Here is a thread at Patriot Action Network with a list of Republicans who voted for the budget cave in. When I said we need to hold their feet to the fire, this is what I was talking about...hold them accountable.
First Term GOP House Members Who Voted for The Budget Control Act of 2011
(50 First term Republicans supported the bill)
Sandy Adams (R-FL) Lou Barletta (R-PA)- No Town Halls Scheduled for Aug. Dan Benishek (R-MI) Rick Berg (R-ND)- Town Hall Schedule Click Here Diane Black (R-TN) Larry Buschon (R-IN) Francisco Canseco (R-TX)- CHECK WEB CANSECO.HOUSE.GOV Rick Crawford (R-AR)- None Scheduled Jeff Denham (R-CA)- Scheduled Events Click Here Charlie Dent (R-PA) Robert Dold (R-IL) Sean Duffy (R-WI) Renee Ellmers (R-NC) Blake Farenthold (R-TX) Bill Flores (R-TX) Cory Gardner (R-CO)-Town Hall Info (mon 7/8) Click Here Bob Gibbs (R-OH) Chris Gibson (R-NY)- Town Hall Schedule Click Here Tim Griffin (R-AR) Paul Gosar (R-AZ) Michael Grimm (R-NY) Frank Guinta (R-NH)- Town Hall Schedule Click Here Richard Hanna (R-NY)- Planning Stages Nan Hayworth (R-NY) Joe Heck (R-NV)- None Scheduled Jamie Herrera-Beutler (R-WA) Bill Huizenga (R-MI)-Town Hall Schedule Click Here Robert Hurt (R-VA)-None scheduled Bill Johnson (R-OH) Mike Kelly (R-PA)- Planning Stages Adam Kinzinger (R-IL)- Finalizing Details James Lankford (R-OK)- None scheduled yet Billy Long (R-MO)- None Scheduled Tom Marino (R-PA) David McKinley (R-WV)- Town Hall Schedule Click Here Patrick Meehan (R-PA)- Ck website in a few days meehan.house.gov Kristi Noem (R-SD)- No Town Hall Info Available Rich Nugent (R-FL)- Town Hall Schedule Click Here Alan Nunnelee (R-MS)-Town Hall Schedule Click Here Steven Palazzo (R-MS)- None Scheduled Tom Reed (R-NY) Jon Runyon (R-NJ) Bobby Schilling (R-IL) Steve Stivers (R-OH) Daniel Webster (R-FL)- No town halls for summer Alen West (R-FL)- Town Hall Schedule Click Here Steve Womack (R-AR)- Town Hall Schedule Click Here Rob Woodall (R-GA)- Town Hall Schedule Click Here Todd Young (R-IN) Stephen Fincher (R-TN)
GOP Senators Who Voted for The Budget Control Act of 2011 And Whose Term Expires 2012
John Barasso (R-WY) Scott Brown (R-MA) Bob Corker (R-TN) Kay Hutchison (R-TX) Jon Kyl (R-AZ) Richard Lugar (R-IN) Olympia Snowe (R-ME) Roger Wicker (R-MS)
First Term GOP Senators Who Voted for The Budget Control Act of 2011
Roy Blunt (R-MO)-None Scheduled John Boozeman (R-AR) John Hoeven (R-ND) Mark Kirk (R-IL) Rob Portman (R-OH) Bob Corker (R-TN) Scott Brown (R-MA)
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fierobear Member
Posts: 27104 From: Safe in the Carolinas Registered: Aug 2000
These are the Republicans who voted AGAINST the sell out bill:
Justin Amash (Mich.) Michele Bachmann (Minn.) Chip Cravaack (Minn.) Jason Chaffetz (Utah) Scott Desjarlais (Tenn.) Tom Graves (Ga.) Tim Huelskamp (Kans.) Steve King (Iowa) he neeeds support in a tough race www.steveking.com Jim Johnson (Ill.) Tom McClintock (Calif.) Mick Mulvaney (S.C.) Ron Paul (Texas) Connie Mack (Fla.) Jim Jordan (Ohio) Tim Scott (S.C.) Paul Broun (Ga.) Tom Latham (Iowa) Jeff Duncan (S.C.) Trey Gowdy (S.C.) Steve Southerland (Fla.) Joe Walsh (Ill.) Joe Wilson (S.C.)
