The notion of limited government is not a “conservative message” or simply a function of “pure conservative principles”.

It is the foundational principle around which the entire structure of the United States’ federal government is organized.

Pragmatic as you might conceive it to be, some kind of amalgam between what was originally conceived and dedicated and today’s behemoth cannot be anything like the original Constitutional mandate for the formation of these United States.

This President and many of his surrogates and hangers on have voiced their near contempt for that tired old Constitution. Ideally, they would abrogate the “negative” (Obama’s word) individual liberties enshrined in the Bill of Rights and replace them with “positive” liberties, where government calls all the shots, dispensing and witholding at will what the citizen can receive.

All major initiatives of this administration, from cap and trade to the healthcare initiatives put forth in both houses, to intrusion into markets and the private sector, to card check, so called “net neutrality”…and more, are done in the spirit of growing the behemoth and shrinking the citizen, a complete abrogation of original intent. When this President uses his SOTU to tell you he’s concerned about impending economic collapse as a function of his policies and programs (I paraphrase )and will therefore call for reduction of something like $15 billion in spending beginning in 2011, you should fall off your chair, laughing hysterically at the absurdity and the transparency.

As stated above in this piece, Washington DC’s liberal aristocracy (aka “The Left”) wants to rule, not govern. Many on both sides of the aisle (as the cliché goes) have sensed this trend and are balking at the agenda.

The government was created to serve the will of the people, not the other way around.

At the very least, all of us, not just “conservatives”, should see the value in not in granting the behemoth even more unconstitutional and intrusive power and control over individual lives and individual liberties.