Republican Senators' Twitter addresses & Phone#'s

List of Twitter Accounts &  Phone#s for Republican Senators by State

@SenShelbyPress        Richard Shelby        (R-AL)         202-224-5744

@SenatorSessions       Jeff Sessions           (R-AL)         202-224-4124

@lisamurkowski             Lisa Murkowski       (R-AK)        202-224-6665

@Boozman4AR            John Boozman          (R-AR)       202-224-4843

@SenJohnMcCain       John McCain             (R-AZ)        202-224-2235

@SenJonKyl                 Jon Kyl                        (R-AZ)        202-224-4521

@marcorubio               Marco Rubio               (R-FL)         202-224-3041                                                                                     

---no Twitter---               Saxby Chambliss        (R-GA)       202-224-3521

@SenatorIsakson        Johnny Isakson            (R-GA)       202-224-3643

@stevekingIA               Steve King                    (R-IA)         202.225.4426

@mikecrapo                Mike Crapo                 (R-ID)           202-224-6142

----no  Twitter--             James Risch                (R-ID)           202-224-2752

@SenatorKirk             Mark Kirk                      (R-IL)            202-224-2854

@SenatorLugar          Richard Lugar              (R-IN)            202-224-4814

@SenDanCoats         Dan Coats                    (R-IN)            202-224-5623

@ChuckGrassley        Chuck Grassley           (R-IA)            202-224-3744

---no Twitter ---             Pat Roberts                 (R-KS)           202-224-4774

@JerryMoran              Jerry Moran                  (R-KS)           202-224-6521

@MitchMcConnell      Mitch McConnell          (R-KY)            202-224-2541

@SenRandPaul         Rand Paul                     (R-KY)            202-224-4343

@DavidVitter              David Vitter                  (R-LA)            202-224-4623

@SenatorSnowe        Olympia Snowe           (R-ME)          202-224-5344

@SenatorCollins        Susan Collins               (R-ME)          202-224-2523

@USSenScottBrown  Scott Brown                 (R-MA)          202-224-4543

---no Twitter ---             Thad Cochran              (R-MS)          202-224-5054

@SenatorWicker         Roger Wicker              (R-MS)          202-224-6253

@RoyBlunt                   Roy Blunt                      (R-MO)          202-224-5721

@Mike_Johanns         Mike Johanns               (R-NE)           202-224-4224

@SenDeanHeller        Dean Heller                  (R-NV)            202-224-6244

@SenatorAyotte          Kelly Ayotte                  (R-NH)             202-224-3324

@SenatorBurr             Richard Burr                (R-NC)             202-224-3154

----no Twitter---            John Hoeven               (R-ND)             202-224-2551

@robportman              Rob Portman                (R-OH)             202-224-3353

@jiminhofe                  Jim Imhofe                     (R-OK)             202-224-4721

@TomCoburn             Tom Coburn                   (R-OK)             202-224-5754

@SenToomey             Pat Toomey                   (R-PA)              202-224-4254

@GrahamBlog           Lindsay Graham            (R-SC)             202-224-5972

@JimDeMint              Jim DeMint                     (R-SC)             202-224-6121

@JohnThune              John Thune                     (R-SD)             202-224-2321

@SenAlexander         Lamar Alexander           (R-TN)             202-224-4944

@SenBobCorker       Bob Corker                     (R-TN)             202-224-3344

@kaybaileyhutch         Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-TX)              202-224-5922

@John Cornyn            John Cornyn                   (R-TX)              202-224-2934

@Orrin Hatch              Orrin Hatch                     (R-UT)              202-224-5251

@mikelee2010           Mike Lee                        (R-UT)              202-224-5444

@SenRonJohnson     Ron Johnson                  (R-WI)              202-224-5323

---no Twitter---              Mike Enzi                       (R-WY)            202-224-3424

@SenJohnBarrasso  John Barrasso                (R-WY)            202-224-6441

Ballot Box Love

 The following is my comment to a Paul Krugman quote on MoveOn website 11/18/11

 Here is the link to that page.

http://front.moveon.org/its%2Dmorally%2Dindefensible%2Dand%2Dthey%2Dknow%2Dit/?rc=daily.share&id=33030-15358038-%3DUUFL7x

We do not need to reinvent the wheel.  We have a beautiful and amazing Constitution, written for us by men who wanted citizens to be free of the greedy and to have a say in the life they led. We also have obligations as citizens.We have the ballot box and we have our vote which the greedy and corporations cannot buy if we do not sell it to them. Keep your eye on the prize and don't let the "reality show fraud" turn you from our goal of a country that works and cares for the many, not just the few.  We can fix everything we need to fix, and set ourselves on the road to a future that works for us all by using the ballot box as it was intended.  The difference in between us is that "We the People"   love our country and we care for each other; the greedy only care about money and we are a disposable tool for them to get more of it.  We must stop them legally, strongly, and by our voices and our presence at the ballot box.

