I told them I intend to put the money into specific candidates that share my philosophy, but not the party because it has too many RINOs in it.
So, what do you see on the horizon: a repeat of 1974, 1982, 1990, or 1998? or just what?
I got one of those in the mail. I'm concerned that the RNC is running out of the time it needs to prove it knows what it is doing. I'll contribute to individuals, but not to the party at this point.
Get the ILLEGAL ALIENS out of my country anf I will donate again.
The Republican Party is out of touch with its base. Period. And it isn't the fault of the base. Like the author, I'll vote for the best candidate (99% of the time Republican), but Mehlman isn't getting my money until the Repubs start to deliver. We have the White House and both houses of Congress - and their production to date is minimal. No excuses, Ken.
My money and volunteer time instead goes to my local (R) candidates whose principles and records track conservactive. I think strong conservative candidates can win. RINO's have the most to lose.
President Bush could have deal with illegals better. Right?
Now think what a Teddy Kennedy and friends would do with the same issue.
Kennedy would swing the gates open -- and hand out social security payments to illegals as they crossed over. Bush could have done better on immigration, but his worst is better than we'd ever get from a dems.
From Polipundit this morning:
Reid Kennedy Bill Is Closet Racism
Last week, I read that Hotel Lobbyists had testified before Specter’s Senate Judiciary Committee field hearing in Philadelphia on June 6, 2006:
“The majority of my staff’s time, effort and our department’s budget are spent directly on the recruitment and hiring process to fill the approximately 45 job openings typically posted between our various operations on our weekly job opportunity lists,” Rossi said in prepared testimony. “These openings result in an employee reporting to work knowing that he will be understaffed by 10-12 percent on any given day. This is incredibly frustrating for both employee and employer. For both it means more work, longer hours, increased workplace injuries, increased guests’ complaints and the list goes on.”
The full testimony can be found here and you will find no mention of trying to fill jobs by increasing wages.
Two days after that testimony, we find that many Americans are available to fill those jobs:
According to the most recent state-by-state comparison issued by the U.S. Census Bureau, 49.6 percent of black teens in Indiana were unemployed in 2004, compared with 38.9 percent nationally. White teen unemployment in the state was at 18.3 percent, according to the study that gauged joblessness among teens 14 and older who were actively seeking work.
Until every American that is seeking work has work, there is no reason as national policy to import guest workers. I would implore Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to speak out for all Americans, of every color, that need and are seeking work.
North American Union: Deconstructing the U.S.
North American Union: Coup d'état American Style
Three cheers for the Federal Government. END SARCASM:
Your Government @ Work - 3
A man was allowed to board a plane to Atlanta from Houston after all of the following:
a man with a Middle Eastern name and a ticket for a Delta Airlines flight to Atlanta shook his head when screeners asked if he had a laptop computer in his baggage, but an X-ray machine operator detected a laptop.
A search of the man’s baggage revealed a clock with a 9-volt battery taped to it and a copy of the Quran, the report said. A screener examined the man’s shoes and determined that the “entire soles of both shoes were gutted out.” No explosive material was detected, the report states.
A police officer was summoned and questioned the man, examined his identification, shoes and the clock, then cleared him for travel, according to the report. A TSA screener disagreed with the officer, saying “the shoes had been tampered with and there were all the components of (a bomb) except the explosive itself,” the report says.
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The TSA issued a statement saying its screeners “acted in accordance with their training and protocols.”
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Wow I’m getting warm and fuzzies all over thinking about the TSA’s 6 billion a year operation and all the great training and protocols in place. Apparently we do in fact need rocket scientists at the airports. I wonder if anyone will be smart enough to check this guy out if and when he leaves Atlanta on a flight.
Anyone who contemplates not donating to the GOP and becomming more vocal to the GOP about them acting like conservatives really needs to think which is worse. A Republican majority that has to be fussed at to act like the conservatives they were elected to be, or a Democrat majority that will be all liberal all the time, as a way of penalizing the GOP for not being conservative enough. Frankly, I'd rather have the former and NOT the latter. A Democrat majority only hurts the country, and proves nothing. Donate to and support the Republican party, but demand change and strong conservative behavior from them. THAT is the way to go. Not hissy fits and tantrums.
"Who's more irrational? The guy who believes in a God he can't see? Or the guy who is offended by a God he doesn't believe in?" Brad Stine
Yesterday Tom Delay refused to predict who would control Congress after the November election but, between the lines, suggested that the Repubs know they are going to lose both houses. Goodbye another sane SCOTUS justice. This will be perhaps Bush's greatest failure.
I vote Republican because I think a limited Government works better for the people. I don't like Teddy the U-Boat Captain writing an education bill.
I am 100% in favor of getting the bad guys and I truly do not give a rip whose feelings we hurt in doing it. So, when I get searched getting on a plane instead of the 2 Arab gents in front of me it makes me think that Homeland Security is more worried about Political Correctness rather than getting the job done. Both houses of Congress and the White House and this was the best that could be done?
I have friends deployed overseas in some rather nasty places. I truly believe they are doing the right thing. So, why does the GOP now have members "getting nervous about the service"? If you Support the troops, then you support the mission. That's it, end of story. If I can explain it to antiwar, dope addled professors - surely the GOP leadership and understand it. How about a "come to Jesus meeting" with some of the RINO folks and explain to this to them?
Send it in American Pesos.
I think Mr. Caruba pretty much read my mind.
I told the RNC just last night that I will never donate to them only to those who have demonstrated thst they deserve my support.
...And that the three Mexican Flag waving demonstrations that came within a block of my house has a lot to do with it.
Here's mine:
Mr. Mehlman,
Until and unless Congress which, in case you don’t know, IS CONTROLLED BY A REPUBLICAN MAJORITY, closes our southern border against any further invasion by illegal aliens, you can expect NOT ONE DIME from this family.
Further, Republicans are doing nothing – NOTHING – to counter the daily attacks by Liberal / Socialist elements of the Democratic minority in Congress. I realize that the media cheerleads for these folks but, so far, Republicans have been silent.
Republicans in Congress have never fully accepted the fact that they won a majority in the Legislative Branch, and have no idea how to use the power that was given to them by voters such as me.
If you haven’t learned how to use the power you were given, perhaps you are unworthy of it.
In addition to withholding funds from the RNC, I am seriously considering withholding my vote from any and all Republican candidates who fail to take a stand regarding CONSERVATIVE PRINCIPLES such as border control, abortion, government overregulation, and other principles which seem to have disappeared after Ronald Reagan. This would include Tom Kean, Jr., who doesn’t represent any of my core values. Why is he deserving of my vote? I may vote for a third party that better reflects my values, beliefs, and principles.
The Republican Party, in my opinion, has failed miserably to seize the initiative in Congress, and is unworthy of any donation on my part, financial or otherwise.
When and if the RNC returns to its CONSERVATIVE ROOTS and becomes, once again, the party of Ronald Reagan, I will resume my donations and support.
Thank you for your immediate attention to these matters.
Sincerely,
GOP sure isn't what it used to be. But then, it never was.