no more getting out to vote then going back to life as usual. Stay in the game; know what’s going on. Nip in the bud any signs of “your guy” going all wobbly.

    Now I feel better.

  • caboose

    an essential part of all budgets. When the congress prepares the annual budget, they appropiate x amount of money they say is needed. They, then, earmark or set asside funds for government agencies, projects and to the states. McConnell, rightfully and factually has pointed out that if earmarks are not done by the congress, it will be up to the Administration to determine the distribution of funds known as the administrations control of earmarks. McConnell also point out that if the republicans reject earmarks, which would not pertain to the democrats, the states represented by republicans would not receive any funds for needed projects, while states representative by democrats would gladly take it all. That would ensure political suicide in future election for republicans. Remember when the republicans shot themself in the a$$ and adopted a policy that forced their chairman and others to step down from their positions as leaders if they were indicted in a court of law. Tom Delay does. Democrats were overyjoyed, they simply could not believe their luck. They got a corrupted democrat prosecutor and he concocted false charges against Delay, and the Dems insisted the republicans remove him from his position. The republicans capitulated and removed Delay, who subsequently resigned from congress. Do not fall into the trap of those who are advocating that republican alone, delete their ability and indeed their responsibility to get their fair share of government appropiated funds for their state. Finally, I suggest that all who are taking one side or the other, educate yourself, before you make up your mind and I believe that you will find that McConnell is right.

  • KBDay

    I’ve researched earmarks for quite some time after writing about President Barack Obama’s more than $700 million in earmarks sponsored or co-sponsored during his brief Senate term.

    I came to the conclusion earmarks are a powerful factor in diluting ethics in our congressmen as well as empowering cronyism.

    CAGW has an excellent backgrounder on earmarks from antiquity (the age of none) to now.

    Here’s a snippet:
    “Even as federal power vastly expanded during the twentieth century, Congress did not earmark extensively until the 1980s. Instead, Congress would fund general grant programs and let federal and state agencies select individual recipients through a competitive process or formula. The House and Senate Appropriations Committees named specific projects only when they had been vetted and approved by authorizing committees. Members of Congress with local concerns would lobby the president and federal agencies for consideration. The process was aimed at preventing abuse and allocating resources on the basis of merit and need.”

    And an interesting figure from Taxpayers for Common Sense: “”[I]t pays to be generous with the campaign cash. Campaign contributors who gave the subcommittee members $823,000 in campaign contributions raked in 148 earmarks worth $460.9 million (average $3.1 million).”

    The earmark process in its present form cannot be justified or rationalized as working to the benefit of the taxpayer or the Republic.

  • KBDay

    I meant to include the link for my post above. Here’s the backgrounder at Citizens Against Government Waste:

    http://membership.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reports_earmarks

    If you’re not a member there, it may not let you access the page without registration, but this article is an excellent analysis of the earmark process and history.

  • papabear

    Clearly he has much less spline and consistency than a jellyfish. Unlike the flipflopping McConnell, Jellyfish can travel in a straight line (or even coast along with a wave). Clearly McConnel is only in it for th e power & position.

    Unfortunately he was just re-elected in 2008. Clearly he thinks we will forget this by the time 2014 rolls around. After all his constituents re-elected him after he said “We all know that Social Security is one of this country’s greatest success stories in the 20th century” and “More young people believe they’ll see a U.F.O. than that they’ll see their own Social Security benefits.”. Clearly he feels no need to reconcile the multiple positions he takes on any given issue. All he has to do is say something appropriate for the given audience.

    http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mitch_McConnell

    Here’s a few more reasons why we need to take him out in the primary:

    Disparaged campaign finance reform as Beltway issue. (Oct 2007)
    Voted YES on Congressional pay raise. (Jul 2009)
    Voted YES on allowing some lobbyist gifts to Congress. (Mar 2006)
    Voted NO on establishing the Senate Office of Public Integrity. (Mar 2006)
    Voted YES on funding for National Endowment for the Arts. (Aug 1999)

    As you can see, his support for thinks like earmarking are part of the big picture – power and influence is his only game. The only reason for his former opposition to earmarking was his knowledge that he would be supporting a losing position. Now that Republicans have the possibility to actually do something about earmarking, his true colors are shining through.

    McConnell is corrupt to the core.

