A good essay from Film Ladd stating the obvious. In reality, the President only has the power that Congress gives him/her. If we want to reign in the President’s un-American agenda, we need to do it through our elected Representatives. go to their Town Hall meetings and campaign stops. If/when they’re elected to serve us, keep their feet to the fire by calling them, writing letters or sending emails. Flood their phone lines and mail boxes. Let them know we’re watching them and taking notes for the next election.
This notion bears repeating in a different way than I have before.
There’s yet another debate tonight. If you’re a conservative of any stripe, you’ll notice lots of people arguing back and forth about the Presidential primaries on Facebook and Twitter. “Thought leaders” in the media and blogosphere will play it up. We’ll see lots of sturm und drang for the sake of book sales, web hits, radio and television ratings.
You may be drawn into a big social media fight over which of the Presidential Fantastic Four is best. Don’t participate in futility that will degenerate into harpyism (Google: Ann Coulter), consider asking your prospective debate opponent this: “Who’s your representative in Congress and Senate?”
We all need a strong, liberty-oriented Congress and Senate to protect us from whoever wins, Obama or someone from the Republican side of the aisle. There will be terrible bills to prevent, repeal, beat back (NDAA, Obamacare, SOPA/PIPA, etc.).
You can effect change in your district’s election – even if you’re in the worst gerrymandered district in the Union, one that would gladly vote Karl Marx for Congress and Che Guevara for Senate.
You – yes, you! – can still help “pin down” your Congressman or Senator in a fight at home. Otherwise, if they run unchallenged, they are free to help their anti-freedom colleagues in other districts. Your inaction may result in your lousy Congresscritter exporting his or her stupidity to my district.
Make them spend their campaign money and their time in their own districts.
It’s the neighborly thing to do.
So tell me about your Representatives and what you’re doing!
Oh, you are after my heart posting this story. Thank you. I find it to be a voice of sanity in a desert of irrationality.
Actually, I think you have postulated the same premise in one of your articles. But it’s true that changing government starts at the bottom. We have to get control of the House and Senate. Then we can stop any onerous attempts by the President to legislate an un-American Progressive agenda.
Thanks, Mike G.
What is frustrating to me is that all of my letters are replied with this “standard” answer. I guess that’s what you would call it. I mean, they don’t address my particular concerns……seems like they would be able to because they have a paid staff to help them….paid for by us, nonetheless!
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