ANWR - Conservatives Must Come Together

Here are some names to remember when it comes to drilling in ANWR. Congressman David Reichert. Congressman Charles Bass. Congressman Michael Castle. Congressman Sherwood Boehlert. All four are quoted in today's accounts of yesterday's House meltdown on the budget and ANWR exploration. The names of all the Republicans who stood in opposition to ANWR will eventually come out. ANWR is a national security issue. Opposition to ANWR exploration would not have happened with Tom DeLay holding the ranks together. Any Republican wh stood against it, and is up for reelection in 2006 should be exposed so that a grass roots effort can be undertaken to support another Republican in the Primary of his state.

We hear a lot of lip service about our dependence on foreign oil, but when the time comes to do something about it our representatives’ spines turn to jelly and they cave to the environmentalists. In a time of war, the steps that should be taken are easily laid out:

•Build new refineries and distribute them across the nation so that single catastrophes like a hurricane can’t knock it all out at once

•Use the closed military bases as locations for the new refineries as the land is available.

•Finally, get rid of the 40+ formulations of gasoline required by the ecological lunatics and pare it down to a national standard.

If we want to get free of foreign oil lets quit talking about it and do it. If our representatives don’t have the backbone to do what is right, then support another candidate who does in the coming primaries. 2006 is the next opportunity to get conservatives in office who will do what is best for this nation in the long run. Conservatives have shown that their voice can be heard in this nation so let’s speak up.

I saw Bass on H&C tonight. Been in D.C. way too long IMO. After listening to the arrogant MF I decided that since I haven't found anybody in '06 that I want to support, I'm going to instead donate $ to the opponents of RINOs I want gone. I just hope he has an opponent. From the noises he made, he's just the kind that never even has an opponent from the other party let alone a primary challenger. Sounds just as arrogant as McDermott.

Rush Limbaugh said:

"It almost looks like there's a civil war in Congress between conservative Republicans -- 90 to 95% of the Republicans in Congress -- and the RINO Republicans who are using what they perceive to be the president's weakness to gut the conservative agenda."

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/

I wrote to the Illinois Republican Party and reminded them of the offal they have given us as choices in primaries past. Here it is the choice of the candidate with the biggest lock on the skeletons hidden in his closet. We need to work together and move this party forward. The moderates who want to play both sides of the fence are no longer acceptable.

It is a bigger issue that ANWR. We shouldresume drilling in the lower 48, tell the econuts to gth and start exploring and drilling off shore, and build new refineries. We should also take the 40+ blends of gas down to three and reduce the fer=deral gas tax.

I love Rush, but when I heard him give that number - 90 to 95% of Republicans in congress - I looked at my husband and said, "Don't we wish." There aren't even 90 to 95 conservatives in the House Republican caucus. Even that would be nice. My guess is somewhere less than 30, probably 20 - 25, plus 5 pretty flakey people that get lumped in with them by MSM, the ones who just don't pigeonhole anywhere but are more right than left most of the time but are likely to turn up voting with Sheila Jackson Lee when the vote is 433 - 2. I think conservatives have really lost ground in the past 10 yrs. while the Republicans have gained. Either that or it was ok for some of them to pretend to be conservative as long as they were in the minority, but when they became the majority, they showed their true colors or quit and were replaced by moderates.

The ANWR stuff to me was the last line I drew (and I drew lots of them) that if they crossed that, I could not support the Republicans anymore. They have shoved their fingers in the eyes of the moral conservatives, now the financial ones too, tax increases yet. Who in the he!! do they represent? If it's Democrats, then I would prefer that the Democrats elect their own member instead of one in Republican clothing. I think they are finished for another 40 yrs. and I can't get very upset about it.

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