Rock the House: What should Republicans do now? It’s on…Culberson: Every day on the House floor this week
Scroll down for updates…10:00am Eastern Monday 8/4…GOP Rep. John Culberson is Qikking the Revolt, Pt II now…go here…Mike Pence right now: “What you are about to witness is the beginning of a sustained effort to demand that Speaker Pelosi bring Congress back to Washington DC and give us an up and down vote on an energy bill that includes more access to American oil”…Culberson: “House conservatives will be on the floor every day this week”…Boehner live blog here….
Pelosi digs in: “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday maintained a hard-line stance against offshore drilling and said GOP efforts on the floor to push her toward a vote was [a] “war dance of the hand maidens of the oil companies.”
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“Hit hard, hit fast, hit often.”
That was the advice Marine hero Chesty Puller gave his men.
That’s the advice congressional Republicans should follow.
On Friday, GOP members led a revolt on the floor that rocked the House, energized the conservative base, humiliated the feckless Democrat majority, and brought visiting tourists to their feet cheering in the gallery. (Oh, and not coincidentally on Friday afternoon, Barack Obama followed John McCain and flip-flopped on offshore drilling. If you lead, conservatives, the flip-floppers will follow.)
While Do-Nothing Nancy Pelosi jetted off on her pathetically-performing “Know Your Power” book tour and Democrats adjourned for a five-week recess, scores of Republican congressional representatives stayed on Capitol Hill–or rushed back in shorts with suitcases still in hand — to press for votes on energy independence and drilling. Though Pelosi turned the lights out on the House floor, Republicans got their message out–via Twitter, Qik, the blogosphere, talk radio, and grumbly MSM types who derided the upstart effort as “bizarre.”
Leave it to Beltway snob journalists to call House Republicans who refuse to take vacations while the public’s business goes unfinished “bizarre.”
One of my favorite moments from Friday’s revolt:
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) just pretended to be a Democrat. He stood on the other side of the chamber and listed all of the GOP bills that the Dems killed.
He then said, “I am a Democrat, and here is my energy plan” and he held up a picture of an old
VW Bug(correction: readers are telling me it’s an Isetta) with a sail attached to it. He paraded around the House floor with the sign while the crowd cheered.
The sign via Jim Hoft:
Dead on.
So, now what?
House Republicans hit hard and hit fast on Friday. Come Monday, they need to hit again and hit often during the Democrats’ vacation.
Mark Tapscott at the Examiner thinks Friday was a missed opportunity.
But the fight has only just begun.
The House GOP’s 8/1 revolt wasn’t merely good political theater. It was good politics. Politics on offense. Politics the grass-roots can get behind. Energized politics on energy that will galvanize public opinion in the otherwise lazy, dog days of August.
Seems to me House Republicans should be holding a public event every day in Washington from now until the end of the Democrats’ vacation to call attention to Nancy’s anti-drilling intransigence and her refusal to hold votes on the issue. Work in shifts. Whatever it takes. But every House Republican should clock in at some point during the Democrats’ vacation and take a stand for energy independence now, not later.
Can’t speak on the House floor? Hold a sit-in on the Capitol steps. Or at a local gas station. Bring those kerosene lamps or Bic lighters. Pass out postcards with Rep. Devin Nunes’ satirical sign.
Bring some tire pumps, while you’re at it, and mock the Obama tire-inflation-as-planet saving energy plan:
And make sure to videotape it all.
House GOP members should also be spreading the word to their local newspapers and local talk show hosts in their congressional districts to assail Nancy’s gag order and hammer the “Drill now” theme home.
And where’s the RNC? How about sending someone in a chicken costume to trail Nancy Pelosi during her hiatus? As the House Republicans asked repeatedly on Friday: What’s she so afraid of?
On 8/1, the House GOP brought it on.
Keep it going, turn it up, and make sure the American public sees you at work on proactive energy proposals to bring down the Pelosi Premium during the Democrats’ vacation.
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Speaking of the absent Speaker of the House, here’s her book tour schedule during the Democrats’ vacation. The “Impeach Bush” crowd is dogging her on the book publicity trail. Wouldn’t it be good to see protesters at these events pressing her on issues people really care about?
Like Nan says: Know your power. Hit hard, hit fast, hit often.
