MAYBE you convinced yourself?

And of course, your own personal gratification and agenda is all you are here for anyway.

Bye. And I hope this country has the same to say for you and yours.

I am here on my own accord, because I believe in what I say, and because I believe that most who come to this forum wish to use their minds and try to understand the opposition, even if most of us don’t change our minds easily.

I am here because some of my best friends have always been Democrats, and because talking to people who always agree with me is no fun.

I am here because some “undecideds” DO check out the Blog sometimes, and I try to make sure that they know that YOU, BJ, are a Democrat, as I am sure that alone helps bring a few people to the Republican point of view.

I have many Republican friends, all over the Country. Yes, we share ideas, big deal. Yes, some of my ideas HAVE shown up in political advertising from time to time. Big Deal.

I am a volunteer. The Republican cause is just and right and does not require payment for most of our workers.

Unlike the criminal thugs at ACORN, that Obama paid $800,000.00, just this year, most of our workers are in this cause out of the belief that we are doing what is best for our country.

You are such a small, petty person that you can not believe anyone would ever disagree with you without getting paid to do so.

That only means that you are so anti-social, so strange, so damn scairy to most of the people in your life, that most folks would prefer not to talk to you at all, let alone argue with you.

Thanks!

Palin has stated that a VP COULD decide to run the Senate, EVERY DAY, if the VP chose to do so.

This WOULD be a change from current practice, to be sure, but PERFECTLY legal.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_pro_tempore_of_the_United_States_Senate
“Acting President pro tempore
The President pro tempore, just like the Vice President, over time has ceased presiding over the Senate on a daily basis, owing to the MUNDANE nature of the position.
Furthermore, as the President pro tempore is now usually the most senior senator of the majority party, he or she most likely also chairs a major Senate committee, along with other duties this status entails. Therefore, the President pro tempore has less time now than in the past to preside daily over the Senate.
Instead, junior senators of the majority party are designated acting President pro tempore to preside over the Senate on a daily basis. This allows junior senators to learn proper parliamentary procedure.”

You can not win, in an intelligent debate, so you try to bully your way through life.

Why should I care that some people that I defeated, in Republican Primaries, are upset with me?

Why should I care, that some people I defeated, in general elections, are upset with me?

That reflects on them, if they can not get on with their lives. I did nothing wrong. I fought for what I believed in and my side often won.

By the way, there are a few Democrats that I have fought for, as well.

Zealot? LOL, probably spoken by a political whore who did not like talking about the issues.

What is odd about you hard left libs is this: Many of us Grass Roots Republicans DO fight against the Country Club types that you complain about so much. We are pro business but we are anti-corruption. Crony Capitalism bothers us as much as Crony Socialism.

However? When you hard lefties want to trash a conservative? You run STRAIGHT to the Republican “moderate” Country Club crowd, lol.

I don’t care BJ.

If you want to make an omlete, you got to break some eggs.

The movement I was involved with helped elect Sam Brownback to the Senate.

Sam Brownback helped get Eric Melgren appointed to the US Attorney’s office and now, to the Federal Bench.

The people you might be talking to? They supported Brownback’s opponent in the primary, would be my guess.

Moderate Republicans want to be liked. They don’t really want to get anything done.

Anyway, I post this for others, who might be interested.

You, BJ, are far to shallow to really understand.

We know who he is and why he is here.

I have made myself very clear, to anyone with a middle school education. Sorry if I am talking over your head, once again. Let me dumb-down the obvious for you:

Palin has stated that a VP COULD decide to run the Senate, EVERY DAY, if the VP chose to do so.

This WOULD be a change from current practice, to be sure, but PERFECTLY legal.

You shoot back with a weak, no-legal argument about history, and you don’t even have the humility to check out your brash, unfounded guesses before you post. Yes, there HAVE been tie-breaking votes, quite a few in fact.

