A Round-Up Going Into The Final Hours
We are entering, hopefully, the final hours of this fight between what is right and what is wrong. Tuesday marks the day that this could all come to a head. And thanks to ConfirmThem.com, we can all keep up, and stay active.
http://confirmthem.com/
It seems we have another possible deserter from the GOP. Sen. Graham is no him-hawing over whether or not he wants to buck the rules, or screw over the Constitution. (Please, give him a call and remind him of what is right à 202-225-3121) McCain is acting even more RINO-like than ever before, and he continues to spin down the drain of irrelevance.
"We’re talking about changing the rules of the Senate with 51 votes, which has never happened in the history of the United States Senate," Mr. McCain said.
I see his knowledge of history is as bad as his knowledge of the Constitution. On Feb. 20, 1975, by a vote of 51 to 42, the Senate lowered the threshold for ending a filibuster from two-thirds of those senators present (67 if all 100 were in the chamber) to 60 senators. Below is a link to a piece from Harvard that shows a long tradition of utilizing such options in the Senate. McCain has no clue what he’s talking about.
http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Gold_Gupta_JLPP_article.pdf
So the Democrats now have: McCain, Snowe, Chaffee, Hagel, and now Graham. They still need one more to defect. And I hope all of these RINOs caught the announcement made in the Des Moines Register.
A powerful group of leading state Republicans and social conservatives sent a letter last week to "potential presidential candidates" telling them, in effect, that any GOP senator with presidential aspirations who doesn't support ending judicial filibusters will face consequences in the 2008 caucuses.
The letter puts Senators John McCain of Arizona and Chuck Hagel of Nebraska on notice.
McCain and Hagel have been among those looking for - and open to - a compromise solution to avoid a bitter Senate fight over the issue. While that position may be the statesman-like thing for a senator to do, it could come at a high political cost if activists like these in Iowa and other states wind up opposing, and perhaps even torpedoing, their presidential candidacies as a result.
While McCain could bypass the caucuses in 2008, just as he did in 2000, it's not clear Hagel, a relative unknown from a neighboring state, could afford to do so. Almost any strategy for Hagel would require him to do well in the leadoff contest in his home region before the race moved to New Hampshire and South Carolina.
McCain, who has never been a darling of the most conservative elements of the GOP, has also never acted kindly toward the caucuses, although he discovered in 2000 what other bypassers have learned: It's impossible to detour around them without risking serious political injury later. Unknown candidates need the exposure the events provide, and well-known candidates like McCain can't afford to let upstarts get the boost of attention good caucus showings provide.
At a minimum, the signers and their organizations could make life quite miserable in Iowa for a Republican presidential candidate unwilling to back Bush on the filibuster question.
These are the leaders of the GOP, and their organizations in Iowa that are the spine of the party. A spine is something that these RINOs lack. They prefer to have the kisses and the accolades of the enemy; that being the Democrats and the MSM. So accustomed have they become to such praise that they have turned their back on the party. Well, now it is time for the party to turn it’s back on them.
To push this point, I have sent several E-mails and made several phone calls to the offices of the main RINOs above (Not Graham yet; I just learned about his move this morning), and they have all been put on notice:
You do not get one cent from me. My money is going to your opponents, whether it be in the primaries or the general election. If you come to my state on a presidential round-up (Hagel and McCain), then expect the grass-roots assault that is going to befall you. And do not whine and cry like a Democrat if we show you to be as truly idiotic as we assumed. And here’s my notice to the party: Drop your support of these people now, or you will never see a cent from me again either.
I will not support a party that continues to allow members like this to keep stabbing the base in the back. Dennis Prager called on the people here in Arizona to do something about our GOP base. He called for a "bloodless civil war" in the party. I agree. I have advocated such moves for some time now. But that war cannot just be to throw out those that disagree. It must to rid the party of those that continue to bring the party harm.
And many of these problems stem from the fact that many people cast votes, and they are not completely informed about the candidates or the issues. (Again, we can thank John McCain for this; it was his CFR legislation that kills campaign ads prior to an election, thereby keeping the public in the dark.)
And there is the sin I cannot forgive him for. That legislation directly violated our freedom of speech. We have a right to speak our minds, and we have the right to listen to others. But thanks to McCain and Feingold, we cannot do that as an election cycle is winding down. The voters that stayed most informed on last year’s late-season antics from the president’s detractors had to rely on one simple outlet.
Bloggers.
When the Rathergate fiasco erupted, it was the bloggers that stepped up and stopped the story in it’s tracks. No one else could. John Q.-Six-Pack couldn’t launch a TV ad disputing the allegations. CFR made sure he couldn’t. The 527’s could have if they had not been so busy ripping into each other, and either candidate. So, we picked it up. The MSM was not going to touch it, and only did so—reluctantly—with Brokaw and Jennings defending Rather’s stupidity. They circled the wagons, and attempted to weather the storm. It did not work. The longer Rather stayed on board, the worse the verbal beating got. And bear in mind that when it comes to the bloggers, others, like McCain, would like to see them regulated as well.
John McCain, in my opinion, has been more of a harm to the party than a help. If I were Ken Mehlman, I would let both McCain and Hagel know right now: If you vote against this option, and you do not start towing the party line—when it matters most—you will not get one dime of GOP contributions for your run to the White House.
It is time to clean house, and it starts with these five. People in Maine and Rhode Island get a chance to end the careers of Snowe and Chaffee, respectively, next year. We can handle McCain and Hagel if they make that run in 2010.
