When the GOP decided to grow a set of cannons and unite as a party of fiscal discipline (What took you so long?) They were unfairly branded a party of "no" or the "obstructionist bunch". There's this false idea that principles don't matter during an economic "crisis" such as this one. The media would have you believe that pragmatism and political maneuvering are just what the doctor ordered because with a "crisis" like this one, partisanship needs to be on the back burner. Except the Democrats are playing partisan politics. Let me give you the first example: This deal with the devil called the stimulus package, or as I like to call it the "slimeulus" package, president Great One allowed the fringe hugging lefties in the Congress to write the bill. At which they completely shut out the GOP members and instead crammed this thing with pork dream after pork dream. Now, where was the media then? Was the media calling this move partisan? or, disruptive? no, they weren't. Second example was the idiotic and anti-democratic, not to mention unconstitutional move to control the Census via Rahm Emanuel. Now, Judd Greg mentioned this when he withdrew his name from the Commerce Secretary job. I suppose the media didn't pick up on the Obama administration's recent power grabs and unconstitutional activity.

But alas the Democrats are showing their true colors. "They are who we thought they were" to quote Dennis Green. The Democrats are playing partisan politics and force feeding the American people their twisted principles and vision, yet when the GOP try to reconnect with their party's principles it's seen as obstructionist. So when the Democrats used to annoy George Bush with those withdraw dates they would slip into Iraq War funding bills, that was seen as patriotic and just, when they constantly rejected George Bush and would openly criticize him, that was righteous and noble. I don't get the logic but I understand the motives. You see the media and the Democrats won't stand for any dissent, they will not allow it. When the president and the Democrats talk about "post-partisan" or laying down your party affiliation they really mean one party rule. They want Republicans to abandon their principles and join up with them. They want the GOP dissolved for good. No I'm not a conspiracy theorist, I'm an observer and I see things coming that the average American might not. I can decode this language speaking of bipartisanship and all that good "We are the world" stuff. The Democrats want to quell opposition, plain and simple. The oldest fact known to man is that liberals hate dissent and they can't stand opposition. They believe their principles are so right, why who would dare disagree with them?

Why do you think Obama went after Rush Limbaugh? Why do you think Bill Press is leading this charge to reinstate the unconstitutional doctrine I mean uh, the fairness doctrine? They want to silence opposition so their agenda be made permanent. What do you think Obama means when he says "remake America", he wants to move American into the 21st century? What are we living in the dark ages, or the colonial times? The United States is the most technologically developed country on earth. Hello, superpowers aren't centuries behind every other nation, that's apart of what makes them superpowers, you dunce. Excuse me, I've been listening to too much Mark Levin and Dr. Savage, I apologize. But you see what I mean don't you? He's trying to justify his agenda by creating this view that isn't real. See his mindset is that capitalism is of the 20th century, offshore drilling, 20th century, free markets, 20th century, nationalism, 20th century, we ought to be a more multicultural nation where we embrace cultures outside of our own and slowly break down the American culture. Think I'm a conspiracy theorist yet? You see Obama believes in a more centralized government where the people's needs are met in a more collectivist society. That's his 21st century vision for America. When he says remake America he wants to transform all the old value systems and traditional foundations such as: the Constitution, capitalism, free markets, individual rights, states rights, sovereignty, American culture.

It was Obama who said the constitution was fundamentally unfair and unjust toward poor people, and that Judges should control the distribution of wealth in this country. So, when you talk about principles being obstructionist then I proudly wear the badge. I'm a Libertarian and I will obstruct every heat and helping of big government socialism and multicultural Marxist theory this man tries to poetically impose (That sounded like a mother goose rhyme). So I say to David Brooks, who makes his living apologizing to liberals for conservatism's very existence, I say principles matter when they come from our constitution; you don't abandon that for anything sir. And no this is not a unique set of circumstances because if this would have happened during the time of our founding fathers, they wouldn't abandon the very document they sacrificed blood and treasure to create, but we are and it's wrong. To my conservative friends out there and to the GOP I say be obstructionist, and pay no mind to soft headed RINOS who pander to people who don't even like them. Believe in your principles and be proud of who you are. Heck, the left gets the green light to be proud of their principles of Marxism and communism, why not be proud of your small government individual rights, constitution principles?

If you say principles don't matter then you're saying the constitution doesn't matter. You're saying Thomas Jefferson, my hero George Washington don't matter. You're saying, when things get tough we ought not look to our foundations and our core for the way, but to government and politicians who you are trying to convince me that they possess a moral and principled conviction, somewhere in all that pragmatist mud. No no, David Brooks, Mark Shields and the others in the media, pragmatism is not a noble virtue or a foundation; it's the easy way out. Principles ensure that a nation will not fall into utter chaos both economically, Militarily, socially, and culturally. So stand for your principles and wear them like a badge of honor; I know I do. This Libertarian loves his freedoms, his individual independence, and his self reliant way of life. So embrace your own; or the terrorists win. And they aren't in Pakistan, they're in DC.

Perhaps the media and the Democrats should read these quotes from people who understood the meaning of America and our constitution:

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." -George Washington

"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." -Thomas Jefferson

"The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted." -James Madison

"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." -James Madison

"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." -John Quincy Adams

"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have." -Gerald Ford


"We are a nation that has a government—not the other way around. And that makes us special among the nations of the earth." -Ronald Reagan