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Friday, April 15, 2005

I Ain't A Clue Why We Have A Problem Here!

Just heard Hugh Hewitt on AM1280 The Patriot say at the beginning of his nationally broadcast radio show that he supports moderate and center right Republican Senators. And he then goes on to proclaim and anguish over the fact that Republicans seem to have no spine in the fight over Senate rules and the filibuster of Federal Appellate judges.

Duh!

I have urged so many people to go out and buy David Horowitz's book "The Art of Political Warfare" and read the first half.
Do you think for a minute...no, a second, that if the Demoncrats were in the majority in the Senate and the Repubs were in the minority and filibustering that the Senate rules would not be changed in a heartbeat? Hah!

When I saw a few months back the news conference where Tom DeLay, in response to all the spurious charges against him, said "I'm not going to stoop the tactics that my opponents are using." I casually said to the screen”Then you've already lost and will be out of the House."

Read Horowitz's book. He understands the enemies of liberty and their tactics.


This just in- On the way home from the office I heard Hewitt say that he'll support liberal Republican Senators as long as they support the Republican Party! And he wants to know why he again anguishes over the lack of a certain male hormone in the Republican Party?



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Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Now is time for all good conservative to come to the aid of their party

Yesterday the Appeals Court invalidated the Personal Protection Act.
While I may go into a discussion of their decision later, I want to review how we got here and who is to blame.
In my opinion, I put this at the feet of the House Republican Caucus and Ron Eibensteiner.

My two main reasons:
1) Greg Peppin, with the caucus either approving or at least not objecting, decided that getting his wife elected was more important than keeping the Republican Majority. He left Lynda Boudreau unprotected and instead of a last minute ad buy to help protect someone who supported and got passed one of the key MN GOP platform planks, they ran ads advocating an expansion of gambling. The DFL put a target and Boudreau and no one was there to help. No help from the House Caucus and No help from Ron and the MN GOP.

2) One of the three Judge who made the ruling was no other then David Minge. That name may seem familiar since this is the same David Minge who was thrown out of office by us Minnesotans. But if you are a liberal, why bother with winning elections when you can just make the laws from the bench. So why would I blame this on Ron Eibensteiner. Since the Supreme Court ruling that allowed political party endorsement and activity for judges, people have been fighting against Ron to get something done. And Despite attempts at both the State Convention and numerous state central meetings, Ron has refused to do anything about judges except continue to form committee’s that never meet on the subject. Thus, when we had a chance to remove Minge last November, Ron did nothing. A different court – A different outcome.

If Rob Eibensteiner continues as head of the MN GOP we will continue down the path of political patronage at the house and ineffectual response to the judicial tyranny we now allow.
It is time for a change and I hope that someone will rise up to challenge before State Central so that conservatives can have a true voice in Minnesota.

posted by Savage Republican at 8:44 PM permalink 0 comments

Sunday, April 10, 2005

Constitution??? Nah...we got ourselves RULES!

A bad back and misreading the schedule and I'm home on Sunday morning and able to watch Fox News Sunday. Sen. Cornyn(R-Tex) and one of the Gang of Four Sen. Chucky Cheese Schumer.
I'm listening to the two of them debate and they're just getting to the point where they're talking about the Constitutional option (badly misnamed by Sen. Lott as nuclear option). And what I'm hearing from Schumer (and his fellow Gang of Four) that changing the rules of the Senate is equivalent to making the Senate a "Banana Republic". In other words, rules trump the Constitution. Interesting. But not surprising coming from them. Schumer is blathering on about how the Senate is the "cooling saucer" of the government (said this 4 x's now). Schumer fumes that he and his ilk are preserving the Constitution, the spirit of the Founding Fathers, blah, blah, blah...Yah, right. And the Brady Bill protects the 2nd Amendment and of course is allowed under the 10th Amendment. As is the honey subsidy, mohair subsidy, WIC, Social Security, corporate welfare, ANY welfare...all allowed under the Constitution. I just can't find that allowance in my copy. Sorry. I'm currently looking for a Congressional and Federal judiciary copy of the Constitution
The very first thing that ALL Senators do is break their oaths of office.
Clowns in suits and pantsuits.
A caller on the Hugh Hewitt Show on AM1280 The Patriot suggested that 51 Senators send individual letters with notarized signatures to the President of the Senate (Dick Cheney) consenting to the nomination of Bush's judges. Hmmm...
Oh, and quick add on: the question was raised if the lefties would shut down the government over the consideration of a Senate rule change. Did you people know that when the Republicans were accused of shutting down the government in the '90's that it wasn't the Republicans? Did you know that there was a fully approved budget in front of President Clinton at the time? That it had increases across the board? Clinton refused to sign a fully approved budget because he wanted higher spending increases. So, who shut down the government?

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