Going Back To The Platform...
Today I posted up the platform that I feel the GOP should run on, and adhere to, for years to come. It's almost guaranteed that they will win on it.
http://sydandvaughn.blogspot.com/2005/12/platform-for-2006-united-together-or.html
The reason I bring this up is for two things. HT to Hugh Hewitt for both of these.
http://www.clubforgrowth.org/blog/archives/027430.php
http://www.hughhewitt.com/
The first link is to this story:
Now that the Bridge to Nowhere has collapsed (although not completely), are you ready for a new pork project to attack?
Consider this — the Army Corps of Engineers is, in large part, to blame for the levees breaking down in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. Now, thanks to Republican Senator Thad Cochran, part of the funds being used to help pay for Katrina relief — approx. $13 million — will be used to build a museum celebrating the Army Corps of Engineers!
Let’s repeat that.
Part of the money being used to fix the levees will be used to celebrate the government’s inability to build levees that don’t break.
Only the federal government has the bureaucracy and arrogance to spend so much money on such an asinine project.
OK, now what was provision number three of the platform? Control The Spending. Sen. Cochran, this hardly qualifies as an issue of "vital importance." As a matter of fact, I have to agree with the Club for Growth. This has got to be one of the most asinine ideas presented in Congress. We can't let our elected reps continue to spend like "little Democrats." This needs to be gotten under control, and the committee in charge of this funding had better cut this fat-ass pork project out of the money to be used to rebuild New Orleans. We're rebuilding a city here, not creating monuments honoring the ineptitude of a state to build levees that work.
And now onto point two. The following is an excerpt from an interview between Hugh Hewitt and John Kyl, my prized senator from AZ.
HH: Let's go back to judges, Senator Kyl. Why has Brett Kavanaugh been hung up? And why is Terrence Boyle not gotten a vote? I mean, I just can't understand it.
JK: Well, first of all, they're conservatives, and Patrick Leahy, whose the ranking Democrat, has tried very hard to keep more conservative nominees, especially for circuit courts, from being considered. The chairman, Arlen Specter, has had his hands full with a lot of other things. I think also that the Gang of 14 took a little steam out of the circuit court nominations process, and frankly, the administration has been so focused on the three Supreme Court nominees, that they haven't pressed hard, either. So it's a combination of circumstances, but we've got to get those two up for a vote, as you've pointed out.
HH: You know, when I went back, I read Senator Specter's op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, when he was lobbying you and your colleagues to become the chair of Judiciary, and he promised 30/30/30 day process. Obviously, Kavanaugh was nominated in 2003. Boyle, I think in 2001.
JK: Right.
HH: Does Senator Specter feel any obligation towards the promises he made?
JK: Well, you'll have to ask him that, which I will be doing, of course. But I'm going to assume that it is been the pressed of all of the other business, including the Supreme Court business, and that he still fully intends to move forward with alacrity as soon as Alito is confirmed on the 20th of January.
John Kyl understands it. He gets it. He knows that we need the judges confirmed, and rightly so. Nominees like Kavanaugh and Boyle have been twisting in the wind, and to the average person, like myself, it looks like Spectrer could care less about them. And when I see old fools like Specter sticking their already-overreaching nose into business that doesn't concern them (Like the Terrell Owens debacle in the NFL) it irritates the living hell out of me. His plate's full enough already. He needs to focus on what his job is. His job, as the committee chairman, is to get the presidnet's nominees through their hearings in a timely manner, and to the floor of the Senate for their up-or-down votes. No screwing around.
Cochran and Specter rank right up there with McCain, Snowe, Chambliss, Warner, Chafee, and Collins. These people are a problem. They're not the solution to anything that mainstream America is demanding. So, again I remind the conservatives out there: Look to those who represent you, and ask yourself the last time you know that they showed they care about their constituents. If you have to go back farther than their last reelection bid, it's probably time for a change. Make change the focus of 2006, and send a clear message to the party about what we care about in America.
