Judson Phillips; Tea Party Nation: Priorities

[Patricia M. McBride]

Well thought out and a plan we may be to look at.  We, as a group, all support different candidates, and some folks are hard line enough about their guy there is no wiggle room at all for them regardless of the situation in our country and the absolute need to remove the current resident of the white house.  Because we support different candidates, chances are very good, we are going to get the establishment GOP pick yet again, and we all know how wonderful that worked out last time with rino McCain who actually tried to one up Obama on give away programs in the debates UGHHHHH.

 

by Judson Posted on February 05, 2012 from Tea Party Nation

It is time for us to focus on our real priorities.

We must focus if we are going to have any chance to turn the country around.

What should our priorities be?

They are the Senate and the House.

We must win the Senate and the House. Winning the Senate and the House does not just mean a Republican majority in both. We need a conservative majority in both houses.

If John Boehner has taught us anything it is that just having a Republican majority is not enough.

We have been very focused on the run for the White House. That always consumes our interest every four years. Right now, in looking at the election, to quote Vince Lombardi, there are three possibilities and two of them are bad. We will end up with Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney or Barack Obama taking the oath of office on January 20, 2013. The Rick Santorum and Ron Paul supporters won’t like this but they simply are not going to win.

We are going to have to have a good Senate and a good House to start advancing a conservative agenda.

How do we get a good House and Senate?

For starters, let’s start getting these guys to work like a team. Conservatives need to support each other. Far too often we see what has happened in the Presidential race. We have several conservatives who split the conservative vote, while a RINO slides in and we have establishment Republicans calling the shots.

We need another agenda that Republicans can run on. Yes, this is the new Contract With America that Newt Gingrich used so effectively in 1994.

What do we put in the New Republican Contract with America?

If the American People give the Republicans Control of the Senate and the House, within the first 100 days the Republicans will:

1. Pass a budget (Something the Senate has not done in over 1000 days)
2. Identify and eliminate the hundreds of billions of dollars in waste, fraud and duplicated services the Government Accounting Office has identified in the budget.
3. Complete Repeal of Obamacare
4. Complete Repeal of Dodd-Frank and Sarbanes-Oxley.
5. Cut spending to FY 2007 levels when the deficit was only $200 billion.
6. Eliminate all funding for Obama’s czar positions.
7. Restore defense spending to the pre-super committee levels.
8. Enact a caption law that requires all spending items to be voted on individually and eliminates the 2000 to 3000 page bills that go through Congress without anyone knowing what is even in the bill.
9. Eliminate all foreign aid, except for that to Israel and Taiwan.
10. Allow states to enforce immigration laws.
11. Direct the President to put the military on our Southern Border to stop those crossing illegally.
12. Abolish the EPA and allow offshore and on shore drilling to boost production and allow the construction of new refineries. Set a goal to boost domestic oil production so that by January 2014, gas is at $1 a gallon.

If all conservative Republicans ran as a team on these items, we could have a landslide. If Republicans ran on these items and actually did them, they could make a complete change in the way Washington does business.

These ideas are not carved in stone. There may be some better ideas we can add to this list or even replace one or two on this list with something better.

But either we start now or wonder in November why nothing is going to change for another two years.