A 12-step program for Republicans: For Those Drunk On Spending!

A 12-step program for Republicans

Joseph Farah has simple solution GOP can impose 

on Democrats

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Speaker of the House John Boehner

 

What America needs is a good 12-step program for Republicans.

If Republicans actually believed what they claim to believe and actually used their power to assert those beliefs, it wouldn't even matter that Barack Obama sits in the White House.

We don't have to convince Barack Obama that limited government is a good thing; the Republicans in the Congress could impose it on him – denying him the funds he covets to bankrupt America and turn it into a socialist republic.

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But in 2011, we saw Republicans were the real barrier to constraining the role of the federal government to the powers enumerated in the Constitution.

All we really have to do is persuade the Republicans, over the next 12 months, to live up to their stated convictions. Failing that, there is no political hope for America. And I refuse to believe there is no political hope for the greatest country the world has ever known.

So I am determined to enlist support for this 12-step program to lobby Republicans to do something drastic in 2012. The 12 steps are actually 12 months of a sustained effort to infuse Republican officeholders, Republican donors, Republican organizations, Republican voters and Republican candidates to take a simple pledge that will transform America in January 2012 back to constitutionally limited government – no matter who is elected president in November.

To understand this simple plan, you have to recognize America is hopelessly divided, stratified, polarized. Americans are giving up on the political system, because it seems we can no longer live together as one nation. What has bound us together, the founding documents and a common political creed, is irrelevant to most Democrats. They believe fundamentally that government should do whatever it wants – the more the better. They believe the strict limits the Constitution places on Washington are archaic anachronisms of a bygone era. They literally believe the federal government should intervene in every aspect of the lives of individuals and states.

There is no dealing with Democrats – no common ground to be found.

With that in mind, I look for solutions that can be imposed on them. And as long as Republicans control even one house of Congress, which I am certain they will do in 2012, Republicans alone have the power to take America back in a dramatic fashion. All we have to do is convince them to use that power.

We failed to do that in 2011.

After the tea party used all of its energy to give the GOP control of the House of Representatives in 2010, the Republicans frittered away their power to impose a balanced budget on Washington. They frittered away their power to return Washington to constitutionally limited government with one vote. They frittered away their power to ensure Obama could not continue to recklessly spend money. They frittered away their power to turn Obamacare into a meaningless piece of legislation that could never be funded. They frittered away their power to get a balanced budget overnight.

They did all this when House Speaker John Boehner used his influence to persuade the Republican majority to support raising the debt limit.

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Had they voted no, $1 trillion would have had to be cut from spending plans beginning last year. Government would have been forced to live within its means. There is nothing Democrats could do about it.

Why did Boehner and the House Republicans do that?

I'm not sure. But we must never let it happen again.

We have 12 months to get every Republican officeholder and candidate on record with a pledge not to raise the debt limit in 2012 – end of story.

That's how simple it is to take America back. We don't need any Democrats to support it. We don't need any Democrats to like it.

Ron Paul supports this approach, as does Michele Bachmann. Sadly, only 22 House Republicans voted to oppose the debt-limit hike last summer. We need 218 votes in the next session of Congress.

That should be our single-minded focus – to convince Republicans to stop trying to compromise with Democrats and to use the absolute power they have with control of one House of Congress to impose their solution.

We don't need any more 10-year plans to reach a balanced budget. We don't need any more Paul Ryan budgets that actually call for more astronomical borrowing for years to reach a balanced budget. It's time to go cold turkey and cut up Washington's credit cards.

Could we convince Republicans and Republicans alone that this is the only way back for America in 2012?

I think we can. But it will take an unprecedented tea party-like uprising over the next 12 months.

I intend to facilitate that uprising – starting now.

If you are with me, sign on to the "No More Red Ink" program today. We need to start bombarding the House Republicans with letters and pressure now if we are to have any chance of success in turning off the borrowing spigot next January.

Joseph Farah
Editor and Chief Executive Officer
WND.com

Grassroots Revolution? : What is Grassroots and are they Grassroots?

What is a Grassroots movement? Does the Left have one or are they simply highjaking an idea?

 Grassroots is defined as:

 

1.

The common or ordinary people, especially as contrasted with the leadership or elite of a political party, social organization, etc.; the rank and file.

2.

the agricultural and rural areas of a country.

3.

the people inhabiting these areas, especially as a political, social, or economic group.

4.

The origin or basis of something; the basic or primary concept, rule, part, or the like.

adjective Also, grass-roots.

5.

Of, pertaining to, or involving the common people, especially as contrasted with or separable from an elite: a grassroots movement for nuclear disarmament.

 So we have learned from the plain definition of the word "Grassroots" that is NOT supplied with wealth from the top down as its support. Grassroots are born from the ground up not the top down, that is simple basic common sense. Why then are we looking at the wall Street protestors as a Grassroots movement when ALL the finances for the entire thing are coming from a BILLIONAIRE named Soros?

In order to be Grassroots you must first be nothing and develop step by step slowly gaining your base from the COMMON PEOPLE not from the enemy of the common people. If you HATE WEALTH THEN DO NOT GO TO THE RICH TO SUPPORT YOU, that is hypocritical at its start and makes a statement that you are insincere and phony! If the Wall-Street protestors were for real they would FIRST and foremost NOT be protesting on Wall-Street they would set up camps inside every College campus, because their TENURED PROFESSORS are what sky-rockets their TUITION'S NOT WALL-STREET BANKERS.  

 

The entire idea that any protest around the world from Egypt to Wall-Street are 'Grassroots Movements' is insanity at its core. Every one of these movement were peopled and financed by Wealthy Left wing, Socialist Communist, and Terror connected groups. They are the TRUE 'ASTROTURF' that Nancy was worried about because she has heard talk like this before!

Unlike genuine grassroots activism which tends to be money-poor but people-rich, astroturf campaigns are typically people-poor but cash-rich. Funded heavily by corporate largesse, they use sophisticated computer databases, telephone banks and hired organizers like the Unions to rope less-informed activists into sending letters to their elected officials or engaging in other actions that create the appearance of grassroots support for their client's cause.

Here's an example:

Real AstroTurf=The Coffee Party Movement

Big Soros Money Linked to “Occupy Wall Street”

George Soros Funds Occupy Wall Street

Reuters: Soros Money Is Behind Occupy Wall Street Protests

 OCCUPY THIS!

More proof! Occupy Wall Street not 'spontaneous'

Radical agitation groups, Soros funding seek global financial 'solutions'

Read more: More proof! Occupy Wall Street not 'spontaneous' http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=362641#ixzz1dGEIcrPS

Occupy Wall Street and Soros’ Fingerprints

 ACORN: Puppet Master of Occupy Wall Street

The lame denials from Soro's not withstanding, the evidence is mounting that OCCUPY has been occupied by dirty money and thus is not a grassroots movement but planted by a BILLIONAIRE!