Fifteen Republican Senators voted against Jim DeMint’s measure to ban earmarks in the Senate.
Those fifteen were:
- Alexander (R-TN)
- Bond (R-MO)
- Bunning (R-KY)
- Cochran (R-MS)
- Collins (R-ME)
- Gregg (R-NH)
- Hutchison (R-TX)
- Inhofe (R-OK)
- Lugar (R-IN)
- Murkowski (R-AK)
- Roberts (R-KS)
- Shelby (R-AL)
- Snowe (R-ME)
- Voinovich (R-OH)
- Wicker (R-MS)
Senator Bob Bennett, who denounced the measure to a RedState contributor, did not vote at all.
Friends, we can change the Republican Caucus in the United States Senate. But we have to unite behind the real small government conservatives out there. We must get on the same page to improve our own.
Here is the list. We need these guys:
Ken Buck in Colorado
Chuck DeVore in California
Michael Williams in Texas
Marco Rubio in Florida
Rand Paul in Kentucky
Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania
Danny Tarkanian in Nevada
Marlin Stutzman in Indiana
Mike Lee in Utah
And if we can, I say we go with Ovide LaMontagne in New Hampshire and Christine O’Donnell in Delaware. Let’s go all and all in for small government conservatives. This year is our last best chance in a long time to get a slate of solid conservatives.
Steve Maley
KnightsofMalta
Dan Spencer
Moe Lane
Dan McLaughlin
last best?
ojmo Tuesday, March 16th at 10:04PM EST (link)don’t forget 2012, when we have something like 9 up for reelection versus dems’ 24 (those numbers are approximate from memory).
You are correct re 2012, meanwhile in 2010...
audax (Diary) Wednesday, March 17th at 4:25AM EST (link)In 2012:
9 GOP
22 Dems
2 Indies voting with Dems.
In 2014:
20 Dems
13 GOP
Meanwhile regarding the election this November 2010. On list of 15 Repubs voting against Jim DeMints proposal to ban earmarks:
Alexander (R-TN) 2014
Bond (R-MO) retiring 2010 (Roy Blunt)
Bunning (R-KY) retiring 2010 (Rand Paul)
Cochran (R-MS) 2014
Collins (R-ME) 2014
Gregg (R-NH) retiring 2010 (Ovide LaMontage?)
Hutchison (R-TX) 2012, retire now she’s not in Governors race? Doubt it.
Inhofe (R-OK) 2014
Lugar (R-IN) 2012
Murkowski (R-AK) 2010 NO PRIMARY! May 18th 2010
Roberts (R-KS) 2014
Shelby (R-AL) 2010 NO PRIMARY June 1st 2010
Snowe (R-ME) 2012
Voinovich (R-OH) 2010 (Rob Portman)
Wicker (R-MS) 2012
Doesn’t look to encouraging as to a different result in 2011 except for possibly Paul and Portman, if they win the general. After elections in 2010, we now have a starter list of Incumbent GOP Senators that may need a primary in 2012 and 2014.
Anybody know what KBH plans to do now? Still retiring? Article re potential election dates below.
http://campaigndiaries.com/2009/11/13/texas-special-election-could-still-be-held-in-may/
Audeamus pro audere est facere
At least Sen Jugghead (R-NH) is retiring.
wayneinnh (Diary) Wednesday, March 17th at 9:53AM EST (link)He started out good but has been a bit of a disappointment lately.
Jon 14:6 –
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.”
It’s not intellectual to believe we evolved from hydrogen gas.
Erick
earlgrey (Diary) Tuesday, March 16th at 10:06PM EST (link)Congratulations on your new job. It is heartwarming to hear of success coming to those who have worked for it and taken risks to get there. That is what the American Dream is all about.
Please help me understand how we reconcile (the word of the day!) all of our efforts to put conservatives in our government positions, with others who claim that once this bill passes America changes forever to become socialist with no turning back.
Tell me why to keep fighting on Monday!
Why keep fighting? Because you still have breath. nt
Aaron Gardner (Diary) Tuesday, March 16th at 10:22PM EST (link)conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!
“We’d be much better off if We The People had desired small government enough to keep it.” acat
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We are still Americans...
audax (Diary) Wednesday, March 17th at 4:37AM EST (link)“I have not yet begun to fight!” John Paul Jones as the “BonHomme Richard” was sinking during his engagement with Serapis.
“Don’t give up the ship”, the dying command of James Lawrence in 1813 aboard the USS Chesapeake.