8/4/2008 John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Columbia Point
Columbia Point
Boston, MA 02125
617-514-1645 5:30 pm
8/5/2008 Free Library of Philadelphia (Central Library)
Montgomery Auditorium 1901 Vine St.
Philadelphia, PA 19103
215-567-4341 7 pm
8/6/2008 Temple Judea
5500 Granada Blvd.
Miami, FL 33146
305-442-4408 7:30 pm
8/7/2008 Borders Books
612 East Liberty St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
734-668-7652 7 pm
8/11/2008 American Jewish University
Gindi Auditorium 15600 Mulholland Dr.
Los Angeles, CA 90077
310-659-3110 7 pm
8/12/2008 Dominican University
Angelico Hall 50 Acacia Avenue
San Rafael, CA 94901
415-927-0960 7 pm
8/13/2008 Forum for Women Entrepreneurs
Oracle Corporation 500 Oracle Pkwy.
Redwood City, CA 94065
415-382-6022 7 pm
8/14/2008 Cowell Theater
Fort Mason Center, Pier 2
San Francisco, CA 94123
415-643-3400×11 7 pm
8/20/2008 Tattered Cover Bookstore
1628 16th Street
Denver, CO 80202
303-436-1070 5:30 pm
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If you’ve got specific suggestions for what House Republicans should do the next five weeks during the Democrats’ vacation, leave them in comments or e-mail.
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Afternoon update: It’s on! More than a dozen GOP lawmakers committed to carrying the ball tomorrow in D.C. Excellent.
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Time to show a backbone, my minority Congress. Put up, or shut up. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. This is YOUR time shine…don’t let me down.
That sailcar in the poster is (I think) a German Messerschmitt, built by the same company that built the WW2 fighter. Three-wheeled, it was another answer to the small car phenomenon after the War, but unlike the fighter, never really took off. You entered it from the door in the front of the car, and the passenger sat behind the driver. Not much on dates, obviously.
No, the car is a BMW Isetta, remember Steve Urkel?
Go back to work Monday morning, just like the rest of America. Take vacation now and you may get an even longer vacation in November.
A minority congresses work is not done until those donkies are braying for mercy.
With the Obambi flying off to Hawai’i this week on a vacation that many Americans have canceled, the Republicans should keep the pressure on the Democrats in the House and the Senate and not compromise. I heard the reason that “the One” made the statement about offshore drilling yesterday is because Republicans were willing to take ANWR and oil shale production off the table. Public opinion is on the side of the Republicans and drill here ,drill now. Caving into the Democrats on this will all but guarantee high gas prices at the pump for the foreseeable future.
It is a great, inspiring effort. Something the Republicans should have done years, if not decades ago. Stop having as the sole purpose of their lives making deals with democrats! [Pulling out hair, pounding on keyboard]
That said, without the support of the White House (hello, anybody home?) and the presumptive republican nominee (PRN) whose name I am unwilling to state any more, the effort is likely doomed. Where are our “leaders,” along with the bulk of their party?
Let’s face it, Bush is no Truman. And while I have my problems with Harry, at least he knew how to fight, to come from behind, and win. At least he didn’t mince around telling everyone how eager he was to work with the Republican congress, not to mention his pathetic and unending quest for love from I guess anyone and everyone. In 1948. Truman insisted on victory. What a concept. Meanwhile the PRN is praising Pelosi and stating how eager he is to work with the democrat congress. Are we to be spared nothing?
These two RINO clowns are a disgrace and they really need to be reminded of that fact.
There were many types of Isettas. The BMW, the Italian, the British. Check them out along with a more or less complete review of what the Democrats will be wanting you to drive after ‘08 here at the Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum. My friends and I called these cars sin-sins, Spanish for without-withouts. As in “without the money for a car and without the guts for a motorcycle.
Please don’t give this link to any of your Democrat friends. It will give them ideas. BWM is already trying to revive the Isetta.
BTW, sail cars aren’t any good. I built one as a kid. Problem: there is no room to ‘tack’ on the road.
Now is the time for the Republicans in congress to show their conservative base that they are tired of reaching across the aisle and helping the Dems who are trying to destroy America. If we can only get McAmnesty to follow suit. We need to show this country that we will do whatever it takes to win and take control.
Hire this Chicken to do the work.
