Posted on 11/11/2005 5:49:45 PM PST by Yosemitest
November 11, 2005
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RUSH: Well, now the White House has fought back. Will the congressional Republicans get their acts in gear? It looks like they're falling part. This gang of moderates under the tutelage of George Soros that killed the ANWR drilling project-- (interruption) You are unaware that the Republican mainstream partnership is funded by George Soros? I kid you not. It's on Michelle Malkin's website. I pulled it down last night. Here we go. She writes,
These are basically a bunch of New York McCain Republicans. They used to be called "Rockefeller Republicans." It may be better to start calling them "McCain Republicans," the McCain wing of the party, because there are some exceptions, but you heard a lot of New Jerseys, Connecticuts, and Pennsylvanias in there, and some New Yorks. Northeastern, "moderate" Republicans basically threw it out. In the Senate Olympia Snowe from Maine helped to scuttle even a single year extension of the current 15% tax rate on dividends and capital gains. That's due to expire in 2008. So the finance committee chairman Chuck Grassley was forced to postpone a committee vote on extending a tax cut that has been crucial to an economic rebound that since mid-2003 has been marked by ten straight quarters of nearly 4% average growth. Tell us why, again, Republicans need 55 senators? Why do we need 55 senators when we have so many malcontents and traitors in the bunch? And they all happen to be from the northeast and they all happen to be moderates, they all happen to be liberals -- well, not all, there are some exceptions -- but the great percentage of them are.
So the White House has responded now to all of these history revisions and these mindless personal attacks, these lies on lying about prewar intelligence. Let's see if the congressional Republicans, including the Senate, will get in gear, because I'll tell you what's going on here, folks. This has been an amazing thing to watch this week, and I've been sitting back and I've been eyeing it, and it almost looks to me like there is a sort of a civil war right now in Congress between conservative Republicans, which represent about 90 to 95% of the Republicans in Congress, and the RINO Republicans, these Republicans in name only, who are using what they perceive to be the president's weakness to gut the conservative agenda, and this is what I have been worried about when I've discussed the fact the president is not leading a movement. When he's not out making the case for conservatism with every address and speech he makes, it only empowers these moderates. The moderates basically have been tamed. They had been cowering over there in the corner. They hadn't been able to stop anything. So now along with the Democrats, these RINO Republicans, Republicans in name only, surface in an atmosphere of what they think is presidential weakness. Their rear their heads and show us who they really are. They're anti-tax cut. They are anti-drilling for oil in ANWR. They are anti the conservative agenda.
Let me paint this with a broad brush, and say the Republicans are advancing our agenda is to be simplistic. We have a relative handful of Republicans who are cutting and running in hopes of advancing themselves. I mean, to say the Republicans are advancing our agenda is not true because all of them aren't. Conservative Republicans are trying to advance the agenda, which is why there has been a desperate cry for conservative leadership, politically, not just in the media. Conservatism has plenty of voices in the media. But it needs these voices and leaders elsewhere, where other votes can be shepherded, where weak minded can be strengthened and be taught to follow or motivated to follow, and people look to the president for that, and people look to congressional leaders in the House and Senate to do that. It's been very frustrating, all the silence that we've gotten, and some of you have been upset by the silence in the White House. So have I, but I'm just as upset, if not more so, than the silence from the House and Senate where we hold distinct margins. And I know that not all of the members of the Republican Senate or the House are conservative, as we are now learning, but they are a smaller minority than the Democrats are.
It's one thing to have a sizable minority like the Democrats stand in your way, but it is just unacceptable when a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of Republicans in Congress also rear up in opposition and join the liberal Democrats to derail an agenda. At some point that has to be faced. It has to be faced because these RINOs, these moderates, are undermining our agenda on taxes; they are undermining our agenda on spending; they are undermining our 
agenda on oil drilling, and they are undermining the war on terror -- and I'll give you some names. You want some names? Here they are: Olympia Snowe, John McCain, George Voinovich, Mike Castle, Christopher Shays, and about 30 to 35 others. Now the Democrats don't do this. They are disciplined. They punish those who dare to cross them, not so on our side. We don't have any party discipline. "Well, Rush, we're the party of ideas! You always say we're the party of ideas. We have free and open debate." Yes, we do, but when it comes to... Your family is your family, and when you go to battle with other families, folks, you want your family on your side, not joining the family across the street firing back at you -- and that's what's happening here, and it's because liberals hate conservatives and liberals fear conservatives.
I don't care if they're Republican liberals or Democrat liberals, they're still liberals. They're not "moderates." Don't hit me with that. There's no such thing as a moderate. A moderate is just a liberal disguise, and they are doing everything they can to derail the conservative agenda, and they've been frustrated, they haven't been able to do anything about it because conservatism has been so strong. This propaganda attack on the president has weakened him. They're looking at the polls.
