An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
I Agree With Pence
From Congressman Pence’s Office
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Congressman Mike Pence sent the following letter to his colleagues today in opposition to the deal struck last night on the bailout of the financial services sector:
Dear Colleagues:
Our nation has been confronted by a serious crisis in our financial markets. The President and this Congress were right to act with all deliberate speed in addressing this crisis.
We now have a deal that promises to bring near-term stability to our financial turmoil, but at what price?
Economic freedom means the freedom to succeed and the freedom to fail.
The decision to give the federal government the ability to nationalize almost every bad mortgage in America interrupts this basic truth of our free market economy.
Republicans improved this bill but it remains the largest corporate bailout in American history, forever changes the relationship between government and the financial sector, and passes the cost along to the American people. I cannot support it.
Before you vote, ask yourself why you came here and vote with courage and integrity to those principals.
If you came here because you believe in limited government and the freedom of the American marketplace, vote in accordance with those convictions.
Duty is ours, outcomes belong to God.
We have fought the good fight. Now we need to finish the race and make sure that posterity and the American people know there were conservatives who opposed the leviathan state in this dark hour.
And if you do this I promise you, I will stand with you and, I believe with all my heart, the American people will stand with you as well.
MIKE PENCE
There’s one then. Two if you count Newt.
@Stew:
Ok, this is part I seriously agree with:
If you came here because you believe in limited government and the freedom of the American marketplace, vote in accordance with those convictions.
Duty is ours, outcomes belong to God.
I don’t agree with the bill. Sorry…should have clarified all that.
Hey… I’ve had a fever today…don’t pick on me. I’m pathetic! LOL
Do you agree with the bailout? Hmmmmm…???
I’m not picking! Except for my earlier allusion to your being around during the Roman Empire…
lol
Heck no I don’t agree with it. I think it sucks. I can’t stand the fact that I supported President Bush as fervently as I did and as a reward I get Nationalized banking and a tax increase. Notice nobody is talking about THAT yet. Bush and company are traitors in my mind.
@Stew:
Hey…. I let ya slide on that one….a little! LOL
Y’know….I’ve been saying the same thing to the Mr….we worked really hard for that man, and boom…Bush has lost his mind, and turned his back on those who believed in him. I’m not sure how to express my disillusion. He’s been a major disappointed the last few years, but this….
I’m expressing my disillusion by:
1. Voting against every incumbent on the ballot
2. Voting for Bob Barr
3. Frequently reminding the GOP that I’m doing the previous two
It won’t make a difference, but maybe if I do it a couple of million times it will. heh
@Stew:
Ack! Unfortunately, if too many people stand in that position, we’ll have a President B. Hussein Obama, with both houses to back him up. I’m looking to 2012 for some MAJOR changes….IF we can all stand together, we’ll see real conservatism make a comeback!
That sounds an awful lot like Hope. And Change…
Yes we can!
I can’t back McCain.
I can live with me making a principaled vote for someone that I know won’t win.
I can’t live with me making an equivocation in the hopes that maybe MAYBE my party (which has deserted me) will “step up”.
Call me jaded.
@Stew:
Don’t make me come over there and smack you! Hope and change my left eyeball! LOL
I want my country back! grrrrrrrr
(begin rare moment where I’m not being a smartass)
Like Hannity says, “you’re a great American” Kate. Don’t ever forget it. And I’m with you. I want my country back.
(end rare moment where I’m not being a smartass)