San Diego chicken with “The Man”
This is VERY good, and unexpected…perhaps a little bizarre The Republicans acting with out permission of the MSN?…..and came up with something VERY good…..It gives me HOPE. But unfortunately I expect that the MSN will come out with stories of how this “bizarre” ( standing on your own two feet and fighting back)….behavior is actually hurting their chances in the elections….they will read it in the new york times and sit back down and return to being compliant?…I hope not
I suggest that with each speech they make, with each gesture they make, with each interview they give that they make certain they list the people who are against an American Made Energy Policy and those who are for it. They need to specifically name and list the failed leadership of the most ethical congress ever who oppose it. They need to keep those names out in front of the public. They also need to list their phone numbers and email address and encourage the public to voice their concern directly to the failed leadership of congress. They also need to list the successful conservatives who are taking the initiative to speak out against the failed leadership of congress by providing sound proposals and demanding fair and ethical debate (i.e. those who are growing a backbone and other various asundry body parts associated with strength and determination). The public need to know who is for them and who is against them.
In Texas, we would call it: listing the good guys and the bad guys and keep hitting it home.
“Good night, Chesty. Wherever you are.”
Ditto for dems
The party needs a Conservative leader… Democrat light isn’t going to cut anything but … And then there is the current global warming hoaxer presumptive nominee.
Is there anyway we can have an open convention? We want a replay.
Ok Republicans, here’e your chance to show you have a spine. Give me a reason to stop throwing your fund raising appeals in the trash unopened.
If Friday’s protest was a one shot deal I’ll continue throwing your junk mail away.
The Democrats have a vested interest in a bad economy and high gas prices. Keep up the pressure.
Whenever a Republican President goes on vacation, these same ‘journalists’ berate him for skipping out while ‘the people’s business goes unfinished’. Funny how they don’t mind when the democrat Congress votes themselves a 5-week vacation.
If I drove that lil car with the sail this past year it would have turned into an airplane, windy year here in the Coachella Valley.
Odumbo also said besides the “fill yer tires” speech, he said “it’s not always windy” concerning wind energy. lol
pssst, Odumbo they do studies on WHERE it is always windy for locations to put them. wind farms WORK! what a dope.
The only bad thing about them here in our desert the geniuses in local Government here have all the wind produced power going on the grid to Los Angeles. or a very high percentage of it instead to customers down here.
Here’s an idea: I’m getting a tire pump and mounting it to a sign that reads, “Saving energy the Obama way!”
BTW Chesty would bite the Dimwits jugulars out and spit down their throats. Just sayin’.
Semper Fi!
There will be a dearth of political news in August as the Olympics takes center stage due to the media’s perceived importance of this non-event. Most politicians will scale back their activities in the belief that their message will be lost during the Olympic hysteria.
This is the time to strike! If past history is any indicator, NBC won’t share much of it’s coverage from Beijing. That will leave the other outlets hungry for news content.
If the Republicans can mount a series of high profile events across the nation during this time they will almost be assured of media attention. The public is firmly behind the call to produce our own energy, both carbon based and nuclear, and they need to know who is fighting for them and who is fighting against them.
Let’s get started, guys, the iron is hot!
BTW, this is one cause I would gladly donate to with the money I’ve saved this year from not donating to the Republican presidential candidate.
On August 3rd, 2008 at 9:26 am, AliasK said:
DITTO! In the summer of 2001, the MSM savaged President Bush for daring to take a few days to clear brush and cut grass back on his ranch in Texas while, to paraphrase, the nation faced the horrors of economic doom brought on the dot com bubble burst. They truly are hypocrites in the worst degree!
Bah!
Because of high gas prices, I can’t head to Miami to protest during Pelosi’s book tour!
Chester said it best, thank Michelle for quoting an American Patriot and Hero.
Re: Pelosi’s book sales
This morning Stretch Pelosi’s book was at 1,565 on Amazon, just slightly ahead of the global warming expose’ “The Deniers” which has been on sale for 4 months!
I see a BN Bargain Books label in the savior of the planet’s future.
1. Grow a set.
2. Prove to us (your base) that you have a set.
3. Quit talking – we want to see action.
4. Do not embarrass us (again).
5. Know if this is a stunt, we will remember your missed opportunity and make you pay.
6. Press Bush – HARD.
P.S. Michelle, I think it unfair to call this a Dem vacation. There will be plenty of Republicans who will be a no-show. McCain will likely be one of them.
They should also direct some energy at the RNC and White House. Bush must call for an emergency session of Comgress.
