Posted on 07/22/2008 3:43:07 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
WASHINGTON, July 22 (UPI) -- Republican leaders in the U.S. Senate have freed GOP members to go against the traditional party platform if it will help them get re-elected, aides say.
The Politico reported Tuesday that the GOP leadership set their members free amid fears they could lose five or more seats to Democrats in November.
Republican leaders have told senators in tough re-election bids to side with Democrats on anything but energy and national security issues, a leadership aide told Politico.
(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...
So much for core principles.....
Seems to me that is what got them into trouble in the first place.
What, they now need special permission to do what they’ve been doing for 10 years?
I see this more as permission to bitch about Bush. I am fine with that.
Repeat after me...
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I think you’re on to something.
If they want to win, they need to be different from DEMOCRATS. Otherwise the Democrats would win.
Meanwhile, I would wish that each Senator would vote the way they think is best for the country, NOT what is best for their re-election.
So I don’t mind them being “freed” from voting party line, but the idea that they should vote against our country’s interest in order to get elected is just wrong.
Politicians of both political parties have but one over-ridding principle - Get elected!
George Washington tried to warn us about aligning ourselves with political parties, but we didn't take heed and now the Republic is paying a dear price.
It will get worse before it gets better!
Do you believe in the Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny and Rudolph as well?
Those seats are in jeopardy not because of Republicans sticking to their values and the party platform, but from Republicans who have been running away from the things the platforms they were elected on. Proposing more of that kind of cowardice isn't going to help them a damn bit.
I smell a rat...
Hence the problem with the “republican” members of Congress. Instead of formulating positions on conservative principles, they are are formulating positions to get re-elected. They are no better than demoncrats. They disgust me.
Traitorous scum.
Weasels!
TERM LIMITS!!
They didn't get the hints in 2006, obviously.
Actually, I think the founders wanted the Senators to vote what was best for their state. The seventeenth amendment was truly a bad idea.
Free at last... Free at last... Thank God Almighty... They’re Free at last!!! (hurl)
“The ship is sinking - it’s everyman for himself!”
“We’ve got to save our phoney-baloney jobs here!”
My advice to Chambless now- don't go hunting with Dick again. He's a mean shot when he's pissed.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Could you please repeat that? I hadn’t quite got it yet. ROTFL.
Idiots!! Why vote for democrat-lite when you can have a real democrat?
This is why I quit the Republican party this year. Been a Republican my whole life (46 years) but no more. If they don’t care, why should I care for them?
You have to have some before you can give them up.
Okay you two, I want you to stay after class and write 2000 times...
Sad isn’t it, the state of our political affairs this year.
Republicans should be ashamed of what they have done with Reagan’s legacy. Look at what we did with it.
By george, I think I got it! You mean we have been lied to?
Well, if there’s any bright side to this is that there will be less of those RINO SOBs shortly. Many more Democraps of course, but hell, we know who the enemy is on that issue anyway.
“Sad” isn’t the only word I use to describe it.
Soon the RNC will be a third party.
Well, I think folks are sleep walking this year. Unfortunately it’s right into a buzz saw. Lying? I just don’t think they can see, or even want to see the reality of what a McCain presidency will do to this nation.
Either way, we’re had.
Now you know why the REPUBLICAN are in TROUBLES — we don’t have the BALLS to stand up to the DEMS!!
Au contraire, my dear...we do have the balls to stand up to the Dems, including the ones with (R) after their names.
anyone with a conservative voting record below 100% does not deserve to be reelected
Me either. I’m just resigned to the carnage that is coming.
Yeah, I know it. I am trying very hard to keep my sense of humor.
Most depressing.
I’ll save that for the next money request that I get.
We are now a one party dictatorship of wimpy Liberals.
November is a Democratic Primary. There really is no general election. The clowns with (D) after their name are anti-war, anti-military. The clowns with (R) after their name are little more pro-war and pro-military, but that could change, they always be checking the political winds.
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