Now, you can say what you want about that, but the point is they end up unified on these battles that are crucial. These ideological battles are the battles of the future of the country, and members of our side have no desire to be unified. In fact, they want to join the other side in derailing conservatism, and the reason conservatism is so feared is because it works. Conservatism is so feared because it cannot be defeated with ideas. So it has to be defeated with other tactics. We're told to invite liberals and moderates into our party. We're told to extend our arms in welcome, extend our hands in friendship. We're told to be nice and try to make them like us, and every time that happens we only see them stab the president or stab the majority in Congress in the back. It's really not a civil war; it's almost part of a civil war, but this is the Rockefeller wing of the party which has been down and out since the 1980s with Ronald Reagan's ascendance. The Rockefeller wing, now the McCain wing, of the party rearing -- actually, he thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, by the way, not Nelson Rockefeller, but we'll call it the McCain-Rockefeller wing, what have you, rearing its head.
Read the Articles...
(The Hill: House drops ANWR drilling)
(WT: GOP hopefuls still seek appearances with Bush)
Now... we need to get to work on the phones and e-mails. The links are provided above... Go to it!
...and Arafat is dead.
Rush is the man!
George Soros Republicans. Do you have to hear any more?
Bug Bump for Truth
The enemy within needs to be exposed. We had a RINO rep a few years back and it would just turn my stomach to see the crowd go ga-ga for her at Repub functions.
I wonder how many besides myself E-Mailed him that SOROS news from Malkin's site. I bet quite a few. I'm glad he addressed this. He's been holding back all week from mentioning what the Republicans were doing, finally came out today and its needed.
E-Mail these folks, yes, but also E-mail Everyone to get behind the Prez now that's he's forcefully come out against the Dem lies. Ride their hides to do the right thing or else. I have no problem at all with not voting for them. I am a conservative, not a Republican, I'll gladly exact vengenace in '06 if the Party doesn't shape up.
OK, so I am stupid, none of my representatives are part of this. Is there anything us Red state folks can do to help you with your RINO's?
Most Democrats are socialists.
Most moderates are far left wing.
Most true conservatives are the classic liberals, before the word liberal was corrupted by socialists.
I see a bunch of names that are not going to be in office for long. They are traitors to America, especially since they are being funded by that piece of you know what, Soros.
There is a special place in hell for Soros. He may not believe this; but there is.
Wrong. True conservatives are NOT classic liberals. They are classic conservatives ie paleo or social conservatives.
This Republican Main Street Partnership was responsible for the gang of 14 and works to defeat bush's nominees
Another group that has rarely been quoted on the Supreme Court justice issue is Republican Main Street Partnership (RMSP), an organization that reaches out to disenfranchised Republicans and fights for issues including stem cell research and the Endangered Species Act. "Moderates, of course, are not the ones who are out there first with all the rhetoric," says Sarah Chamberlain Resnick, RMSP executive director. "We're working behind the scenes with Senators."
Chamberlain Resnick says the group, which works with 68 politicians in the House and Senate and 8500 members in almost every state, is hoping Bush endorses "someone who is in a similar mind frame" of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. "We realize the President will choose a conservative," says Chamberain Resnick. "We just hope it's a conservative we can live with."
If Bush chooses a conservative the group can't live with, it is prepared to take action. "The moderate wing of the party will not stay quiet," says Chamberlain Resnick. "We do have some donors who are ready."
Moderates who run blogs and newsgroups are also weighing in on the issue, but they, too, are finding it difficult to get widespread attention.
Yeah...make lots of Red state babies who can grow up and move into our Blue states.
Red staters are going to be needed to help campaign for the opponents of these rino's in the primaries.
Club For Growth is looking at targeting Schwarz the most because he is a first term congressman in a district that went for bush with 54 percent.
Made up words have little meaning.
Despite all of his righteous conservative rhetoric, I find that my rep is a RINO. Mr. Kennedy, for shame.
This guy is probably just ramping up for his senate run to replace "Ruprecht and his cork on a fork" Mark Dayton. But no matter.
I am half minded to start a "reds stay away on election day" campaign when it comes to Kennedy and his bid for senate. Write in the dog or the name of your favorite breakfast cereal mascot.
Seriously, I feel backstabbed by this joker.
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Give me examples of words that are not "made up".
Two suggestions.
1) Donate to an opponent running against them.
2) Write your own Senators and Congressman/woman to urge a crackdown by the leadership on these RINO's because they are depressing base morale. Lose the base, and their careers are in jeopardy as well no matter how conservatively they vote. People simply won't feel like voting. It happened in '94 for '41, it can happen again.
It is time to push the Democrat wing of the Republican party out...and for good.
Good sugestions, will do.
For example:
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Get ready for the RINO apologists to start calling you a "Hillary supporter."
That's how those idiots push their RINO sellouts through; by insisting that we can only challenge Liberals by becoming Liberals!
Join a PAC.
Moderates and dead skunks are the same...both reek to high heaven.
Moderates are a bigger threat to America because they have no values and flop which ever way the wind blows.
At least the socialists can be fought.
Moderates say "please please compromise".
The moderate President GHW Bush gave us 8 years of a traitor Clinton.
