STUPID IS AS CONGRESS DOES: “On Tuesday, the U.S. House voted on H.R. 5140, the Economic Stimulus Bill. As you may know, I was one of only 25 Republicans to vote against the bill. Every American knows that the Federal government does not have the money to pay for these rebates. We will have to borrow it. It makes absolutely no sense to me to go give away money we don’t have.” - Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.)
Speaking of the two dozen Republicans in the House who voted with Congressman Shadegg against the feel-good/do-nothing economic stimulus bill, here’s who they were…
Paul Broun (GA)
Michael Burgess (TX)
John Campbell (CA)
Howard Coble (NC)
Barbara Cubin (WY)
Tom Davis (VA)
Nathan Deal (GA)
Jeff Flake (AZ)
Randy Forbes (VA)
Phil Gingrey (GA)
Louie Gohmert (TX)
Virgil Goode (VA)
Duncan Hunter (CA)
Tim Johnson (IL)
Jack Kingston (GA)
John Linder (GA)
Ron Paul (TX)
Ted Poe (TX)
Tom Price (GA)
Dana Rohrabacher (CA)
Ed Royce (CA)
James Sensenbrenner (WI)
Tom Tancredo (CO)
Lynn Westmoreland (GA)
OINK, OINK!
“Citizens Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) has named Rep. David Hobson (R-Ohio) Porker of the Month for earmarking funds for a public restroom and gas station. Rep. Hobson added a $300,000 grant for ‘construction of Phase III of the west plaza comfort station’ to the Fiscal 2008 Omnibus Appropriations bill.
“…A member of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, Rep. Hobson in 2001 secured another earmark of great notoriety that recently came to fruition. Pursuing a personal mission to fund a gas station in Wilberforce, Ohio ever since he almost ran out of gas there more than 20 years ago, Rep. Hobson earmarked $800,000 to the Tawawa Community Development Corporation in Wilberforce for the project.”
- Citizens Against Government Waste, 1/31/08
MCCAIN A QUINTESSENTIAL INSIDER
“(John McCain is a) quintessential Washington insider, a man who has been there 25 years, knows all the lobbyists, knows all the Democrats all the Republican, knows who owes who, has favors to repay and scores to settle.”
- Mitt Romney in a conference call yesterday
MCCAIN NO REAGAN CONSERVATIVE
“It’s true that McCain is unpopular with Reagan conservatives because he decidedly is not, on far too many issues, a Reagan conservative. But it’s more than that. He is the anti-conservative. He instinctively sides against conservatives and relishes poking them in the eye. He enjoys cavorting and colluding with our political enemies and basks in the fawning attention they give him.”
- Columnist David Limbaugh
THE MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION
“I am now persuaded that Sen. John McCain will be the Republican nominee. I am neither rooting for nor against him, but that is the way it appears to me. . . . The Conservative Talk Radio World has its collective knickers in a twist about McCain but they will have to answer the same question as everyone else: Is a flawed McCain better or worse than President Hillary Clinton?”
- Rich Galen of Mullings.com, 2/1/08
UNALTERABLY STUPID
“I’d rather deal with President Hillary than with President McCain. . . . At least under President Hillary, Republicans in Congress would know that they’re supposed to fight back. When President McCain proposes the same ideas — tax hikes, liberal judges and Social Security for illegals — Republicans in Congress will support ‘our’ president — just as they supported, if only briefly, Bush’s great ideas on amnesty and Harriet Miers. You need little flags like that for Republicans since, as we know from the recent unpleasantness in Florida, Republicans are unalterably stupid.”
- Columnist Ann Coulter
WILL NEVER VOTE FOR MCCAIN
“While John McCain has risen to the top of the heap among contenders for the Republican presidential nomination, Focus on the Family founder James Dobson remains adamant that he will not support McCain’s bid for the White House. Dobson, one of the nation’s most influential evangelical Christians, declared more than a year ago that he wouldn’t support McCain under any circumstances. A Dobson spokesman told the New York Times’ David Kirkpatrick Wednesday that he stood by that position, and as a matter of conscience could never vote for the Arizona Senator.”
