Viguerie: "The party leadership should resign immediately"

for some reason, newsmax emails began landing in my spam folder a couple of months ago... since i always check my spam folder for things that may have fallen in there by mistake, i always read - and usually chuckle - at the subject headers of the newsmax emails before deleting them... a surprising number push "miracle medical remedies" and get-rich-quick schemes, but there are also the usual run of headlines such as "Hillary's Antics Could Still Save the GOP" and "Bennett, Lieberman Applaud Hillary’s New Voice"... this one from richard viguerie, however, got me curious enough to open it...

Viguerie: Republican Leaders Must Resign

The Republican Party must replace its leadership or conservatives will continue to withhold support and the GOP will face “disaster” in November, leading conservative activist Richard A. Viguerie declared.

“Republican Party leaders must resign,” said Viguerie, publisher of ConservativeHQ.com and the pioneer of political direct mail.

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He named a number of prominent Republicans, including President Bush, Karl Rove, party chairman Mike Duncan, House Minority Leader John Boehner, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, and House Minority Whip Roy Blunt.

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“For things to change, for conservatives to be justified in once again giving our contributions, our volunteer efforts, our energy, and votes to the GOP, the party must clean house. The party leadership should resign immediately.

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Viguerie has this message for the current GOP leadership: “For the future of the Republican Party, for America, and the cause of freedom: Go!”

well, i've been calling for mass resignations since the officially-sponsored ethnic cleansing of new orleans following hurricane katrina, not to save the republican party, to be sure, but to save my country, but, hey... i'll take it any way i can get it...

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Opposing a criminal president is "wasting time...?"

ya, right... and standing up for the balance of powers as set forth in the u.s. constitution is obviously a fool's errand as well...

"Once the Democrats figure out how they want to waste time on this, Senator McConnell will decide how to respond," Jon Henke, a spokesman for McConnell, told RAW STORY in an e-mail. "If the Democrats want to waste some time in a pointless personal fight about the Ambassador to Belgium, I’d only note that recess appointments are very common and we don’t recall Democrats citing this law when President Clinton made similar recess appointments."

"a pointless personal fight..." the garbage that issues from the mouths of these enablers is truly astounding, and OF COURSE, bill clinton MUST BE invoked...

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HA...! The White House is begging Congress for a change

well, well, well... whaddaya know...

The White House scrambled Sunday to move up Attorney Alberto Gonzales' planned testimony to Congress on April 17 about his involvement in firing eight federal prosecutors, only to get a cold shoulder from majority Democrats.

now, why do you suppose...?

Until recently, department officials said they wanted to give Congress enough time to go through the more than 3,000 pages of e-mails, memos, calendar pages and other documents detailing the decision to fire the prosecutors.

That changed Friday - the day after Gonzales' former chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, testified to the committee - when aides said they would try to get Gonzales to Capitol Hill as soon as possible to explain his side.

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It was Gonzales who chose April 17, said [Senator Patrick] Leahy, D-Vt., and that date will not change now because ``everybody has set their schedule according to that.''

``It's the date that the attorney general originally picked. It's the date the hearing will take place,'' Leahy said.

ahhhhhh... they weren't expecting good ol' kyle, a loyal bushie, to lay gonzo out to dry, and certainly not for almost three weeks...!

and "drying" he is...

Asked directly if he has confidence in Gonzales, Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said: ``I can honestly say the president does.''

but as for ME... well, i'd rather not say...

MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...!

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Senate R's: Unwilling to do the White House's heavy lifting

after all this time, it's so very sweet to see republican congressional support of the criminal bush administration eroding before our very eyes... of course, i simply cannot fathom why it hadn't happened a long time ago... i have to ask myself, what kind of outrageousness would the white house have to engage in to make it go away altogether...? i shudder to think...

Unwilling to do the White House's heavy lifting on Iraq, Senate Republicans are prepared to step aside to allow language requiring troop withdrawals to reach President Bush, forcing him to face down Democratic adversaries with his veto pen.

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Republicans will still attempt to remove the deadline in a Senate vote expected as soon as today, and GOP leaders were reasonably confident they would muster a majority.

