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2006-11-06 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by OldSpook 2006-11-06 10:11|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 You got my partial list and there are additional things like tax policy, immigration, and on the senate, Judges - but the ones above are the most important for the house and thats the most important area.

What tribute do the Jolly Rodger band of Rantburger's have upon a Congress that owes its position to us?

After you make your 30 miinutes of calls tonight (putting on my best Drill Sgt Voice: And you will> make those calls trooper)...

What will you demand of the Republicans if they win?

How will you go about making your demands known - and hammering them until they give in?

What methods can you use to get to the Dems with the same things if the Dems win?

It'll be interesting to see how this all shakes out - but hopefully the Republican Party that emerges will be more like '94 (minus the impeachment distractions) than the do-nothings of '04.

What say you?

Posted by Oldspook 2006-11-06 11:22|| 2006-11-06 11:22|| Front Page Top

#2 1) Continue appointing ocionservative judges
2) Cut the non-military budget
3) Increase military spending
4) Sane immigation policies even if it means increasing quotas for Mexican immigration
5) Sedition and treason trials for those who speak out in favor of the enemy, including then pres

I gotta tell you if the right pulls this one out I am going after the media for their perfidy and treason.

Posted by badanov 2006-11-06 11:44|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2006-11-06 11:44|| Front Page Top

#3 For the next 24 hours you are not called OS round these parts, your new name is Drill SGT OldSpook! Fayetteville will never be the same!

Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan 2006-11-06 12:26|| 2006-11-06 12:26|| Front Page Top

#4 OS: Sign up and call or I'll kick your ass!

Yes Sir!!

»:-)

Posted by RD 2006-11-06 13:27|| 2006-11-06 13:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Interesting takes on this election form other blogs:

Any "Dems Win" result will be harped upon for what it clearly isn't: the great success of liberal ideas; instead, it's largely conservative distaste for elected Republicans that will drive them from office.

Politically speaking, victory would be a tar-baby.

The nation's tasks and image facing the Democrats will remain daunting; it will go from bully/cowboy to cut-n-run/coward, destroying what respect other might have remaining for the US. From disliked but feared, to a laughingstock is not a legacy the Demcrats will cherish, but its the one they will find themselves with. Either that or they turn back on their left/netroots.

absentee ballots are thus far tracking favorably for Republicans and that the get-out-the-vote program is proceeding as strongly as ever.

Like I said, interesting.

Make your voice known - and call others to get out there and VOTE!

And then be sure to call the GOP back, and tell them they OWE YOU and they better damn well pay up. There is no "next time" left for them.

Posted by OldSpook 2006-11-06 14:23|| 2006-11-06 14:23|| Front Page Top

#6 There is no "next time" left for them

There's always a 'next time' for me unless the Reps platform and policies become more unadulturatedly evil than the donks. Considering how far the donks have sunk into the filth, that won't be anytime soon, despite the Reps recent disappointing performance.

I see alot of nose-holding in my future.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-11-06 14:53|| 2006-11-06 14:53|| Front Page Top

#7 get in the primaries. thats where our revenge start hitting their complacent pork-fed fat asses.

Posted by OldSpook 2006-11-06 14:59|| 2006-11-06 14:59|| Front Page Top

#8 Reading OS today I don't hear the voice of a Drill Sgt. I hear the voice of an old school Jesuit priest.

Old School Catholic Guilt is a power unto itself.

I'm making some telephone calls.

I'll go so far as to drive my mother in law to the polls tomorrow. (But I don't have to like it.)

Posted by Mark Z 2006-11-06 16:01|| 2006-11-06 16:01|| Front Page Top

#9 Kick MY ass? Ha! It is to laugh.

Come get some, biatch.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-11-06 16:11|| 2006-11-06 16:11|| Front Page Top

#10 Mojo, its not the muscles, its the training. You'd never see me, and more's the pity, because you'd miss seeing the "gotcha" grin on my face. The fact that I've live to be an OLD spook should tell you a few things. *grin*

FYI, the GOTV site is running a bit slow and running behind on its responses, hopefully from heavy demand by volunteers, not Desperate Dem hackers.

If you cannot get thru on the web, try calling your state Repub Party office - google for it. they can help. Maybe even in Mass.

Off to man the barricades, oops, I mean Phone Bank. We got a race to win here!

Posted by OldSpook 2006-11-06 17:00|| 2006-11-06 17:00|| Front Page Top

#11 CLEAN UP THE CORRUPTION
First, No revolving door to K-Street: Anyone that serves in Congress is BARRED PERMANENTLY from lobbying it. PERIOD. Next, if you fix the budgeting process, the corruption issues will clean themselves up. But in the meanwhile, make hard rules. If you are seen to have improperly interacted with a lobbyist, or get popped with $90,000 in your freezer, you are suspended. No votes needed, sorry - yer outta there until your are cleared. The state governor will appoint a temporary replacement until you resign or are exonerated.

Good, but not good enough. Use it to start with then escalate. ALL lobbyists must be banned. None. Zero. Zip. Nada. Zilch. Bupkus. Not a one of them. Buying influence must no longer be shielded by freedom of speech. It is destroying our country's political system.

If influence can be bought, it will be peddled by those who can be bought.

End of story. Our politicians are too damn obsessed with re-election to be immune to money held out by special interests. Soft money (PAC) should probably be prohibited as well. If a company wants legislation passed, it can go to its employees and the surrounding community to explain why enacting such a measure or law would be good for the locals. It can ask for (not demand) their vote and hope for the best.

No more going with suitcases full of cash to buy lawmakers. This is happening on both sides of the aisle and it is destroying America. If you want to know why voter turnout is so low and public opinion of politicians can only be expressed using negative numbers, this is one of the big reasons why.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-11-06 19:52|| 2006-11-06 19:52|| Front Page Top

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