- NewsMax.com, 2/1/08
A PARTY DIVIDED
“If John McCain secures the Republican presidential nomination, his victory would signal a revolution in American politics - a divorce, after a 28-year marriage, between the Republican and conservative establishments. . . . McCain is winning despite conservatives, not because of them.
“Those who built the American right, from Barry Goldwater in 1964 through the Reagan and Gingrich revolutions, are intensely aware of the dangers a McCain victory portends. Some on the right feel it would be less damaging to their cause to lose the 2008 election with the Republican-conservative alliance intact than to win with John McCain.”
- Columnist E.J. Dionne
WHEN HELL FREEZES OVER
“The truth is that John McCain could have been fairly called a conservative at one time, but that is no longer an accurate designation for him. McCain is not just a squish or a RINO, he is a man who seems to take pleasure in publicly fighting against conservatives on issues of great import.
“That’s why John McCain may become the de facto leader of the Republican Party if he’s the nominee and the leader of the country if he’s the President, but no matter how many times he calls himself a ‘conservative leader,’ the Right will accept him as the leader of the conservative movement about 5 minutes after hell freezes over and reopens as a ski lodge.”
- Columnist John Hawkins
Posted on February 2nd, 2008 by Chuck Muth
Filed under: National
If James Dobson is against John McCain, then that is all I need to support him for president. I was hoping that Romney gets the nomination, but it looks like that isn’t going to happen. As a libertarian conservative, I don’t appreciate the likes of Dobson telling me how I should live my life. I can think for myself, thank you very much.
McCain is an absolute abysmal imbosol!! He’s a RHINO republican and tried to shove amnesty down our throat 2 times with “HIS OWN BILL”. HE IS FOR TAXING USA companies only to solve a so called GLOBAL warming problem. Well what about the rest of the WORLD? You people drink the kol-aid of the press and are completely UNINFORMED.
ROMNEY is this COUNTRYS BEST HOPE.
You want to know something else, STUPIDY BREADS ITSELF. You will believe anything someone tells you if you are uninformed and that is what the liberal media is counting on.
DO YOUR OWN HOMEWORK!
John McCain should be renamed as JUAN McCain. Have you noticed who his heading up his HISPANIC outreach group for this race. If not, Google “McCain and Dr. Juan Hernandez.
I WILL NOT, SHALL NOT AND CAN NOT VOTE FOR JUAN McCain, I would rather the Republican Party dissolve, period!
Richard, your statement, “STUPIDY BREADS ITSELF” is very telling. Even spellcheck will not save that comment.
But, I agree with you about McCain. I would rather have Hillary than McCain or Obama. At least we would know what we were getting.
A cash giveaway will not have any positive long tern effect on our economy. Giving money to people who may or may not pay taxes is bizarre. Using the term rebate versus bonus has a psychological effect on people who spend bonuses and calculate the value of a rebate into the purchase price of an item, and how do you “rebate” funds to people who don’t pay taxes? To distribute a “rebate” to 166 million will cost about $81 million in postage alone. ,
Semantics aside, how about rewarding people who deserve it? I propose to give veterans a five-year no federal income tax pardon for every one year of service in the military and if the veteran serves in a combat zone I would excuse them from paying federal taxes for 20 years and I’d like to see a special veteran tax rate to pay veterans back fro their service and sacrifice for our country. In addition to rewarding people who put their lives on the line for our country, it would be a strong impetus for people to choose the military as a career plus, since we have the IRS and Department of Veteran Affairs in place we could save the postage costs and implement a program to stimulate the economy that would reward veterans. I believe the money saved on taxes would be spent and that we could address our dwindling military enlistment issue. Also with a higher net disposable income veterans may qualify for some of the glut in foreclosure houses inventory that further weakens our economy. Who deserves a tax break more than a veteran? Besides naming US Post Offices and blowing the lid off of baseball steroid use what the hell has congress done in the last 8 years that they can be proud of? We desperately need more common sense leadership and administration.