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What commitment?  Are you going to ask them why spending has never decreased? Is that fiscal responsibility?  Good luck, these are slipery worms, even if they are our worms.

I hope to be able to open it up to you, the readers. Let's see how it goes.

1.  Where is the "conservative leadership" we worked so hard to elect and keep from 1994 forward?
   
   
2.  When will the BORDERS BE SEALED and IMMIGRATION BE A SERIOUS TOPIC?  Stop the illegals; deport the illegals; make employers using illegals PAY A HEAVY HEAVY $$$ PENALTY for using illegals and let MARKET FORCES TAKE CARE OF WAGES in a capitalist society and put Americans back to work.
   
   
3.  Balance the Budget;  Pass the FAIR TAX;  SAVE SOCIAL SECURITY FOR REAL; If you have to have a prescription medicare bill, MEANS TEST IT!
   
   
4.  GOVERN and DON'T be COWED by the MSM and the communists, socialists, liberal democrats and liberal republicans.
   
   
5.  FOR GOD'S SAKE, GET A BACKBONE and GIVE US ENERGY INDEPENDENCE IN THE USA.

I am glad that they have taken the initiative to reach out to blod leaders.  It shows that they know we are frustrated as a base and that this is a new arena of conservatives that they need to reach out to.  

But they should be warned that we have be EXTREMELY PATIENT with all Republicans for the last several years, especially under the current administration.  They need to understand, espeically after Harriet Miers, that our patience has dried up.  

1.  Fix the budget.  Fiscal responsibility means that our tax dollars are being used only for the necessities.
   
2.  FIX THE BORDERS!  HOW MUCH LOUDER DO WE HAVE TO YELL ABOUT THIS?!  GET IT RIGHT OR GET OUT OF D.C.!
   
3.  Stop the socialism!  Namely, roll back the Medicare Rx Bill and stop paying for every little thing people complain to you about.  
   
4.  Learn how to say NO.  Easier said than done, I guess...
   
5.  Remember our hero.  Ronald Reagan would have a hay day with all of you on the hill.  Stop defaming the man that created the wave your surfing on.

....that I would like to see asked:

Is there, in fact, a White House Supreme Court blacklist, consisting of the names of the most well-known and provably Conservative judges best favored by the Conservative base?

A follow-up to the likely denial:

How is it then that no less than ten of the most respected, highly qualified potential nominees most favored and recognized by Conservatives (almost unanimously) nationwide been passed upon not once, but twice for the Supreme Court?

the blogosphere is the last bastion of freedom, when it comes to opinions.

it seems that congress is going to be attempting to use the blogs to get across their spin.

if i want spin, ill watch the news channels.

i come here to read independant thought.

Four things that would fix most of America's problems have almost nothing to do with Government:

1. Don't get pregnant before marriage, and don't abort the baby when you do get pregnant.
   
2. Graduate from high school or college, and earn a steady income before getting married.
   
3. Go over your childrens' homework with them and don't let them do other things till they finish it.
   
4. Know where your children are and what they're doing, and set a good example.
   

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A good mariage is built on trust.  You trust your partner not to cheat or spend all your money.  You trust them to respect your ideas and emotions.  You trust them to call the cops if someone is breaking into your house.

The base is about to file for divorce........

Here is a good run down of the "How Not To Be Poor" pointers:

1.  Finish high school:

    * Only 9.6 percent of high school graduates are poor, compared to 22.2 percent of those without a diploma.

    * Of those people who complete some college, only 6.6 percent fall below the poverty line.

    * This drops to 3.3 percent of those with a bachelor's degree or higher.

2.  Find a job:

    * Only 2.6 percent of people 16 years or older with full time jobs are poor, according to Census data.

    * By contrast, 11.4 percent of part-time workers fall under the poverty line, and 20.8 percent of those who do not work fall below the poverty line.

The advantages of work hold true even for at-risk groups, such as single mothers:

    * About 83 percent of single mothers who do not work are in poverty, compared to nearly 60 percent who work part time.

    * But less than 18 percent of single mothers who work full time are in poverty.

3.  Get married:

    * Only 4.0 percent of married couples without children are in poverty, according to Census data.

    * In contrast, the poverty rate for singles without children is 8.6 percent.

Moreover, married couples are less likely to experience long-term poverty. According to the OECD report:

    * Married couples without children have a long-term poverty rate of only 1.3 percent.

    * By contrast, 7.9 percent of single adults experience long-term poverty.

4.  Wait until marriage to have a child:

    * Of those households with two or more children under the age of 18, 7.9 percent of married households were poor, while 51.6 percent of never-married households were poor.

    * Of those households with two or more children under the age of 6, 11.5 percent of married households were poor, while 62.4 percent of never-married households were poor.

I was searching for the statistic I had seen before and couldn't find it.  But IIRC, it was that if you finished high school before getting married and got married before having a child, then you have a 98% chance of not being poor.

but they will be holding a intra party conference on how to regulate if not shut down the blogs.  It's entitled "how to get electricity out of politics".

the republicans if they can find a republican D.A. somewhere in the 50 states to do to a leading democrat what  Runaway Ronnie Earle is doing to Tom DeLay.  Failing that ask them if they have testicles.  

Fiscal responsibility - He he did a Republican actually have the nerve to mention that?

Good luck on conference.  Mention a few Republican goals like reducing the deficit, eliminating lobbyists, and prosecuting companies that break the law hiring illegal aliens.

I doubt they will be visiting long.

Please ask them:

1. Will they commit to having a balanced budget next year?
   
   
2. How much pork spending are they going to cut from this year's budget, now that they've re-opened it?
   
   
3. What federal programs do they plan to eliminate to help reign in the runaway deficits?
   
   
4. What economic policies do they think that they've enacted that have been successful?  (I must have missed something)
   
   
5. What are their plans for reducing our trade deficits?
   
   
6. What are their plans for preventing a financial crisis with Medicaid?  
   
   
7. What are their plans for making sure Social Security can meet its obligations?  
   

There's only one Mbr here now. It's 12:30. If the crowd gets bigger, I'll tee up some of these Q's. There's a lot of commentary over on blog.nam.org., lots of talk about fiscal responsibility.

I'll have to check out what's on blog.nam.org

First of all, this is an actual question, not a dig: Is it really a Republican goal to eliminate lobbying? I had thought that was a liberal goal, but that was perhaps mostly because I keep reading about Republican politicians being in the pocket of various lobbyists (not that Democrats aren't guilty of the same thing). However, in giving it a second thought, reducing lobbyism would seem to correspond to the Republican goal of smaller government, I think.

Anyway, just curious, because I hadn't yet encountered that as a Rep goal.

Ironic that John Cornyn's colleagues in the House value bloggers and welcome them to the Capitol while Cornyn is busy in the Senate talking about how bloggers aren't real journalists and are dangerous.

Go to Redhot and look at the Latest Stories right sidebar-- somehow the (/strike) is being lost so all the subsequent stories have lines through them too.