Stampeding RINOs
November 30th, 2010 - 10:36 am
Here’s the telling detail in Politico’s write-up of the earmarks ban vote in the Senate: “Coburn had hoped to get to 40 and was hurt by the defections of eight Republicans, many prominent in the Appropriations Committee.”
You just can’t pull these piggies away from the trough — until the next primary, that is.
Seems like a direct challenge to the Tea Partiers–give them so many targets that the project to reform the Republican Party can be continued only at the price of jeopardizing the Senate for another cycle.
A price worth paying, IMO. Especially if the Republicans take the White House, in which case leaving the Senate in democratic hands may be a positive good.
I concur. As long as the GOP controls the House, and thus the purse strings, it is time to clean house in the GOP. Once that’s accomplished, then work on getting the fascists out of the Democratic Party.
I know it’s easy enough to look up for those of us so inclined but it would be nice if every blogger mentioning this story were to list them by name.. just as a reminder.
Your wish has been heard, and your wish has been granted.
From big Gov’t: “Eight GOP senators voted to preserve earmark spending, including Thad Cochran (Miss.), Susan Collins (Maine), James Inhofe (Okla.), Dick Lugar (Ind.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Richard Shelby (Ala.). Retiring Sen. George Voinovich (Ohio) and defeated Sen. Bob Bennett (Utah) also voted against it. “
Gosh, it’s like Lugar is daring (DARING, mind you!) people to start a “why we need to primary Dick Lugar’s seat” list. He needs to take some VegaVitamite to remove the plaque from his entitled brain before he has to run as an independent.
Too much attention is being spent on the 8 GOP sentators (two of them lame ducks) who voted against the ban and not enough the 40+ dems who made that vote. A majority of GOP Senators voted for the ban, a majority of Dems didn’t. That needs the be the message, not a handful of GOP senators made one bad vote. The more you harp on the 6 minor problems, the more to do the liberal media’s job to perpetuate the myth that both parties are the same, which gave us the 2008 disaster.
Please, please, tell me you didn’t actually expect the lefty Dems to vote for this en masse. Their entire political philosophy depends on Uncle Sugar dispensing the pittances to the Little People, if they were gonna abandon that, they’d become conservatives.
“Dog Bites Man” isn’t headline-worthy… neither is “Democrats Vote Against Restricting Government Pork.”