    Like any necrotic flesh, he must be cut off and dumped in the medical waste barrel.

    Don’t forget …

  • Scope

    the Republican party is still only on probation. It is people like you who refuse to hold elected politicians to account for their campaign promises/positions, and, looks the other way when their guy messes up. As one of his constituients, I would expect that you get the rolled up newspaper out, and give him a little smack, but, you can’t even admit that he has already screwed up, and, he hasn’t even gotten to DC yet. Take your head out of the sand, stop being a part of the circular cheerleading squad, and get an answer from him as to why he has already thrown out his support for banning earmarks. You don’t reward a dog with a bone when he just peed on the floor.

  • fpete13527
  • Scope

    I don’t live in Kentucky, and, I can call Paul until I’m blue in the face, and, I would be ignored because I am not one of his constitutients.

    Then when you read comments like bigredones, who is a Paul constitutient, who thinks it’s us, not Paul that has the problem, and, it only gets more disheartening.

    There’s something to be said for only giving donations to your own Reps. and Senators, who are obligated to listen to you, because you are one of their voters. Try calling a Rep. or Senator from out of your area and see how much of an ear they give you. Paul, along with many others, may not have won their elections without national support. Boehner, who is the top guy in the House, you would think would listen to all of us Republicans. When I called his DC office yesterday, his staff guy couldn’t care less about my plea to not appoint Upton as Energy Chair. I literally got a “yeah OK.”

  • Scope

    it most likely ended on Nov. 2.

  • chamberD

    Keep at it, and don’t imagine that you’re the only one out there fighting.

    Never let up. Take to task the bigredones out there who caution patience and calm — this nation doesn’t have time to be calm; it’s falling off a cliff even as we speak.

  • caboose

    One thinks of earmarks, they will be here whether or not the Republicans commits political suicide and attempts to ban them only for the Republicans giving the Democrats a clear advantage in the next election. Earmarks played no part in the Nov. election for me and I suspect millions of Americans. What did play a part was the economy, and the number one issue was stopping the socialist/communist take over of this Nation and the complete destruction of America. I and millions of my fellow Americans, risked our life, health, and left blood and body parts, on the battle field to preserve our freedom and way of life in this country, only to see a majority of those voting in 2008, lose their sense of reality in the voting booth. Let us hope that we can reverse the direction that the Socialists has taken us in the last 20 months. Earmarks are not what has got us here. The inability to reconize reality has!

  • acat

    Calm, placid, tranquil.
    Frosty, icy, cold, steely.

    It’s time to be steely, steel in the spine, a steel pair in the satchel… make the Dems back down. Make the RINOs back down.

    We The People don’t have to be calm to be civil – but we also don’t have to run in circles and scream and shout because the situation sucks…

    We do, however, have to stay frosty.

    Mew

  • AceInTX
  • rel01

    I agree GWB was part of the problem. But he is a Republican not a Democrat. Let’s make sure we give credit where credit is due. Some Republicans did this by wanting to play nice, and be popular, and build a legacy, and get invited to the best party, etc. The Dems just held out the apple.

  • bk

    whenever I see McConnell on camera.

  • http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com ColdWarrior

    in the other legislative districts to elect conservative leadership within their respective districts.

    If the conservatives in the respective districts are successful in electing conservative leadership, then it’s more likely that we’ll have a possibility of getting endorsement votes in the LDs, and at the county committee level, for any conservative who might challenge Kyl.

    Thanks,
    CW

  • NHConservative0227

    That Ron Paul keeps screaming about cutting spending yet is a major earmarker himself!!

    The same Ron Paul who constantly whines about defense spending, building empires, and blames 9/11 on us.

    Sounds like he needs to read the Constitution to learn that national security is one of the main things the federal gov’t is responsible for!

  • NHConservative0227

    That Ron Paul keeps screaming about cutting spending yet is a major earmarker himself!!

    The same Ron Paul who constantly whines about defense spending, building empires, and blames 9/11 on us.

    Sounds like he needs to read the Constitution to learn that national security is one of the main things the federal gov’t is responsible for!

  • http://www.resistnet.com/profile/semperfi sirjason

    What color are dogs in the GOB-GOP club, blue or yellow? Vote for THE only Senator with statesmanship to run the store…Senator Jim DeMint and promote the zombie to the back bench!