Repudiate them!

The Drudge Report has an article reporting how Powell, Ridge, and Gingrich disagree with the Cheney-Limbaugh view of the Republican Party. They believe it needs to be more inclusive in order to win elections. Powell hypocritically claims to be a good Republican in spite of his endorcement of Obama (With Republicans like that, who needs Democrats?). The article goes on to say, "Pointing to President Ronald Reagan's at appealing to Democrats and independents as he carried 49 states in 1984, Gingrich – himself a potential 2012 contender for the party's presidential nomination – concluded, 'I think Republicans are going to be very foolish if thy run around deciding that they're going to see how much they can purge us down to the smallest possible space.'" Mr. Gingrich forgets that Reagan did not win the support of Democrats and Independents by watering down his message. He won them over by articulating his message in powerful and meaningful ways that spoke to the majority of Americans.

I can't help thinking that what Powell and Ridge really mean by being more inclusive is softening the hardline Republican position on abortion ("If we would only lighten up on abortion, we could win more elections"). I think this is both bogus and disingenous on their part, first because the majority of Americans are against abortion on demand, as demonstrated in a recent poll, and second because they ought to just come right out and say that they want to change the platform on abortion. To me, these guys are examples of the biggest problem the Republican party has and they ought to be publically repudiated at every opportunity.

Another reason to be glad Specter defected.

From HumanEvents.com (May 10, 2009: The Senate Judiciary Committee procedural rules state: "Eight Members of the Committee, including at least two Members of the minority, shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of transacting business... If there is objection to bring the matter to a vote without further debate, a roll call vote of the Committee shall be taken, and debate shall be terminated if the motion to bring the matter to a vote without further debate passes with ten votes in the affirmative, one of which must be cast by the minority." On April 29th, only one minority member attended the Hamilton hearings, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), whose tough questioning opposed Hamilton, so no vote was permissible. (David Hamilton is an extreme anti-Jesus, anti-Life liberal judge.)

When Specter had ruled Judiciary as GOP minority ranking member, he could likely be counted on by the Obama administration as "one soft vote" to promote liberal judges. But now since Specter is no longer Republican, he cannot help Obama. And in breaking news this week, solid conservative Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) has assumed Specter's place of leadership as minority ranking Member, and all other Judiciary Republicans Hatch, Grassley, Kyl, Graham, Cornyn, Coburn, can generally be counted upon (with the possible exception of gang-of-14 member Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC, 202-224-5972), to stand firm against abortion and religious censorship. Now Sen. Sessions says he agrees with Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), that we should oppose and filibuster Hamilton's nomination to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, the same court that reversed his liberal, activist, aggressive decisions for years.

How true and how obvious!

"We give all this money to all these different entities, including automakers, and now they’re talking about, ‘Well maybe it’s better to let them go bankrupt.’” So says Charles Key, Oklahoma state representative. He concludes, "Well, maybe we should have let them go bankrupt before we gave them the money.”

Could there be a more obvious statement?