Grahamnesty on Fox News Sunday said Obama as leader of his party should call the Dems back to DC. Bush and Pelosi are the only ones who can constitutionally do so.
At risk of repeating myself from another thread here I go anyway:
If the Republican Party and the Republican House Leadership have half a brain between the whole bunch, they’ll be back every day. Then they might have a chance in November, and maybe even some of us disillusioned conservatives might start supporting them again!
And Russ, it will garuntee the death of the Republicans for eternity.
I wonder how much fuel the Speaker is using while grovelling for her tree-killing book. Add that to the list of complaints fellas.
What I think — the House Republicans should just resume to go back to work as usual while the Dems squirm on their vacations. Show the people that they will not back down from this until Pelosi and her ilk agree to discuss this on the floor and find a solution.
Also, try to find wider distribution for those videos showing that Dems will not esek relief from this crisis even if the price goes up to $10.00 while they are on vacation. Those of us who read the right side of the blogosphere already know that Dems are not really working for the people. How many in the general population know this?
I sent this blog post off to my Rep.
One more suggestion that I Emailed to Boehner’s office yesterday:
Since the dems locked up the Capitol, hold daily briefings on the Capitol steps or out on the mall. Speak to the thousands of Americans who tour Washington, DC daily.
They do need to be aware of the need for some district activity, especially for those in tough races, but surely there are enough in safe districts that can keep a daily presence. District activity could also be used to highlight the ongoing protest in DC.
Again, let’s do it!
What the Republicans should do:
1. There should be at least a dozen congress members putting out this message every single day of the “vacation” … (still trying to figure out how they have done enough work to deserve a vacation?) … they should be taking turns returning to DC a few days at a time and doing this from the floor of the house or from the Capitol steps …
2. Across the nation the house and senate representatives from adjacent states in each region should join together with public forums to shout this out across those regions … it will force the local news outlets to cover it at the local level … no need to wait on the MSM … go directly to the people …
3. They must hold public meetings in all their home districts to drive this important point home … again … take it to the people …
4. These same representatives should organize and support public demonstrations everywhere supporting drilling here, drilling now … all the while developing alternative forms of energy for the future …
Oil is not going away any time soon … there is no solar, wind, thermal, electric, or other form of energy that will get me to and from work … today … tomorrow … and in the foreseeable future …
Time for the adolescents in Congress to move beyond their permanent state of puberty …
On August 3rd, 2008 at 10:04 am, NY Andy said:
Exactly! The image of Newt and the Republicans standing together behind the x-lrg Contract w/ America banner on the Capitol steps back in 1994 is one I remember vividly. It was high-impact and made a salient point – something the Republicans need to do now, and often.
The Republican party has millions to spend on ads. Make a slick ad showing Democrats partying on “vacation” while Americans suffer due to gas prices. Oil doesn’t make us sick it improves our lives. Nazi Palosi and her limousine liberals make us sick.
NY Andy, good call! I was most interested in the reaction of the tourists… daily briefings would certainly be a good way to keep the heat on.
Exactly. Keep Drilling the Democrats until we can drill for oil.
I really want to see a constant presence by GOP Congressmen and women taking shifts in the House of Representatives from 0900 hrs to 1600 hrs sitting in front of a web camera by candlelight if necessary explaining their position of a comprehensive energy plan including oil, natural gas, nuclear, coal, and any other cost effective alternative that can be developed by the private sector over the next few decades. This program should include tax incentives that require measurable results, tort protections from environmentalists and NIMBY cry babies, and eliminate the red tape of EPA restrictions while ensuring the environment is preserved within limits. I want to see a “Mr. Smith goes to Washington” style of reciting from the Declaration of Independence, the U.S Constitution (more people in this country need to have the contents of this document pounded into their point heads), the Federalist Papers, U.S. Immigration Codes, recite poetry, or just read a book out loud until either President Bush relents and order the Congress back to work or Comrade Peloski can no longer take the heat and returns after her 5 week disastrous book tour.
The way to win any military engagement is to make your enemy react to your movements and operations not to sit back and wait for them to hit you. Napoleon had one maxim he used often “When in doubt attack!” The time has come for the few good conservatives in the GOP to quit pandering to the RINO and Liberal lying crapweasels that continue to sell out the American taxpayer to OPEC and the environmental lobby. My advice to these conservatives in Washington DC is Attack! Attack! Attack!