The Bunny ;)
We are entering, hopefully, the final hours of this fight between what is right and what is wrong. Tuesday marks the day that this could all come to a head. And thanks to ConfirmThem.com, we can all keep up, and stay active.
http://confirmthem.com/
It seems we have another possible deserter from the GOP. Sen. Graham is no him-hawing over whether or not he wants to buck the rules, or screw over the Constitution. (Please, give him a call and remind him of what is right à 202-225-3121) McCain is acting even more RINO-like than ever before, and he continues to spin down the drain of irrelevance.
"We’re talking about changing the rules of the Senate with 51 votes, which has never happened in the history of the United States Senate," Mr. McCain said.
I see his knowledge of history is as bad as his knowledge of the Constitution. On Feb. 20, 1975, by a vote of 51 to 42, the Senate lowered the threshold for ending a filibuster from two-thirds of those senators present (67 if all 100 were in the chamber) to 60 senators. Below is a link to a piece from Harvard that shows a long tradition of utilizing such options in the Senate. McCain has no clue what he’s talking about.
http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Gold_Gupta_JLPP_article.pdf
So the Democrats now have: McCain, Snowe, Chaffee, Hagel, and now Graham. They still need one more to defect. And I hope all of these RINOs caught the announcement made in the Des Moines Register.
A powerful group of leading state Republicans and social conservatives sent a letter last week to "potential presidential candidates" telling them, in effect, that any GOP senator with presidential aspirations who doesn't support ending judicial filibusters will face consequences in the 2008 caucuses.
The letter puts Senators John McCain of Arizona and Chuck Hagel of Nebraska on notice.
McCain and Hagel have been among those looking for - and open to - a compromise solution to avoid a bitter Senate fight over the issue. While that position may be the statesman-like thing for a senator to do, it could come at a high political cost if activists like these in Iowa and other states wind up opposing, and perhaps even torpedoing, their presidential candidacies as a result.
While McCain could bypass the caucuses in 2008, just as he did in 2000, it's not clear Hagel, a relative unknown from a neighboring state, could afford to do so. Almost any strategy for Hagel would require him to do well in the leadoff contest in his home region before the race moved to New Hampshire and South Carolina.
McCain, who has never been a darling of the most conservative elements of the GOP, has also never acted kindly toward the caucuses, although he discovered in 2000 what other bypassers have learned: It's impossible to detour around them without risking serious political injury later. Unknown candidates need the exposure the events provide, and well-known candidates like McCain can't afford to let upstarts get the boost of attention good caucus showings provide.
At a minimum, the signers and their organizations could make life quite miserable in Iowa for a Republican presidential candidate unwilling to back Bush on the filibuster question.
These are the leaders of the GOP, and their organizations in Iowa that are the spine of the party. A spine is something that these RINOs lack. They prefer to have the kisses and the accolades of the enemy; that being the Democrats and the MSM. So accustomed have they become to such praise that they have turned their back on the party. Well, now it is time for the party to turn it’s back on them.
To push this point, I have sent several E-mails and made several phone calls to the offices of the main RINOs above (Not Graham yet; I just learned about his move this morning), and they have all been put on notice:
You do not get one cent from me. My money is going to your opponents, whether it be in the primaries or the general election. If you come to my state on a presidential round-up (Hagel and McCain), then expect the grass-roots assault that is going to befall you. And do not whine and cry like a Democrat if we show you to be as truly idiotic as we assumed. And here’s my notice to the party: Drop your support of these people now, or you will never see a cent from me again either.
I will not support a party that continues to allow members like this to keep stabbing the base in the back. Dennis Prager called on the people here in Arizona to do something about our GOP base. He called for a "bloodless civil war" in the party. I agree. I have advocated such moves for some time now. But that war cannot just be to throw out those that disagree. It must to rid the party of those that continue to bring the party harm.
And many of these problems stem from the fact that many people cast votes, and they are not completely informed about the candidates or the issues. (Again, we can thank John McCain for this; it was his CFR legislation that kills campaign ads prior to an election, thereby keeping the public in the dark.)
And there is the sin I cannot forgive him for. That legislation directly violated our freedom of speech. We have a right to speak our minds, and we have the right to listen to others. But thanks to McCain and Feingold, we cannot do that as an election cycle is winding down. The voters that stayed most informed on last year’s late-season antics from the president’s detractors had to rely on one simple outlet.
Bloggers.
When the Rathergate fiasco erupted, it was the bloggers that stepped up and stopped the story in it’s tracks. No one else could. John Q.-Six-Pack couldn’t launch a TV ad disputing the allegations. CFR made sure he couldn’t. The 527’s could have if they had not been so busy ripping into each other, and either candidate. So, we picked it up. The MSM was not going to touch it, and only did so—reluctantly—with Brokaw and Jennings defending Rather’s stupidity. They circled the wagons, and attempted to weather the storm. It did not work. The longer Rather stayed on board, the worse the verbal beating got. And bear in mind that when it comes to the bloggers, others, like McCain, would like to see them regulated as well.
John McCain, in my opinion, has been more of a harm to the party than a help. If I were Ken Mehlman, I would let both McCain and Hagel know right now: If you vote against this option, and you do not start towing the party line—when it matters most—you will not get one dime of GOP contributions for your run to the White House.
It is time to clean house, and it starts with these five. People in Maine and Rhode Island get a chance to end the careers of Snowe and Chaffee, respectively, next year. We can handle McCain and Hagel if they make that run in 2010.
The Bunny ;)
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