CK MacLeod on June 29, 2009 at 5:30 PM

I hope you’re correct.

This article gives an excellent round-up of growing international skepticism:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124597505076157449.html

They’re not as over the top about it as reporters, but then they never are.

Here’s what I can at least conceive might motivate the eco-Ds to even higher levels of brinksmanship, however: Their fear that the tide might be turning against GW-ism, and that the failure to pass something , or in some other way demonstrate commitment to and confidence in the cause, would be interpreted as their Waterloo.

All votes have consequences. I wonder if there’s not a #4 that everyone missed in their initial thinking?

Letter #1

WE the People are VERY, VERY angry!! WE ALL know the true cost of your vote!! WE ARE coming for ALL of you!! YOU WORK FOR US!! You voted for a massive 1,300 page bill that YOU NEVER READ!! You voted for the largest tax hike EVER!! You voted for the largest expansion of government EVER!! The 1,300 page bill, THAT YOU NEVER READ, puts government in control of an additional(at best), 20% of this country’s economy!! You will NOT be given another chance!! WE will ALL put our last, thin, tax weakened dollars into the campaigns of YOUR opponents!! It matters NOT to US whether there is an R or a D after their name!! It matters NOT to US which part of this great country you run in, because WE are ALL in the United States of America!! WE will boycott any product, service or business that run their ads with media/news outlets that are not doing the job of investigative reporting!! WE will close, transfer or cash out financial accounts of all kinds, WE will shift investments and roll over retirement accounts, IRA’s, 401k’s, ect., all in an effort to keep OUR money from finding its way into YOUR campaign via THEIR contribution! You may allow your “leader” to decide your vote, but WE The People decide OUR own!!

Letter #2

YOUR FIRED!!!

take your pick!

Every day I wake up and tell myself that this Administration, this Congress, this Senate and this state run media can not possibly get any worse, until they do. Every night I fall asleep aware of the real fear I have for my children and the country WE will leave them, but find comfort in knowing millions and millions of others also feel that fear. OUR anger builds, it is palpable. I just hope that, like me, they also feel the rising intensity of this countrys awakened SPIRIT and that SPIRIT is what will lead US through, to what WE know ,in OUR heart, comes.

Where do I sign up for the Revolution? I’m Ready

If you fail to convince your electorate that you are representing them well, then I’d say you have no place in the party, and the enforcers of this will be the voters.

Upstater85 on June 28, 2009 at 6:08 PM

I agree, but I wonder how the electorate becomes properly informed. Seems that grass roots dissemination levels of useless information items have positive effects. I don’t see that cons reach voters as effectively as the dems have done. The dems have done a smash-up job of making young voters believe that being in the conservative party is the same as pushing Al Bundy’s car home. This post’s subject is made possible with the dems skillful use of the Big Lie. It’s likely that dems replace dems with more of the same – irrespective of party affiliations. I have a feeling that the senate vote will be exciting.

In more pressing news, Michael Jackson is still deceased.

What are you talking about? I heard he’s in a convertible with Elvis Presley somewhere…

In voting in favor of this C&T bill he has again wandered off the reservation and frankly I don’t give a sh!t anymore about his rhetoric. Rumors have been forthcoming that a long time conserative radio host (KIRBY WILBER) will challenge Reichert in the up and coming primaries. I want him gone and so does Kirby. Rino’s should know from now on that there will be consequences for votes cast that are anti-capitalistic and therefore are unamerican.

Americannodash on June 28, 2009 at 5:06 PM

You raise a good point. There have been yelps and cries from shall we say Progressive Republicans that they are somehow being persecuted. You would have thought that Sarah Palin (pregnant with her alien child) and 12 Jewish Neocons got in a secret room together discussing how to kick them out of the party. Of course this is ridiculous. Specter kicked himself out, no? Powell freely voted for Obama and so on.

I say, kick no one out. Perhaps punish them, but don’t kick them out. Attempt to keep the big tent open. That said… if the voters (such as Specter’s) want to kick them out, shouldn’t they be given this opportunity? After all, these Progressive (or even Conservative) Republicans are suppose to represent their voters. If they aren’t doing a good job of representing, it’s time to move on. No more claiming to be the victim. If you fail to convince your electorate that you are representing them well, then I’d say you have no place in the party, and the enforcers of this will be the voters.

I’m tempted to bet you $4 Zillion carbon credits it doesn’t even come to a vote – though that would leave me fresh out if I was wrong.

CK MacLeod on June 28, 2009 at 4:50 PM

Key vote will be to stop debate on it… and that vote will never be taken unless they have the votes needed.

But, “if” Stuart Smalley gets in… its one vote closer… add in a Spectre and Snow… and we’ve got problems.

I’m tempted to bet you $4 Zillion carbon credits it doesn’t even come to a vote – though that would leave me fresh out if I was wrong.

CK MacLeod on June 28, 2009 at 3:19 PM

Only works as long as this gets stoped in the Senate.

With the pressure tactics we’ve seen from the House, and White House.. and the blatant stupidity of some of those in Washington, this may pass.

I know people are calling it dead on arrival, but who ever thought that Amnesty would come so close to passing last year… or the TARP… or the recent Budget…

Never underestimate the perfidity of large numbers of Washington insiders.