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Oct 15th, 2011
fierobear Member
Posts: 27104 From: Safe in the Carolinas Registered: Aug 2000
I thought Edwards pulled a Gingrich? And Gingtrich pulled a "insert name here" and so on and so on. Oh wait some people here feel the one side has the moral high-ground.
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htexans1 Member
Posts: 9115 From: Clear Lake City/Houston TX Registered: Sep 2001
I thought Edwards pulled a Gingrich? And Gingtrich pulled a "insert name here" and so on and so on. Oh wait some people here feel the one side has the moral high-ground.
While not the "moral high ground" I would say the GOP seems to be the "self cleaning" party whereby they get rid of the scandal ridden members much quicker then the communists democrats do.
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Jun 20th, 2012
fierobear Member
Posts: 27104 From: Safe in the Carolinas Registered: Aug 2000
I thought Edwards pulled a Gingrich? And Gingtrich pulled a "insert name here" and so on and so on. Oh wait some people here feel the one side has the moral high-ground.
I'm not a big fan of Gingrich. So what is your point?
Nah, I think dratts could handle it. He *can* be reasonable...now and then. It's rayb, neptune, kido and the other ideologues that can't deal with reality.
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Jun 24th, 2012
avengador1 Member
Posts: 35468 From: Orlando, Florida Registered: Oct 2001
Senate Democrats along with five Republican Senators helped to block a Republican backed move to scrap EPA regulations on the coal industry. Keeping the regulations in place will ultimately kill jobs as it has already done and but the coal industry out of business. This means Barack Obama will have succeeded at bringing the coal industry to its knees, which will also help advance his promise, “Under my plan” energy rates “would necessarily skyrocket.”
“A substantial amount of the electricity we produce in the country comes from coal. And this new regulation would devastate the jobs that depend on this cheap, abundant resource,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) just ahead of the vote on the Senate floor on Wednesday.
According to the Kansas City Star,
The measure, sponsored by Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., failed, 53-46.
Picking an election-year fight over the wisdom of instituting new environmental regulations in a weak economy, Republicans argued the rules will force older power plants to close, putting people out of jobs, and will drive up the cost of electricity.
Inhofe warned senators that by voting against his measure, “you are effectively killing coal in America.”
What are the five RINOs, so that you can write them down and vote them out of office next time they come up for re-election? I’m glad you asked.
Protein Wisdom gives us the names and the little circus act that ensued on the vote.
All of which pales in comparison to the actions of several Republican Senators who crossed over and voted with the Democrats to kill off coal in the US — to stifle growth, to further burden those already struggling with the loss of equity in their homes, to ensure that the economy remains moribund, all for the cheap grace of pretending to support a cleaner environment.
Because not only did these GOP Senators — Lamar Alexander, Scott Brown, Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, and Kelly Ayotte — cross over to help the Democrats defeat the Inhofe bill, the fact that they crossed over allowed several Democrat Senators up for re-election to themselves cross over and pretend to be conservative and pro-growth without costing their Party the vote.
The White House had threatened to veto Inhofe’s plan on Monday claiming that it would “cause substantial harm to public health and undermine our nation’s longstanding commitment to clean up pollution from power plants.”
Jeff G. also points out this is exactly why it is important to know what one believes and what their character is when you vote them into office. It is not enough that they wear a team’s jersey. It is more important you know what the person stands for in his core convictions.
I just wonder what people will do when they will either be faced with rolling brownouts or ever increasing electricity costs. Will many of them turn to these elected officials who have sold them and the coal industry out?
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dratts Member
Posts: 8373 From: Coeur d' alene Idaho USA Registered: Apr 2001
MY HEAD! MY HEAD! Oh God it hurts! Yeah I'm not hard right anymore. I know that all of us can agree on some points though. We won't agree on everything, even Fieros. Apparently some of you guys think that anything other than your view is hard left. I'm not hard left either.
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MY HEAD! MY HEAD! Oh God it hurts! Yeah I'm not hard right anymore. I know that all of us can agree on some points though. We won't agree on everything, even Fieros. Apparently some of you guys think that anything other than your view is hard left. I'm not hard left either.
So true.
