Posted on 05/23/2005 5:57:23 PM PDT by Pukin Dog
I know how much we all want to support our side. I know that many of us are looking for something good in what happened tonight. Sadly, an honest assessment will result in a single conclusion, that tonight the Republican Senate failed the nation, in order to protect themselves from having to take a vote that would determine the future Presidential ambitions of some Senators.
Do not blame the 12 moderates, because we already knew that they could not be trusted. Do not blame the President, and tonight, you cannot even blame the Democrats. Their side did their job, which was to win. Our side did not. I am not posting this to bash the Republican Party, I am posting this, because I already see some of us looking for the silver lining in this turd. Do not do that. Face the reality of the situation, which is that Senators care about Senators. Bill Frist had ample opportunity to change Senate rules prior to the formation of the 109th Congress. He also had ample opportunity to pull the trigger weeks, even months ago. He did not, which is why I said in an earlier post, that would not vote for Frist for President no matter the outcome of events.
Unfortunatly, we have no recourse. We cannot give up the Senate in an attempt to punish the Senate Republicans. We cannot afford to cut off our noses to spite our faces. But the time will come, where we will have a chance to make our voices heard. Not tonight, not 2006 but maybe by 2008 we will have the voice, the organization, and the attention of enough minds to truly punish the Senate for what they did tonight.
Keep your powder dry, and wait for these folks to come into range. Save your ammo for now. But one day, we will make them pay.
We got NOTHING from this deal. It's lousy and I hope Frist is ticked off as all get out.
I wouldn't say raped... diddled maybe but not raped.
Because they're liberals who lack the courage of conviction to say so.
I cannot say that I am surprised that this happened, because I'm not surprised.
Naaaaaaaaaw!
You are speaking figuratively, of course.
Frist looked like he was close to having a stroke.
Looks like the "guess" was absolutely correct.
The Dems have lost their touch ~ took them a couple of months to realize they were going to hand all the power to the Republicans over relatively minor appointments.
Must be all the hard narcotics and drinking they've been into.
Exactly!
I hope 43's ready to kick some booty. Unless LS is right, and he's read his Sun Tzu :)
That's why they can do what they did. You can't punish them. They know, the democrats know it. So why don't you know it? Because since Reagan, the word has been, just wait until we control both the WH and Congress. But that's all it's ever been the word. Talk that don't match the walk.
The first thing that should happen is to get rid of McCain...
Arizona?
ROFLMAO!!! You REALLY think anyone is even going to remember this in 2008?
You seem to assume that the Republicans will be in power forever. Tonight they maintained a rule that could be very important WHEN, not IF, the Democrats once again have the majority in the Senate.
"Why don't moderates ever land on the side of conservatism?"
Because they are Ultra-libs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Why don't moderates ever land on the side of conservatism?"
Because a "moderate" is a liberal socialist that couldn't get elected in their district/state if they were honest and registered as democrats and didn't lie to their constituitants?!
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