I think the answer is to defeat the Democrats and elected more conservative Republicans first, have them take over both the House and the Senate. There is strength in numbers, and I think with some real leaders, they would help stiffen the spine of the wishy-washy Republican members.
If we focus on defeating Republicans, that will just mean handing over Congress to the Dems, the last thing we and the country needs.
We need real control of both Houses of Congress and a Republican president, THEN we can hold their feet to the fire.
Sorry, I’m not going to vote for a sellout.
This guy had better get his act together soon or lose his job. I expect a perfect conservative vote from him for the remainder of this term or he’s a no vote from me! No excuses!
We HAD control of the House They sold us out! We intend to hold their feet to the fire NOW! Not next time!! NOW!! Been there, done that.
Geez, we’ve heard this argument for over 30 years. If not now, when do we hold their feet to the fire?
Didn’t work so well in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 did it? We had both houses of Congress and the WH and they ignored us time after time because of the RINOs and wimps.
We’ve got to clean our own house first before we take on the socialist tyrants or you get more and more BS like this last debt “deal”.
I live in, arguably, one of the most conservative counties in the country (Williamson county in TN) and our representative is Marsha Blackburn. After just three terms in Congress she votes with the leadership because she went to DC and fell into it’s power structure. So she voted for this debt “deal”.
I’m hoping she now gets primaried in 2012 and I will NEVER vote for her again. I don’t give a rats ass if that means a Dem will win the seat (all but impossible - not enough of them in the district).
She needs to go and I told her so. And, like Jim, I got a snarky form email full of gobbledy-gook language.
Primaries. This is when you can annihilate the RINOs. This is also where you get rid of the faux Tea Party folks who betrayed us.
There is a long time until the primaries yet to go, but now is the time to start putting new candidates up and determining who needs to be culled from the RINO herd.
Get the right candidates in position, then defeat the rats.