The tricky part is that you have to vote for what is right for AMERICA as well as your constituents — hence DeMint’s vote is the right thing for AMERICA and the farmers in California.

Maybe Alexander is hoping to hamstring California farmers in lieu of Tennessee farmers.

The issue is a more significant one than an allegedly endangered fish. The Issue is water usage in a state that has an imbalance between the available water and its population and its agriculture.

We raise rice in the Sacramento Valley, an area that is naturally close to desert. We do that by taking water out of the Sierras. The only reason that was ever feasible is because that water was considered to be free.

Someone, at some point, needs to have the courage to examine what crops are grown under irrigation in CA and what crops can be grown on a sustainable basis. But we shouldn’t allow this to be done by an unelected, unresponsive judge or federal agency.

Lamar is an elitist and considers meeting with Tennesseans below his status. When he does meet it’s under a controlled situation. He is currently working to cut off mountain top coal mining with the EPA. That’s going to work out real well some of Tennessee’s neighboring states (/sarc).

And yes, the MOST important thing to Lamar are his liberal peers in the Senate. He definitely prefers their company to any of his more conservative cohorts.

Unfortunately, there really isn’t much that can be done to change Lamar. He was just re-elected in ’08 in overwhelming numbers. He comes around every 6 yrs and acts like he’s a conservative when he’s not and the rubes buy it. We can only hope this is his last term. I’m hoping he resigns early but that is really pie in the sky.

what an embarrassment!

Good Grief! anyone who has followed Lamar Alexander’s career knows that he is a big government hero and the bureaucrats best friend.
I’m surprised that Red State is just now finding that out.

Alexander won his first term against a real conservative due to name recognition, country club Republican donations and Democrat votes. He is a poor Senator but has the name recognition and the funding to get re-elected. Looks like we are stuck with him until he decides to retire.

It’s ironic the battle is over a fish…Tennessee had its’ own battle with a rare fish with the snail darter in the 1970′s in construction of a dam in East Tennessee (Lamar’s from East TN, Maryville). Turned out the fish flourished in other areas, too, outside of that habitat.

Looks like Lamar’s suffering from a little amnesia. Maybe this will be his last term. We can only hope.

according to the people I know who were around with Lamar as Gov and his election to the Senate. He’s always been a squishy Republican disguised as a conservative. My understanding is the RNSC interfered with the primary and backed the RINO vs the Conservative. Not a major surprise since Karl Rove was running things then. Rove always goes for the RINO, never the Conservative. Cornyn is following the same failed policy.

I remember when this RINO put on a lumberjack shirt and ran for president. He was the most pathetic Republican presidential campaigner until John McCain came along and retired the title for good.

Senators requires 60 to pass unless they vote for cloture. Don’t be fooled by the final vote! Go back and look at the cloture vote. If they vote for cloture, they were trying to get the bill pass. If they vote against cloture, but than vote on the final bill, they are fooling you because their final vote is the opposite of their intention in the cloture vote.

All politics aside if that is possible! I chose human survival first and foremost. If Washington wants the minnows so badly, let them be harvested and sent to Washington to be very carefully placed into the large reflecting pool in front of the Washington Monument. Then, Mr. Secretary of the Interior, turn on the water to the central valley of California once again to allow humankind to be fed and nourished. Lets see here…. 40%+ unemployment in this valley because of this minnow??? It is time for common sense to once again reign over this country as it was a basis of the writings of Thomas Payne and most believe one of the foundations of which our Constitution was penned and signed by our 39 Founding Fathers.

Trying not to be too political here. It is high time for Californian’s to rally behind the cause of common sense as your two US Senators are in favor of the minnow and adamantly against you the citizens and mankind’s survival! WOW. How about they don’t survive their next elections whether Democratic or Republican challengers makes no matter as long as they are looking out for you and mankind and not some minnow that would by the way be great fertilizer for the crops that feed you and I. The Governor has tried several times to have the water sent back into the valley with no positive results from the Secretary (or Czar) of the Interior or the President of the United States. So what to do at this point? Perhaps it is time for the 9th and 10th amendments of the Constitution allowing the States to exercise their rights in behalf of their citizens to be enforced and take Big Government’s grimy paws off of your land and allow you all to go about your business as you have been farming for so many generations you can’t remember! California, your voices must be heard so rise up to the occasion and inform your employees in Washington to do what you tell them or suffer the consequences they all fear in 2010! God Bless you all each and every one and give common sense to those that supposedly represent the will of the people in these trying times.