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No matter the outcome of the Senate vote, McConnell is looking ahead, assuming House Democrats will insist that withdrawal conditions be included when a final bill is sent to Bush. If so, McConnell said, Republicans would forgo the parliamentary tactics they used to block antiwar legislation that had forced Democrats to amass an insurmountable 60 votes to prevail.

"We need to get the bill on down to the president and get the veto out of the way," McConnell said.

let's "get the veto out of the way..." mitch, do you have any idea what the consequences of that veto are going to be for george and the rest of your party...? sure, you can spin it that "it wasn't us, it was HIM," but, given your history to date, do you honestly think anyone's going to buy it...?

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A blue-ribbon wingnut conference

White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, a former Fox News Channel anchor, ... [s]peaking at the Omni Shoreham Hotel's Regency Ballroom in Washington DC ... said, "We didn't create the war in Iraq. We didn't create the war on terror."

who is this "WE," white man...?

Other speakers scheduled to speak at the [34th annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)], which will run through Saturday, include Vice President Dick Cheney, Fox News Channel anchor Sean Hannity, Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), former Congressman Tom DeLay (R-TX) and controversial columnists Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin.

the fact that a senior white house official, working directly for the president of the united states, would allow himself to appear in this kind of company is appalling... (i'm speaking of dick cheney, of course...)

Senator John McCain (R-AZ), a 2008 presidential candidate, is being criticized for skipping out on the conference.

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"It was a classical McCain move, dissing us by going behind our backs," said William J. Lauderback, the executive vice president for the American Conservative Union...

if mccain can hang out with jerry falwell and james dobson, what's the matter with hannity, coulter, and malkin...?

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The Iraq debate and lawn care

mitch mcconnell, hypocrite extraordinaire...

"We could have had a civilized, well-structured debate," McConnell lamented, "but that appears to be not possible at the moment."

you also "could have had" a v-8...



what mcconnell wants is NOT a "civilized, well-structured debate..." what he wants is what he got after the first go-round...

McConnell responded by mounting a Republican filibuster Democrats couldn't overcome. And the Senate was prevented from proceeding with its planned week of debate on the Iraq war.

That Republicans won this encounter should have been clear to everyone. A poisonous debate on Iraq, attracting massive press coverage that was bound to be unfavorable to Bush and his war plans, was averted.

precisely... what he wanted was to avoid "a poisonous debate on iraq," the biggest foreign policy disaster in u.s., and possibly world, history... so, what's a poor senate majority leader to do...?

After four years of fighting in Iraq, and two weeks of trying to force senators to debate the conflict, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid yesterday wheeled out the ultimate weapon. He ordered his colleagues to work on Saturday. To the average American, this would be an inconvenience. To a senator, a Saturday vote is a hardship reserved for national crises such as impeachment or Terri Schiavo. Votes have been held on Saturday only five times in the past 10 years.

and the vaunted filibuster tool, so reviled by the r's when the dems threatened to use it to derail bush's extreme right supreme court nominees, has been neutralized...

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.): "We're calling their bluff. We're staying here. Now vote yes or no."

cue the whining...

Sam Brownback (R-Kan.)...

"I don't think that is a fair or appropriate process for this body to follow," he said. Particularly because he had plans to attend the National Religious Broadcasters convention in Florida on Saturday.

Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell (Ky.)...

[H]e was asked how his colleagues felt about surrendering their Saturday. "You'll have to ask all of them," he said tightly.

Hillary Clinton (D-NY)...

The candidate's "Conversation with Granite Staters," which was to have been held at 2:30 Saturday in the Dover High School cafeteria, had been scrapped.

and the idiocy...

Ric Keller (R-Fla.)...

"Imagine your next-door neighbor refuses to mow his lawn and the weeds are all the way up to his waist. You decide you are going to mow his lawn for him every single week. The neighbor never says thank you, he hates you, and sometimes he takes out a gun and shoots at you. Under these circumstances, do you keep mowing his lawn forever?"

< rolls eyes >

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