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2010-04-16 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Fred 2010-04-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 McConnell is a mush, not much better than McCain or Graham - basic Beltway insiders. Part of the problem, and in the way of the solution.

They better get it into their pointed little heads _ the top of the GOP has failed, and we are just as likely to vote them out in a primary. Ask Bennett of Utah how that's working.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-04-16 01:22|| 2010-04-16 01:22|| Front Page Top

#2 a RINO is just as bad as a donk... at least with the donk, you know up front you are gonna get screwed.

Posted by abu do you love 2010-04-16 01:25|| 2010-04-16 01:25|| Front Page Top

#3 I like this...the Tea Party ought to be the mechanism by which that watch-dogs and scares politicians into staying true to fiscal conservatism and core Constitutional principles - the Tea Party should never become a wing of the GOP...I almost always vote GOP at the national level but am sick of so many of them being Dem-lite or feeling this pathetic need to be liked by the D.C. cocktail party circuit...

Posted by Broadhead6 2010-04-16 09:05|| 2010-04-16 09:05|| Front Page Top

#4 'Earn your spurs and you can get on our stage.' There's an old line: 'We don't call you a cowboy until we can see you ride.'

There are good conservatives out there. The rest have failed the trust of the American people just as the Donks. Time to clean house [and Senate], and the White House in 2012. We need to get some honest people in office who don't consider office another form of long-term government welfare. Get rid of the elitists who think they are entitled. We don't need more of the same of what we've been getting for a long time.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-04-16 09:08|| 2010-04-16 09:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Good for the organizers. The tea party is about smaller government and less taxes. If the RINOs can't get that through their pointy heads, they should expect to be given the cold shoulder.

Then voted out.

Posted by DarthVader 2010-04-16 10:15|| 2010-04-16 10:15|| Front Page Top

#6 Top down has failed. Time for grass roots to take over. What were those famous first three words. larger than all others, written with a pride that is palpable more than 2 centuries later...?

WE THE PEOPLE

Posted by No I am the other Beldar 2010-04-16 12:25|| 2010-04-16 12:25|| Front Page Top

#7 Oh hell yeah! There are problems within both parties. Rino's aren't really much better than liberal Democrats. The more of them kicked to the curb the better.

Posted by Jefferson 2010-04-16 12:41|| 2010-04-16 12:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Funny that the best, straightest reporting on this phenom is coming from TheHill.com, maybe also Politico.com. The reporters are drawn from the same milieu that NYT-WaPo-ABC-CNN etc are, but thehill.com and politico.com have a lot fewer editors looking over their backs.

IOW, the problem may be the editorial hierarchy and the need for reporters to kiss the arses of those in power to advance up the ranks at the old media organizations. Eliminate the hierarchy, give reporters more freedom, and shift to the online model of politico.com and thehill.com, and perhaps we'll see fairer, more insightful coverage....

Posted by lex 2010-04-16 15:38|| 2010-04-16 15:38|| Front Page Top

#9 Hey -- John Boehner ("Bay'-ner") has been doing a good job leading Republican opposition in the House to all the Democratic efforts. Remember back when the Democrats actually turned off the lights in the House, and Rep. Boehner led the discussion by the Republicans in the dark, twittering events to the outside world?

Posted by trailing wife 2010-04-16 22:56|| 2010-04-16 22:56|| Front Page Top

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