“We’ve been looking for the enemy for some time now. We’ve finally found him. We’re surrounded. That simplifies things.” Col. (later Lt. Gen.) “Chesty” Puller during Battle of Chosin Reservoir, December 1950 Korea
Audeamus pro audere est facere
let's dump them!
Doc Holliday (Diary) Tuesday, March 16th at 10:07PM EST (link)maybe Shelby and Bond are ok guys, the rest I could care nothing about.
Molon Labe!
Bond is not seeking another term. nt
Xasteius (Diary) Tuesday, March 16th at 10:13PM EST (link)Don’t leave the party, hijack it back!
The only poll that counts is the one at the ballot box.
I don’t want to be Reagan. I want to be a Chance/Soros hybrid.
well there you go
Doc Holliday (Diary) Tuesday, March 16th at 10:14PM EST (link)no need to attack him then. Just thank you sir for your service and it is time to move on
Molon Labe!
Shelby HAS to go!
marshmom (Diary) Tuesday, March 16th at 10:19PM EST (link)He has done several things recently that just can not be overlooked.
He had an earmark in the “stimulus” for “Catfish Genome Mapping” and is working with Dodd to give the Fed more power.
I just emailed him and told him his actions are unforgivable and this is too important a time in our nation’s history for someone like him to hold a Republican position in such a conservative state.
We need true conservatives. Not old softies like Shelby. Sessions, our other senator, is another story. He’s a solid, reliable conservative (so far).
I’m ashamed that Shelby is part of the problem.
Sessions is the man!
Doc Holliday (Diary) Tuesday, March 16th at 10:24PM EST (link)I just said in general I liked Shelby, it is still probably the fond memories of the shiv he stuck in the Dems. It is time for new blood, it is time our small government rhetoric is backed up by actions.
Molon Labe!
I've been screaming about Shelby
Melody Warbington (rwm52) (Diary) Wednesday, March 17th at 4:25PM EST (link)to anyone who would listen for the last couple of years. He started out as a Democrat and sad to say just never fully developed into a conservative. He was pretty high on the list of takers from Fanny Mae & Freddie Mac and love to spend, even though he brings a lot of money home. I’ve told him more than once that I don’t care how much bacon he sends to AL, the spending has got to stop. Sessions is on track most of the time, but he got his fair share of my wrath yesterday about his vote to fund the Boys & Girls Club. I asked for an explanation of his vote in writing and will share when I get it. I told him that I’m sick of a 75%-80% conservative and that I want and expect more from him.
The woman saith unto him, I know that Messiah cometh (he that is called Christ): when he is come, he will declare unto us all things. (John 4:25)
Future GOP Primary Candidates???
audax (Diary) Wednesday, March 17th at 4:39AM EST (link)On list of 15 Repubs voting against Jim DeMints proposal to ban earmarks:
Alexander (R-TN) 2014
Bond (R-MO) retiring 2010 (Roy Blunt)
Bunning (R-KY) retiring 2010 (Rand Paul)
Cochran (R-MS) 2014
Collins (R-ME) 2014
Gregg (R-NH) retiring 2010 (Ovide LaMontage?)
Hutchison (R-TX) 2012, retire now she’s not in Governors race? Doubt it.
Inhofe (R-OK) 2014
Lugar (R-IN) 2012
Murkowski (R-AK) 2010 NO PRIMARY! May 18th 2010
Roberts (R-KS) 2014
Shelby (R-AL) 2010 NO PRIMARY June 1st 2010
Snowe (R-ME) 2012
Voinovich (R-OH) 2010 (Rob Portman)
Wicker (R-MS) 2012
Doesn’t look to encouraging as to a different result in 2011 except for possibly Paul and Portman, if they win the general. After elections in 2010, we now have a starter list of Incumbent GOP Senators that may need a primary in 2012 and 2014.
Audeamus pro audere est facere
Rand Paul will be a porker
jpniner (Diary) Wednesday, March 17th at 10:23AM EST (link)while voting against the budget like his father.
Rand Paul will be a porker
jpniner (Diary) Wednesday, March 17th at 10:23AM EST (link)while voting against the budget like his father.
Good list
raydawggie Tuesday, March 16th at 10:11PM EST (link)I’m backing all of them except Buck and Paul. I have my hesitations about Paul, and in the case of Norton vs. Buck, I find them both to be acceptable candidates.
