I’ve just spent most of the week on the road covering an incredible story. Suffice it to say, for the time being, that I feel better about the country’s future than I have in a long time. The details should air on PJTV next week.
It’s been a tough week. Here’s a little something that might help in the meantime, while I get caught up…
At CPAC last month I had a chance to meet a lot of young people; really remarkable young people. College students mostly (and I don’t know what they’re putting in the water at Fordham University — Go Rams! — but for God’s sake, can we bottle it and put in the elementary school’s drinking water?)
College kids, a few high school kids… and two remarkable 14 year olds named Cole Campbell and Lyda Loudon. They have a website called THE FUTURE SPEAKS! and if you sometimes fear that the next generation is irretrievably lost, you should head over there and read their latest, which you can find here.
This may be the second or third link post in the seven year history of Eject! Eject! Eject! but you keep an eye on these kids. They are going places, mark my words.
Supervising Congress: The Time Lag Conundrum
The problem with supervising Congress is now and always has been the time lag. Time is the politician’s friend and the republic’s peril. This must be corrected immediately if the republic is to survive. I think there is a way to do it while retaining the statesmen and purging the politicians using the power of the delightfully disorganized Tea Party Movement which denies current politicians a target for retribution. Let me explain.
The Tea Party Movement is most gratifying to see, but lacks the power to be decisively effective in accomplishing its goals. No matter how great the numbers, no matter how sincere the anger and deep the outrage, no matter how prolific, creative and heart-felt the banners and posters have been, the House, Senate and Administration just successfully used the American people like toilet paper and flushed our best interests and desires down the toilet. Politicians do not fear tomorrow because they don’t live in tomorrow. They live in the moment. They fully believe they will be able to tap dance and throw up enough smoke and mirrors and steal enough pork to buy reelection two years, four years or six years distant since we, the people, tend to forget. So far we have and they have been reelected.
There is, however, one simple remedy to effectively combat future federal abuses of power without revolt, revolution or bloodshed and, if it were to become the focal point for the Tea Party Movement, I think it can ultimately result in decisive, national command and control over an unresponsive and overreaching government which is the goal of the Tea Party Movement and the intent of our founding fathers.
The Tea Party Movement has the disorganized organization, manpower and the zeal to produce a petition with sufficient signers to force legislative action at the state level. That action specifically would be to force the enactment of simple legislation that provides an expedient method (signed petition) of immediate recall of its federal senators and representatives. This legislation MUST contain a CRUCIAL clause that bars immediately and completely the state’s federal Senators or Representatives from casting votes in Congress until the recall issue is resolved by an expedited state referendum to be held within a short time (perhaps 30 days) of the presentation of a Petition of Recall with the appropriate number of signatures.
The referendum must also be simple and contain but a single question:
Recall Senator/Representative _______ Yes____? No_____?
Once that legislation is law, the astonishing speed at which the Tea Party has moved to organize events could be channeled into producing not only state wide, but petitions of recall nationwide in hours and the required signatures in a few days, perhaps faster. That puts the American people in the “here and now” time frame of most politicians. This will encourage politicians to listen and respond to those who elected them. If they cannot, or will not, hear us in Washington, bring them home quickly where they can hear better. Give them the opportunity to run for reelection and again make their case to the people. I don’t think politicians want that. They want a guaranteed feather bed. They should not be granted that.
The power to elect must be enhanced by the power to supervise by immediate removal. This can be THE powerful check and balance on the federal government reserved to the people alone. This power must be real, readily available and used ruthlessly and relentlessly to keep government in check. It will also destroy the power of the majority leaders over the peons. There is no recall in most states. Where it is, information about the legislation is not widely disseminated or the process is too cumbersome and unwieldy to be effective. Here, then, is an opportunity for the Tea Party Movement to grow fangs and make the words “Don’t Tread On Me” more than idle rhetoric.
No state elected federal official can be permitted to be immune to the will of the people for a full term. Far too much mischief can be done too quickly by a dishonest and unethical federal leadership as we have just seen. I doubt many politicians would be so stupid as to risk recall were it a clear and present threat. It is good for politicians to fear the people; the reverse is a tragedy.
It is essential that the electorate be highly circumspect in the election of representatives and meticulously diligent in their supervision. Our failure to do this has resulted in disaster. Make no mistake about it, not only is this new health care law American history, but it is likely permanent history, as is a large part of the republic as we once knew it. We cannot afford another similar mistake and Congress and the Administration have a long list of mistakes to make and an abbreviated schedule in which to do it.
Patriots must act now!
Bill:
You set a lovely example of how adults can take a moment of their time to fill the inspire the heart of a child. If everyone who hits your site would take a moment to mentor a child the Future might speak of great things!
Thank you for reminding me how important it is to pause and help inspire a child in politics.
Thanks for the update! We’ve been wondering where you’ve been hiding. We miss your vids on PJTV!
Thanks, for that link.
I’ve bookmarked it, and am considering adding to the list of “Websites I Like…” on my blog.
That might increase their readership by almost a DOZEN.
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Just now read Free Will and Destiny and Future Speaks not sure how I missed Free Will until now. As usual a great and unique take. I find some extra comfort in your opinion that “These Marxist bastards” as you so eloquently put it are clueless about their coming fate. I’ve felt more than thought that this time is different, that the so called experts the pundits and politicos are way off as they use the usual equations to calculate the left’s coming slaughter. Reading your words assures me that my opinion isn’t merely a triumph of hope over common sense. Thank you for that and the Future Speaks. That two so young already get it, is very encouraging indeed. I will share that link.
Maybe I haven’t used the right keywords, or been persistent enough, but does anyone have a link to the YouTube version of the American Exceptionalism Afterburner?
Bill, I’d love to see you do a video riff on basics on wealth and taxes. Here’s some seeds:
- The government can’t create wealth. If it could, it wouldn’t need taxes.
- Government workers don’t pay Federal income taxes. The idea that they do is a shell game. Their pay IS from Federal income taxes.
- Some people generate wealth and pay taxes. Other people consume wealth and live off those paid taxes.
- Government workers and those who get government monies do not create wealth. They consume it. And now they are consuming like locusts.
- It’s time to end the plague or face stripped and fallow fields.
That you feel better makes me feel better! You’re the best!
Bill, I just caught your vid on PJTV.
I started out at ITM, and eventually migrated here, as a sometime reader. I spent a little time scooping up what was working in Iraq, encouraging Iraqis, and applauding their progress. And now I’m here, because of ITM.
At one time, I predicted that the secular United States and the essentially secular (for a muslim country) Iraq might yet co-operate to save Islam. That has yet to happen. What’s gratifying is to see that the Fadil family is giving back something of value to us. It’s happening so soon, too. And, we need it.
Oh, yeah. We are going to win this one, too.
Bill,
I just watched your excellent report, A Tale of Two Americas.
Thank you for your wonderful work.
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its normal for human being to complain and to blame new generation, but you are right-they are not lost and many more of them are really talanted, as guys that you have mentioned here