Political Courage

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Last night, the House Republicans took a stand against a popular President, a dominate majority party, and a mainstream media determined to crush them. It took political courage, but the ENTIRE Republican caucus without one defection, voted against the $825 BILLION stimulus package aka PORKULUS.

This action has set the course for a new Republican Party. One willing to STAND for something. They stood on principal and political consequences be-damned. Thanks House Republicans. You will be vilified in the press. but you stood up for what you believed to defend my children's future and my grandchildren yet to be born. This unbrideled spending will crush future generations; this is the Democrat's bill, let them accept FULL responsibility for driving our nation every faster to socialism.

Also, we should thank the 11 Democrats who broke ranks and voted against the Bill and with the House Republicans. That was a potrait in political courage. No doubt Speaker Pelosi will make sure they pay for that action. But they chose the future of the nation over rushed pork and wasted spending.

Doing the right thing is NEVER easy. It comes with a cost. But in the end the right thing is what matters. You sometimes have to take that risk for future generations, even if it means you will be isolated and feel alone.

We should make sure the House Republicans and those 11 Democrats know we are out there and THANK them for what they did. Their action was truly BI-PARTISAN.


William Travis said at the Alamo - I will never surrender or retreat. 118 men held off over 4,000 Mexican troops for 10 days. They sacrificed their life so that their fledgling Republican of Texas could survive. They were the holding action so, they were not alone.

Thank for standing up against the tide. Reinforcements are on the way..hopefully in 2010.