Occupy has already changed the dialogue and They are taking notice of us out here.  Keystone XL got derailed. We turned the tide when we sent 50,000+ letters and made God knows how many phone calls to congress and the President  The Balanced Budget Amendment today got stopped dead in its tracks....can you imagine that happening 2 months ago. Some Republicans even voted against it.  The Republicancer will keep trying to stop us but we will not be stopped.  Slow and steady wins the race. We will not fix it all at once, but I am hopeful that by next election time we will be voting in a strong majority progressive House and filibuster proof senate.  We already have a President who will sign the bills if Congress can get the bills to him. In all likelihood he will appoint 2 Supreme Court judges in his next term and they are likely to be progressive or moderate.  If not, we will still have the ability to vote to amend the constitution to state that corporations are not people.  The Ayn Rand worshippers are on the wrong side of history. We will not be "objectified" because we are not objects, we are human beings with rights and needs.   We are many - They are few.

Reponse to Post by Robert Reich about 2012 Campaign

 This is my response to an article by Robert Reich  in Nation of Change.
 http://www.nationofchange.org/why-we-may-be-store-passionless-presidential-race-1321107895

I am not passionless about Obama. I am a fan of Mr. Reich's and agree with a lot of this but I think he is unfair in many of the things he says about the President. He knows full well that constitutionally Pres.Obama cannot do it on his own. The President and the Democrats have been hamstrung and knee-capped repeatedly with record numbers of filibusters used for nothing more than to totally stop government in its tracks.

Can you imagine how frustrating for the President and Democrats in Congress and Senate ; how mentally exhausting it must be to try to persuade the other side when they've made it clear they will not agree to anything you want just to make sure you fail. The President knows they don't care if the country fails and Americans are hurt but he cares so he tries to save what little he can. In spite of zero cooperation from the Republicans, there was phenomenal progress made in the first two years. There is a long list of accomplishments by this President since he's been in office, and yet it is never enough, and spoiled brats and lazy people scream "why hasn't he done it all?"

Where were you in 2010? Were you pissed off and sitting it out or  making a point by voting for the RWNJ Teapartiers just to teach the Pres. and Dems a lesson?   When you lay down with dogs, you WILL get fleas and that is exactly what many did in 2010 much to our dismay. Now we are infested with people, like Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan, Joe Walsh, Scott Walker who will take the country down just to have their way. The whiners said "Why didn't we get single payer?" (there was not enough support to pass it) and stamped their feet like 2 year olds and didn't vote. We heard "Why didn't he close Guantanamo?" (because Congress wouldn't let him) and so people pitched a fit and "showed him" and voted with the Tea Party.  President Obama is a President, not a King. He cannot push these bills through without help.

Hopefully you have you seen what's been happening lately. People have gotten engaged in their government and thing ARE changing and you need to help. Stop whining and get out in the streets and register voters, Occupy something, vote in every election, run for political office.  Get off you knees and take your country where it needs to go, instead of whining and dragging your feet. Stop watching Reality TV and start watching CSPAN when they are debating and voting on issues. Call your Senators and Congressman and tell them what you want. Make them aware you are paying attention to what they are doing. Write them, email them, tweet them...all the time. Everyday. Go to the Whitehouse.gov site and tell the President too. Stop watching "Dancing with the Stars" and call your government officials instead. The Obama Campaign was never "yes he can" it was "YES WE CAN...but once the 2008 election was over "WE" went missing in action

Un-reasonable People

My response to post about the SuperCommittee  

 http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2011104328/reasonable-people

I don't agree that taxes raised on the the 1% require equal, or any, cuts to the 99%'s insurance programs--I refuse to call them entitlements. The 99% has already been "cut" to the bone and is bleeding heavily from every orifice. We need every insurance program we have.... and more....like healthcare for all. We need to take it out of the hides of those who aren't paying their fair share of the freight of the weight of running this country; we need to put the cheaters and thieves that destroyed the housing and banking market in the for-profit prisons they like so much. We, the 99%, are telling them enough is enough. 1% you've had your 30 years of gains, and now it's our turn.. We the People are the 99% and we will #Occupy and we will win.

The Occupy Movement

 Response to Michael Moore comments on Keith Olberman from article in National Memo

http://www.nationofchange.org/keith-olbermann-interviews-michael-moore-about-occupy-movement-1319299608

I love Michael Moore but his call for both Repubs and Dems to embrace the Occupy movement ignores the fact that the Occupy movement is saying they don't want endorsement from any groups because they don't want to be co-opted by any groups.  They are happy to have Unions and people with differing agendas join in the Occupations but the problem comes in when each group starts lobbying for their special wants and needs and insisting that their way is the only way it can be.  What we all want is Social Justice, and that includes economic, political, medical, environmental, old age security, or whatever you believe important.

I am well aware that both Democrat and Republicans take money from the same people.  In spite of that, you must be blind to say there is no difference between the two parties. I am a Democrat, and you cannot tell me that it makes no difference who I vote for...I did not vote for GWB...I did vote for Obama...there is a difference.  The RWNJs and LWNJs and Tealiban and whatever else is out there that wants "my way or the highway" needs to stay the hell out of the Occupy movement.  I'm 67, but I love the energy of this movement, I love the FDR optimism of this movement, and I love that the people in Occupy believe they can change things.  The Eyores are always with us, nay-saying with their constant mantra of "it will never work" " it's hopeless" "it's doomed to failure" .  Maybe so, but at least we aren't sitting on our hands whining about how it can't be fixed, and how we need to get rid of all the bums, and how we should throw them all out and start over.  Bull!