Regardless of what happens over the next couple of weeks I will remember who has wanted to do something about this manmade energy crisis and who wants us to solve it by telling us to inflate our tires before going on a 5 week vacation when many of us have cancelled ours due to the high cost of gas. In November I just might have to go to Base Supply and draw some Chemical Warfare gear, have a couple of shots of Jack Daniel’s before stepping into the polling both and vote straight down the Republican ticket no matter how distasteful it may be (provided the grumpy old man can keep his mouth shut on selling me out to illegal invaders). I can always have myself decontaminated by the Base Decontamination Team afterwards and drink the rest of the bottle to help me forget what I have done.
Amen to that!
So I have a few questions, in all seriousness:
-Why didn’t President Bush do what you asked and call a special session?
-I could be wrong, but I don’t know if Sen. John McCain has even mentioned the event?
-This event that “rocked the House” had 25 House GOP members participating out of 198. I’m curious if the sentiment of having “session without a session to make a point” is shared by all the House GOP?
I’m very interested in the responses.
Boomer …
All they have to do is bring in some portable high-intensity lights (such as many of us use to work on our cars at night) to give them enough light on the podium for broadcasting … $25-$50 every day at Auto Zone …
Not to minimize the great Marine, but this quote originally came from Admiral Bull Halsey. It was his motto during WWII.
Desert Lover they could buy those lights with their Government Purchase Cards on our dime and I wouldn’t mind on bit. At least they would be in there trying to get something done for once.
Boomer said:
Great post … but I just had to fix that one part …
on = one
I hate it when I do that!
Boomer … agreed … lights are not an insurmountable problem …
It’s time to liberate the cameras from the tyranny of the majority. Why should the ruling party have total, absolute control of the cameras in the House and the Senate? WE THE PEOPLE OWN THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE.
And therein lies the key.
Run ads showing the Repubs not taking vaction, showing Nancy on her book tour, mixed in show a few pictures of everyday citizens filling up to get to work, more pictures of Dems on vacation, oil shieks frolicking in monte carlo, more pictures of repubs on the steps of the capitol still working. Highlight the price of gas on January 20, 2007 and today, highlight the price of bread on January 20, 2007 and today, highlight the unemployment rate on Jan 20, 2007 and today. If the only change between 2004 and 2008 was Nancy and friends taking control of congress, it’s not all Bush’s fault.
Hit fast, hit hard, hit often.
And during the non-olympics when the other national and local stations are looking for anything to compete, is the ideal time for some hard looks at where we are and how we got here.
I want to see the Republican Congressmen in Hawaiian shirts, sitting in lawn chairs “taking their vacation the same way the American people had to do this year: at home”. Right there on the floor of the House. Bring inflatable beach balls for the “visitors” to punch around in the galleries. I want to see beach towels laid out too. If everyone’s on vacation, make a BIG visual point SHOWING that they are. Put a beach towel on one seat for EVERY DEMOCRAT in the HOUSE! That would be GREAT!
hit return too early…
We the people should have 24 hour unfettered access to the unadulterated video feeds from the House and the Senate, not just what they want us to see. And the cameras should show the whole scene, not just the speaker…
Analysis:
Refute him with ridicule, not facts (like purple bandaids at the last Republican convention).
Deliberately distort what Obama said. The point he was making was that tuneups and proper pressure save as much gas as offshore drilling would produce — not very much. He did not say it would bring gas prices down.
Marine General order # (7or 8?):
I will quit my post only when properly relieved.
Why the heck are they coming home? I don’t think anyone told them to report home in person.
The title of Pelosi’s book “Know Your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters” creeps me out on two levels. First, rather than concentrating on doing what’s right, and giving up some power for that cause if necessary, the left is first concerned about maintaining and using their own power. Power to the people. Speaking truth to power. Second, the gender reference to daughters, about “knowing their power”? Don’t get me started. What a sick title.
“Madame Speaker, turn these microphones back on.
Madame Speaker, turn these lights back on.
Madame Speaker, end this media blackout.
Madame Speaker, end this censorship now.
Madame Speaker, tear down this wall of silence.”
From folks I know who have been pounding the pavement on the Hill, Pelosi has also claimed that “no new committees” will be given the OK in the House on her watch. She has simply put a gag on the legislative process by not allowing legislation out of the Rules Committee.
