The Plan To Take America Back
The Problem
The right has lost focus, our politicians are spending too much, they are taxing too much, they are growing the government too much and they are pandering to the special interests rather than listening to and serving the people. Our representatives have only one goal once they win an election: to win the next one as well. Each year, we are seeing more and more members of Congress under investigaton for wrong doing.
We have moved from electing statesmen to electing politicians. From having representatives serving us to those ruling us. It gets rather difficult to tell the two parties apart on many issues.
Even when we DO send a good person to DC with the best of intentions, he soon learns to sign off on someone elses’ pork to get his agenda approved; it has become a tailspin descent into the hell of Socialism and bankruptcy.
The right is so split, if a politician is too centrist, he loses the Christian right, if he’s too Christian , he loses the middle. The net effect is that we have LOST THE ENTIRE COUNTRY to a bunch of Socialists who are hell bent on destroying her.
The Republican party has such a stigma to it now from which it will be very difficult to recover and get back on track.
The Solution
We rebrand the party. We CANNOT start a 3rd party, as it will only further doom us, and splinter the right. Rebranding is the right move. Make the platform simple and universal: Smaller government (DRASTICALLY SMALLER!!) , much lower taxes, more freedom and liberty, security, and bring back the incentive to work: Capitalism.
Possible party names would be: The American Reform Party, The Freedom Party and The Liberty Party etc.
We need to first identify the seats coming up for election and decide who needs to be replaced ON BOTH sides of the aisle, and then we need to identify replacements for these seats.
So far, nothing new… right? WRONG!! We find people that understand that they are going in to make a very real difference, some very difficult choices, and DO THE RIGHT THING.
But while there, they will fight hard for our agenda, and NOT COMPROMISE at all. They will continually submit and fight for legislation to roll back the size of government, CONGRESSIONAL PAY ; voting to bring their pay in line with those that they represent. A Complete stop to all automatic pay raises, and tie any possible pay raises to a COLA index like private enterprise does. Serving should be an honor, not a get rich quick scheme. They will dismantle the Congressional benefits gravy train, scaling back their health care to the same system that Postal Workers and the military get. Congressmen are government servants just like these people, and it is a shame that they have, over the years voted themselves such extravagant excesses.
Term limits with 2 terms max at any level, and while your time goes toward govt. retirement, no one collects a dollar in retirement for less than 20 years service. Just like the people that you serve.
Within 2 election cycles, we should be able to have a majority, and we will start actually passing these agendas, shrinking our government to a fraction of what it is, restoring Congressional POWER to only that which is granted to it by the constitution.
We will remove thousands of laws from the books; we have so many laws that it is virtually impossible to not break them. Congress was NOT given the power to be a nanny state and make me wear a helmet.
Massive Campaign reform. No Lobbyist or corporate money. You represent THE PEOPLE, not COMPANIES !!!
You are the representative; along with the party, you and your staff write the laws, enough having lobbyist writing bills that nobody even reads.
REAL Transparency, not the kind that we got with Obama. Bills get posted online so that THE PEOPLE can tell you what they want, and you HAD BETTER Listen.
The objective is to reduce the platform to a very small but vital one. Freedom, Security, Lower taxes, Personal Responsibility and Capitalism. Leave abortion, gay marriage and so many of the smaller issues off the platform. Let candidates from WITHIN the party present their views, but most of these issues should be determined within the states themselves.. I am pro life. Unabashedly and unashamedly. But I truly believe that far more freedom is lost by splitting the party down abortion or gay rights issues, than could possibly be lost by coming together on the major issues. The Right stood unwavering for years refusing to budge, and now we are ruled, truly ruled over by the most pro choice administration.
WE CANNOT WIN THE COUNTRY BACK IF WE ARE DIVIDED
So, as much as it hurts to say, there really is a bigger issue for the federal government. Let’s fight the more divisive issues in our own states. It is not the federal government’s place to legislate morality.
So much of the country has become addicted to the government teat. The federal government was not created to take care of us. It was founded to protect us from outside harm, to regulate interstate commerce and a very few other tasks. But to serve their own interests, the people that have been getting elected year after year have been feeding us… providing jobs, social programs all with the objective to keep us voting for them.
Even a crack addict needs to recognize the problem before they can make a move to recover. WAKE UP AMERICA !!! We have a problem!
This is just a very short outline of what I believe we need to do to take back our country. I would dearly like to hear from people both within the Republican party and those outside. The new party will be a MUCH BIGGER TENT than this country has ever seen, because it will be THE AMERICAN’s party. We can make this happen!
