UPDATE: Corker transition team is denying that he has joined the group. They say the first he ever even heard of this group is when the Roll Call story came out. The Executive Director now says that the PAC gave Corker money, but that he has not joined the group. Senator Elect Corker is scheduled to join us Thursday morning to set the record straight.

Conservatives in Tennessee who didn't buy Bob Corker's claim to be a "true blue" conservative (should that be "true red"?) will be distressed to learn that he is already following in the footsteps of Lincoln Chafee. Here is a link that details the membership in the Main Street Partnership, which Roll Call claims Corker has joined. When you join a group that includes Susan Collins, Olympia Snow, Arlen Specter and Lincoln Chafee that should be a pretty good clue that the organization is NOT one that is of a "conservative" bent. CLICK HERE.

Shouldn't Corker at least wait until he gets sworn in before he heads hard Left? This is the sort of thing that is likely to get Lamar Alexander a conservative primary opponent in 2008. The article from Roll Call is not available online without a subscription, but Tennesseans need to know about this. We have invited Corker to appear on the show Thursday morning to talk about this!

ROLL CALL, December 6, 2006
CLUB FOR GROWTH, SCHWARZ STILL AT IT
 
While it continues to do battle with the conservative Club for Growth, the Republican Main Street Partnership's membership took a severe bruising in the midterm elections.
Combined with retirements, the centrist group will find itself short a significant number of members in the 110th Congress.

First formed in 1994 as a place for moderate Republicans to converge to talk policy, it has grown to boast 49 House Members, eight Senators and five governors.

The group, which is organized as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit, also has a political action committee that boosts the re-election of its members and helps like-minded candidates.

Much of the Republican blood-letting in the Nov. 7 elections occurred in the Northeast and Midwest, two regions that provide the majority of the group's membership.

Come January, the group will have 11 fewer Congressmen, two fewer governors and one less Senator.

One of its founding members, Rep. Nancy Johnson (Conn.), lost her bid for a 13th term. Another key member, Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (N.Y.), is retiring at the end of the year, while Rep. Charles Bass (N.H.), another top moderate in the House, also was not re-elected.

Rep. Amo Houghton (N.Y.), another founder of the group, retired at the end of 2004.

"We're sad for ourselves and the whole Republican Party," said Sarah Chamberlain Resnick, the group's executive director. "We've never been in the minority before." Resnick is hopeful, however, that her party's minority status will elevate the stature of GOP moderates.

"Moderate Republicans are the ones that Democrats are going to be reaching out to," she said. "Only time will tell, but the handwriting on the wall says moderates are going to be quite influential."

Since the elections, two newly elected Members have declared their intention to join Main Street. Sen.-elect Bob Corker (Tenn.) and Rep.-elect Dean Heller (Nev.) will come on board once they are sworn in, Resnick said. Corker will be one of the Senate's few Main Street members, replacing Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R.I.), who lost his seat in November after a brutal September primary fight.

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The Hispanic population in Nashville is about 7% of the total population; but that population caused about 17% of the fatal traffic accidents  in the city, and most were a result of drunk driving. CLICK HERE.

And did you know that 1 in 7 Mexican workers have left Mexico and come to the U.S.? About 10% of the Mexican popultion has LEFT to come here, mostly illegally. Can we handle the next 10% that will flood in after it becomes clear that we are granting amnesty? All Hispanics in this country are NOT illegal; but a huge number, probably about 18 million ARE ILLEGAL. And those who are here legally, including people who have been here for generations as American citizens, should do more to speak out about the illegal behavior of their fellow Hispanics rather than enabling them. CLICK HERE.

Muslim women don't want men to see them workout, so they are demanding that U.S. workout facilities accomodate them. They don't want teenage boys to see their daughters play basketball, so they are demanding that men be excluded from watching games. When will it end? When we convert...or die? CLICK HERE.

And what about the sudden demand for public prayer time in public places by these allegedly "modest" Muslim women? Like in the midst of workout equipment. Looks like a play for more political correctness and publicity rather than a humble exhortation to God. CLICK HERE.

And if the "72 virgins" look like this, why is anybody killing themselves?

The Baker Commission apparently thinks we can talk our way out of Iraq by appeasing the terror supporting regimes in Tehran and Damascus. Isn't that what Neville Chamberlain tried with Hitler? CLICK HERE.