There is one piece of legistaion, House Res. 111 that has an amazing 280 co-sponsors,that is 64% of the House, and that legislation will not be released from the Rules Committee for a Floor Vote.
So much for democracy … but hey, she has priorities – Nancy has a book to hock over the break.
Marc The Infidel
I think they should continue this and mold it after the Berkeley tree sitters. Have people bring them supplies (hopefully roping it up to them somewhere). This would juxtapose them directly against the enviro- nitwits using their same tactics.
Remember how they treated Speaker Gingrich when he wrote a book?
Pelosi’s windfall book profits should be held to the fire as well.
Every penny should be demanded to be put towards a gas rebate check for all Americans who are hurting at the pump.
lgm,I don’t normally respond to your posts but, the facts is that Obama doesn’t even know what he doesn’t know about oil production.
And where’s McCain? A few words from him (in English) would help create momentum.
TMoney #50 I prefer the US Military Code of Conduct as an example to our Congressmen and Women willing to continue this revolt:
I agree they need to stay in Washington DC taking this popular revolt even further to the point of the orders given to Colonel Chamberlin and the 20th Maine at Little Round Top to “fight to the last.” After all his almost suicidal bayonet charge down the hill when ammunition was almost gone saved the day for the Union Army on its extreme left flank. The few conservatives in the GOP have nothing to lose from this fight and everything to gain.
lgm, Obama is refuted with plenty of facts on this site. There is nothing wrong with a bit of symbolism to support the facts.
lgm, please tell me how increased production (even if a modest one) won’t lower the price of oil????
BTW, I’m still waiting to see the model you built to support Obama’s claim. Please remember to include your assumptions and sensitivity analysis.
The Obama gaffe machine doesn’t need us to distort Obama’s words, lgm. He does a mighty fine job of it on his own.
Folks like lgm don’t want lower prices. There was a modest drop in prices after Bush lifted the ban, which indicates even the threat of adding domestic oil to the market will lower prices.
What lgm, Obama and the Democrats want is for us to sit at home, in the dark, freezing (or sweating, depending on the season), and using as little energy as possible (read: none) while they jet around, live in mansions, and use as much energy as possible.
The kind of economy and society liberals support is one where everyone is living in equal squalor and oppression while a few elites live like kings (which is what the communists did, mind you).
The GOP needs to hit hard and keep the donkeys running.
This election is Obama’s to lose. Thanks to Pelosi, et. al., he’s just might snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
McCain? I think he’s in Pelosi’s office working with her to destroy the republicans,
Amiright?
Pelosi’s not exactly visiting the red states to promote her book is she?
Why do the Democrats always ignore the 1.7 billion dollars a day that the USA spends buying imported oil? This could be cut in half, (or maybe more), if all the areas WHERE THE OIL IS were opened for drilling.
The huge trade deficit that is weakening the dollar is completely caused by oil imports…without them we would have a trade surplus. Hundreds of thousands of America jobs would also be created, and we would be less dependent on oil imports, making any interruption of imported oil less of a problem……..we especially need this since Pelosi’s idea of an energy policy is to drain the Strategic Reserve.
Off topic, admittedly, and more than a little scary (the “actor”?), but did anyone besides me this funny video?
Since our elected representatives in Washington have concluded that it’s citizens need no representation for the next 5 weeks, perhaps the Bush Administration should consider shutting the rest of the federal government down as well.
I am certain all those federal employees could use a 5 week hiatus (especially since the work 5, and not 4 days a week like Congress). And think about all the gas that will be saved by eliminating commutes for federal workers. Of course, they WOULD have to make sure their tires were properly inflated.
Since Congress gets paid for their 5 week vacation, it would be only proper to pay federal employees for their time off as well. What’s good for the goose….
I don’t know where Bush the Ballless is, and maybe on second thought it is best he stay out of this, but according to World Weekly News the following my explain McCain’s absence from the earthly concerns of conservatives and the American people:
ROSWELL, N.M. — John McCain visited hallowed ground for UFOlogists, using Area 51 to promote his plan for granting interstellar working visas. As a neighbor of alien-rich New Mexico, the Arizona senator has long supported the rights of extraterrestrials who wish to work in America, according to Humma Kavula, his liaison for alien affairs.
