“They spent $1.5 million through their various shill outreach groups attacking me and a handful of my colleagues,” Rep. Ric Keller (R-Fla.) said before the Hoyer meeting, “but they did not spend five minutes to approach me to ask for my vote.”

Posted by on 10/30/2007

Politico has this article and for the most part, I can agree with the analysis. Where I think we part company is at this point:

This us-against-them mentality has been an ongoing storyline of the new Democratic­-controlled Congress. On the big items ” Iraq, health care and spending ” party leaders have shunned compromise.

Democrats are under tremendous pressure from liberal activists to take a hard-line approach against everything Bush. Republicans face similar pressure from their own base to stick with the president and prove they are serious about curtailing spending, even if it means less cash for a popular state-run health care program for children not covered by Medicaid.

What part of the base is it that Politico refers? Yes, we want spending to be controlled, and no, we don’t think that SCHIP should be expanded. We agree in large part with the POTUS on the war. Where we are at odds with him are illegal immigration, border security, and his choice of sticking with Chertoff. So, it may be that we agree on much, but at the same time, we don’t agree on everything.

memeorandum has much more

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6 Comments.

  1. PCD 10/30/2007 at October 30, 2007 - 12:16 PM

    This is a truth the Democrats, SFL, Tofu, Eben, etc. will not see is that they are worse bullies than they imagine the GOP to be.

    The Democrats in Congress are more viscious than the group that got booted in 94, but they use the same tactics in Congress. I’m just waiting for Hoyer and Pelosi to reopen the House Bank.

  2. Tom 10/30/2007 at October 30, 2007 - 01:47 PM

    They spent $1.5 million through their various shill outreach groups attacking me and a handful of my colleagues,”Rep. Ric Keller (R-Fla.) said before the Hoyer meeting, “but they did not spend five minutes to approach me to ask for my vote.””

    This seems like vanity to me. If a bill is a good bill, vote for it. If a bill is a good bill – but nobody asked you to vote for it – you vote for it anyway. The right side is filled with divas and demigods. Our republic is ruined because of your side. I hope you can look your kids in the eyes and explain why you gave away our great land to a delusional petulant little king.

  3. Pam 10/30/2007 at October 30, 2007 - 05:38 PM

    Obviously the SCHIP bill isn’t a good bill. Obviously the point Keller clearly made went right over your head. Our Republic is far from ruined. You might want to actually do a bit of research before you attack anyone.

  4. Toasted Tofu 10/30/2007 at October 30, 2007 - 10:51 PM

    You’re kidding, right? He’s crying because those who’s issues he voted against didn’t ‘ask him’ to change his opinion? LOL

    Sorry, but that’s just too stupid for comment. People don’t rise in protest until their voices are squelched or ignored. Obviously, he does not agree with his dissenters and now he wants to cry foul. Poor guy.
    =))

  5. PCD 10/31/2007 at October 31, 2007 - 06:14 AM

    Tofu,

    For your uninformed self, The Democraps regularly held House-Senate Conferences on bills not inviting the minority Republicans upto 1994. They just went back to such a practice against what Pelosi announced when she took the gavel.

  6. Pam 10/31/2007 at October 31, 2007 - 06:16 AM

    I am not kidding at all and shouldn’t Congress be talking to each other rather than taking ads out to communicate? Isn’t the fact that the ads were taken out by democratic political pacs just a cover for the fact that the democrats are not capable of even discussing an issue with a collegue?