Who actually were conservatives when in Washington (Newt Gingrich). Most Republicans now are totally useless, incompetent, spineless, or liberal.

Progressive Mica from Florida, who is a pork-a-holic transportation earmark guy interested mostly in supporting Obama public service union handouts, has also been shilling for billions related to this.

After multiple non-stimuli for roads that have gone for nothing but public service union war chests, and Obama “Smart Growth” transportation non-projects, this is unfathomable.

This is nothing but bad. Anyone in the Republican legislature involved with supporting this (especially now) needs to be expurgated.

Boehner needs to be gone yesterday.

Who will use part of that money to defeat them in elections.

The stupid party strikes again.

for this yet? I didn’t see a specific bill named, and I want to make sure my congressman (Billirakis) goes against it, which he probably will.

I would really like an answer to this. The House leadership is “conservative” – by what stretch of who’s imagination can you make this statement? The only “conservatives” that were elected to the House in 2010 are all “junior” members. Boehner, Cantor and the rest of the “permanent” DC establishment are disgraces – call them that. They don’t even rate being called RINOs! Calling the House “conservative” is like calling BHO a leader – it’s a joke!

These Republicans haven’t learned anything from the beating they took in 2006.

These “Republibozos” don’t comprehend that they live in a glass house. What they do, and what they are, is plainly visible to all They promised change but deliver more of the same. They failed in 2006 and they are failing now. They believe that they have a chance to occupy the Senate, the House, and the White House in 2012. With their track record thus far, “Fat chance”!

When the goal is to destroy capitalism by overload where does the conservative go. Is the Republic over with the Marxist gloating in Congrss?

leave your principles at the door on the floor and support the DOWN TICKET so we can WIN ELECTIONS to do what? GetMore Democrate Taxing and Spending!……….. YES! Vote for the Letter “R”

The Letter ” R “…It’s not just for the GOP anymore…….Democrates like it too!

I really want to think that I could get behind Santorum as Romney is a hopeless RINO retread loser who will energize the base like a dead battery and Newt seems to be looking more and more like damaged goods these days (hope I’m wrong on that too). But Rick has a history of voting for bills like these. I just wonder if he has a position on this latest fiasco, cause I’d really like to hear what it is.

are the taxes they are proposing on the IRA’s?

to me. Almost anything either party does in D.C. does not amaze me anymore. They both seem to be intent on bringing this country to its knees and turn it into a socialist state, at the least. Possibly a communist one.
The repubs seem to be intentionally heading to their own self-destruction. They must know that “We the People” do not see their support of this kind of crap as desirable.
What are they thinking, or not.
I’d be interested, as is “lquist1″, on where the current crop of candidate hopefuls stand on this bill. So far, I’m not convinced any of them have this country’s best interest in mind. Just more of the same.
Liberalism is mental disorder. Irregardless of party affiliation.

It’ is past time to clean house (and senate). This is exactly the reason I have changed my registration to Independent. I have never in my 60 years seen a more despicable, worthless, self-centered group in DC. I am referring to both sides! You expect the dems to be cluless since they don’t have the stones to push back against “Dear leader”. Now we have the new edition of the reps carrying water for his majesty as well. Boehner should take Bidens place as VP since he has done more for this so-called president than any of the dems. We as citizens wasted our time voting in 2010. What we thought was a referendum on liberal spending has turned out to be a joke. Please do NOT mention Reps and leadership in the same sentence again. The terms are diametrically opposed!

If it has failed why give it more money when the answer lies in management. If otherwise it is plain that we have the golden calf of ongoing corruption, that billions more will lead to billions more still. As it has consistently for years. Prepare yourselves for the tax increases & then more infrastructure spending.

TP a few politicians have supported Romney for potus. The whole game is to run up the debt while dividing Americans while also pushing grass roots groups out of the picture till the next election. If we divide they win while they plot the next game to garner votes. All the more reason to ignore the establishments choice for potus.

“Stimulus” certainly isn’t the job of the government,
and Post roads were established long ago. The concepts
in the Constitution are very simple. Once we see the
list of who is supporting this, we’ll have to send
them some elementary school level lessons on the Constitution.

“But the letter next to the plan is an “R” and not a “D”, so conservatives will yet again sell out their principles because John Boehner and not Barack Obama asked them to bankrupt the country.

With leadership like this is it any wonder we’re at $16 trillion in debt?”

You’re essentially advocating the same thing when you insist we should hold our noses and vote for a non-conservative next November….

Your post demonstrates – in spades – how the real issue is much larger than the office of president. It should be shouted from the rooftops: beating Obama is utterly irrelevant if we’re unwilling to first address the rot in our own party.

CW

He references an article in Human Events.

Republicans have little, or no, leadership in the Congress. Boehner and McConnell are both weak. They have no direction and are always ready to “negotiate” a deal that sounds like they did something. In reality, they just go along with Obama. McConnerll is so spineless he dosen’t even want to talk abut Obama’s reckless spending anymore. He just gives him whatever he wants.

