Indeed it IS FRIDAYYYYY! – And don’t let anyone fool you into thinking differently.
I looked around on the GOP side of the aisle and found about three folks who may just have difficulty with the changed leadership structure for the next 17 months more or less.
Senator Olympia Snowe has occupied one of the Main state seats in the Senate for what will complete three Senate terms or 18 years come November of 2012. She apparently intends to continue her Senate career… at least at this time that’s the indication. But she’s been a borderline Rino for a good bit of that time.
Ms. Snowe is a fiscal conservative in the main – but she is not a right to life candidate. Religiously she identifies herself as a member of the Greek orthodox faith. However that does not play a major part in her political portrait. Also she has not endeared herself to those who wish to preserve the Constitution without making a lot of changes… and has voted recently for both Justice Kagan and Sotomayor. There has been a coalescing of conservative pressure in
Mr. Lugar is the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee I believe and John Kerry is the Chairman. Mr. Lugar will be running for his seventh six year term… He’s 78. He doesn’t seem at all interested in giving someone else a chance… often the case of those who’ve been in office a long time. And to those who think he might be unseated in this election… he just says… “Get Real.” Possibly that is inherited from being the mayor of
Mr. Hatch we covered fairly completely in yesterday’s program… He too has been around long enough to become pals with Ted Kennedy. Not that such is a ‘mortal’ sin… just that Republican people who vote for candidates because they *are* Republicans are kinda getting shortchanged when the Republicans turn out not to be so Republican after all. Well.. that could be the start of a long sermon… but I leave it to you to decide how long is long enough… or if you profess one particular set of policies and people vote for you on that basis – is it being fair and upright to decide you no longer follow that kind of thought?
It’s my view that’s what most of the Tea Party people have had enough of… (I know that’s weak grammar… but it says what I think needs to be said.)
So… we’ll leave it there for today… We have a whole 16 and a half or 17 months to hash this over – and believe me it *will* get hashed over…
Better to put down the pen and turn off the computer while we are still reasonable toward one another. (J)
Cordially, IN HIM
Jack
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“JUST A MINUTE”
ROUNDING UP THE STRAYS
Just a Minute: -- Yesterday we started with Sen. Orrin Hatch – noting the Wall St. Journal’s John Fund saying: “He is going to have to do a better job explaining his record.” And today we’ll complete the Round-Up with Senators Snowe and Lugar.
Olympia Snowe of Maine is one of the three targeted for some ‘stimulus’ Tea Party attention. She’s been willing to buck her party on abortion and other social issues like voting for Supreme Court nominees Kagan and Sotomayor.
Sen. Richard Lugar is aiming for his sixth six year term and his demeanor borders on haughtiness. To a possible State Treasurer challenger he’s only said: “Get real.” He was conservative but not lately supporter of the immigration “Dream Act.” Not entirely enticing to Rino hunters. -- That’s the round up.
<>I’m Jack Buttram.
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