Read my lips: no new lindsey grahams.

Any politician either stupid enough or desperate enough to ask folks to "read my lips" deserves the fallout when their word is broken. Eventually one is faced with a moment demanding courage...and a legitimate choice...and such pledge signing is plain dopey.

Taxes haven raised here and there in many places without Grover Norquist noticing, apparently. Signing any kind of pledge, for any politician, is just dumb. All those sincere GOPers signed the Norquist pledge 20 years ago because it was the wave of that period. Things have changed. Purists can just get over it.

Just .. vote .. "present".

The Republicans are shockingly out of touch with reality. And they are being walked over and spit upon daily. We desperately need a viable new party and I hope the Tea Party is making sure it will qualify a candidate IF we ever get to vote again - in all 50 states.

It´s the spending. If the Republicans let all the tax cuts expire (so the majority of Americans would have to realize Bush cut taxes for everyone) and then got actual cuts in spending, I could deal with the rates going back to the Clinton days. It´s the caving on taxes and not getting any spending cuts that is intolerable.

Yeh..we vow in 50 states.. They vote in 57,,,we lose as usual,,

The country´s fiscal problem is spending not low taxes. It always has been. The country is already over the precipice and headed down. It is only a question of how far down we go and whether we make a turn around. Increasing taxes will only hasten the descent and lenghten the depth of the fall. We have been and are stealing our descendents´ future to pay those who don´t sow but only reap.

The media are madly promoting everyone down to dog catcher in a desperate attempt to pretend that the GOP still exists and that all kinds of people are doing exciting things in it except the Tea Party. The anti-tax gig has always been a meaningless PR front for Norquist´s main interest. If one tax doesn´t go up 10 others do. How about this for a pledge: No new gov. agencies and no new gov. regulations retroactive to 1990. That would mean something.

Obviously they will violate their pledge. First they are politicians and lying is just what they do. Second, their too stupid (remember their politicians) to remember the Bush I lesson. And three, they are Rebublcians that feel they must shore up their Democrat base. Yes their so idiotic that actually believe it’s the Dem base that is important to them. Flood these idiots with calls.

Where are the spending cuts?

By 2014, it will be proven that taxes were raised and speding was increased and we will still be in the same problem but deeper.

I see the same willingness here to give up on taxes as I did when Herman Cain was being vilified by the mainstream media during his truncated rise in popularity. Too many conservatives, apparently, let the drum beat of negativity from the press affect their commitment to smaller government.

Norquist is one of the few leaders left who is doing the right thing. He´s holding the Rino´s feet to the fire. The media is providing us a nice list of Rino´s to cull from the herd at the next hunt.

The way a lot of you talk, you would think the GOP controls the Senate and the Presidency. We lost the presidency because enough people in our own party stayed home, for whatever stupid reason they had. Actions have consequences and we are going to suffer as a country because of them.

Prediction: The Repubs will lose the House in 2014. Most voters will realize that since they vote,like Democrats, we might as well vote for real Dems, not the fake ones in the GOP. The repubs will decide they need Dem voters more than Conservative and Independents.

pledge/plej/
Noun:
A solemn promise or undertaking.

Either it was a pledge or it wasn´t.

Look what happened to the RINOs like Mike DeWine, Bill Frist, Arlen Specter, and Lincoln Chaffee. We take this stuff seriously, boys. Discover your inner spine, or call Spines ´R Us for a transplant.