I could not understand how moderates could vote for this traitor twice.
Moderates are liberals with a cloaking device. In other words...they are stealth 'rats.
Keep an eye on those names and note who goes to bat for them on the forum and derides conservatives as "single-issue losers." You'll find a lot of them slithering around. Their mantra is easy to recognize. If you don't support their RINO du jour, then they'll refer to the actual conservative as "unelectable" and insist that you're a "Hillary supporter."
Mark my words. There's loads of those sellouts sniffing around here.
The so-called 'moderates'...actually liberals...are killing us, no doubt about it.
But there is another group...a larger one...that is doing just as much damage, if not more.
They are the Republicans who have co-opted the 'conservative' name and talk the talk...they've mastered the language of conservatism...but who do nothing at all to forward the conservative agenda of restoring and defending the founding principles of our free republic.
DC is full of 'em...
Call it the dumbing down of the conservative movement.
Focus, people. Focus!
I agree, bandying words do not help.
Soros Republicans. Naming names.
It's MPD.
Mad Pol Disease...
LOL
"Moderate" and "RINO" are contradictions in terms.
This bunch are out and out liberals.
Rush is right on this. Where was he on the Toomey-Specter race? Out to lunch, I believe.
BTW... please feel free to share this with everyone you know I don't have a ping list...also, just as I was sending this I got a call from the Republican Congressional Committee asking for a donation -- I told the lady that I did contribute a week ago to the party, but I'm so mad at the GOP right now I'm not sending a dime and I invited her to pass that on... she asked why I was angry and I told her one word: ANWR.
Anyway, here is the email:
You Rocked the House!
Dear Carolyn,
Thanks to your efforts, we have won a stunning victory in the House of Representatives for our treasured wildlife.
Yesterday afternoon, House Republicans yanked the Budget Reconciliation Bill off the House floor. But the real victory came Wednesday night, when proposals to legalize harmful oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and off our coasts were dropped from the bill.
Yesterday afternoon, House Republicans yanked the Budget Reconciliation Bill off the House floor and with it a proposal to legalize harmful oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and off our coasts. This kind of conservation win is almost unprecedented in this Congress, and it happened because of your efforts!
This week, thousands of wildlife supporters from across the country rocked the House, calling their Representatives to let them know that America’s great wild places aren’t for sale.
Over the last several months, you’ve sent more than 120,000 messages to Congress. And your donations have helped us place crucial ads like these in key Congressional districts --advertising that has helped mobilize America’s pro-wildlife majority, and steel the resolve of our allies in Congress.
Thanks to you, polar bears, caribou and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s other special wildlife have a reprieve from Big Oil’s senseless and ceaseless drive to drill in their home. And Florida and other coastal states need not sacrifice their coastal areas to offshore drilling.
Unfortunately, the battle to save the Arctic Refuge’s wildlife from harmful oil drilling is far from over.
As you know, the Senate last week passed its own budget bill that legalizes drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Senators Ted Stevens (R-AK) and Pete V. Domenici (R-NM), who will serve on the House-Senate conference committee on the bill, have made it clear that they will not agree to any final measure that does not include Arctic drilling.
Indicted former House Majority Leader Representative Tom DeLay (R-TX), a drilling proponent, has also made his intentions clear. He’s quoted in today’s New York Times saying that "chances are very good" that the drilling provisions will reemerge. Representative Richard Pombo (R-CA), who inserted the drilling provisions into the House bill, indicated to the San Francisco Chronicle that he would be unwilling to support any final bill that didn’t include drilling.
So, while we’ve won an important victory, our work is far from finished. America’s wildlife is counting on us to keep standing up to Tom DeLay, Richard Pombo and others in Congress who would sacrifice the natural legacy we leave our children and grandchildren.
In the days ahead, I’ll be writing to let you know how to help secure final victory for our polar bears, Arctic foxes, and other beloved Arctic wildlife. We'll need your continued help to support the heroic moderate Republicans and Democrats who won this round. They need to know that America's pro-wildlife majority stands with them as they prepare to again face off with DeLay, Pombo, Stevens, Domenici and other drilling proponents.
For the moment, though, please accept our gratitude for all you’ve done so far. Your efforts are making a difference!
Sincerely,
Rodger Schlickeisen
President
Defenders of Wildlife
Some of these RINO's represent districts which would otherwise elect Democrats. But others are merely grandstanding.
ANWR Drilling, if done with care, could help the United States with reduce dependance on Saudi oil.
Amen!
I like that photo; it's truly great work.
In the very, very moderate state of New Jersey.......we have so many moderates starting with CTW that we have such an enormous surplus of unemployed very, very moderate politicians. All of this makes it very very difficult to put a true Republican in office because this surplus tends to clog up all the ballots and essentially presents moderate, wishy-washy politicians to many voters in this very, very moderate state who really prefer real Democrats to moderate, quasi-Democrat lites.
I live in Arizona and I think Kyl is a great senator. Too bad he doesn't get the recognition he deserves because McCain is always in the spotlight. Grrrr....
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