That’s the unmistakeable message that’s trumpeted in this Washington Times article. Here’s the opening paragraph:

The Democrats’ election-year agenda, which says what they will do if the voters put them back in charge of Congress, would seek to overturn or change just about everything President Bush and the Republicans have done since 2001. Key parts of their agenda call for repealing the bulk of the administration’s tax cuts, ending the ban on federal funding for new lines of stem-cell research and limiting some of the investigative, prosecutorial and surveillance methods in the counterterrorism USA Patriot Act.

Rush is calling conservatives who plan on sitting this election out to send a message to President Bush ‘Cut & Run Conservatives’. By not voting, Cut and Run Republicans are voting for the following agenda:

• economy-wrecking tax increases;
• weakened national and homeland security;
• endless investigations, including impeachment hearings, that ‘criminalize’ policy disagreements;
• gutting of the Patriot Act;
• elimination of the NSA intercept program; and finally
• the repeal of the Military Commissions Act, which also includes the codification and clarification of coerced interrogation techniques.

If the Senate flips, it’d eliminate any chance of a Justice Janice Rogers-Brown to replace John Paul Stevens. Instead, we’d have to accept some mushy watered-down justice in the mold of a Souter or O’Connor.

Rep. Charles B. Rangel of New York, who likely would become chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee if the Democrats win the House back, has said that he could not think of a single Bush tax cut that he supported and suggested that all of them should be repealed. But Mrs. Pelosi, who would be in line to become speaker, said last week that the tax-cut rollback would only affect people earning $250,000 a year or more.

President Bush would veto that legislation in a heartbeat but I still tremble that we’d be wasting time on such crippling legislation when we should be attempting to find a solution to the impending crises to Social Security and Medicare.

One last thing for Cut and Run Conservatives to ponder: What’s the chances that Ted Kennedy and John McCain would write ‘immigration reform’ legislation that wouldn’t undo the work we’ve done in building the border wall?

If we’re gonna send a message, let’s send it AFTER this election by funding primary challengers to the RINO’s that are troubling us. Let’s not self destruct and ruin life for a decade.

Technorati Tags: Election 2006, House of Representatives, NSA, Patriot Act, Impeachment

Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

1. More proof that California “Conservatives” have a hidden Liberal agenda that undermines Republicans.

   California GOP wants candidate’s withdrawal
   Demand linked to letter meant to intimidate Hispanic immigrant voters
   BREAKING NEWS
   The Associated Press

   Updated: 3:21 p.m. MT Oct 19, 2006
   GARDEN GROVE, Calif. - Orange County Republican leaders on Thursday called for the withdrawal of a GOP congressional candidate who acknowledged that his campaign sent a letter threatening Hispanic immigrant voters.

   Tan D. Nguyen denied knowing anything about the letter in an interview Thursday with The Associated Press but said he fired a campaign staff member who may have been responsible for it.

   County Republican Chairman Scott Baugh, however, said that after speaking with state investigators and the company that distributed the mailer, he believes Nguyen had direct knowledge of the letter. He told the AP that the party’s executive committee voted unanimously to Nguyen to drop out of race against Democratic U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez.

   On Wednesday, state investigators linked the Nguyen campaign to letters sent to thousands of Orange County Hispanics, a spokesman for the attorney general said.

   “We have identified where we believe the mailing list was obtained,” said Nathan Barankin, spokesman for Attorney General Bill Lockyer.

   He declined to identify the specific Republican campaign Wednesday, citing the ongoing investigation. The Los Angeles Times and The Orange County Register both reported Thursday that the investigation appeared to be focused on the campaign of Tan D. Nguyen, a Republican challenger to Democratic U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez.

   State and federal investigation
   The letter, written in Spanish, tells recipients: “You are advised that if your residence in this country is illegal or you are an immigrant, voting in a federal election is a crime that could result in jail time.”

   In fact, immigrants who are naturalized U.S. citizens can vote.

   Complaints about the letters this week prompted state and federal investigations, and Barankin said investigators had been questioning people in Orange County.

   The two newspapers reported state investigators had found the location where the letters were printed and mailed to an estimated 14,000 Democratic voters in central Orange County. The Los Angeles Times, citing an unnamed source, said authorities had interviewed Nguyen at his office.

   Nguyen did not return messages left by The Associated Press or either newspaper.

   Sanchez said in an interview Thursday on Univision that the sender should be punished for stating that immigrants can’t vote. It would be unfortunate if the person responsible was another immigrant, she said.

   “What a shame, really, that this is still happening in the United States today,” Sanchez said.

   Question of criminality
   The owner of Huntington Beach-based Mailing Pros, Christopher West, told The Orange County Register that he was hired to do the mailings but didn’t know what they said and didn’t know any laws were being broken when the mailer was sent. He said he gave investigators the name of the person who hired him.

   “I’m the one that processed it, and I don’t read Spanish,” West said. “Until the investigator read it to me, I didn’t know the content.”

   Scott Baugh, chairman of the Orange County Republican Party, condemned the letter as “an obnoxious, grotesque piece of work.”

   “Regardless of who did it - Republican or Democrat - if it’s a crime, then whoever did it should be prosecuted,” Baugh said.

   A group of six Vietnamese-American political candidates running for offices in Orange County issued a joint statement saying: “The content of this mailer is offensive to the immigrant voters, regardless of their ethnicity.”

   The note’s letterhead resembles that of an anti-illegal immigration group, California Coalition for Immigration Reform, but group leader Barbara Coe said she told investigators for the attorney general’s office Wednesday that her group didn’t authorize the letter and she didn’t know who sent it.

   “The letterhead was altered and I’ve never head of any Sergio Ramirez,” the name signed to the letter, Coe said.

   Numerous political leaders including Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger have denounced the letter and called for the investigations.

   © 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

   Comment by Benn — October 19, 2006 @ 2:28 pm

2. If the Democrats are for reversing Bush’s accomplishments in encouraging illegal immigration and discouraging enforcement of our immigration laws, then I’m all for it.

   But I think that, unfortunately, that’s not what they want to reverse.

   Comment by Tim — October 20, 2006 @ 9:13 am

3. It is illegal for anybody but US citizens to vote in an election. Anybody that has gone through citizenship classes knows this. Too bad democrats don’t seem to know.

   Comment by george — October 21, 2006 @ 8:18 am

4. I’m real sure that, should voting laws be enforced, the donkeys will be able to come up with at least one, maybe two, people who’s voting rights were denied, and cry that this is totally unacceptable.

   Their answer? Allow anyone who is breathing (and in some cases, such as in the state of Washington, even breathing doesn’t matter) to vote.

   Therefore, what they want for redress is that because one or two were denied constitutional privelege, allow anyone, legal or not, to vote. This results in allowing at least thousands, if not tens or hundreds of thousands, of those not eligible to vote to help determine the results of many elections in the nation.

   Seems like taking an elephant gun to rid ourselves of a mouse. It is, at best, systematic destruction of our representative democracy, which is ultimately what the donkey leadership worships daily.

   Comment by Carlos — October 21, 2006 @ 11:12 am

5. “Conservative” Californians Goal: Try to convince the rest of us they are not wussy, gay-loving, Hollywood financing Liberals.

   Comment by Benn — October 21, 2006 @ 1:10 pm