Republicans! Do you have a backbone?!
President Bush was elected for a second term with a clear Republican majority in the House and Senate. We sent our representatives to Washington to stand their ground and get something done for Americans. But Republicans are having a hard time getting the President's agenda passed. Why is that?! Because they lack the backbone and guts to use the power they have as a majority.
Democrats obstruct, delay, and point fingers and the Republicans’ response is to make a “deal“. Remember the filibuster issue with Bush’s judicial nominees? They should not have been blocked at all. They deserved to get a vote. So now, Democrats are back to the politics of obstruction. John Bolton, Bush’s nominee as US ambassador to the UN, had to be pushed through by Bush himself because of partisan tactics by the Democrats (and some Republicans) to block a vote on him. All of this political wrangling has me very annoyed. This country cannot stand to have our representatives in Washington playing politics and maneuvering to block progress. Those of you in Washington, remember! You work for us! The citizens of America who sent you there! I am tired of the finger pointing (from Democrats) and the arguing about what the current administration is doing! In the case of John Bolton, common sense tells you that we need someone who will be tough on the UN and encourage reform after its numerous scandals.
I want to see cooperation with the Republicans for the good of this nation. There can still be debate. But at the end of the day, give a thumbs up or down on an issue. One thing we should all agree on is how to handle the War on Terror. We aid our enemies when we disagree that going after terrorists and remaining on the offense is wrong. I wonder then, what would you have us to do? Talk with them? Try to make peace? What??!! It’s like trying to make peace with a cobra!
What I like about President Bush is that he remains focused, he stands firm on what he believes, and in the face of pressure and criticism, he never backs down. He is a praying man, an optimist. Some Republicans in the Senate need his strength. They need to follow his lead. The American people chose President Bush to lead our country for a second term because he shows strength during this time of trouble. Yes there are times I wish that President Bush would be more bold and blunt about certain issues (like illegal immigration), but for the most part, he remains strong. He knows what he came to come to Washington to do. He knows what his constituents expect of him and he’s working as hard as he can to accomplish that. What makes me annoyed is Senators who turn a total different direction and oppose the President on crucial issues ( Frist to Break with Bush on Stem Cell Research , Sen. Bill Frist Ignores Adult Stem Cell Successes ). When Frist decided to support removing restrictions from embryonic stem cell research President Bush put in place earlier, many conservatives were angry. We called, wrote, and signed petitions to let Senator Frist know that we disapprove. Who are you trying to impress Mr. Frist? Because if you are trying to run for the 2008 Presidential race, you just alienated many of your supporters. I was one of your backers and as a fellow Tennesseean, I was proud of the job you were doing up until you decided to go against the President and push for more embryonic stem cell research. A shock to me that was. I hope Frist is listening. If President Bush can be bold enough to take a firm stand on controversial issues, according to his beliefs, so can we!
Conservatives, get movin'!
It is our job as citizens of America to call, write, fax, whatever you can do to demand what we expect of our leaders. Some of us think that once we elected our representatives to Washington, we do not have to be politically active anymore. Do not make that mistake! Because where we lack in contacting our representatives and making our voice heard, the opposition is making up for it. No doubt Democrats and the liberal left are more vocal than Republicans. Cindy Sheehan, a grieving mother of a soldier who died in Iraq, decided to camp out at the President's ranch in Crawford, Texas, and make the President hear her complaints about the war in Iraq. No matter how distasteful she is at going about displaying her grievances about the war, blaming President Bush, etc., being that "mouthpiece" for the anti-war movement (keeping a blog on Michael Moore's website), and our enemies, she is very vocal and outspoken. I'm not praising what this woman is doing, but one woman alone started the movement in Texas. I have noticed though, that there is an effort to counter her anti-war movement in Texas. Pro-Bush supporters have rallied together to support the President in Crawford ( Pro-Bush Demonstrators Counter Sheehan ), but I think more needs to be done.
Another sad, ridiculous situation...at a march in Atlanta recently, notable black activists spoke out against black Republicans and bashed the Bush Administration (
Harry Belafonte Calls Black Republicans 'Tyrants' ). If these people can assemble and get together to cause a commotion, surely Republicans can do the same. We are not vocal enough. This rally in Atlanta is enough to get me ticked off and then some. One thing that I get sick of is black Democrats calling black Republicans names because we don't agree with the Democrat philosophy. The time has come to cut out the timid nature, Republicans! Time to get loud, get bold! Get a backbone! And let me say that the more people making the noise, the better. There are still a very many of you Republican citizens who are not doing anything at all and leave it up to just a few of us activists. There is strength in numbers. In this day and age, all Republicans should be as outspoken as possible. Not all in the same way, but there is an area where each Republican citizen can contribute. We have everything at our disposal to make our voices heard, so there is no excuse!
One issue that caused such an uproar was the outrageous decision of the Supreme Court to enforce Eminent domain on us citizens. I was sure that someone had the connections to get a rally, a march on Washington planned for protesting. Careless and foolish decisions of this magnitude deserve a HUGE response by caring citizens. Now we are beginning to see the effects of the decision made by the Supreme Court on Eminent domain ( State taking properties to give to Senecas ), people are losing their homes and businesses left and right through land grabs by the state. If we are not active to affect change for the better in this nation, we will see the consequences for our disillusionment, our unwillingness to act. What does it have to take, honestly, to get us motivated to speak out and be more active?!
Time to wake up
Where are you Republicans?! Are you going to sit back while democrats attack President Bush’s administration while offering no solutions? Or are you going to fight fire with fire and be as aggressive and intimidating and drive the point home that we are a force to be reckoned with?! You are too quiet! Things will not get done in Washington if we remain the “silent majority”. No more!