Publius II
Today I posted up the platform that I feel the GOP should run on, and adhere to, for years to come. It's almost guaranteed that they will win on it.
http://sydandvaughn.blogspot.com/2005/12/platform-for-2006-united-together-or.html
The reason I bring this up is for two things. HT to Hugh Hewitt for both of these.
http://www.clubforgrowth.org/blog/archives/027430.php
http://www.hughhewitt.com/
The first link is to this story:
Now that the Bridge to Nowhere has collapsed (although not completely), are you ready for a new pork project to attack?
Consider this — the Army Corps of Engineers is, in large part, to blame for the levees breaking down in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. Now, thanks to Republican Senator Thad Cochran, part of the funds being used to help pay for Katrina relief — approx. $13 million — will be used to build a museum celebrating the Army Corps of Engineers!
Let’s repeat that.
Part of the money being used to fix the levees will be used to celebrate the government’s inability to build levees that don’t break.
Only the federal government has the bureaucracy and arrogance to spend so much money on such an asinine project.
OK, now what was provision number three of the platform? Control The Spending. Sen. Cochran, this hardly qualifies as an issue of "vital importance." As a matter of fact, I have to agree with the Club for Growth. This has got to be one of the most asinine ideas presented in Congress. We can't let our elected reps continue to spend like "little Democrats." This needs to be gotten under control, and the committee in charge of this funding had better cut this fat-ass pork project out of the money to be used to rebuild New Orleans. We're rebuilding a city here, not creating monuments honoring the ineptitude of a state to build levees that work.
And now onto point two. The following is an excerpt from an interview between Hugh Hewitt and John Kyl, my prized senator from AZ.
HH: Let's go back to judges, Senator Kyl. Why has Brett Kavanaugh been hung up? And why is Terrence Boyle not gotten a vote? I mean, I just can't understand it.
JK: Well, first of all, they're conservatives, and Patrick Leahy, whose the ranking Democrat, has tried very hard to keep more conservative nominees, especially for circuit courts, from being considered. The chairman, Arlen Specter, has had his hands full with a lot of other things. I think also that the Gang of 14 took a little steam out of the circuit court nominations process, and frankly, the administration has been so focused on the three Supreme Court nominees, that they haven't pressed hard, either. So it's a combination of circumstances, but we've got to get those two up for a vote, as you've pointed out.
HH: You know, when I went back, I read Senator Specter's op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, when he was lobbying you and your colleagues to become the chair of Judiciary, and he promised 30/30/30 day process. Obviously, Kavanaugh was nominated in 2003. Boyle, I think in 2001.
JK: Right.
HH: Does Senator Specter feel any obligation towards the promises he made?
JK: Well, you'll have to ask him that, which I will be doing, of course. But I'm going to assume that it is been the pressed of all of the other business, including the Supreme Court business, and that he still fully intends to move forward with alacrity as soon as Alito is confirmed on the 20th of January.
John Kyl understands it. He gets it. He knows that we need the judges confirmed, and rightly so. Nominees like Kavanaugh and Boyle have been twisting in the wind, and to the average person, like myself, it looks like Spectrer could care less about them. And when I see old fools like Specter sticking their already-overreaching nose into business that doesn't concern them (Like the Terrell Owens debacle in the NFL) it irritates the living hell out of me. His plate's full enough already. He needs to focus on what his job is. His job, as the committee chairman, is to get the presidnet's nominees through their hearings in a timely manner, and to the floor of the Senate for their up-or-down votes. No screwing around.
Cochran and Specter rank right up there with McCain, Snowe, Chambliss, Warner, Chafee, and Collins. These people are a problem. They're not the solution to anything that mainstream America is demanding. So, again I remind the conservatives out there: Look to those who represent you, and ask yourself the last time you know that they showed they care about their constituents. If you have to go back farther than their last reelection bid, it's probably time for a change. Make change the focus of 2006, and send a clear message to the party about what we care about in America.
Publius II
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