Time For Another Email/Phone Campaign
After reading this article, it’s obvious that the Senate has forgotten about us again. They’ve listened too much to the Agenda Media. They haven’t listened to us. It’s time we fired up the Victory Caucus team again and told the GOP senators that we won’t contribute a penny to their re-election funds if they insist on acting like John Murtha about the war. It’s time that we told them that we only support candidates who are pro victory. Here’s the news about the latest defection:
In Albuquerque today, Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM), a six-term incumbent who faces reelection next year, said he was “unwilling to continue our current strategy” in Iraq.
The announcement follows the split of two other high-profile Republicans with the president over his handling of the war. Last week, Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) and Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH) called on Bush to start withdrawing troops. Domenici did the same today by endorsing a Senate bill that would adopt recommendations of the Iraq Study Group, which calls for a draw down of most troops in Iraq.
“I have carefully studied the Iraq situation, and believe we cannot continue asking our troops to sacrifice indefinitely while the Iraqi government is not making measurable progress to move its country forward,” Domenici said in a statement. “I do not support an immediate withdrawal from Iraq or a reduction in funding for our troops. But I do support a new strategy that will move our troops out of combat operations and on the path to coming home.”
Losing a lily-livered idiot like George Voinovich isn’t surprising. Losing Lugar, Warner, Alexander and Domenici is disappointing to say the least. It’s time we taught these senators another lesson in We the People. Based on their actions, it’s obvious that some senators think that they can do what they want. They started acting that way when the first nonbinding resolution hit the Senate and House floors. That attitude resurfaced when the ‘Grand Bargain’ was cooked up. Again, we reminded these senators that they worked for us. Now they’re acting that way again with S.1545 is being considered.
When the nonbinding resolutions surfaced, the Victory Caucus was started. Because of the Victory Caucus, We The People rallied around victory. Senators started acting like Republicans with real spines again, albeit briefly.
It’s time everyone reading this post sends an email to each of the GOP senators. Or call them when they return next week. Or do both. It’s time they get the message that they can’t ignore us anymore. The good news is that we made them listen to us before. If everyone does their part, they’ll hear us again.
After all, all we’re asking for is to give Gen. Petraeus to kill the terrorists and insurgents. That isn’t too much to ask.
Technorati Tags: Pete Domenici, John Warner, Lamar Alexander, Richard Lugar, George Voinovich, Elitism, John Murtha, Defeatocrats, David Petraeus, We The People, Victory Caucus, NRSC
Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
July 6th, 2007 at 7:49 am
I’m tired of telling these jerks what’s what. It’s time for us to simply organize to remove them from office at the next election where possible and to make their lives in their home states miserable where the election is too far off. There are too many vital issues in front of us that these guys will have to act upon for us to melt down their incoming phone lines every time they have a relapse of brains or balls. Let’s just get rid of them.
July 6th, 2007 at 8:38 am
And what exactly will happen when these scumbags don’t get re-elected? Yet Another Useless Politician will step up and WE the people will get screwed once again. Money talks at the expense of EVERYTHING else. DUH….
It’s time to remove the broken system. A Republic will ALWAYS fail given enough time and greed. It’s time for a true Democracy. It’s time for US to take back the Gov that has been hijacked right out from under us. Its time WE held the politicians accountable for what theyve done to the average citizen. Its time to PUNISH criminals for being criminals. It’s time the Gov got out of MY business. Its time the career corruptacrats had to get REAL jobs, you know, the jobs American’s won’t do…
The days of pols/corruptacrats raping the public are coming to a close quickly, but not quickly enough.
July 6th, 2007 at 8:58 am
But Mitch Its takes all of that, you got do it with one electio0n or two elections or a Bostontea party here and there, or melting down the Capitol switchboard.
The 1797 whisky tax (a mere tuppence on a gallon of bourbon) was repealed not after Shays rebellion, but after the election of 1800 in which damn near the entire House was replaced, not shifted a few seats.
If that happened in 2008, it wouldn’t make a difference who got the White House and Senate, they’d all sit up straight, with their feet on the floor and pencils poised.