However, I’m not sold at all on LaMontagne or O’Donnell. Is there anything that Ayotte has done that would indicate she won’t be a solid conservative voice in the Senate? She’s polling very strongly, and strikes me as a solid addition. As for O’Donnell, she’s a past loser, and while Castle doesn’t impress me, Delaware’s a key step in getting the Senate back. With the Democrats showing there is no depths they won’t sink to in support of their agenda, I’m loath to risk a seat like that. Castle will destroy Coons, and he should be a safe vote against the worst elements of the Dem agenda. Not to mention a vote for (hopefully) Majority Leader DeMint.
These are the only two cases where I do believe that the Conservative candidate is weaker in the general. In cases like DeVore, Stutzman, or Rubio, they’re just as strong or stronger.
Norton is not a good option
Wes_W Tuesday, March 16th at 11:50PM EST (link)Jane Norton supported Ref C a couple of years back. Ref C was the largest tax increase in Colorado history. If she is going to support a massive tax increase in Colorado do you trust her on a national level?
The Facts about Ref C and why won't Norton answer a simple question?
socobird (Diary) Thursday, March 18th at 3:46AM EST (link)Norton supported Ref C & D, the largest tax increase in Colorado history, although D did not pass. Norton is directly asked why she supported Ref C and has never come clean and said why she supported it.(Read story below)
Here areare few of the donors who advocated to put Ref C & D on the ballot:
Denver Chamber of Commerce…..$708,000
Pat Stryker…………………………$280,000(Coda)One of the biggest lib’s in the state.
Colorado Education Association….$250.000
Tim Gill………………………………$250.000[Gill foundation advocates for LGBT(Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender)equality].
SEIU…………………………………$130.000(Service Employees International Union is the fastest growing union in North America.
AFSCME…………………………….$110.000(2nd or 3rd largest labor union in the U.S., also one of the fastest growing unions. Largest single contributor to political campaigns-having donated $38 million since 1990 almost exclusively to Democratic Party Campaigns.
Check out what The Cato Institute, The Heritage Foundation and the American’s for Tax Reform, have to say about Colorado’s Ref C tax increase and how detrimental it is for Colorado: http://taxincrease.org/
Norton cannot answer straight questions such as the one on this link: Jane Norton’s response to a direct question, 2 times:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/01/jane-norton-draws-fire-fr_n_480961.html
Jane Norton defends her support of Ref C
by David K. Williams, Jr. | 12:48 pm, January 29, 2010
According to an article by John Tomasic of the Colorado Independent (“GOP Senate candidate Norton goes on the record: ‘I’ve not been a lobbyist’“), Republican Senate candidate Jane Norton recently explained her support of Referendum C when she was Lieutenant Governor thusly:
She explained her vote in favor of the Colorado Referendum C tax increases, referencing the state’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights. “Referendum C was TABOR in action. I was part of an administration that cut taxes 43 times…. But when revenues fell by 17 percent and we instituted across the board spending cuts, froze capital expenditures– all the things the governor knew would be important to get our budget on track and balanced, he decided to go to a vote of the people, and that’s the beauty of Ref C: It allows you to do that. So the people spoke on that… I’m a strong supporter of TABOR… unlike what’s happening with Gov. Ritter in circumventing the people’s will.”
What she says is accurate. TABOR allows for increased taxes if the voters approve of the increase. Ref C asked the voters to let the state government raise taxes, and it passed. Her criticism of Ritter is also accurate. He is trying to raise taxes without seeking voter approval in violation of TABOR. She dodges the important point, however. By supporting Ref C, she supported higher taxes. And that, my friends, is the point.
Earmarks Are a Pindrop Issue To Me
Swamp_Yankee (Diary) Tuesday, March 16th at 10:15PM EST (link)In reality it has nothing to do with spending since the money is already being llocated. Earmarks are a method of allocation.
Its the spending, not how the money is allocates that matters.
If we ban earmarks, does that mean that we support spending by unelected beaurocratic, shadow government officials.
As Fred Thompson said, earmarks are “a drop in the bucket”. They make no difference on the debt or the deficit.
So much going on that is critical. This is McCain turf.
I can't agree Swamp
Doc Holliday (Diary) Tuesday, March 16th at 10:20PM EST (link)this dime has two sides. If Senators did not have the power to earmark, would they be so excited about government spending? particularly Republicans so called conservatives?
earmarks are how the congresscritters buy votes, you take that away, that takes away a lot of incentive to waste our money.
Molon Labe!
