Unresponsive Republicans face some bad news this election cycle: vicious primary fights. Sure, they’ll have all the big, fat-cat money that rolls in that comes with winning national office, but the Tea Parties are giving folks who would never get……

Moreover, we should be careful not to go after people merely for having voted for TARP, but who have an otherwise sterling record.

Demanding 100% compliance on all issues will not be a winner for our side. There are plenty of reasonable arguments in favor of voting for TARP. Voting for, say, the the Stimulus package and the pork-laden budget is something altogether different than TARP (which in it’s current, ever changing form is not what was voted on originally anyway).

FTW!

Term limits are useless, you’ll get a revolving door system where places are traded as commodities so that everyone can switch chairs every year.

Agreed. Congress will just continue to be a sludge-pot of incestuous seat-trading.

You want real results, remove the unconstitutional seat limit on the House. That means nearly 8,000 representatives. Not enough room in the Capitol? Throw ‘em in Verizon Center in between Wizards games. Hell, during Wizards games, at least that way they’ll have an audience.

This method, as Walter Williams postulated in a recent article, would have the effect of making lobbying incredibly difficult. It’s much harder to bribe 4,000 representatives than 200+.

The crew on “This Week with George the Dem” trotted out all the typical stuff. Of course, George Will and Peggy Noonan were right there to defend the conservative viewpoint to the best of their ability. Which is to say, not defend it very well. George raises 1 soft, tangential argument, then shuts up while the others say all sorts of patently innacurate things.

I think we should lobby to have Will replaced on that show by Mark Levin. Now THAT would be some fun!

It was interesting that nobody on the Sunday shows seems to consider how the Tea Party movement threatens to create another Ross-Perot style 3rd party movement. Perot’s party harnessed the same feeling of government unresponsiveness. And the GOP had the same reaction of “well we’re still backing Arlen Specter”. I guess when the producers hand you your thoughts, it doesn’t leave room for unscripted possibilities.

Funny how Getalie went silent

Jamson64 on April 19, 2009 at 1:10 PM

Not surprising, confront “it” and “it” goes away. It can’t debate a point of view, because it doesn’t understand beyond the leftist talking points and blind Obama worship.

should be pissed at the gop and w.

You are finally waking up and that is a good change for our country.

getalife on April 18, 2009 at 5:21 PM

Gop and w are victims.

Obama Franks Waters LLC — destroyers of the world economy.

Yeah, let’s give the guys with no foresight a pass. Give me a break. That’s what we elect leaders to do, lead. Not on shrivel up in fetal position because the MSM tells them the sky is going to fall. Oh Obama wagged his finger at them too, guess that spooked them. Just wait until the bailout filters through and things get even worse. Let me guess we’ll need some more gubmint to patch that too.

like Paul Ryan, who is as solid as it gets.

700 billion in new spending don’t sound so “solid” to me. Where one falls on the tough votes shows just how solid they are.

It is easy to forget that at the time last year, there were good arguments to vote for TARP. Lots of good conservatives came out in favor of TARP, like Paul Ryan, who is as solid as it gets.

When you have actual responsibility, things aren´t as simple as some of you would have it. Why don´t you all direct your outrage where it will do some good?

Gotta love it! Anyone who voted for these outrageous bailouts and hyper spending bills should be thrown out of office. Term limits should be forced upon them, but they will not give that up without a fight! Former politicians should be banned from the House and Senate floor and not allowed to be lobbyists! Representatives and Senators should not be guarenteed benefits for live! We the people must force these “changes” upon them!

CrusaderPatriot on April 19, 2009 at 12:01 PM

Hear, Hear!

Hear us now John McCain, Meghan McCain, Lindsay Graham, Arlen Specter, Collins, Snowe, other asssorted RINOS and ALL Democrats?

We heard from you and now your going to hear from all of us soon! Vote the BUMS out, get rid of the carreer pocket lining pols and elect citizen legislators, institute TERM LIMITS, take away their lifetime pensions and healthcare, their ability to lobby or run again. Return our country to We The People. It does work for POTUS regardless of what the politics of old will tell you.

Don’t let the Tea Parties be co-opted by the same old parties! Let the Panderers beware We The People are pissed and we are coming to take our country and our rights under the constitution back!

2010, 2012, Only Reformers need apply Palin/Plumber 2012