A Coservatives Fantasy Press Conference.

I received a "Republican Senate Leadership Survey" today in the mail urging me to fill out the questions in a timely manner and return the information ASAP. Oh yeah, there was also the usual request for a donation. I filled it out, but I also added "additional comments" that you will see below. Towards the end I thought that there is a great opportunity here for a great press conference for conservative Republicans to take the lead in the true issues that face our country today. Here is my commentary:

Republican Senate Leadership Survey Additional Comments

I can’t speak for every conservative, but I know what I see, and I know what I feel. Our country is at a crossroads. We can either be lead down the path to some Marxist/Fascist type of government, or we can stand and fight. I choose to fight. We are not Guatemala, Venezuela, Iran, Iraq, or Afghanistan. Our ancestors fought for a liberty and freedom that we as American’s hold dear. We believe in individual liberty, not a collective authority overriding our individual rights. Government will impose its will on us only so far.

We were all born of liberty; it is who and what we are. I believe the people of our nation will do whatever is necessary to keep it.

Our government is not supposed to own banks, insurance companies, or auto makers. Our government is not supposed to manage our health insurance or health care, and our government should not be populated with corrupt officials working to curry favor with whoever is able to help keep them in power. Our government is supposed to be “Of The People And By The People”.

I expect our government to preserve and protect the constitution of the United States. Not treat is as some aged document that does not speak to the complex world we live in today. I would say that we live in a world not so much different than that of 1776, a world with tyrannical leaders, a world with governments that would impose its will and authority on its people without fair representation. What is so different in that world from the world we live in today? Perhaps it is the character and intellect of our founding fathers; men who lived under tyranny and were willing to do what was necessary to end it, and create a model government for the entire world to see. Men who knew once established how fragile such a government would be.

I would argue that over the last 50 years our country has known one great leader, a leader that understood the role of government as defined by the constitution, and more to the point the foundation of rules our founding fathers put in place to keep the American Idea strong. That leader was Ronald Reagan. You ask in your survey if I believe voters have turned away from the principles and ideals of the “Reagan Revolution”. I say no, it’s not the voters that have turned away from those ideals it is our Republican leadership in Congress!

The blueprint is right there in front of you. You don’t need surveys and you don’t need to continue to ask for my money to develop some type of strategy to regain the majority in the Senate and House of Representatives. All you need do is listen to Ronald Reagan and follow his lead. If you follow that lead, support will take care of itself.

I ask where is the Republican united front in Congress against a government takeover of the health care system in the United States? Where is the united front in calling such a grab by the government what it is; Socialism? Where is the united front against government take over of private business? Where is the united front against a tax system that is unfair and unjust? Where is the united front against weak boarders? Where is the united front against a weak foreign policy? Where is the united front against such fallacies as Global Warming used to fuel more government power and increased energy costs? Where is the united stand against our government creating crises in order to gain more power over the people? Where is the outrage? Where is the united front in the Republican Party?

If our Republican Party will just do what is necessary to take care of today in accordance with the ideas that built our country, tomorrow’s support will take care of itself.

Let’s take this a step further and consider if you will this conservatives fantasy press conference.

Imagine if you will, a majority of Republicans in the Senate and House of Representatives coming together as one to declare the following:

“We gather here today to declare that Health Care Coverage, Global Warming, Bailing out companies so called too large to fail or any other manufactured crises do not define the true dangers or “crisis’s” our Republic faces today. Rather, the crisis we must stand together and fight is a Federal Government spiraling out of control, a Federal Government marching away from our Republics foundation of individual liberty and freedom towards some form of government of collectivism where the people become dependent on the government for everyday needs.

Today we stand together to say no! Today we say no to any legislation designed to transfer power from the people to the government. Today we say no to the premise that government knows best how to manage ones health care. Today we say no to the faulty ideal that the government creates jobs. Today we say no to any government initiative that undermines who we are as Americans, or the truths we hold dear that make the American Dream a reality.

Today we say that the government can not solve any shortcomings in our health care system, only the private sector can when given the opportunity to do so. Today we say that the federal government can not create jobs; green or any other color, only the private sector can when given the opportunity to do so. Today we say that the federal government can not create demand for any certain type of vehicle, or product, that demand comes from the people when the private sector creates goods that the people desire regardless of what the government thinks. Today we say that increasing taxes will not increase revenue, only lower taxes and increased productivity generated by the private sector will increase revenue when allowed to do so. Today, we say that the government can not solve our energy crisis, only the private sector can when given the opportunity to do so. Today we say that Ronald Reagan was right when he said that “Government Can Not Solve Our Problems, Government Is The Problem””

With this introduction the group would introduce the following:

• A “Health care Cost Solution Bill” of about FIVE pages outlining Five simple steps to curb health care costs. Simple steps that allow the private sector to work.
• Portability of Insurance
• Tort Reform
• Expansion of HSA accounts
• Ability to buy insurance across state lines.
• Tax reform to allow individuals to deduct insurance premiums from taxes.
• An “Energy Independence Bill” of no more than TEN Pages.
• Tax deductions for corporations investing in new exploration
• Repeal of restrictions as to allow for the exploration of oil on the continental shelf and shale wherever found in the U.S. along with tax breaks for solutions to extracting shale oil in an efficient manner.
• Opening up Anwr
• Repeal of restrictions and creation of incentives to build more refineries in the U.S.
• An announcement repealing or at least relaxing the latest C.A.F.E. standards.
• Announcing United Support of the Fair Tax

• Proposal of a Simple “Immigration Bill” that requires:

• Establishing a worker permit program where such permits are dispensed only in the individual’s country of origin after a background search. Such a card would act as a biometric identity card that serves to collect taxes/process support fees, and trace to the whereabouts of alien workers.

• Establishes a fixed time period of use, and a finite number of renewals.

• Explicitly defines no child born of alien workers in the United States is a U.S. Citizen and there is no fast track process for U.S. Citizenship with the alien worker card.

• At the end of the alien workers renewals, the individual must have completed the process to become a U.S. Citizen or loose worker rights.

Pretty simple stuff, but what a great press conference that would be!