There May Be Truth To That
Swamp_Yankee (Diary) Tuesday, March 16th at 10:28PM EST (link)But a couple facts still exist. Earmarks make up less than one percent of the budget. It is still inconsequential to the big picture
And beaurocrats are a bigger enemy of conservatism and the Republic than even the worse elected official.
I know people hate earmarks, but why people are so content letting that money go to some “Czar” and the shady Department heads is beyond me.
Yeah, lets cut spending, but if the money is already spent, I’d rather have Jim Inhofe directing those funds than a shadow government radical like Van Jones.
I sir am far from content
Doc Holliday (Diary) Tuesday, March 16th at 10:37PM EST (link)but we need real small government conservatives in power. Those that like to play the Lord of the Manor by doling out alms probably don’t fit the bill.
I doubt many would match my plan for the bureaucrats. I would start by abolishing the Department of Education and then start cutting other departments (except Defense) at least 10 percent a year down to at least half their current budgets. Even state and defense would be changed to reward savings and effectiveness. And we would purge the State department of all radicals and leftists.
Molon Labe!
Wonderful
Swamp_Yankee (Diary) Tuesday, March 16th at 10:41PM EST (link)… if conservatives could somehow generate enough public support to eliminate these ridiculous Departments, I’ll celebrate with you. The day the DOE is gone is the day that I Fed-Ex you a case of your favorite beer.
Doc, how ya doing?
GJ Merits (Diary) Tuesday, March 16th at 10:52PM EST (link)I think this is same doc from TPP.
The only way in my mind to end the DOE is pull power from the centralized behemoth to the states which requires nullification. Then each state would control its own education.
I like your thinking.
I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents….James Madison
If you want to go fast – go alone. If you want to go far – go together.
To win against tyranny you must embrace not only novel solutions, but fear of the unknown as well.
Not the same Doc, what is TPP?
Doc Holliday (Diary) Tuesday, March 16th at 11:01PM EST (link)anyway, I might leave a token department of Education for things like visas to highly skilled immigrants, but that could go into another department. The goal is to return to the Constitutional Republic.
Molon Labe!
Tea Party Patriots
GJ Merits (Diary) Tuesday, March 16th at 11:27PM EST (link)I was a member and write for their blog. Someone over there with the same handle. Your namesake is running for a House seat.
I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents….James Madison
If you want to go fast – go alone. If you want to go far – go together.
To win against tyranny you must embrace not only novel solutions, but fear of the unknown as well.
GJ MERITS STOP NOW.
Aaron Gardner (Diary) Tuesday, March 16th at 11:03PM EST (link)Do not make this thread about nullification unless you are ready to terminate your account and walk away from Redstate.
Now I am not a moderator, and please do not take this as a threat. This is just good neighborly advice I am giving you here.
Do not make this about nullification. Stop now.
conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!
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No problem
GJ Merits (Diary) Tuesday, March 16th at 11:30PM EST (link)Didn’t mean to step on your toes. Apologies.
I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents….James Madison
If you want to go fast – go alone. If you want to go far – go together.
To win against tyranny you must embrace not only novel solutions, but fear of the unknown as well.
I often wonder
youthgrunt (Diary) Tuesday, March 16th at 10:53PM EST (link)if the big opposition to earmarks is missing the bigger point as you point out. We can fix earmarks (which should be fixed) and not make an iota of difference. If we were to fix unconstitutional spending and not earmarks we would make a difference.
But they do make a nice target even if they aren’t substantive.
Inhofe has been rather entertaining
earlgrey (Diary) Tuesday, March 16th at 10:18PM EST (link)with the global warming fiasco. Don’t know much else about him.
Aren’t these guys kind of old any way? I like getting in some young blood like Rubio. I also really wish that we could get Williams in for TX. It really bothers me that we don’t have a more diverse representation in the republican party.
At the tea party protests I have gone to, we have gotten some honks and support from african americans. I am in an area with a lot of minorities.
I am tired of the old spineless establishment republicans
Wubbies World (Diary) Tuesday, March 16th at 10:26PM EST (link)They need to go!
The blood letting from 2006 and 2008 is not completely finished. However, this is the year we started getting better replacements.
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Hutchison - it figures
izoneguy (Diary) Tuesday, March 16th at 10:27PM EST (link)she lost the Republican nomination for the State of Texas so she is back at her Kay “Bailout” ways. See Texans are smart.
