Cloture vote by Republicans no surprise
By: firstchevalier (Diary) | December 23rd at 08:47 AM |
The democrat party, the party of ‘Spend, spend, spend’ has a willing accomplice it seems in the current crop of Senate Republicans. The Politico is reporting a cloture vote, a vote to close debate and move the bill out for a full vote, passed by a 91 to 1 majority! (which can be found HERE). Modern Republicans will not get back to limited, smaller, responsible | Read More »
I can’t wait for the Spring Thaw to get rid of the Snow (Olympia)
By: firstchevalier (Diary) | March 2nd at 11:39 AM |
Congresswoman Snow you are not a Republican. Please stop calling yourself one and make the party switch official. In an article today on Yahoo! (found here) Senator Snow laments the Senate not working together to solve problems in this quote, “And so it becomes more divisive and I think ultimately has manifested itself in the Senate and an overall process that lends itself to dysfunction | Read More »
We as a people own our leadership’s decisions too
By: firstchevalier (Diary) | March 12th at 11:14 AM |
I have a friend who blogs the scripture behind a Bible study he wrote on pride. Today’s entry, while short and found here makes those who are governed just as accountable for the failures of their leaders as the leaders are for their own failures. Given the current Republican leadership decisions that are appearing to once again head down the path of failure, I thought | Read More »
A brief (really) suggestion concerning how to get reelected if you’re a conservative
By: firstchevalier (Diary) | March 4th at 07:34 PM |
Do not tell me how much money you’ve brought home to your district. That money belonged to someone else, which means you’ve confiscated/taken something that doesn’t belong to you. Instead, tell me how you’ve gotten government OUT of your home district and OUT of the the lives of your constituents. Conservatives will FLOCK to your banner like ants to a piece of bubblegum on the | Read More »
The GOP in the US Senate did a good job
By: firstchevalier (Diary) | December 12th at 12:37 PM |
last night when they stymied the union bailout bill cordially known as the Auto Bailout bill. As many well thought out front page diarists have already pointed out, Francis Cianfrocca most notably, we will do this over again in January when the Democrats control everything. With this defeat, perhaps the remaining GOP senators have learned their collective lesson from the demise of so many | Read More »
Conservative call to action
By: firstchevalier (Diary) | November 23rd at 10:21 AM |
Before John McCain picked Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate I didn’t know her. Even after we still only know what the MSM and the McCain handlers allowed us to see and hear. I think one of the flaws in McCain’s campaign was they didn’t allow Sarah to be herself. Part of that too was having to support the McCain platform and not | Read More »