Posted on 11/15/2005 1:46:18 PM PST by johnmecainrino
Bass: 'It's time to govern from the middle' It's time for the Republican Party to re-examine itself, Rep. Charles Bass says. "I think that obviously, with the party's fortunes down, with the message clearly that most Americans would rather see a more moderate form of leadership in the country right now, then it's time to govern from the middle," Bass, R-N.H., told WBUR radio in Boston in an interview broadcast Monday. "That doesn't mean we do nothing," Bass said. "It just means we listen a little bit more." Bass spoke following divisions among the Republican-controlled Congress last week over budget negotiations. Republican leaders halted plans for a vote on a $51 billion budget cut, saying they were short of votes. The decision came despite a big concession to moderates such as Bass, when the leaders dropped provisions to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas exploration. Bass led a 25-member effort to drop the Arctic drilling provision. Moderates said the spending cuts in the House budget plan were a separate issue.
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Rinos backstabbed us with the gang of 14 now this.
They formed their own group Main Street Partnership to defeat conservatives and legislation. They want to take this party back to the rockeffeler republican party.
NH is rapidly going blue.
Goodbye GOP majority. Reagan put you together, but the RINOs are taking you apart.
When will jackass rino's realize we vote for Republicans hoping to get conservatives, not centrists and leftists.
Main street... main stream.. those terms are used directly in conjunction with the Log Cabin Republicans who are not conservative, or republican (other than in name).
They are infiltrators intent on placing mines under the waterline within the Republican party.
In that case, it seems like the problem is that Mr. Bass is not listening to us. What's he complaining about? He won, we lost.
They didn't WIN from the middle - and they won't win from the middle in the future.
The "middle" is really the left and Democrats and libs vote for Dems, not liberal Republicans.
Bass is a big mouth.
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The "party's fortunes are down" because of RINO's like you, you farkin' Basshole.
The middle of 25? That sounds like the MINORITY. Go to hell.
It's the Republican Party's choice. Either exile these traitors or lose the Majority.
I apologize to the country for our state electing and re-electing this Rino A-hole. And the jerk lives in my town.
This just means that when Mr. DeLay returns, somebody better watch their bass.
How 'come the "Middle" keeps movin' to the Left?
What this dum'bass' doesn't realize is that when the Republicans acted like conservative Republicans (remember the Contract With America?) they fared much better.
Liberals want to grow government, Conservatives want to shrink it. Republicans have to move way way to the right till they're in the middle of that continuum.
Go to Hades, Bass. You have a nerve talking about less government and lower taxes, while you fight against the spending cuts.
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