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
Yeah were smart because when Ms Huchinson is in a primary
Richard Mullins (Diary) Tuesday, March 16th at 10:51PM EST (link)there isn’t any one to run against her. I did some look in to the archives here in Harris county and like no one has ever run against her. that concluded that she couldn’t really run on a primary. I can only think of her as better than the Democrat(very true).
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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.
Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.
Yeah, wasn't she supposed to retire?
wingsauce Tuesday, March 16th at 10:57PM EST (link)Heck, Medina beat her in my area. Keep your work Kay, Get out!
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oops
wingsauce Tuesday, March 16th at 10:58PM EST (link)should be keep your word Kay.
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Ma Hutchison has been served
popdaddy Tuesday, March 16th at 10:57PM EST (link)The citizens of Texas advised she isn’t in the plans for Texas future.
Unfortunately she probably expects to make the most of her last two years to feather her bed rather than resign like she promised.
She is a disgrace, Texas has much more to offer.
I'm not too proud to say I was wrong about Kay
trutexan Wednesday, March 17th at 6:02AM EST (link)I was surprised (and disappointed) to see her name on the list of no votes. So she really is a RINO? Maybe I just wasn’t paying close enough attention.
I’m so glad RS is here to keep everyone informed and straight.
Adios Kay. Should you now go back and your word and decide to run again, you’ve lost my support.
I was anti-Obama before it was cool.
With Republicans like these
DerKrieger (Diary) Tuesday, March 16th at 10:28PM EST (link)…who needs Democrats? Seriously, the old guard Republicans are largely responsible for the current welfare state for refusing to challenge the Left’s basic premise that the government should solve our problems. Instead of telling the Democrats that the problems are not the responsibility of the federal government they accepted the premise and simply negotiated for a smaller solution. A solution the Democrats were only too eager to accept and then grow in later years. The old guard must go for they are the enablers of BIG government.
“In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson
“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.” – James Madison
Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.” — John Locke, 1690
Just curious
paulnashtn Tuesday, March 16th at 10:34PM EST (link)of the 15, how many are running for re-election this year?
Retiring Senators
Kyle-MI (Diary) Tuesday, March 16th at 10:56PM EST (link)Bond, Bunning, and Vionovich are all leaving this year. I don’t think that Blunt will be a much better replacement of Bond. Portman should be a great step up from Vionovich.
Gregg's gone, too. ~nt~
america1st (Diary) Tuesday, March 16th at 11:21PM EST (link)Logic in the mind of a liberal is like a snowflake in the desert: lost, alone and soon destroyed by a hostile environment.
If only...
Gigi Wednesday, March 17th at 8:11AM EST (link)Lugar was retiring as well. He has moved further left with every passing year. He needs to be GONE! Stutzman will be a great improvement over Bayh, but there was little difference between the two Indiana Senators over the past few years.
“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”
- Alexis de Tocqueville
The Washington disease
indyjohn Wednesday, March 17th at 9:06AM EST (link)When Dick Lugar first arrived in D. C., he was a solid conservative. Unfortunately, the cultural miasma that pervades our capital has slowly altered his brain chemistry. He now sees himself as some sort of International Statesman and a Wise Old Man of the Senate. Actually addressing the needs and desires of his Hoosier constituents appears to be beneath his dignity. It’s such a shame. The perpetual ego-stroking that occurs in Washington destroys the minds of all but the strongest.
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Edmund Burke
Here is list
audax (Diary) Wednesday, March 17th at 4:45AM EST (link)Now you know…
Alexander (R-TN) 2014
Bond (R-MO) retiring 2010 (Roy Blunt)
Bunning (R-KY) retiring 2010 (Rand Paul)
Cochran (R-MS) 2014
Collins (R-ME) 2014
Gregg (R-NH) retiring 2010 (Ovide LaMontage?)
Hutchison (R-TX) 2012, retire now she’s not in Governors race? Doubt it.
Inhofe (R-OK) 2014
Lugar (R-IN) 2012
Murkowski (R-AK) 2010 NO PRIMARY! May 18th 2010
Roberts (R-KS) 2014
Shelby (R-AL) 2010 NO PRIMARY June 1st 2010
Snowe (R-ME) 2012
Voinovich (R-OH) 2010 (Rob Portman)
Wicker (R-MS) 2012
Doesn’t look to encouraging as to a different result in 2011 except for possibly Paul and Portman, if they win the general. After elections in 2010, we now have a starter list of Incumbent GOP Senators that may need a primary in 2012 and 2014.
