Five Rinos
The 2012 elections are twenty-two months away. That is an eternity in politics and it will be here before we know it. Those who are running for reelection 2012 are already running and those who are going to oppose them need to be getting ready to run.
As we look at 2012, there are five RINO Senators the Tea Party needs to send into retirement.
Richard Lugar. Lugar has been a pork king for a long time. Recently he voted against the earmark ban, which even Evan Bayh, a liberal Democrat supported. He voted for the Dream Act and the Start treaty. He has been out of touch with reality for some time, dreams of bipartisanship, which is a nice way of saying he will continue to reach across the aisle and give the liberals what ever they want.
Orin Hatch. Hatch is a long time RINO. He has also been a pork king over the years. Perhaps his worst offense is that he was a con-sponsor of the DREAM act. He supports the Ground Zero victory mosque and he repeatedly warned the Tea Party movement not to split the Republican vote. Translation: Tea Party don’t you dare run anyone against me. The Tea Party should give Hatch just what he does not want. An opponent and the people of Utah a good conservative alternative.
Olympia Snow. What can you say about one half of the infamous sell out sisters? Snowe votes like the liberal she is. She voted for Obamacare. She voted for Start, She voted for the porkulus bill. She voted for Start and to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. In fact, it is hard to find a conservative bill she supported or a liberal one she did not. The good news, her polling numbers do not look good and almost 60% of Maine voters say the would welcome a conservative challenger against Snowe.
Scott Brown. Scott Brown has got to be the biggest disappointment of the last year. When he was elected, some in the movement started calling him the second coming of Ronald Reagan. He came in as the 41st vote and broke the Democrats filibuster proof majority. He did as he promised and voted against Obamacare, but has been a huge disappointment otherwise. He has frequently crossed the aisle to support the left. He has forgotten that if it were not for the Tea Party coming in with money bombs and volunteers, he would simply be an obscure, former state senator, practicing law in the Bay State.
Bob Corker. Because Tea Party Nation is based in Tennessee, “Bailout Bob” Corker is our top target. Corker has done many things to sell out the conservative Tennesseans who put him in office. Perhaps the worst is Dodd-Frank finance reform bill. Chris Dodd and Barney Frank were probably the two people most responsible for the melt down in the real estate market. They proposed a financial reform bill that was dead until Bailout Bob single handedly resurrected the bill. Corker sold out on the START treaty in exchange for pork dollars going to the Oak Ridge Nuclear facility. The real tragedy of Corker is that in 2006, two solid conservatives ran in the primary, but they split the conservative vote, allowing RINO Corker to slide in.
The good news for 2012 is that so many liberals are up for reelection, Republicans are guaranteed control of the Senate and we do not have to pinch our noses this time and support a RINO to prevent liberal control of the Senate.
2012 will be a very good year for the Tea Party movement and RINO is on the menu!
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Permalink Reply by USARogue on -
My Fellow Patriots,
We have had 234 years of Independence, 223 years of Constitutional protection from our government and most recently 15 years ago a patriot named Charley Reese reminded us about the 545 people responsible for the problems we face today. Granted there were others but this article first published in 1995 went basically unnoticed, but how it explains what we are dealing with today is sobering.
Some of the names and numbers have changed, I took the liberty to interject more current names for dramatic effect.
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, we have deficits? Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does. You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does. You and I don't write the tax code. Congress does. You and I don't set fiscal policy. Congress does. You and I don't control monetary policy. The Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president and nine Supreme Court justices - 545 human beings out of the 235 (308) million - are directly, legally, morally and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered but private central bank.
I excluded all but the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it.
No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislation's responsibility to determine how he votes.
A CONFIDENCE CONSPIRACY
Don't you see how the con game that is played on the people by the politicians? Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of Tip O'Neill (Nancy Pelosi), who stood up and criticized Ronald Reagan George Bush) for creating deficits.
The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it. The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating appropriations and taxes.