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Jun 25th, 2012
avengador1 Member
Posts: 35468 From: Orlando, Florida Registered: Oct 2001
Evan Kenney had just turned 18 and registered to vote for the first time when he campaigned to be an alternate delegate to the Republican National Convention. Lauding Ronald Reagan’s principles and blasting Keynesian economics at the Lynnfield caucus in April, the Wakefield High School senior beat out several well-known Massachusetts Republicans, including the party’s most recent nominee for governor, Charles D. Baker Jr.
But earlier this month, Kenney was one of 17 delegates and alternates disqualified by a Republican committee deciding who gets to represent Massachusetts Republicans at the national convention in Tampa. Kenney and others had failed to deliver in time an affidavit swearing, under the penalty of perjury, that they would support Mitt Romney’s nomination for president.
An affidavit is never mentioned in the Republican Party’s rules for selecting delegates and has never been required of delegates in the past, GOP critics say. Suspicions are steep this year because Kenney and the others are supporters of Ron Paul, the libertarian candidate whose quixotic campaign for president culminated in an effort to take over state caucuses nationwide. The delegates must vote for Romney, based on his strong primary win in Massachusetts, but Paul’s supporters hope to use the convention to draw attention to his agenda, including auditing the Federal Reserve and requiring wars to be declared by Congress.
In Massachusetts, Paul’s Liberty Slate swept the Republican caucuses in April, stealing delegate spots that were expected to go to Romney’s friends and allies, whom he had selected. Massachusetts, a state dominated by Democrats and typically marginalized at national Republican events, could have an unusual share of the limelight at this year’s convention, since its former governor is the party’s expected presidential nominee.
Some libertarian-leaning delegates balked at the notion of signing legal affidavits pledging what they had committed verbally at the caucuses where they were elected. Many later submitted them, but not until after the deadline.
As a result, the committee disqualified them, winnowing the number of Liberty delegates and alternates to the convention from 35 to 19, said organizer Brad Wyatt. (One Liberty delegate was added due to the changes in the roster.)
“I’ve been rudely awakened to the realities of politics,” Kenney said. “I feel I’ve been cheated.”
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Aug 15th, 2012
fierobear Member
Posts: 27104 From: Safe in the Carolinas Registered: Aug 2000
Regardless of whether he is a better candidate than Stearns, the more this happens the more long standing GOP members will realize they need to straighten up or get booted.
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masospaghetti Member
Posts: 2477 From: Charlotte, NC USA Registered: Dec 2009
Despite your best intentions, you are part of the problem.
Government is built on compromise - you condemn any politician who compromises as a "coward" or as waiving a white flag - thus leaving us with the extremely divided two party system we have now, with nothing reasonable in-between. This is why the government is petrified and useless.
In countless posts you defend the action of a Republican by saying "Well the democrats did it before and it was OK then, so why aren't they complaining now?" Completely misses the point. Its not about Republicans vs Democrats. Both parties and their associated corruption prevail when the electorate is so blindly divided between the two parties, as it distracts the people from the real issues (special interests, buying votes, the politicians themselves).
The tea party has some good ideas but they are decidedly no-compromise and definitely not moderate. I don't have any faith they will help our current situation. WE NEED moderate Democrats, moderate Republicans, and independents in office - not the extremes!
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fierobear Member
Posts: 27104 From: Safe in the Carolinas Registered: Aug 2000
Originally posted by masospaghetti: Its not about Republicans vs Democrats. Both parties and their associated corruption prevail when the electorate is so blindly divided between the two parties, as it distracts the people from the real issues (special interests, buying votes, the politicians themselves).
You uproot corruption by removing incumbents and send a message that you won't put up with it anymore.
Dems need their own Tea Party. I am not sure why they Tea Party doesn't work inside there too. Any particular reason?
The Tea Party isn't restricted to Republicans. If you believe in limited government and lower taxes, the Tea Party welcomes you. That tends to be Conservatives, though.
The Dems tried to create their own Tea Party. They got the Occupy movement.
The Tea Party isn't restricted to Republicans. If you believe in limited government and lower taxes, the Tea Party welcomes you. That tends to be Conservatives, though.
The Dems tried to create their own Tea Party. They got the Occupy movement.
