Posted on 04/26/2005 6:45:53 AM PDT by Houmatt
If Frist does this, my check book just closed for a long time.
I see this as the Dems positioning themselves for the aftermath. They know Frist won't blink, and they know they're about to lose. This little play allows them to claim (at least with a compliant media) that they extended the hand of reasonable compromise, but the hardline extremist Republicans caved to their Jesusland overlords and slapped the hand of friendship and concord away. Blah, blah, blah...
Senator Frist, repeat after me: We are the majority. We are the majority.
Reid is bluffing and looking to buy respectability like an old whore in order to appear reasonable when USSC vacancy opens up.
Wrong. Reid is playing his friends in the MSM, and hot-heads like you, like violins. a. Consider the source. b. Just because you and I "discuss" the idea of having you mow my lawn tonight, that clearly does not mean it's going to happen. c. the latest public statement from the Majority Leader, who probably isn't too happy about the way the Democrats demonized him recently is: "no deal". When that changes, feel free to worry. Until then this is all just Harry Reid pandering to the "moderates" amongst us.
But Frist, in a rare news conference conducted on the Senate floor, said he would not accept any deal that keeps his Republican majority from confirming judicial nominees that have been approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee."Are we going to step back from that principle? The answer to that is no," Frist said.
NO DEALS FRIST! IT'S UNCONSTITUTIONAL! UP OR DOWN FRIST OR FILE TO RUN FOR OFFICE IN THE NEXT ELECTION ON A LIBERAL TICKET!
WE WANT ALL LIMP WRISTED, SPINELESS RINOS OUT OF OUR PARTY NOW!!!
REPUBLICAN OR LIBERAL! PERIOD!
NO FENCE SITTING!
NOT WITH A MAJORITY YOU DON'T!!!!!
GOOD! Thanks for posting this! I haven't seen this!
EXCELLENT SITE!
THE JUDICIAL CONFIRMATION NETWORK
Working to ensure a FAIR appointment process.....
http://judicialnetwork.com/
Does anyone have any scoop on the judges Carl Lenin and Stab us now want to ram through?
This is copied directly from a DU post:
"If Reid caves he needs to go as minority leader. nt"
I agree totally. I saw the headline today. This is a feint to loosen up GOP unity and determination. MSM always puts out a headline about some GOP leader on the fence just to see if any of the others bite.
Regardless of how this fight turns out, maybe we Freepers need to get behind a nationwide effort for the 2006 elections known as "Recall the RINOs!" The focus would primarily be on recalcitrant Senators, but I can think of a few House members who need to be thwacked as well.
Can you imagine a better tool for excising obstructionists? It would also be a great way to energize and enlarge The Base for the mid-terms!
Here is a list of the 14 Republican Senators up for election in '06..... Maybe you can provide a list of those that you feel need to be targeted and put out to pasture along with a list of some of the Representatives...
Allen, George- (R - VA) Burns, Conrad- (R - MT) Chafee, Lincoln- (R - RI) DeWine, Mike- (R - OH) Ensign, John- (R - NV) Frist, Bill- (R - TN) Hatch, Orrin- (R - UT) Kyl, Jon- (R - AZ) Lott, Trent- (R - MS) Lugar, Richard- (R - IN) Santorum, Rick- (R - PA) Snowe, Olympia- (R - ME) Talent, James- (R - MO) Thomas, Craig- (R - WY)
Among those up for reelection in 2006, Chaffee and Snowe certainly need to be jettisoned. Frist too if he caves on the constitutional option
Please keep in mind though that I'm suggesting a broader effort. Let's leverage the resources required for the midterm election to *also* pull the plug on senators such as McCain and Collins and Hagel who are midway through their terms. Would this pose an organizational and fundraising challenge? Absolutely. But we're mobilized like never before. We have the will and we have the way.
As to House members who need to have their tickets punched, here are a few of the more obvious choices:
California--Drier (he's a queer)
Connecticut--Shays (he's been disloyal to Tom DeLay and he's shaky on personalizing retirement accounts)
Iowa--Leach (betrayed us on The Death Tax)
New York--Boehlert (need I say more?)
Ohio--Regula (sides with the abortionists)
Without a doubt there are others. But taking out these House RINOs would go a long way towards enforcing ideological discipline.
Of greatest importance is the need to demonstrate that we have power now and we aren't shy about using it. This is what Winners do. It's the key to woeing more Winners into our camp.
Exactly what are you implying?
Well it sounds like I was correct. Listening to Rush play the sound bites from Reid BLAMING Republicans for the crisis by not compromising.
The 'rats think they have the votes against SS private accounts and they are not dealing.
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