Democrats Can't Abandon The Most Important Issue Facing The Planet Fast Enough
So much for the "New Direction" Congress
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So sayeth Sen. Mitch McConnell at least:
The message is clear: the majority can’t abandon this bill fast enough.
So now we’re in a most peculiar situation. On the one hand, the majority says climate change is the most important issue facing the planet. Yet they’ve rushed the debate on that topic and brought the bill to a premature end. They brought it down before we could vote on gas prices, on clean energy technology, or on protecting American jobs.
This whole exercise will have had no effect on either climate change or gas prices. But it does send an unambiguous message: on the issue of high gas prices, our friends on the other side have no plan to lower the price at the pump.
Look, folks, this can't be emphasized enough: Democrats are bad for Americans. They see Government "largesse" as the answer to everything. They see spending large sums of money (that would be OUR money) as the way to solve problems, and they seem to think their nifty little "back-room wheeling and dealing" will go right over our heads somehow...that we'll just trudge along like good little sheep whenever we hear some pretty little words like "hope, faith, and optimism" or Hope and Change and Change and Hope.
For the moment, at least, the most recent attempt by the Democrats to crush us under the weight of a bloated Government and higher taxes and bureaucratic interventionalism has been stopped. It's too late to stop the Farm Bill, we're STILL waiting for them to fund the Troops (which they are in no hurry to do nearly 500 days after being asked to do so), we escaped the Immigration disaster by the skin of our teeth, and they are hell-bent on trying to cram the Energy bill down our throats as early as next week. S. 3044 means to introduce an all-out assault on us, indirectly, by attacking big oil and anyone that makes "too much" money...and they'll be blaming the President for it for good measure.
The promises of a New Direction and an ethical and transparent Congress have been broken. Say what you will about President Bush's approval numbers...Congress enjoys HALF as much approval as he does, and they can't seem to get out of their own way. They have failed themselves, their constituents, and the rest of us poor slobs out here just trying to make ends meet.
November 2008 is just around the corner. These guys must be fired and replaced before they drive "we the People" into the ground.
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The cat is invisible it doesn't exist but nevermind that. Algore and other communists have already convinced too many people that AGW is a crisis and therefore $45 TRILLION in taxes must be raised.
Bend over and grab your ankles. It's gonna be a long ride.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. --- John Adams
is how we're going to build our fair share of the 1,00 nuclear power plants they recommend. Since we're the biggest consumers and have so few power plants, the Dems should commit to fast track at least 1,000 of them if they're serious about stopping global warming right?
I think I'm in love with you. And I mean that in a *nice* way.
Iustum et tenacem propositi virum non civium ardor prava iubentium, non vultus instantis tyranni mente quatit solida.
-Quintus Horatius Flaccus
The Dems always remind me of Churchill's description of the Soviet Union (The late and unlamented Soviet Union). They rattle every door knob force every window until they find an opening.
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
First post here. I'm struggling to decide between McCain and Barr.
While government largess is certainly a Democrat pitfall, if not their primary call in life, how does the Republican rubric measure up? Taxing less, assuredly, but by spending *more*, and in shortsighted ways (environment), the elephants and the donkeys seem to be pot and kettle on this issue, the elephants simply devaluing the dollar instead of decreasing the dollars. I'd love to see some high ground to claim here. Help me out.
First-welcome to Redstate.
Second, all you say is true. You can go with Barr to feel you've stood by your principle (and I commend you for that) but Barr will not get elected and he will not be setting policy agendas or wrangling with House and Senate critters over said agendas. So...
It is purely a "lesser of two evils" answer. We can keep after the GOP folks we have now (or incrementally replace them) to start changing their ways BACK to where they got elected from.
There is NO changing the ways of the Donks.
Iustum et tenacem propositi virum non civium ardor prava iubentium, non vultus instantis tyranni mente quatit solida.
-Quintus Horatius Flaccus
We can keep after the GOP folks we have now (or incrementally replace them) to start changing their ways BACK to where they got elected from.
The problem is that the GOP will interpret getting re-elected as a mandate to stay the way they are and not change.
If they're re-elected again, they will surely conclude that this proves that they can vote for such monstrosities as the Farm Bill without having to pay a penalty with the voters.
At least SOMEBODY has to pay for GOP corruption. Even if it's not a total wipeout of the GOP, we're going to have to make an example out of SOME of them.
Perhaps we can target a few, specific GOP congressmen and teach them a lesson by siding with their Democratic opponents if necessary to deny them a seat. It would be worth electing a Dem just to get Don Young out of Congress.
It's hard to perceive the GOP as conservative right now. A lesser of two evils argument seems to be about which sort of authoritarianism I find less harmful (socialism/communism on one hand, theocracy/plutocracy/militocracy on the other). What about voting as an American for an American fundamentalism?
Voting for a democrat as a conservative seems to send no message at all--how could that vote possibly be perceived? (Apart from the chance of being asked to participate in a "motivation" poll--and no one trusts polls.) The stay-at-home vote doesn't register--you'd simply be perceived as lazy. Only the libertarian vote is going to register on the GOP radar.
This issue is too important to ignore. I wrote about energy independence here.
As for Republicans getting the wrong message, who cares? Frankly, we can find worthy primary challengers & replace the squishies step-by-step.
It's imperative that we replace Speaker Pelosi with Speaker Boehner ASAP. It's important that we weed out the squishies but that can be done over time.
Like Don Young in AK. Standing up & supporting - not just voting for but supporting - conservative Republican candidates will help solve the problem. Also, supporting conservative Republicans in local races for city council, county commission, & state races will get the local/state governments headed toward a more conservative (and effective) governance as well as get a good "bench" of candidated for higher office.
Don't worry, Oil & Natural Gas Traders are going to force the USA to cutback our consumption of hydrocarbons and the ability to generate CO2.
Our gas guzzling days are over, $200 a barrel and $7 a gallon gas within 1-2 years, probably by next summer.
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