The Democrats’ five week vacation? The August recess is a traditional time for reps to meet with their constituents. Everyone leaves town in August.
That you call it a Democrat vacation in 2008 and you would have called it a Congressional vacation in 2006 shows how blinded you are by stupid partisanship.
Well, guess what? Things are different now. You may be able to afford $4.00-plus/gallon gas, but many can’t.
If the “most ethical and open congress” ever wants to do something for its constituents, they can continue working – like the rest of us – and find solutions to this nation’s energy problems.
Doing anything less is partisanship.
even if you say this BS threee times and click your heels rusty it won’t make it so.
This is all well and good, but very late. Where has been the conservative Republican leadership for the past 8 years? I re-registered as a NPA after the Florida primary debacle that gave us RINO Crist throwing his support behind the RINO McCan’t! Sheesh.
For someone that misses the difference between the events that transpired this year and years past, you might want to be careful how you weild that “stupid” club.
There was a motion to oppose adjournment this year. A motion that had more than just a little support. It was the Democrats that opposed and defeated the effort to keep Congress in session.
To ignore the events here while engaging in in name calling is nothing more than cheap, mindless partisan demagoguery.
My elderly uncle lives in the Southwest corner of Pennsylvania, an economically depressed area that used to supply coal to Pittsburgh’s steel mills. Both the mines and the mills are long gone, leaving behind dingy towns with not much going for them.
He tells me that driving at night in those parts is eerie, as there is almost no traffic on the roads. My bet is, the locals are staying home to save gas as they cling bitterly to their guns and Bibles.
But they too have TV, talk radio and the internets.
They can see what the Dems are doing to them, and they don’t like it one bit. (My uncle snorted derisively when I mentioned His Holiness the Messiah, saying Obama’s considered a joke down at the local Senior Center.)
These working-class, formerly union people used to be the natural constituency of the Dems. Pelosi’s refusal to even talk about addressing an issue of supreme concern to them gives Republicans an opportunity to chip away at what was once a secure part of the Democrat base.
So go GOP!!
Just a thought, maybe the Dems just want all those nice VACATION spots to themselves. They take their Tax payer trips and the “LOWWWWWWER” class won’t be there to crowd them out. All that happy well “earned” rest for doing nothing work. Post office naming is hard on the “Brain cells”
We are behind you, see you Monday Morning REP’S!!!!!!!!!!
Open Notice to the GOP …
NO COMPROMISES WITH THE DEMS ON DRILLING … PERIOD !!!
Under no circumstances give an inch as that will allow the Dems to spin the issue via the MSM that they were the ones that came up with a bill and addressed the issue …
Just watched the FOX segment with Price from Georgia about the House rebellion.. Too little, too late I thought(speaking about FOX coverage, not the rebellion). However, an ABC interview with Comrade Pelosi had her sounding like Barack(er and ah and silences and smirks etc.)when she was asked repeatedly why she did not allow discussion. She never answered the question.
One more thing GOP …
Only reaching across the isle I want to see is to slap a stupid libtard up the side of the head to get their attention and wake them the @#)$ up …
dl, would you want goo on your hand? not me.
Bull Halsey was a helluva sailor…
Too bad we don’t have some like him in the Repub party.
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but a shovel would work. lol.
It amazes me that so many people are desperate enough to think this event means a turnaround for the republican party. I think that this is just an election year publicity stunt.
At least for the next 5 weeks we won’t have either party flailing around trying to provide “solutions” to the country’s problems.
I love that when lgm and rusty make some stupid comment and everyone floods them with arguments, they suddenly and mysteriously disappear. I suppose they’re joining that chicken, Nancy Pelosi in her game of run and hide.
Speaking of the Witch, too bad she’s not coming to Austin. I would be there in a flash.
On a side note, I think it’s interesting how she chose some of the most liberal cities to pander to on her book tour. Ann Arbor? San Francisco? Los Angeles? Hmmm… I’m thinking that the logic behind that is conservatives would be unlikely to show up in those places, as most prefer to cling to their guns in relatively normal towns. San Francisco pretty much guarantees a conservative free zone.
Or, well, she realizes that those cities are the only ones in which she might get a standing ovation for her crappy book. I dunno.
My idea: Some videos on You Tube with concise talking points. The Dem side vs. Drill Now.
I see that Eric Cantor (R-VA) is one of the GOP Revolt participants!
