Posted on 11/09/2008 8:16:25 AM PST by Jeff Head
74% percent of eligible people are registered to vote. 34% are republicans and that % is going down. This year many republicans voted for Obama. I will never be able to wrap my brain around that one.
Onward, Forward!
You might have spoken too soon. There are 57 Senators in the 111th Congress's D-I Senate caucus so far, compared to 40 in the R, and three races are still undecided. I suspect, that Al Franken will ultimately win one of those races through Democrat treachery, at which point I will have to start calling it the Roman Senate (during the last days of Rome, of course).
bttt
I expect Chambliss will take Georgia. He has over a 100,000 vote lead with 99% reporting.
Stevens has a very narrow 3,500 vote lead in Alaska and I expect he may well hold it.
My guess is 42 GOP, 58 DNC, maybe 43 to 57, or also maybe 41 to 59.
By the way, I've enjoyed your stickers, as have friends and family. When are you going to have the "Sarah 2012" stickers? :)
Same here, but I have two of the worst in the Senate.
Clinton and Schumer
Save me!
Pass the word...lots of other good messages there as well.
Bump
Good job, Jeff. It’s time for the Republicans to finally act like they are Republicans. It’s time for the opposition to *oppose*!
Amen and spot on to that. And they will have more than ample opportunity to do so during this administration.
Thanks for the BUMP...if you can, please write letters to your senators and pass the word to everyone you know.
it’s impressive that you get responses. Kay Bailey Hutchison just sends form letters and her staff doesn’t like me, at all. They can’t even get the title right on medical issues, sent from and replied to, my office. “Dear Ms. Nuckols, . . .”
Keep trying. At least they know that you and many others like you are out there and believe me, if those numbers get high enough, they will start to act accordingly.
At least one of Podesta’s “ethicists” from the Center for American Progress believes that it isn’t possible for Obama to over turn the destructive embryonic research funding rules:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2129294/posts
Obama has to deal with the Dickey amendment and the Hyde amendment.
A great letter. One that will bring cheers from those who believe in restoration of, or ,at least, some semblance of, the former Constitutional Republic. Unfortunately, I am unable to think of the names of any GOP senators who fit into that category.
IMHO, the final paragraph of any letter should read (from a soon-to-be outlawed document):
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. ,But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security"
Those principles men exhausted all recourse. We are in the process of doing so, praying with sincere hearts, that it will make a difference.
My Sernator Crapo, voted against the bailout, and is a strong conservative on 95% of issues, from gun control, to abortion, to immigration, to finance, national defense, etc.
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