The RINOs Are On The Loose
I posted late last night the compromise that seven Democrats and seven Republican "dwarves" agreed to. I also posted last night that this deal was a mistake. The RINOs in the Senate are loose, and they’re screwing everything up. The GOP had a good plan going into yesterday—one that would’ve ended the headaches and the hassle that the Democrats had been handing our side over these ten nominees.
Both Marcie and I have blogged consistently about how qualified these jurists are, and the fact that they need to make it to the bench. The Democrats consistently assassinated the character of these jurists, which we expected. But the problem doesn’t lie within the Democrat Party. It exists within the Republican party, and it is focused on the RINOs. Now, I have no problem with "moderation" within the party; that is to be expected. Some people are just not as hard-core as many of the people in their party. It was evident in Zell Miller—a senator that believed, and knew, that his party had left him and his ideals behind. It’s also been evident in the likes of McCain, Chafee, and Snowe. These three, joined by the other four dwarves, sold the party out yesterday.
Chafee, Snowe, and McCain all keep running as conservatives, then they get to the Senate and start "sleeping with the enemy". However, Warner, DeWine, Graham, and Collins all ran as solid conservatives, portrayed themselves as such, and accepted donations from contributors that believed in those ideals. These people just sold their constituents down the river with this deal.
When I think of a conservative, the primary belief I feel that they have is a solid understanding of the Constitution. I love the Constitution. I eat, breathe, and sleep it. I love to tangle with people over it, and I know it is right there as my back-stop; the ultimate arbiter of the law in the United States. The "seditious seven" just lie the thing on fire, and fiddled while it burned when they pulled this deal off. This deal is anything but a win-win for the GOP. It’s a death knell—now—for the party, and based on the cloture vote on Owens this morning, those idiots were completely and totally duped.
Owens’ cloture vote was 81 senators for, and 16 against. The 16 against read like a who’s who of the current leadership of the Democrats in the Senate with Kennedy, Boxer, and Kerry on that side. But because of the bipartisan support of the candidate, it shows me that there was no real contention on the part of the Democrats over these nominees. It was nothing but rhetoric. As always, the Democrats are more than happy to spew their vitriol, and the Republicans—spineless as they are in the Senate—are the first ones to look for a way around an issue rather than confront it.
Had this issue been forced, we would have possibly lost, but the trigger would’ve been pulled, and the issue would’ve been followed through on as the majority of America—a whopping two-thirds (There’s cloture for you McCain)—said that this was an important issue that they wanted Frist to execute. America had spoken in polls that this was important; that the future of the judiciary was important. Their representatives failed them, as did the leadership.
Frist is culpable; I stated it yesterday. The "seditious seven" may or may not have been operating under his guidance and keeping him informed, but it should have still been made abundantly clear who the leaders of the party are. That doesn’t include the fourteen dwarves that struck this deal. I called Hugh Hewitt’s show this afternoon, and while my question my seem elementary, it was an issue that wasn’t addressed by anybody today.
Could Frist still force the nominees through, and should the Democrats invoke a filibuster, could he force the Constitutional Option? The answer is yes, but he’d lose based on this compromise because we would automatically lose all seven Senators.
In other words, there’s no point to it. We have their names, and now it’s time to make them pay. Not one more dime, ladies and gentlemen, goes to the NRSC or the RNC. They will support these traitors to the GOP; traitors to the Constitution. If these people are going to be supported by the RNC or NRSC, then I don’t give any more money to them. I’ll give it to the candidates that count. I’m tired of sending my money in to support these people. I don’t support them, or their "conservative" ideology, which at this point is anything like my own.
And I’m encouraging others to do likewise.
Until we unload these free-loading RINOs from the party I’m not submitting any money to them. McCain is at the top of my s**t list for appropo reasons; he is a senator from my state that is not representing us. So, I’m sorry to all those senior citizens that think he’s the greatest thing since sliced bread, but Johnny goes. He can’t be trusted to be there when the chips are down. He can’t be trusted to handle issues dealing with the Constitution.
McCain helped co-author the campaign finance reform bill that curtailed our rights to free speech. He’s sided on bills that minified our rights as gun owners. And now, he’s stabbed the party and the president in the back with helping with this compromise. He has tossed all but three nominees—confirmed—under the bus, and backed over them one more time before peeling out on the happy-happy joy-joy RINO bus to liberal praise.
None of these people can be trusted. To all those people in other states that have RINO senators that participated in this fiasco, turn your backs on them now. Chafee and Snowe are up for reelection in 2006, and that is the time to send the message you didn’t appreciate this backstabbing. At this point, I would suggest backing a serious contender in the primaries, and remove them before they reach the general election. I say this because if they reach the general, chances are they’ll win. This can’t be permitted.
As someone that is adept at the Constitution and it’s interpretation, these people shredded it worse than any Democrat accused the administration of doing. They completely disregarded the Advice and Consent clause of Article II, Section 2, and made a bad deal. It’s a deal that has egg on the GOP face. And when it comes to McCain, one cannot discount the fact that there might have been some personal bias involved in his decision. He hasn’t been the same since his meltdown after South Carolina in 2000. He’s nuts—certifiably so. But these people need to be shown the door. There’s no place in our party for them. The fact that so many were able to side with the Democrats on this issue shows their ineffectiveness, and their incompetence.
The country club Republicans can stay home if they want. As a staunch conservative like myself, and like Marcie, we prefer to dig in, get active, and double down. The gauntlet’s been thwapped across our faces, and tossed down. Time for us to pick it up make a game out of this.
I am reminded, at this time, from a line from Braveheart:
"Where are you going?"
"To pick a fight."
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I believe it’s time to pick a fight.