Tom O’Halloran
Las Vegas, NV
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I’m happy to help support you because you need the help & we need people working full time on this issue.
Re your plan, it’s good as far as it goes but hasn’t been developed beyond a laundry list of “to do” items yet. It offers no real structure or mechanism for accomplishing any of the goals. For example, it’s vital we review what elected representatives actually do and should do. Are they the ones best suited to scale back govt? How will they do so?
Would a “citizen’s grand jury” (for lack of a better term) that existed to review legislators & make initial judgement on every law that has been passed since the Bill of Rights or some other cut-off point be better suited to the job? It could be a constantly changing group of qualified citizens from across the country that spends one month reviewing laws and presenting unconstitutional ones to elected reps to be repealed or modified so to be in compliance w/ the Constitution. Qualification would come through taking an exam that determined knowledge of the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and the Federalist Papers & Founding Father’s thought. Only those interested would qualify but everyone would be encouraged to do so.
I read the Federalist Papers several years ago because I wanted to understand the particular ethos of being an American. Others have read them on their own, in small groups or in classes. There are and will continue to be many opportunities to learn so finding enough qualified Americans now shouldn’t be an issue. (Going forward, the federal govt’s involvement in education ought to be limited to requiring that every HS graduate be able to pass the “Citizen’s Grand Jury” exam.
That’s only one idea about the mechanisms we need to put into place to dismantle the behemoth our govt is now. There is so much to do and creating a structure or framework within which to do it is essential. One of the most essential first steps, as you indicate, is electing the right candidates. That process has begun because that is what everyone knows to do.
Another absolutely vital concern is preparing to respond to a Reichstag moment or other time when we cannot wait until Nov 2010 or 2012. (There are many, myself included, who believe we are at that moment now.) We must have plans to respond legally, peacefully but effectively. I think it’s vital that we have such plans for the preservation of what we are as a nation. Much about the disease our govt has become has been made public. More is available for those who search. When all is revealed, the citizens of this nation will be hard pressed to remain w/i the rule of law. But if we are to survive as a nation, we must be ruled by our laws even when we have reason to act otherwise. Legal, effective responses must be planned.
One idea is that we simply stop spending money. Another is that we stop going to work. In both instances, people could descend on DC & surround the Capitol. Several million Americans surrounding the Capitol could not be dismissed & would shut down the govt. Other possibilities exist. We need highly creative responses, responses they don’t expect One of the realities about our enemy is that they are not willing to sacrifice We must be like our Founding Fathers, willing to sacrifice our fortunes and our lives and above all, we must be creative.
Give some thought to what sort of role you might play. We need to get ourselves organized soon. Time is not on our side though, I firmly believe, God is. May God bless us all and amend our work.
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I appreciate your energy but wish you were one of the few that doesn’t need to demonize “progressives” to rally a new Republican party. All of us (US Citizens) are facing serious, systemic and social breakdown caused largely by the right and left (2 party)power and dogma dominance dance. I urge you to try a transpartisan approach to your advocacy; Reaching across political boundaries, respecting differences and cooperating for creative solutions to some wickedly complex problems. A new Republican party that doesn’t respect the full range of perspectives in this country will contribute more of the same to the decline of this nation. Same is true for a “my way or the highway” Democratic Party. Look into the transpartisan movement and consider becoming a uniter of our Country rather than a political party. I wish you well.
Tom,, what a powerful article,, I agree with everything you are writing and will support,, We have to stand up and get America back to the way it was when Reagan was are president!
what a great plan! I’ve long believed that if we want gov. out of our lives they have to be our of our moral decisions ie. abortion, hate crimes (crime is by it’s very nature hateful) etc. Hang in there and keep posting. Maybe they will get it!
Your work reveals your wisdom and patriotism. For the sake of the survival of this great republic, I wish you success in your endeavor.
With your permission I’ve posted your plan on my website with a link your Twitter account.
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Soooo glad someone has finally outlined the problems within our current society and offered solutions. Its sick how society has come to accept and even glorify bloodthirsty communist leaders such as Che Guevara while derailing everything our country has fought for. Keep writing Tom! As long as we continue to remind US citizens that we can take our country back, I truely believe we can win!
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Hello Tom,
I agree with most of what you have written, except that we should melt into the Republican Party. This is exactly what the Progressives have done They have melted into both parties.
Personally I believe for us to really change things and take that step back, we need to define ourselves and not let them force us to assimilate into their pre-determined two party system.