Audeamus pro audere est facere
Hutchison
lurker9876 Tuesday, March 16th at 10:46PM EST (link)I believe that she will be done in 2012. She won’t be able to win against Michael Williams.
GO MICHAEL WILLIAMS!!
She never really run against any one in campaigns for Senate
Richard Mullins (Diary) Tuesday, March 16th at 11:04PM EST (link)so I’m sure that she either will not win on a contentious primary or will not run. I’m guessing that she won’t run.
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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.
Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.
Utah
jstanard Tuesday, March 16th at 10:48PM EST (link)Utah is all in for Mike Lee against Bob Bennett. Mike Lee has incredible momentum going into this, and things are looking VERY good.
Utah is going to lead the way, and get a true conservative, small government, constitutionalist in the US Senate. That will be Mike Lee.
Bunning..
dontell Tuesday, March 16th at 10:53PM EST (link)You disappoint me….
Has Anyone Called Bunning's Office
blivolsi (Diary) Tuesday, March 16th at 11:14PM EST (link)Has anyone called his office asking why he voted against the earmark ban?
Top list OUT..bottom list IN
fpete13527 (Diary) Tuesday, March 16th at 10:54PM EST (link)Earmark pork-love correlates to other bad decision characteristics IMO – as most in the top list have often demonstrated.
Clean out the top group and then all there is left is to clean out is the Huffington/MCain group….. like MCCain….AND ANY SENATOR STILL SUPPORTING THOSE LIKE CRIST, FIORINA, OR BENNETT.
Bottom group is EXCELLENT start in NEW replenishment:)
Replenishment Timetable
audax (Diary) Wednesday, March 17th at 5:51AM EST (link)List and when they are up for re-election/retirement.
Alexander (R-TN) 2014
Bond (R-MO) retiring 2010 (Roy Blunt)
Bunning (R-KY) retiring 2010 (Rand Paul)
Cochran (R-MS) 2014
Collins (R-ME) 2014
Gregg (R-NH) retiring 2010 (Ovide LaMontage)
Hutchison (R-TX) 2012, retire now she’s not in Governors race? Doubt it.
Inhofe (R-OK) 2014
Lugar (R-IN) 2012
Murkowski (R-AK) 2010 NO PRIMARY! May 18th 2010
Roberts (R-KS) 2014
Shelby (R-AL) 2010 NO PRIMARY June 1st 2010
Snowe (R-ME) 2012
Voinovich (R-OH) 2010 (Rob Portman)
Wicker (R-MS) 2012
Audeamus pro audere est facere
It is truly shameful that both the MS Senators are on that list.
Scott Tuesday, March 16th at 11:08PM EST (link)MS has always had a terrible group of pork loving middle of the road Senators. I have recently joined the Republican club in my county, and I am working towards a seat on the executive committee. The sad thing is that the “Republicans” in MS are truly apathetic. They have no drive whatsoever towards conservative goals and it is very difficult to come in as a new person and move anyone against these squishes.
Scott,
audax (Diary) Wednesday, March 17th at 5:56AM EST (link)KEEP IT UP!!! Bring YOUR friends and family! Don’t get discouraged! At least they are probably moe conservative then lets say a Republican club in New England or the Midwest! GOOD LUCK!!!
Audeamus pro audere est facere
interesting
brumbow Tuesday, March 16th at 11:34PM EST (link)I’m surprised to see Senator Imhofe on the list as well as some of these other Senators. I agree that earmark reform is important because despite being a small amount of total spending it goes to the basic principle of Conservatism; not wasting tax payer money. I am hopeful that we can elect Conservatives who will stand on principle.
I see Lamar! made the list...again
Praying (Diary) Tuesday, March 16th at 11:37PM EST (link)Talk about your frustrating senator! He was GREAT during the health care faux-summit a few weeks back, and every so often he will really toe the conservative line, getting my hopes up that he’s finally “got it” – and then he will turn around and do something totally RINO. Unfortunately, he’s not up for election until 2014, so we’ll just have to keep hounding him to do the right thing, knowing that every so often, he actually will. And the rest of the time…
No!!!11!1!!1!1! The Bilderbergers are coming
Have to disagree on one, Eric . . . .
america1st (Diary) Wednesday, March 17th at 12:19AM EST (link)LaMontagne in NH . . . by my lights, he’s fruitcake right. In the cough-cough years I’ve been involved with politics here (NH), this is the only guy I’ve found too conservative to support. Perfect counterpoint to denny the demented hobbit out there in Cleveland.
