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CONSERVATIVE HQ By Richard A. Viguerie 2/3/12
Karl Rove Criticizes Romney, Stop the Presses!
Former George W. Bush advisor Karl Rove is one of the chief spokesmen for the Washington Republican establishment. This election cycle, Rove’s hobbyhorse has been to promote the “inevitability” of moderate former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney’s nomination as the Republican candidate for President. Now, all of a sudden, it turns out Rove shares some of the same complaints about Romney that turn-off Tea Partiers and grassroots movement conservatives.
Writing in The Wall Street Journal Rove chastised Romney for of all things, running a content free campaign — or perhaps to more precisely quote Rove — running a “campaign tilted too heavily toward biography and not nearly enough toward ideas.”
Stop the presses! Karl Rove agrees with conservatives and criticizes Mitt Romney!
While Rove understands that Rick Santorum won Iowa and Newt Gingrich won South Carolina because they were selling conservative voters on a set of big ideas about where to take America, notice Rove did not chide Romney for a lack of “conservative ideas.”
The Republican establishment wants no part of the conservative ideas that propelled Santorum and Gingrich to their primary victories. What they want is an idea-free President who will continue business-as-usual in Washington if he wins. And let’s face it, with Romney’s record of flip-flops and the creation of the Romneycare government health care mandate, he is not a very credible salesman for conservative ideas — particularly the conservative social agenda and constitutional conservative ideas on personal freedom.
Still, anytime Karl Rove agrees (just a little bit) with Tea Partiers and grassroots movement conservatives, we should take heart. Rove’s op-ed is at least a small admission that conservative complaints about establishment Republicans (and Mitt Romney in particular) running content-free campaigns are being heard in the Skull and Bones bunker where Karl Rove works his magic.
In this MegaVote for Florida’s 16th Congressional District: Rep. Rooney Votes & Sen. Nelson, Rubio
February 6, 2012In this MegaVote for Florida’s 16th Congressional District:Recent Congressional Votes
Upcoming Congressional Bills
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| STOCK Act - Vote Passed (96-3, 1 Not Voting) This Senate bill would strengthen rules prohibiting lawmakers, Capitol Hill staff and some executive branch officials from using confidential information to buy or sell stocks. The House is expected to take up the bill this week. Sen. Bill Nelson voted YES……send e-mail or see bio Sen. Marco Rubio voted YES……send e-mail or see bio |
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| Fiscal Responsibility and Retirement Security Act - Vote Passed (267-159, 6 Not Voting) The House voted to repeal the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) program, a provision in the 2010 health care law that was intended to provide long-term care but was suspended after the Department of Health and Human Services determined it could not be solvent for 75 years as required by the law. The bill’s future in the Senate is unclear. Rep. Tom Rooney voted YES……send e-mail or see bio Pro-Growth Budgeting Act of 2011 - Vote Passed (242-179, 11 Not Voting) Baseline Reform Act of 2011 - Vote Passed (235-177, 20 Not Voting) FAA Modernization and Reform Act - Vote Passed (248-169, 15 Not Voting) |
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| FAA Modernization and Reform Act - H.R.658 The Senate is scheduled to take up the FAA authorization conference report. Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21) Act - S.1813 Expedited Line-Item Veto and Rescissions Act of 2011 - H.R.3521 STOCK Act - S.2038 |
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Senator Marco Rubio’s Weekly e-Newsletter February 5, 2012
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Mitt Romney: A Liberal’s Liberal Republican
July 23, 2011
Mitt Romney: A Liberal’s Liberal Republican
But should Romney be the GOP’s presidential nominee? The answer is “absolutely not.”
Although there is no “perfect conservative,” and although conservatives have serious issues with every candidate running, Mitt Romney is nothing more than a strident liberal masquerading as a moderate. As Selwyn Duke rightly wrote in 2007, Romney is the Barack Obama of the GOP. Every Republican has made his share of mistakes, but Romney is a committed liberal on the whole spectrum of issues.
Conservatives know that Romney was pro-abortion for a long time before he first ran for the presidency in 2007, at which time he “changed his position” because he was now asking for the votes of conservatives. Romney has also supported “gay rights,” and as Massachusetts governor, he implemented same-sex marriage by executive fiat.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/07/mitt_romney_a_liberals_liberal_republican.html#ixzz1lWR0RkeE
Expanding Energy Production to Create Jobs, & Help Pay for Better Roads & Bridges
Posted by Speaker Boehner’s Press Office on February 04, 2012
In the coming weeks the House will vote on the American Energy & Infrastructure Jobs Act (H.R.7), a pro-growth bill that removes barriers to new American energy production to create more than a million new jobs, and cuts red tape to speed up improvements to our roads and bridges (without the earmarks, wasteful spending, and taxpayer bailouts of the past). Rep. Pat Meehan (R-PA) highlights the bill – and the rest of the Republican jobs plan – in the Weekly Republican Address. Watch it here:
Watch Speaker Boehner talk about the pro-growth aspects of the American Energy & Infrastructure Jobs Act, which uses revenue from new energy production to help pay for repairs to highways and bridges.