O'neill (Pelosi) is/was the speaker of the House. He/she is the leader of the majority party. He/she and his/her fellow Democrats, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetos it, they can pass it over his veto.
REPLACE SCOUNDRELS
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 235 (308) million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts - of incompetence and irresponsibility.
I can't think of a single domestic problem, from an unfair tax code to defense overruns, that is not traceable directly to those 545 people.
When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair. If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red. If the Marines are in Lebanon Afghanistan), it's because they want them in Lebanon (Afghanistan).
There are no insoluble government problems. Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take it.
Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exist disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation" or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 545 people and they alone are responsible. They and they alone have the power. They and they alone should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses - provided they have the gumption to manage their own employees.
This article was first published by the Orlando Sentinel Star newspaperhttp://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18568.htm
The last paragraph in the article is the most telling.
Those 545 people and they alone are responsible. They and they alone have the power. They and they alone should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses - provided they have the gumption to manage their own employees.
WE are their bosses, THEY are our employees. It's our responsibility to remind them loudly and often.
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Permalink Reply by USARogue on
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Carol,
It is frustrating. Our weapons so far have worked. We protest, we march, we confront, we organize, we scream, we complain and we educate. Most importantly we vote and encourage others to vote. We vote and replace them over and over until they realize they work for us and not vice versa. Too long Americans have been negligent about our responsibility of watching our government and politicians. We made our first statement in November but it will take many more "Novembers" to clean the stench out of our government.
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Permalink Reply by Don Anthony on -
when can we get rid of Dodd and frank, for the life of me I dont see how a pitafile like frank has been there so long, he should be in Jail, now he wants to tax us when we die, and the finance reform bill has to be repealed as well, and corker has to go
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Permalink Reply by Paul R. Bennett II on -
Alexander and Cocker both have to go in 2012. We haveto get canidates that will not be afriad to show that both of them are RHINO's. This is going to take an incrediable amount of money though to remove either one. Hopefully Alexander will just leave and leave his seat open. Corker though has some very deep pockets and that will be the biggest hurdle to overcome.
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Permalink Reply by Judson Phillips on -
Alexander is not up until 2014. The common wisdom is that Haslam is being groomed as his successor.
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Permalink Reply by Paul R. Bennett II on
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I don't think Hasslim is any better! I guess we will have to wait and see.
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Permalink Reply by Mike Young on
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Don't forget to mention Senator Mark Kirk from Illinois who is also a flip-flopper, depending on what special interest groop complains to him. Mark Kirk was a representative in the House of Representatives from illinois then he ran for the Senate seat vacated by (D) Rolland Burris and won the election because he had a (R) in front of his name. Senator Mark Kirk from Illinois should be added to this list.
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Permalink Reply by E B Boyd on
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Does anyone have a list of the RINOs in the Senate that are up for reelection? We need to make a list and keep track of all the votes for each one for the next two years.
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Permalink Reply by john tribuiano on
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I believe we may have to have a huge spring rally in DC to reenforce our positions.
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Permalink Reply by Doc Franklin on
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Trump is a financial member of the "Good Ole Boys" Club. He funds the candidates of both parties to cover his bet and he gets access no matter who wins. He has paid for political favors and if he ran for president, he would absolutely accept them. He's a non starter.
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Permalink Reply by Jim Hunt on -
It is because of the RINO Senators and there surely are some House Members as well, that I am forming an exploratory commitee to assess running for President of the United States. I am an American first, a conservative next and thirdly a Republican. We have been let down by so many of our own and in looking at the current field I see no one who will say what needs to be said, and that is that the system is broken. It is being destroyed at a base level without term limits and without a makeover that is so necessary to the seniority system which hamstrings us from having the brightest and the best doing the job for the American public. I hope I can be the "13th Candidate". The media seems to have already crowned the "12" but I want our campaign to be as much about getting people who have never run before to get involved with us in bringing the right kind of people into the political mainstream at the local, state and national levels. TPN, keep up your good work and 2012 will be a momentous election.
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