Logic in the mind of a liberal is like a snowflake in the desert: lost, alone and soon destroyed by a hostile environment.
We can take our country back!
solutions Wednesday, March 17th at 12:25AM EST (link)Bennett and Hatch both support earmarks according to recent articles where they both reprimanding Jason Chaffetz from their own state for not wanting to use them. Bennett is up for election and knows that he will loose because of his earmarking, supporting the bail out and supporting an Obama care like health care. We don’t need anymore job losses nationwide. We don’t need more government jobs created. We need the constitution followed. We are recycling here in Utah and feel the rest of the country will too. We are recycling all incumbents. First Bennett then Hatch.
Disappointed Portman in Ohio doesn't make your list
Crowe (Diary) Wednesday, March 17th at 12:42AM EST (link)I’m really curious why. Do you know something about him that I don’t?
“We sleep soundly in our beds only because
rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those who would do us harmDear Leader Obama gives us leave to do so.”Why am I not surprised that most of those Senators listed are appropriators?
hones Wednesday, March 17th at 1:22AM EST (link)9 of the 15.
There’s going to mad dash in the 112th for a spot on Appropriations with retirements from Bond, Gregg, Voinovich, Brownback (and hopefully exits from Hutchinson and Bennett).
We’ll probably get more of the same, but if we were ever going to get serious about earmark reform, this wouldn’t be the worst time to get the wheels turning.
Would not take too much turnover
reverelth (Diary) Wednesday, March 17th at 1:38AM EST (link)to render these guys back benchers. What are these RINOs going to do with the likelihood of a 50-50 split or thereabouts come November, caucus with the other party? Mitch McConnell is a leader like they had in Vichy France or ol’ Bob Michel, not a resistance fighter. He’ll be put out to pasture, too.
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even though they represent a small percent of the budget
partyof1 Wednesday, March 17th at 1:42AM EST (link)Earmarks are bad. Doesn’t matter the number of dollars they spend in relation to the whole budget.
In another RS post just now, a debate is raging over past Republican use of the “deems to pass” Slaughter Rule. But that was only for little stuff. Sound familiar? Now “deems to pass” has grown into a monster that threatens to swallow the Republic with one gulp because Dems want to use it for Obamacare. Would anyone have guessed that Dems would use arcane parliamentary gymnastics to pass mega-legislation that totally reshapes America overnight, in violation of every poll and Obama’s own campaign promises (individual mandates, transparency)? Insanity! Yet here we are with Dems embracing insanity.
And as pointed out by other commenters, earmarks also provide protection (vote buying) to congressmen who might otherwise have to stand or fall on their more substantive spending votes — that would be the other 99% of the budget.
Earmarks are bad.
Gee, big shock about Voinovich
tdpwells Wednesday, March 17th at 2:38AM EST (link)[/sarc]
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I do not believe that the power and duty of the General
Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual
suffering which is in no manner properly related to the
public service or benefit…to the end that the lesson should
be constantly enforced that though the people support the
Government, the Government should not support the people.
Grover Cleveland (16 February 1887)
It's a little soon on some of this, Erick
Change Jar Conservative (Diary) Wednesday, March 17th at 2:43AM EST (link)Let’s go back to basics.
“Win every race” is my motto which means putting people through the primary who have a chance to win.
That’s Castle in Deleware (and probably Campbell in California) and probably whoever you’re not in favor of in New Hampshire.
Let’s keep people who can win in the Senate in favor of people who can’t win.
That having been said, I like most of your list of people to vote in and agree on the people from conservative states for the people we need to eventually replace: MS, OK, AL, TX, AK, TN for sure shoud have very conservative senators.
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If we purge all these apostate Republican incumbents
Adjoran (Diary) Wednesday, March 17th at 5:07AM EST (link)Do we all have to publicly denounce them, too? Are their pictures and names to be excised from the history books and internet databases?
Do we charge their families for the bullets?
Meet the New Boss, same as the Old Boss . . .
Yes Absolutely...Shame Shame On Them...
audax (Diary) Wednesday, March 17th at 6:02AM EST (link)…Conservative-NOUNS must stand up and say NO to big Government. If there is an “earmark” there shouldn’t be an expenditure anyway, earmarked or not. Time to CUT the budget! Shame them and then shame them some more if they don’t stand up for Conservative-noun smaller government…and if shame doesn’t work, primary them.