To the Republicans in Washington: start listening to your constituents! Because you work for us! Remain true to the values the Republican party stands for. Do not waver! Support the President in his decisions regarding the many issues we face! We have three more years to make a difference! Let’s get a move on!
To contact your leaders in Washington:
Write Your Representative - Contact your Congressperson in the U.S. House
9 Comments:
OoohRah!
Ha Ha, how does it feel to be annoyed? Enough with your rants, go join the army and fight in Iraq instead of hiding behind your keyboard.
If I may be so blunt (Re: Comment)
A-FREAKIN'-MEN!
no, republikans don't have a backbone. If they did, they would stand up to bush.
All comments are interesting. Cool. Yes I think Republicans need to find their voices and QUICK!!
Fee...so then you agree that if republicans had a backbone, then we'd stand up to bush?
I agree that Republicans should stand up and make their requests known, yes. Even if they disagree with something the President is doing. Not be extreme about it, but to let your voice be heard.
Too many people just are content with going about their own lives and not getting involved in political matters that will eventually affect them.
"Too many people just are content with going about their own lives and not getting involved in political matters that will eventually affect them."
Those are the people who are finally waking up to the sobering fact that bush is doing a terrible job. Look at the polling numbers. His poor image is taking a beating.
SHOW ME A GOP supporter AND I'LL SHOW A COLD-HEARTED CYNIC OR A DELUDED CITIZEN. For many years I have argued that the GOP is a party representing the worst values in American society, the vilest impulses in a human being, and that it exists, indeed it thrives in this country, solely because of the dilapidated state of political knowledge possessed by so many of our fellow citizens. This is a party that, far from thriving and winning elections, should be a footnote in the political debate in the US, or simply extinct. I say this with full understanding that its "alternative"--the Democrats--are no prize either. But, at least the Democrats pretend to have a more decent agenda, some of which they are compelled to honor on occasion (albeit without too much enthusiasm), just to remain in business. And, in all fairness, most of the Dems' rank and file are genuinely decent, well-meaning folk if badly crippled by an utterly dishonest leadership. (The party's base also suffers from a generalized malady some political taxonomists have now accurately diagnosed as "electoral superstition," stemming from a rather incurable extremism of the center, but that's another story.) The point is, fellow citizens of this new Rome, I didn't come here to damn the Democrats with faint praise, but to talk about the uncanny ability of the GOP to survive and prosper against all rational odds, today's GOP, not the GOP of Lincoln days. How does it get away with it?
Perhaps one of the things that is most illuminating about the GOP and its triumphs, which speaks volumes about the overall balance of social propaganda in the US, a gross inbalance, actually, and one jealously guarded by the ruling circles, is that even with frequent front-page exposes in leading newspapers, the American public still can't make up its mind to get rid of this certifiable pestilence. Just consider the introductory paragraph of this piece filed with the New York Times (10.5.04) on the effort by the usual suspects to protect tax shelters, which obviously the overwhelming majority of real, working-class Americans would oppose. I quote:
BY EDMUND L. ANDREWS
Despite widespread agreement that abusive tax shelters are costing the federal government billions of dollars a year, House Republicans are working to eliminate or dilute provisions in a new corporate tax bill aimed at cracking down on illegal shelters. The provisions, opposed by a range of business lobbyists and tax lawyers, are part of a larger battle in Congress over how hard to attack the rapidly expanding use of complex transactions that turn real-world profits into tax-world losses. The issue is coming to a boil in a House-Senate conference committee that Monday night resumed considering a corporate tax bill that would provide up to $170 billion in tax breaks.
[etc., etc.]
Well, there it is. It couldn't be clearer. The article points without obfuscation to the culprits. It says that some GOP representatives were openly engaged in what was essentially not only immoral but illegal as well: they were trying to defend not just any shelter, but illegal shelters. In a true, exemplary working democracy, as America is invariably depicted by its professional boosters, revelations of this sort should lead directly to swift removal and retaliation. There should be hell to pay—at least politically. We might sensibly expect calls for immediate remedial action, a storm of irate letters to the editor, a rejection at the polls at the earliest possible date, and certainly (from any self-respecting party), swift disciplinary action in the form of expulsion.
The actual reaction to this case of deliberate intervention against the public interest met none of these reasonable expectations. Politically morose America decided that doing NOTHING was the most appropriate response. Except from audible yawns in some jaded quarters, the polity as a whole simply shrugged the whole thing off and the spat over the improper tax allowances soon blew over. This despite the fact that the Times was not the only paper to run the story. As a result—or non-result, rather—nothing stirred to disturb the "comfort zone" of the inside players, and no punitive lessons were recorded. Why you may ask? The answer doesn't require rocket science to figure, even if its implementation remains difficult. The real reason for this astounding passivity, this hyperbovine tolerance to political affront, lies in the central fact underscoring the bankruptcy of American politics: the lack of a vehicle, dare I say it, party, to carry essential questions such as the elimination of political corruption, the attainment of universal health insurance, an honest and truly ethical foreign policy, the problem of unemployment, the vanishing environment, and a clear and progressive tax system, to the front of the nation's agenda, where they belong. Hard to believe it, but in 2005, and despite the posturings by both parties, all these issues remain orphans in the political sphere, while, thanks to the wily maneuvers of Republican strategists, we continue to be mired in unending, often fanatical, debates over the fate of fetuses and the marital status of gay citizens, both of which should be settled matters under the Constitution. Thus, if only because the GOP has no qualms in exploiting the most backward passions in our population, we're poised to reenact in our 21st century the colossal imbecility embodied in the so-called "Wars of Religion" that tore Europe asunder almost five hundred years ago.
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