All of the vast holdings of the Feds is unconstitutional.They should have been auctioned or sold of privately.

National parks belong to all of the people and we pay for their maintainance.

On May 13th, 2009 at 3:51 pm, lgm said:
This post would get MM branded as a RINO, especially because I agree with her on this. There’s hope for the world.

As usual, lgm, you’ve got it wrong and demonstrate you don’t even know what a RINO is. Unlike liberals who march in lockstep in support of all things Democrat and in disagreement with all things Republican, conservatives have no problem expressing their disgust at either party when they are stinking up the joint.

When conservatives complain about the spending binge the government is on, liberals say why didn’t you complain when Bush was POTUS. The fact is this forum had plenty of people commenting negatively on Bush’s entitlement spending, lack of border enforcement, etc. We criticized then and we’re going to criticize now that BO owns the current disaster. And whether you, the fawning Obama-obsessed media, and BO himself want to admit it or not, he owns it now.

MM is sticking up for principles, something neither a RINO nor a Democrat would ever do. You agree with her simply because she is commenting on the GOP’s lackluster performance… again. You’ll always agree with that POV.

But you taking a critical look at the Democrats when they do something that erodes the foundation of this country? It’s not possible. You lack the thinking gene.

This actually had less to do with Obama really wanting David J. Hayes in the slot and more about payback for favors Hayes did for O.

Putting Hayes’ name up for appointment knowing he most likely wouldn’t make it paid back whatever political favor Obama thought he owed Hayes. It cost Obama nothing and now the slate is clean.

These clowns do the wrong thing for the wrong reason more often than not.

This is another of the reasons I am no longer a Republican…

This wasn’t a party line vote, and the story has been misreported.

This is about Reid being incapable of counting the votes. He knew that Kerry, Kennedy and Mukloski were absent – and had two of the three been present, Hayes would have passed.

The vote could have been delayed until that was the case, but instead, this was a political trick to make the GOP look bad – and the media aided and abetted with their shoddy reporting.

Besides, it wasn’t a party line vote – given that two of the GOPers voted to approve Hayes (Snowe and Kyl).

If you want to cast blame on the vote failing, it rests squarely on Harry Reid and no one else.

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at least they….sorry

In addition, three Democrats who would support Hayes were absent — Sens. Edward M. Kennedy (Mass.), John Kerry (Mass.) and Barbara Mikulski (Md.).

Wait, three dems who support his nomination could not be bothered to vote and its the republican’s who obstructed the nomination and are playing political games? Anyone think that maybe these dems were told not to vote to make it LOOK like the republicans obstructed the vote?