Until they find a way to toss Boehner and friends out on their keister then they really aren’t leaders at all.

We have a lot of new guys in the House who are battered and bruised continually by Boehner, and then we have guys who have been in the House for a while who proclaim to be conservatives while going around the country making fancy speeches and dodging getting any responsible work in the House.

Votes don’t cut it, folks… work your butts off to become head of a Committee and then get a coalition of your buddies together to get rid of Boehner…

The House needs a leader and members with a spine. Look at how effective Nancy was in getting her agenda accomplished and how ineffective is Boehner is.

I think the Republican party is committing a mass suicide by ignoring its base.

For the same reason the Republicans think for some godforsaken reason that beating up on each other in the primaries is a “good thing”. Polls now show that 20% of Republicans are leaning towards Obama this fall. If people want to see brawling they watch MMA. They had hoped to find sane, intelligent, leaders-to-be when watching the debates. Instead they got the equivalen of a junior high food fight.

How much of this is our candidates and how much is actually brought on the by the whore advisors that dance between camps on a whim and whisper bad advice to the sleep deprived candidates running helter-skelter between debates, talk shows, and people with cameras and microphones? The whole damn thing is a circus side show that has reduced these mature men to sniveling brats. And while our attention is diverted, the elected numbskulls who populate Washington are busy doing what they do best…spend money, finger point and then spend more money.

Eric, I’m throwing a bit of the blame on you, Joe Farrah, Ann Coulter and Chris Christie too. All your commentary has done is inflame the situation even more. All of you want to have your name in lights and have forgotten that voters are more sick and tired of in-fighting than Obama. More than anything else we need a united front againt the President’s machine and his minions in DC both Democrat and Republican. United means arm-in-arm. United means one clear message. United means showing the world that Republicans can field a group of principled leaders not covered in mud.

Throw the cameras and reporters out of CPAC. Pull the candidates into a locked room without their handlers and distill one message. I suggest a blend of each of their best ideas. Then make them agree the only enemy is Obama and those in DC doing his bidding. Then, stop all the comparing and contrasting in your collective editorials. Voters have seen and heard enough. No more debates. At this point, all effort should be on targeting the bad apples in congress and making the Senate go R.

BUT it needs to be done by the states, NOT the feds. Just give those highway gas tax funds BACK to the states to do what they need to do. States can’t print money and will have to work with a balanced budget approach to any projects. Washington just takes a huge cut off the top, hands a small percentage back to states/local governments, and then tells them how they have to do it!

Our business (civil engineering design for roads & utilities) might actually stand to get some economic advantage from a stimulus like this but we wouldn’t touch anything with fed backing right now. You cannot imagine the strings attached to fed funding from HUD, DOT or EPA. I have a whole list of horror stories of things those agencies have made cities, design professionals and contractors do that you wouldn’t dream of doing (i.e. spending money on) in the reasonable, for-profit business world. There is no where to go to appeal a stupid decision. The buck stops with whatever idiot on the phone that the agency has assigned to your project. We have even called our elected representatives and their answer is “Oh – we can’t do anything about the _____ (fill in the blank with the appropriate agency). They have their own rules and policies.” OK – think about that. If your ELECTED officials can’t do anything with these rouge agencies – WHO CAN? Oh how I wish we could have had Rick Perry in there demolishing these agencies. Sigh.

…to get rich. No, not building roads. Making signs. “This project funded by the American Redistribute and Repress Act”.

I would wager that a significant majority in both houses of congress -both parties – can not explain the difference in a million, billion, and trillion.

In most cases. We can’t trust the guy. Haven’t ‘Conservatives’ learned anything over the years??

This is why our nation is in such a great mess. Look at history!

didnt the 2010 election results show that the american people dont support this type of nonsense?

http://thehayride.com/2011/08/the-donkey-whisperer/

Now on a more serious note…the XL Pipeline deal is in the bill or so I hear…and that is why the Republicans are in on this.

My thing…Boehner…buck up, get a “clean” bill, stop adding all this BS and vote this thing DOWN.

If you want the XL Pipeline….and WE DO…then write a bill…no amendments…the bill. If McConnell can’t get some Democrats to come over on the energy thing…Well…I think these people need to go this next election cycle….WE HAVE TO GET CONSERVATIVES BACK INTO OFFICE.

“Part of the reason is because highway spending is kryptonite to conservatives. You want to undermine conservative principles, just throw a roads building scheme into legislation.”

Is there something from the AEI or the like the explains this a bit more thoroughly? I’m trying to understand what makes this particular issue so difficult for elected conservatives.

Get the Federal Government Out of Everything…except what is spelled out in the Constitution.

Democrats…the Party of Corruption
Republicans…The Party of Dumb