Publius II
I posted late last night the compromise that seven Democrats and seven Republican "dwarves" agreed to. I also posted last night that this deal was a mistake. The RINOs in the Senate are loose, and they’re screwing everything up. The GOP had a good plan going into yesterday—one that would’ve ended the headaches and the hassle that the Democrats had been handing our side over these ten nominees.
Both Marcie and I have blogged consistently about how qualified these jurists are, and the fact that they need to make it to the bench. The Democrats consistently assassinated the character of these jurists, which we expected. But the problem doesn’t lie within the Democrat Party. It exists within the Republican party, and it is focused on the RINOs. Now, I have no problem with "moderation" within the party; that is to be expected. Some people are just not as hard-core as many of the people in their party. It was evident in Zell Miller—a senator that believed, and knew, that his party had left him and his ideals behind. It’s also been evident in the likes of McCain, Chafee, and Snowe. These three, joined by the other four dwarves, sold the party out yesterday.
Chafee, Snowe, and McCain all keep running as conservatives, then they get to the Senate and start "sleeping with the enemy". However, Warner, DeWine, Graham, and Collins all ran as solid conservatives, portrayed themselves as such, and accepted donations from contributors that believed in those ideals. These people just sold their constituents down the river with this deal.
When I think of a conservative, the primary belief I feel that they have is a solid understanding of the Constitution. I love the Constitution. I eat, breathe, and sleep it. I love to tangle with people over it, and I know it is right there as my back-stop; the ultimate arbiter of the law in the United States. The "seditious seven" just lie the thing on fire, and fiddled while it burned when they pulled this deal off. This deal is anything but a win-win for the GOP. It’s a death knell—now—for the party, and based on the cloture vote on Owens this morning, those idiots were completely and totally duped.
Owens’ cloture vote was 81 senators for, and 16 against. The 16 against read like a who’s who of the current leadership of the Democrats in the Senate with Kennedy, Boxer, and Kerry on that side. But because of the bipartisan support of the candidate, it shows me that there was no real contention on the part of the Democrats over these nominees. It was nothing but rhetoric. As always, the Democrats are more than happy to spew their vitriol, and the Republicans—spineless as they are in the Senate—are the first ones to look for a way around an issue rather than confront it.
Had this issue been forced, we would have possibly lost, but the trigger would’ve been pulled, and the issue would’ve been followed through on as the majority of America—a whopping two-thirds (There’s cloture for you McCain)—said that this was an important issue that they wanted Frist to execute. America had spoken in polls that this was important; that the future of the judiciary was important. Their representatives failed them, as did the leadership.
Frist is culpable; I stated it yesterday. The "seditious seven" may or may not have been operating under his guidance and keeping him informed, but it should have still been made abundantly clear who the leaders of the party are. That doesn’t include the fourteen dwarves that struck this deal. I called Hugh Hewitt’s show this afternoon, and while my question my seem elementary, it was an issue that wasn’t addressed by anybody today.
Could Frist still force the nominees through, and should the Democrats invoke a filibuster, could he force the Constitutional Option? The answer is yes, but he’d lose based on this compromise because we would automatically lose all seven Senators.
In other words, there’s no point to it. We have their names, and now it’s time to make them pay. Not one more dime, ladies and gentlemen, goes to the NRSC or the RNC. They will support these traitors to the GOP; traitors to the Constitution. If these people are going to be supported by the RNC or NRSC, then I don’t give any more money to them. I’ll give it to the candidates that count. I’m tired of sending my money in to support these people. I don’t support them, or their "conservative" ideology, which at this point is anything like my own.
And I’m encouraging others to do likewise.
Until we unload these free-loading RINOs from the party I’m not submitting any money to them. McCain is at the top of my s**t list for appropo reasons; he is a senator from my state that is not representing us. So, I’m sorry to all those senior citizens that think he’s the greatest thing since sliced bread, but Johnny goes. He can’t be trusted to be there when the chips are down. He can’t be trusted to handle issues dealing with the Constitution.
McCain helped co-author the campaign finance reform bill that curtailed our rights to free speech. He’s sided on bills that minified our rights as gun owners. And now, he’s stabbed the party and the president in the back with helping with this compromise. He has tossed all but three nominees—confirmed—under the bus, and backed over them one more time before peeling out on the happy-happy joy-joy RINO bus to liberal praise.
None of these people can be trusted. To all those people in other states that have RINO senators that participated in this fiasco, turn your backs on them now. Chafee and Snowe are up for reelection in 2006, and that is the time to send the message you didn’t appreciate this backstabbing. At this point, I would suggest backing a serious contender in the primaries, and remove them before they reach the general election. I say this because if they reach the general, chances are they’ll win. This can’t be permitted.
As someone that is adept at the Constitution and it’s interpretation, these people shredded it worse than any Democrat accused the administration of doing. They completely disregarded the Advice and Consent clause of Article II, Section 2, and made a bad deal. It’s a deal that has egg on the GOP face. And when it comes to McCain, one cannot discount the fact that there might have been some personal bias involved in his decision. He hasn’t been the same since his meltdown after South Carolina in 2000. He’s nuts—certifiably so. But these people need to be shown the door. There’s no place in our party for them. The fact that so many were able to side with the Democrats on this issue shows their ineffectiveness, and their incompetence.
The country club Republicans can stay home if they want. As a staunch conservative like myself, and like Marcie, we prefer to dig in, get active, and double down. The gauntlet’s been thwapped across our faces, and tossed down. Time for us to pick it up make a game out of this.
I am reminded, at this time, from a line from Braveheart:
"Where are you going?"
"To pick a fight."
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I believe it’s time to pick a fight.
Publius II
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