Click here to see how the pro-growth American Energy & Infrastructure Jobs Act…
- Removes barriers to job growth by approving the Keystone pipeline rejected by President Obama, lifting the president’s offshore drilling ban, opening a small portion of ANWR, and more;
- Eliminates wasteful spending and earmarks, eliminates nearly 70 duplicative federal transportation programs, and ensures taxpayer dollars are spent on highways – not ‘beautification’ projects and other non-highway activities;
- Cuts the permitting time in half by speeding up bureaucratic approvals, and delegates more decision-making authority to where it belongs: individual states, not Washington; and more.
Learn more at Speaker.gov/Energy. And while you’re there, check out some of the other legislation passed by the House this past week, including: a bill to repeal another provision of the president’s health care law that’s making it harder for small businesses to hire new workers; reforms that end the ‘baseline’ budget bias toward big government spending; and a freeze on salaries for Members of Congress, staff, and federal employees for another year.
And while the House is still waiting for the Democratic-controlled Senate to present a plan for extending the payroll tax break for a full-year (note: the House already passed its bill in December), Republican leaders are moving forward with an aggressive schedule full of new jobs bills over the next few months, complementing the nearly 30 jobs bills still awaiting a vote by Senate Democrats.
Be sure to watch the weekly Republican address by Rep. Meehan, and stay connected with the Office of the Speaker on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Google Plus, and Speaker.gov. Thank you!
- Speaker Boehner’s Press Office
Senator Marco Rubio Honored To Deliver This Weeks GOP Address February 4, 2012
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Weekly update from Florida State Senator Greg Evers – Redistricting and SB 98 & SB540 Passage
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This week in the Capitol, the two proposals from the House of Representatives to redraw the House and congressional district lines for the next 10 years were voted on and approved by the full House. The maps to redraw our legislative and congressional districts now come back to the Senate for final approval to move on to Governor Rick Scott and the Supreme Court for review. For anyone who wants to review the approved maps, I invite you to visit:http://flsenate.gov/session/ On bill news this week, I would like to congratulate Senator Gary Siplin on the passage ofSenate Bill 98, and commend him on his effort to support the 1st Amendment freedoms of the people in Santa Rosa County and across our great state. As a proud co-sponsor of this very good bill, I want to thank my fellow Senators for their favorable vote this past Wednesday on the Senate floor. The purpose of Senate Bill 98 is to allow our students to lead or participate in prayer in secondary school events. As I quoted Ronald Reagan on the floor, “the 1st Amendment was not written to protect people and their laws from religious values; it was written to protect those values from government tyranny.” I believe that by passing this bill we are doing just that. Senate Bill 1502, which would help law enforcement and school districts tackle the growing problem of Spice in our communities, passed the Senate Criminal Justice Committee with a unanimous vote. This was its first committee of reference and I feel encouraged by the support for this bill we have seen so far, as it continues to move through the process. Also passing the Senate Criminal Justice Committee this week was Senate Bill 540 to help crack down on copper theft. This was its third committee of reference and I am hopeful it will continue to make its way to the Senate Floor. As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please email me directly atgreg@gregevers.com or call my legislative office at (850) 487-5000. My door is always open. Have a wonderful weekend.
Greg |
NOT JUST AT THE SUPERBOWL AT EVERY EVENT
National Anthem at the Super Bowl – an editorial
So, with all the kindness I can muster, I give this one piece of advice to the next pop star who is asked to sing the national anthem at a sporting event: save the vocal gymnastics and the physical gyrations for your concerts. Just sing this song the way you were taught to sing it in kindergarten, straight up, no styling. Sing it with the constant awareness that there are soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines watching you from bases and outposts all over the world. Don’t make them cringe with your self-centered ego gratification. Sing it as if you are standing before a row of 86-year-old WWII vets wearing their Purple Hearts, Silver Stars and flag pins on their cardigans and you want them to be proud of you for honoring them and the country they love, not because you want them to think you are a superstar musician. They can see that from the costumes, the makeup and the entourages. Sing The Star Spangled Banner with the courtesy and humility that tells the audience that it is about America , not you.
