Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Incompetents, Cowards, and Scoundrels
Yep... I'm referring to Congress - at least the vast majority of Members and Senators.
On Thursday, Jan. 29, showing rare courage and uncommon political and legislative competence, the House GOP caucus hung together to UNANIMOUSLY reject the Obama-Pelosi-Reid Porkulus bill.
Alas... yesterday, Feb. 10, with the support of three RINOs - Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania - the Senate of the United States in a 61-36 display of panic and ignorance running roughshod over reason and responsibility voted to join the House Democrats in voting AYE for irresponsible and counterproductive deficit/debt-driven spending which will further socialize and weaken our economy, policies sure to result in the current recession deepening into full scale stagflation by mid-2010 (if not sooner).
Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is the Republican Senate Minority Leader. Some leader! He couldn't keep Collins, Snowe, and Specter in line.
Jon Kyl of Arizona is the Republican Senate Minority Whip. So much for his... er... "rawhide."
Michael Steele, the new RNC Chairman... he was a guest on "This Week" this past Sunday. He did well. Still... talk is cheap. I'd like to know what actions the RNC now contemplates regarding RINOs - specifically Collins, Snowe, and Specter.
Personally... I'd like to see Collins, Snowe, and Specter expelled from the Republican Party. Period. I don't know if national Party bylaws allow such action... but I'd sure like to know.
Short of expelling Collins, Snowe, and Specter, why not a joint statement from Steele, McConnell, Kyl, John Boehner (House Republican Leader), and Eric Cantor (House Republican Whip) decrying the actions of RINOs Collins, Snowe, and Specter, along with a leadership vow to oppose - as private citizens, as individual Republicans, and as GOP governmental and Party officials - any future renomination and reelection of Collins, Snowe, or Specter under a GOP banner? At the very least, such principled, united action would indicate to the conservative grassroot base of the GOP that the Party establishment is finally willing to draw a line in the sand against those who would betray the Party from within.
I do not suggest this path lightly. Enough is enough though. The Republican "big tent" is simply not big enough to shelter those who would see free markets and capitalism give way to government controls and socialism. And don't fool yourselves... that is the path that the Obama-Pelosi-Reid Porkubus bill locks this nation upon. Once a bill of this sort and of this magnitude is passed... there'll be no going back - no "do overs."
Economic and political freedoms go hand in hand. History teaches us one leads to another. By the same token, the latter can not long survive absent the former. If this bill passes we'll have mortgaged our children's and grandchildren's political and well as economic futures; they're the ones who will suffer the long term results of giving in to current fearmongering and false promises based upon false premises.
Arlen Specter... Susan Collins... Olympia Snowe... HOW COULD YOU...???
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http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MzllNjhlODVjMTE5MjBiNjRhMGM1MTQ0ZDE2MjI4NmQ=
Excerpting...
-- I’m with the liberals on this one. They’re fuming at the self-proclaimed “centrists” in the Senate who’ve taken it upon themselves to trim the stimulus bill at the edges. Led by Republican Arlen Specter, the centrists have boldly cut (perhaps temporarily) $100 billion or so from the stimulus package, in the name of fiscal discipline. But, as liberal critics such as New York Times columnist Paul Krugman rightly point out, they’re cutting it to prove their “centrist mojo,” not because they have real concern for public policy. If the bill had started out at $1 trillion, then $900 billion in porcine outlays would be deemed the “responsible” amount to spend. --
Yep. Sounds right on target to me.
Continuing...
-- For certain Beltway centrists, the highest principle is to prove that you are attached to no principle. Rather, your duty is to split the difference between the “ideologues.” If one side says we need a 1,000-foot bridge to span a canyon, and the other side says we don’t need a bridge at all, the centrists will fight for a bridge that goes 500 feet and no farther, then pat themselves on the back. --
(*SNORT*) (*CHUCKLE*)
It's funny... but not really.
(*SMILE TURNING TO FROWN*) (*CHUCKLE TURNING TO SIGH*)
-- “I am supporting the economic stimulus package for one simple reason,” Specter wrote in the Post. “The country cannot afford not to take action.” Such thinking is the purest nonsense. Sure, if your house is burning down, you can’t afford not to take action. That doesn’t mean any action is better than no action. Grabbing a fire hose is good. Grabbing a jerrycan of gasoline and dancing the “Macarena,” not so much. --
I hate George W. Bush. He had an opportunity as President and titular head of the GOP to see that Specter was not renominated as the Republican candidate in 2004. Bush could have backed Pat Toomey. He didn't.
Santorum too placed "relationships" and "collegiality" above principal. His misguided (and frankly obscene) support for Specter in '04 was one of the reasons he got his assed kicked by a Democrat challenger in '06. Served him right.
Again and again, it is REPUBLICANS who most hurt the GOP.
(*SIGH*)
BILL
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