I believe a strong third party, such as the Tea Party,would force them all to give us, the recognition and representation, if we demand it.
Thanks,
Jim Allen III
Fed Up with all of them.
I agree completely. I am so frustrated with the government and what is doing. They have no right to be directing businesses that are owned by the private sector or to give my tax dollars to them to bail them out.
I hope you are right. I hope this can be won this way. However I fear it can only be won by way of another civil war.
Tom, excellent article! Well said, I agree that a third party would be a disaster and only steal votes to empower the progressive agenda. Americans need to get more organized than just venting their frustrations. My husband and myself have voiced our thoughts several times about becoming an independent. But what good would that do? The Republican party has become all to greedy using the conservative voters for their own selfish gains. The government needs to shrink, way too much power. Thanks again
We’re behind ya… thanks for the post. Keep spreading the word. Twitter, facebook, and blogging are the weapons to win this revolutionary war.
Tom,
I just read your ideas for taking the country back. You’ve done a very nice job of presenting your plan.
I believe that the two party system is part of the problem, though.
“The Party” has stolen the politicians’ allegiance from the country.
You are absolutely correct about the reform of the two “ruling” parties. They are the same, just sporting different names–much like a man and woman in marriage today, where instead of “the two shall become one” and the household bears the husband’s name, often the wife keeps her own “identity,” or name. But, at least that union is publically recognized. With the government parties, however, it’s not an open and legitimate relationship. Rather, they choose to “be in the bed together” and “behind closed doors” in an effort to keep their
“relationship” hidden the voters.
My husband has recently been saying, “I’m going to do everything in my power to destroy the Decomocratic party; then, I’m going after the Republican party.”
When I read what you have written here, I realized how very much in line with what he’s been saying you advocate as a way to take the country back. Bravo!
For years my husband has also spoken about the increased size of the Federal government. They have taken over much, too much, of the responsibilitiesof the State and Church! Yes, I said Church–another illegitimate relationship–in bed together in that legal relationship of prostitution known as a 501(c) 3!
Is it any wonder the “healthcaresystem” is in a mess?
We have given over to “Ceasar” even the most basic of human re-sponsibilities. Care of the sick and dying was once considered a family obligation. If no household or extended family could take care of their own, the Church family provided for the infirmed–care until recovery or natural death.
Similarly, the government has taken over education–not only in public schools, but in private schools as well.
In earlier times parents were more involved in the education of their kids. They hired and paid the teachers out of their own resources. They held the teachers responsible for doing the job they’d been hired to do, and learning standards were higher then.
At the same time, children were taught to hold to the same truths and values as their fathers, and their fathers, before them.
It has taken many years for this great country to degenerate into this current condition of arrogance, debt and degradation.
Perhaps it will take total failure and enslavement to the foreign countries who have been keeping us afloat before we regain the humility of being a nation that serves God and His people!
Just my thoughts and I’m not the brightest of your readers I’m sure. : )
E’Anne Frye
Topeka, KS
How about just identifying the party as the Reformed Republican Party, just as a modifier, not a name changer. Afterall, it’s the PLATFORM that needs changing, not the PARTY…!
I too have been thinking about how to go about change, and have come to realize that it will be a very gradual process by necessity, but the PLAN can be formulated and a timetable mandated that will accommodate it.
We need to identify and prioritize those areas that need to be addressed and assign a method to the madness of change.
We must first do whatever it takes to not allow Obama to declare Martial Law. That CANNOT happen, or all will be lost. That is the final nail in the coffin of a Republican form of government.
It will take a tremendous effort of give and take negotiation, but done correctly, will be worth all short term struggles.
Great Luck to All
Tom,Well said! It is exactly the same in the UK. We are run by professional politicians and bureaucrats who don’t give a damn. We like you have no real cjhoice at the Ballot!
Tom, I totally agree with your assessment of the many issues/problems we as a nation are now addressing. I highly recommend your very well written platform to once again return to the values that have made our country the greatest in history.
I enjoy your tweets but the website is much better glad I found it. Keep giving them hell. Just another small town guy clinging to his bible and multiple gun here.
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Mr. Obama is counting on fear to allow him to use FEMA for a declaration of martial law, if needed, to complete his agenda. That is why he has been declaring that Christians with guns as terrorists. Cap & Trade/Copenhagen will be the turning point for America.
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a fairly good start. i would eliminate the nea, dept of education, Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Bureau, dept of energy, and while on a role keep firing millions of govt payroll squatters that do nothing but draw payroll on tax payers expense. I would privatize the prison systems and make prisoners earn their own keep, not tax payers. i have tons of ideas but not enough room or time to finish here.