However, the point that Palin was making is that the VP COULD do more than just break ties. The VP COULD preside over the Senate ALL THE TIME, and nobody could stop the VP from doing so without an Amendment to the Constitution.

They describe you as a zealot.

I would very much prefer (if McCain is elected) that Sarah Palin serve as president of the Senate, instead of as McCain’s energy expert(sic).

http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/10/second-debate-was-a-real-snoozer/#comment-442894

Would you please ask Palin to pledge that she will serve as president of the Senate?

YOU are defensive against things I never posted there Paul Rosell. Well, not tonight anyway.

Your first instinct is to go defensive.

I know it has to be difficult for you. Losing and all?

AS FOR THE CONSTITUTIONAL LIMITATIONS ON THE VP, THERE IS NO ROOM FOR EXPANSION!! AT LEAST NOT WITHOUT AN AMENDMENT!!

WHAT IS THERE ABOUT THE NON EXPANSION OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL LIMITATIONS DONT YOU UNDERSTAND??

Of some of the stuff on the Internet, about me?

I was NEVER charged with a crime.

I was NEVER “sentenced” as a civil court judge has NO authority to pass sentences for jail time, only contempt of court.

You are a worm.

You know full well that I defeated Judge Patrick Kelly, in higher courts.

You know that this was NEVER a criminal matter.

You know full well that I have no criminal record, whatsoever.

You know full well that I served for several years on the Wichita Traffic Commission and as Chief Deputy Sedgwick County Clerk and that none of this came up, at that time, because every responsible journalist in the area knows that the charges were and are false.

Try again, you coward.

Of some of the stuff on the Internet, about me?

I was NEVER charged with a crime.

I was NEVER “sentenced” as a civil court judge has NO authority to pass sentences for jail time, only contempt of court.

You are a worm.

You know full well that I defeated Judge Patrick Kelly, in higher courts.

You know that this was NEVER a criminal matter.

You know full well that I have no criminal record, whatsoever.

You know full well that I served for several years on the Wichita Traffic Commission and as Chief Deputy Sedgwick County Clerk and that none of this came up, at that time, because every responsible journalist in the area knows that the charges were and are false.

Try again, you coward.

READ FRANKLIN….

NOW…. WHEN WERE THOSE 12 VOTES OF A VP SINCE 1991???

AND NAME ONE VP WHO ACTUALLY FUNCTIONED AS SENATE PRESIDENT IN THE PAST 100 YEARS!!

I know how he fights. I ALSO know where he lives. It’s not that hard. His name is in the phone book.

“The Tiebreaker that Stopped the Senate
One of the perks of being vice-president, besides getting automatic speculation for a future presidential run, is getting to cast tie-breaking votes in the Senate. It doesn’t come up much (only 12 times since 1991), but when it does, it’s a big deal and can tip the legislature in the president’s favor. But no tiebreaker was as big, or as interesting, as the one in March, 1881. New Republican president James Garfield had put up a new slate of nominees for committee chairmen, but the Senate ended up in a 37-37 deadlock. So it fell to VP Chester Arthur, who went with the president and really peeved the Democrats. They tried to strike a bargain, then refused to continue to vote. For the next two months, they would walk out whenever the Republicans tried to get the vote going, Later, two Republican senators resigned in protest of Garfield’s appointment of a New York federal post, giving the Democrats a two-vote majority in the Senate. Ever willing to negotiate, though, the two parties decided to just table the staffing issue for the term, ending the bitterness from Arthur’s tiebreaking vote.”
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/8926

“The Constitution clearly does NOT say that the VP is to be trotted into the Senate only to break ties, and has no other duty.”
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So just trot VP Cheney into the Senate, and let him run it full-time.

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“The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no vote, unless they be equally divided.

The Senate shall choose their other officers, and also a President pro tempore, in the absence of the Vice President, or when he shall exercise the office of President of the United States.”

No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years,

and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States,

and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.(1*)

(1*) Does that really make any sense???