We have an wonderful Constitution, it does not need to be thrown over. We do not need to build the damn world from scratch. We do not need to wreck the whole house because it is dirty.   What we need is to use our votes as Democracy intended to vote in those who have the Peoples' Agenda in mind, regardless of party.  We need liberal filibuster-proof control of both House and Senate so we can get some laws passed to fix the problems.  Primarying the President, or writing in some 3rd party candidate, or writing in "the 99%" or "Occupy"  will only guarantee the GOP status quo wins. Then the President   will likely be re-elected, but will still only be able to get done those things that the GOP allows.  They will not allow votes on anything progressive, they will not agree to make the rich pay their fair share.  This President has gotten a lot done in spite of the GOP.  When not impeded by their stonewalling, he has managed to get rid of Osama Bin Laden, Khaddafi, rescue an American from Somalia pirates, and end the Iraq War.  He has shown he understand the nuanced subtleties of working with your allies so that we do not need to send our military into more unnecessary wars when a surgical strike will work.   Imagine all the stuff we could have fixed if there had been any cooperation. The Ayn Rand worshipping nutcases are not examples of true Americans.   They are not the kind of people American's have always been who care and help one another.  They do not accept that our religion in America never was something we shouted from the street corners while blaming the poor, old, weak and disabled for their own lot.   It was the quiet religion of handouts to the starving from a million kitchen doors in the Depression. It was farmers buying their brothers' farms at auction and then giving it back to the ones who lost it.  It was the everyday heroism of a country that went to work to rebuild itself by rebuilding its foundations and filling the holes and helping each other to move up.  It's the true religion that provided for our elderly and poor and starving with programs that ensured a base of security for the people.  Our religion is the brilliant Democratic Republic created in the Bill of Rights and Constitution that calls for our nation to promote the general welfare of all.

OWS UNAFILLIATED

 Reponse to National Memo story:

OWS unaffiliated

Permalink Submitted by dmcrane on Fri, 10/21/2011 - 11:18pm

I do not want OWS to become part of any Party. It should stay as it is, pushing progressive goals and trying to change hearts and minds where possible. If OWS were to become a third party, I think it would lose most of its participants, and I would be one. I am not interested in futile posturing but in results. I don't care what the Press or the pundits say about OWS because each of us know why we are involved. While we all want to change the system, most of us believe we can do it with the vote if we give our current President a strong, liberal, and filibuster-proof House and Senate. There is nothing we can't fix if we get strong control of both. We do not want it all, but we do want "All" to have enough, and perhaps a little extra to smile about as well. We want the young, and sick, and old, and disabled to be cared for properly. We want education for our children and healthcare for all. We do not have anything against being rich, but we do not want to be a rich people in a poor and angry country. I grew up Republican but I don't recognize the selfish mindset of the majority of the current Republicans. I am sorry to say, they are making all the same mistakes they've been making since the early 1900's and it has been a disaster for us every time. It is indeed time to throw the dirty bathwater out, but we do not need to destroy the house to change the water.

A Response to people saying that MoveOn is trying to Co-Opt  the #Occupy movement.

Actually, I'd say it evolved from the American Dream Movement that Van Jones started up. MoveOn was one of the first to sign on with it, and then other organizations signed on and many of us belonged to several of them. We realized we had many of the same goals and started waking up, and Wisconsin showed us we can be powerful if we work together.  I don't think MoveOn is trying to co-opt the movement, nor could they.  We all want Social Justice and for different people there are different "must haves"  in that scenario, be they economic, political, educational, environmental, racial,  marital, or any social injustice that you may feel oppressed over.  The important thing is that the American public is engaged and enraged and will no longer live lives of quiet desperation. We have watched our health, wealth, jobs, houses and savings go away and our cupboards get more bare and more of our children go hungry and homeless.  We blamed ourselves while working like crazy and were unable to understand what we did wrong.  We  made errors in judgement, didn't understand what was happening to us, and trusted our elected officials and suited bankers to treat us fairly. We felt guilty; surely if we were deserving this wouldn't have happened to us.  That was our biggest mistake., but it does not make us evil. It makes the ones who cheated and stole our country and her resources evil.  We do not want to throw the baby out with the bathwater, we love our country when she is at her best, and we will get our country back, and fix it,  The greedy will still be greedy, & they will probably still be well off, but they will be more carefully watched and regulated. Some will hopefully get to spend some time in those for-profit prisons they are so fond of running.  The pendulum of  humanity is swinging back our way.  Not all rich are evil; Roosevelt was rich and he loved America and made it strong and great and kind; Buffett is rich and appreciates what America has done for him, Henry Ford was rich and paid a living wage + that allowed his workers to share in his wealth and buy what they built. They all understood that we all benefit when the poorest among us has an education, a roof over their head, and a little pocket money to spend to buy the products we need. I am confident in US; I will continue to be confident in the 99% and I have hope for US.