I'm beginning to wonder if the Republicans even deserve
majority status. I've seen Frist castigated and Voinovich
as well. But having observed the whole travesty on C-Span,
I also saw Chuck "I'm a maverick" Hagel and Lincoln Chafee
getting impatient to be the next to jump ship. It's obvious
that Bolton is likely to be rejected because of a combination of innuendo and the roll-over Republicans. My
feeling is that Bush should stop wasting his time on
a Social Security problem that's 30 years into the future
and deal with IMMEDIATE problems such as Bolton and the
confirmation of his judicial nominees. He can write his
memoirs in retirement at Crawford but meanwhile he should
stop fretting about his legacy and start saving what's
left of OUR party!
Most of us try to spend our money most efficient manner. If I want to buy a screen door at Lowe’s but look across the street and see the exact screen door for sale at half price by Home Depot – I walk across the street. We got a message of being cheated today from the Senate Foreign Relation’s Committee. The Republican majority allowed themselves to be rolled by the Democratic minority charge led by Diane Boxer, John Kerry and Joseph Biden.
We are finally getting some conservative nominee’s out of the White House and the Republicans in the US Senate’s “good ole boy’s club” are allowing the minority Democratic party Senators to mug the nominees when they go to Capitol Hill for confirmation. I don’t know how you have been spending your political dollars but after the disgraceful showing this afternoon in the Senate that followed the namby-pamby actions of Arlen Specter and the Judicial Committee, I urge you to slam your checkbook closed until we see if our conservatives in the Senate have the courage to be there. If they do not want to be conservatives, all they have to do is speak up. We’ll find a conservative who can tear their liberal asses off in 2006.
I will no longer support any Republican candidate financially or in written text until they show me who they are. We have no election hard against us so we do not have to do anything today. However, we do have an election next year in 2006 when all of the Congressmen in the House of Representatives and 1/3 of the Senate will be required to run for re-election. We’ll watch them carefully for the next year and decide if we are going to support them for office or just blow them off like they are doing to us.
I’m not writing from a Religious right or vast right wing conspiracy perspective. I am simply a political conservative who has contributed a great deal of money, time and talent to get a conservative Republican majority in both houses of Congress. From the gutless performance of Richard Lugar and his Foreign Relations Committee today it appears that I have wasted my time and might as well have thrown my money out of an open window.
If you like tough, hardnosed politicians just vote for the Democrats. They are outmaneuvering the conservatives on judicial nominations, Ambassador Bolton’s nomination to the UN and they are sitting on several other nominations to smaller regulatory commissions. We don’t have anyone on the conservative side to explain the meaning of MINORITY PARTY to the Democrats. The Democrats ACT like they are in charge and the lack of courage from the Republicans allows them to BE in charge.
If you have any money or effort invested in the Republican majority, turn round and ask someone to pull the knife out of your back that the Republicans on the Foreign Relations Committee used to stab you today. Burn me once, shame on you. Burn me twice, shame on me. We are now on notice that the Republican majority in the US Senate is composed of gutless politicians who are only there for the free hospital care. They are not representing those of us who put them there.