Audeamus pro audere est facere
your entire argument is stupid and stricken from the record
Doc Holliday (Diary) Wednesday, March 17th at 6:08AM EST (link)some of them are good people, but they are old and have the DC disease. There is nothing wrong with a party wanting to change, particularly after continual heavy losses.
We are not the party of personalities, we are the party of ideas. And unless we change the DC dynamic, those poor souls you pine for will have many lucrative opportunities out of office.
Molon Labe!
Yeah there's only one answer for this
Neil Stevens (Diary) Wednesday, March 17th at 7:13AM EST (link)I know people like you hate it when the rabble dares to get uppity, but there really is only one answer for you.
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snowe and collins
dpddj Wednesday, March 17th at 8:52AM EST (link)why do these two continually make me want to bang my head against the wall? I am so looking to retiring in a couple years and moving the hell out of this socialist paradise called Maine
Texas is waiting for you....
audax (Diary) Wednesday, March 17th at 9:09AM EST (link)…happy move!
Audeamus pro audere est facere
OT Maine story...
mbecker908 (Diary) Wednesday, March 17th at 9:10AM EST (link)Old downeaster lives on a farm where his great great grandfather was born near the NH border. One day a state surveyor knocks at his door and tells him the state is doing a routine survey so he may see people around for a couple of days. “Yep.” says the old fella.
A couple of weeks later there’s a knock on the door and the surveyor fella is back. The old man invites him in and the surveyor says, “I don’t know quite how to break this to you, knowing that your family has lived in Maine for generations, but it seems that when the original survey of this area was done several hundred years ago the surveyor was drunk, and well, the state line actually runs just to east of your property and you actually live in New Hampshire.”
The old man’s face broke into a huge grin, much to the surprise of the surveyor. “Thank God in heaven!” the old man said. “Don’t think I coulda stood another one of those harsh Maine winters!”
I works betta with the appropriate accents, but I’m sure you get the idea…
Just to say this about that...
Bill Wednesday, March 17th at 9:17AM EST (link)Bond, Bunning, Gregg, Voinovich are already leaving. Hutchinson said she would be leaving, but I’m not holding my breath. Alexander, Bennett, Collins, Graham, Lugar and Snowe should be replaced. Maybe the others hopefully would get the message or leave too! Oh, don’t forget to urge a quick good bye to McConnell too. We need people with a real spine, gonads and CONVICTION to do the correct things to get the fiscal house in order. Oh, by the way, bye bye John McCain.
Thank God! November 3, 2010. U.S. House, GOP 290, DEM 145; U.S. Senate, GOP 70, DEM 28, IND 2. Keep on praying!
Lugar is unbeatable
youthgrunt (Diary) Wednesday, March 17th at 11:07AM EST (link)The hope is that due to his age he will actually retire.
We can always hope that he doesn’t want to die in office like so many others.
No McConnell?
dforston (Diary) Wednesday, March 17th at 10:37AM EST (link)Mitch McConnell voted for it??
The man who campaigns on pork items that he got his state voted for it?
Amazing.
I didn't see the one comment I expected to see.
Locked and Loaded (Diary) Wednesday, March 17th at 12:41PM EST (link)Those on the list who are not up until 2014, even 2012, know full well how short are the memories of the populace, and they are just playing the same old game that has helped this incumbentosis to fester.
Inhofe? Really?
jeff_h_morris (Diary) Wednesday, March 17th at 10:17PM EST (link)I love you fire-eaters here at Red State, but Inhofe?
Inhofe is a patriot. He does not care what the liberal media doyens think. He is leading the charge on cap and tax, and he is right to point out the illusion of cutting spending through eliminating Congressional earmarks. His expenditure rollback to 2008 levels would reduce spending, but this earmark moratorium is, at best, good political theater.
Inhofe’s conservatism ought to earn him some grace if you disagree with him, and gratitude if you do not.
This reminds me of the old joke about a Conservative firing squad. Step 1, form a circle…
Inhofe? Really?
jeff_h_morris (Diary) Wednesday, March 17th at 10:17PM EST (link)I love you fire-eaters here at Red State, but Inhofe?
Inhofe is a patriot. He does not care what the liberal media doyens think. He is leading the charge on cap and tax, and he is right to point out the illusion of cutting spending through eliminating Congressional earmarks. His expenditure rollback to 2008 levels would reduce spending, but this earmark moratorium is, at best, good political theater.
Inhofe’s conservatism ought to earn him some grace if you disagree with him, and gratitude if you do not.
This reminds me of the old joke about a Conservative firing squad. Step 1, form a circle…