Just re-read your work. I wish someone in Washington would read it once. Keep it up Tom.
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I agree with Tony Darrick Baker–A newly named party would create the third-party disaster that will keep the Marxists in power, because I can guarantee you that someone would pick up the old Republican banner and try to run with it. We need to be the force to reckon with within the Republican party, and when the other choice is Obama or his ilk, we will win over the disaffected Democrats and Independents.
I appreciate the effort you have put into this piece, but your plan to take back America sounds more like a list of to-do’s once Conservatives have regained control of the bodies that make the laws. Other than agitate like hell, there is nothing we can do to direct government funding, change voting or tax laws, close the border, etc., until like-minded Conservatives are actually in office. So the key to the plan is the first part–finding strong candidates who can win elections, supporting them with massive amounts of money and creative talent, and reaching the masses (I ran the Libertarian Presidential campaign for Ed Clark in California in 1980 and know how difficult all of those things are, especially when the government-controlled media won’t give you the time of day). What is your strategy for doing that? THAT’S where we all need to focus, and we may need to take a page out of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals to get there.
You are absolutely right that we need to focus on the big issues and take off the platform those really divisive issues, like abortion, that anger or scare people who would otherwise side with us. I happen to be pro-choice but totally respect the pro-life position and feel the government should not be supporting or funding one position over the other. But let’s get it off the platform and worry about our freedom and security first.
Other thoughts:
–Dismantle the government retirement system. Why are government workers entitled to a taxpayer-funded retirement plan when most of us in the private, non-union sector, have to save for our own? If a 401k and/or an IRA is good enough for us, it should be good enough for government workers. It is the retirement plans that are killing the labor-dominated industries and our state governments, and they incent the deadwood to hang on as long as possible.
Keep up the good work!
WONDERFUL PLAN!!! Keep working on it. Yes, Congress needs to have a health care plan, like the one they are trying to force on everyone ELSE! Let THEM know how it feels to die from cancer before even getting in to see a doctor, much less an oncologist. God HELP America!!!
Wake up America! We are under a siege from Obama and his ‘Gang’ of communist. Our Constitution is at stake. Our liberties are under attac and we must fight to restore sanity in Washington D.C.. Tom, spread the word, you got my support!
There is already the Constitution Party, what about that one? Just to let you know.
I hate to say it but I think we are not only heading toward Socialism but also to Communism. The President wants an armed civilian militia, this smells like the brown shirts of WW ll Germany to me. Czars originated in Russia., this scares me to. The Obama bunch wants to employ the arts to create propaganda materials again, Communism.
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I am infinitely more interested getting elected officials that represent their constituents than the re-building of the republican party. It is not GOP vs DFL. The white house is currently under siege by progressive Marxists. WAKE UP PEOPLE!
Sustein, Jones, Emmanuel, etc… All have Marxists agendas and they are using the aisle fighting to hide until the right time!
Amen Brother !
Speedreading, awesome we gotta take a leaf out this guy’s books. Awesome great blog and good luck with your proposals and thanks for bringing this to my attention on Twitter @robbwindow
At the risk of being put on the fishy email list, I commend you for what you are doing and you have my full attention.
I have to respectfully disagree with the idea of re-branding the Republican party as “The American Reform Party, The Freedom Party and The Liberty Party etc.” You are missing the point altogether. Any marketing expert will tell you that re-branding is the hardest thing you can possibly do. Re-branding of this type could take decades. When the “move-on.org” liberals transformed the democratic party from social moderates to what we now see as an extremely socialists left-wing party, they didn’t do so by trying to start their own party. They simply became the most dominant and extremely well organized and funded voice in their party. Yes true conservatives need a new identity, but it will not come from renaming the party, but from groups of people becoming one large voice within the republican party. Yes, I am more than disappointed that the “Contract for America” Republicans let us down by increasing spending and growing government just to get re-elected. I too am disappointed in the bizarre behavior of those who rise in power, regardless of party. However, for true reform and a return of the principles that Reagan spoke of, we must create loud voices of accountability within the Grand Old Party of Republicans. Rebranding is not the answer. Reforming is. We must have a new contract with America, and then demand that they stick to it or let history repeat itself.
Good Morning, Sir: I was sent this by a friend 2 days ago. I have just finished it. I agree with every thing you wrote. I have only one question: Isn’t it ‘too late’ ? Regards, Bob
We think alike and need to start organizing all the various entities that are promoting the same theme.
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