| Bono-Mack, Castle, Kirk, McHugh, Reichert, Smith, | | | | they gave cover to several other would be socialists |
| LoBiondo, Lance - names of Republicans who voted | | | | who did not have to annoy their constituents with an |
| with the Democrats to pass the abomination called | | | | unpopular position. |
| cap and trade. The sad thing about this is that we | | | | Given the districts these people represented... east |
| have come to expect the party of Barack Hussein | | | | coast, west coast and Illinois, it may be possible that |
| Obama to sell out their countrymen in the quest of | | | | they are the best the Republicans could elect. I don't |
| power and control. We used to expect more of | | | | know that this is the fact, but this is the party line: |
| Republicans, but recent events have shaken our | | | | that we have to accept those who lean toward |
| belief that the Republican Party was really the party | | | | progressive thinking if we are to win. Then I have to |
| of smaller government and free enterprise. These | | | | ask, what is the point? Are we just going to concede |
| eight could have helped put some luster back on that | | | | these areas to the statists and be happy that some |
| image. They chose not to do so. | | | | of the statists are wearing the right jersey? |
| They chose, instead, to accept the unproven and | | | | This is the "big tent" thinking in operation. What it |
| highly suspect global warming theories and take an | | | | really means is that we either don't know what we |
| action guaranteed to ruin the economy of our once | | | | believe, or we don't have the confidence in our |
| and future great nation. These house members, | | | | beliefs to present them forcefully in a way that helps |
| chose to leave their fellow party members to follow | | | | people catch the vision of freedom. I believe much of |
| a fantasy. Some will say they showed courage and | | | | this comes from the professional politicians who |
| followed their consciences... doing the right thing and | | | | cynically view their careers as more important that |
| all that. That is what they often said about the | | | | any issue. We may have been able to let that pass in |
| party's eminently successful presidential candidate last | | | | the past when we were not faced with such an |
| November. | | | | assault on what it means to be an American, the |
| There are areas where we can have differing view | | | | values our country stood for and the freedom we |
| points, and there are issues that go the heart of who | | | | once had. |
| we are, as a party and as a nation. It's like Jim Croce | | | | Today we are fighting battles on far too many |
| once wrote "After all it's what we've done that | | | | fronts: the economy, health care, environmental |
| makes us what we are." What they've done is | | | | extremism, hostility to Christians... the list could go on |
| turned their backs on those who were supposed to | | | | and on... we cannot afford to let the self-serving |
| be their allies and gave the victory to those who | | | | political types determine the direction of the |
| would rule over us. I will leave it to the reader to | | | | opposition party or of our country. It's time to put up |
| decide what that makes them. | | | | with more dates on our calendars and more lost |
| In some ways, it may not have made much | | | | sleep as we work to restore the country to what is |
| difference in the ultimate outcome. However by | | | | once was and what it can be again. |
| sticking their thumbs in the eyes of all their | | | | The "big tent" is really not a bad idea, as long as it's |
| constituents who called, wrote, faxed and emailed | | | | filled with conservatives and libertarians. Now is the |
| them objecting to this form of madness, they gave | | | | time to do it, while we can do it peacefully... before |
| several Democrats a free pass. It is apparent that | | | | Washington controls every area of our life and treats |
| Speaker Pelosi let some of her minions vote against | | | | us, not as citizens to be respected, but as pawns to |
| the bill as their votes were not necessary for | | | | be manipulated and taxed to carry out their |
| passage. So, not only did they make their own | | | | grandiose schemes that leave us with nothing but a |
| re-election more difficult, which is not a bad thing, but | | | | tax bill. |