He’s the one that McCain is taking a hard look at for VP. I just checked his record and he is rated “Hard Right Conservative” by OntheIssues.org.
Pro life, pro gun rights, pro Border Fence, pro Minutemen, pro English only, pro domestic drilling, pro tax cuts, pro marriage between a man and a woman, pro Patriot Act, pro voter ID, pro portable pension and SS…
anti UN, anti affirmative action, anti union, anti illegals…
I hope McCain picks him. He is a true Conservative.
It’s so nice to see the Republicans finally showing some backbone.I am reading The Obama Nation and Lord help us if this man gets elected.Read up about his interference with Kenyan politics and the side he supported it’s pretty frightening.
Given Nancy Pelosi’s “I’m going to save the planet”
and
B. Hussien Obama’s “the seas will recede” and “the planet will begin to heal”
I’m beginning to see a trend here. St. Nancy is the first apostle, can we identify the other 11? This Messiah Syndrome is definitly on the march. I hope the CDC paying attention.
PC is Thought Control
LEE
No, he wouldn’t stoop that low. But I guess supporting real conservatives is something he’s not that anxious to do.
You know Obama and the Dems are in trouble when both Rusty and LGM how up on a Sunday to obfuscate and equivocate about how wrong conservatives are to have or express an original opinion on anything social and/or political.
Anyone want to go to start a Philly protest with me? #0 pieces, Bloghooligan??
that should read 30 pieces
To those familiar with the term “guerilla marketing”, I would suguest printing stickers of Pelosi’s face (sorry to anyone eating) & sticking them next to the total sale read out on every fricking gas pump.
Now that is ROI!
Our liberal commenters have, like the MSM’s so-called “journalists”, progressed from “Hit-and-Run” tactics through “Drive-By” comments and now finally just pure “Shuck-and-Jive” …
brooklyn red
The text under that pic should read …
“You’re Welcome!!!”
I think its time we revisit the leases these msm outlets have on the alphabet channels. Time to break the monopoly, 2, 4 and 7 are even injecting politics in to sports broadcasts, commercials etc which has only driven me from watching what used to be my favorite programming, athletics. We don’t need three pravda’s open up the bidding, now there’s a way to generate some revenue.
Land, about 3.5 hours ago, I asked three serious questions of fellow commenters about this event. I have not seen any responses yet.
If you are still reading and did not disappear, would you like to respond (or anyone else)?
Nancy is trying to save the planet…by flying her big taxpayer jet to all these book promotions? Restrictions for thee, but none for me? I can hear her respond to the “green” questions already…”If my book helps just one little girl, then the CO2 I produced on the book tour would have been worth it!”
I haven’t heard yet, but is she cashing in on her book, or has she decided to give all the proceeds to “the children?”
Does she plan to reimburse the taxpayers for the cost of using the jet to promote her book? If she does, who wants to bet it will be at vastly undervalued/underestimated costs?
DesertLover, re; “your welcome”,
do you think??? I think that the visual can stand alone. But if that was followed up by a BHO (in a smokey the bear hat)sticker the copy would read, “remember, only you can inflate your tires” well that could work.
One, Bush may yet call a special session.
Two, John McCain is a senator this happened in the house. When I elect a senator I expect them to work in the senate same for my house reps. I didn’t elect my rep so a senator could lord over them.
Three, toward the end it was closer to fifty as reps turned around in their cars and came back. Monday will give us a chance to see if it grows. So that’s your problem there were only 25 or so participating, pretty weak. Tell me, how many people does it atake to start a movement, 26?
“Tell me, how many people does it atake to start a movement, 26?”
No, only one, but the movment has to want to start.
This is more of a conservative revolt against the leadership of both parties than a GOP revolt against the Dems. Powerline and Townhall have already stopped covering this and it is getting no play outside of Drudge and here with Michelle.
This is not good for McCain or Obama. This is a typical situation where McCain would ride over the hill with a “Gang of Liberal Traitors” to deliver a landmark victory for Ted Kennedy and Obama has no credibility. So the establishment stands to lose across the board if this revolt catches fire with us peasants.
I am still waiting the for Blue Dogs to take advantage of this and join in to support their conservative friends. The Republicans should stage a symbolic event every day to make it newsworthy and keep rallying the troops. This could save several GOP seats and empower the Blue Dogs to dump Pelosi if they step up.