July 6th, 2007 at 9:35 am
I would love to agree with Mitch the Bitch but down his path we will immediately find the majority voting themselves all the money and property of anyone who “has.” We need a representative democracy in which the elected leaders actually lead in the public interest and not in their own interest first. I agree with T.A. that the way to get that is to kick the whole current batch out. We ain’t gonna get a new constitution but we COULD get a new congress if we organized well enough. I think there are a sufficient number of intelligent people of means in each state to get that new congress if we could inspire them and organize them. That will require a very good LEADER…or several thereof. When the Revolutionary war was being fought only about 30% of the people supported ti. On December 6, 1941 85% of the electorate opposed war against Japan and Germany. What’s needed is leadership…and, please God…events to get the crowd all going in the needed direction. We just saw what such an event can accomplish when we melted the switchboard at the congresshole. A couple more events like that and we might just get something done to the congressthings and not just to the way they vote.
July 6th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
My deep belief that common sense, decency and truth will always prevail is being stretched to the limit.
Being a Californian my entire life I can honestly say everything happens here first and what I see scares the beejeebus out of me. If WE don’t wake up very soon it’s going to be too late, if it isnt already.
The average citizen is stuck right in the middle. Gangs on one side shooting and cops on the other side shooting all the while corruptacrats the their Corperate minions trying to steal my money and home.
Im sick and tired of paying to be the meat in the sandwich.
July 6th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
One other argument that I forgot about. As a Californian what the heck can I do that has any impact on Teddy Kennedy getting re-elected over and over? Unless I move there nothing. More evidence of a corrupt broken system of government when we can;t get a life long encumbant that committed murder thrown out on his bum?
July 6th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
Exactly what makes you think these officials are Republicans. They votewith the dhimmies as often as with the Republicans. Warner needs to retire and soon. He is very, very senile.
July 6th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
I guess we all agree that as a nation we can’t stand too many like Teddy and Warner and Voinavitch and Graham and Hegel and Snow and Collins and Durban and Dodd and Sanders and Boxer and etc etc etc. But we have them because we….the people with a brain and some talent…went off to make careers and fortunes 40 years ago and left the political world to the unions, civil rights crowd and, now, the envirofreeks. They are organized. We are not. We can fix that; I submit we have more talent and more money than all of them combined and all we need is a leader (or 50) and some plans. We certainly can’t just give up.
I agree that in Taxagooffafornia it’s pretty hard not to give up. But, bottom line, people are people and they will respond with intelligence and the correct course if they are led well; if decent leaders tell them the truth and prove it as Reagan did. We have not had a decent leader in Taxamexafornia in a long time…with the exception of lonesome Tom McClintock. The California Republidummy party has given us the sorriest bunch of canidates for state wide office they could find. Again…leadership is missing. Let’s fix that.
July 7th, 2007 at 7:08 am
As long as we, the people, let the “leaders” of the Republican party pick and choose the candidates we will have the sorry bunch of cowpoop we have now. The leaders will do absolutely nothing to change or challenge the way business is done because they are the ones calling the shots, not us.
If we want real change in the party, each and every one of us will have to find a candidate for every office that meets OUR standards, not the “leaders’”, and push them as write-in candidates in the primaries because the “leaders” won’t allow them on the regular ballot. We also have to withhold financing from the hand-picked party candidates, and give ’till it hurts to our candidates.
But, like the man says, it ain’t gonna happen. It’s too much work and really, what’ll happen is, even if we did succeed by some miracle, after being in office a while they’d just turn their backs on us anyway so…
We have to start with term limits. I’m tired of nice guys getting elected so often they turn into the thieves we have now.
July 7th, 2007 at 10:37 am
Lets not forget the one common denominator in this equation. Lawyers.
Lawyers have (as a profession) single handedly destroyed America and the (mostly Lawyer) Politicians that enable these hordes of scumbags.
You know Lawyers, the ones that tried to make it illegal to make fun of Lawyers… That alone speaks volumes.
What many forget is that the Feminist movement while on the surface dealt with gender related issues was really an assault on the English language and it’s inability to support laws with it’s words. What the “intent” of the law was makes zero difference to ANY Lawyer. How can we compete with that?
July 7th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
Someone needs to make a list of the Republicans running against these RINOs in the PRIMARY elections next year. THAT is the time to make changes within the party.
Problem is, most people don’t think it’s worth voting in a Primary, so what happens more often than not, is the old guard continues to roll on and we end up having to make the Repub/Dem choice in November.
The time for change is in the Primary Elections!