After finishing a great Christmas season, it is time to look forward to the future.  Typically, at this junction, it is common for people to examine their lives and make a governing decision to improve their lives.  While I am seriously modifying my apportionments at meals, I still struggle with taking all the necessary steps to reacquire a healthy and svelte appearance.  That is going to be my personal struggle though and I am thinking big today.  It’s time for me to hitch up my belt and step back onto the stump for what was the vision for America circa 1789.

I was running errands for my wife yesterday and I listened to some fill-in hosts for Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.  I thought that both were pretty good, but Rush’s host said something that I found interesting.  In discussing the arguments between Federalists and Anti-Federalists about whether there should be a Bill of Rights tacked on to the US Constitution, the discussion was never about whether or not the Inalienable Rights should be protected by the United States Government.  The debate was whether or not the Bill of Rights were necessary.

Thomas Jefferson and the Anti-Federalists were rallying support for the Bill of Rights.  They had the distinct foresight to know that an institution that is granted power by the people will inevitably try to take power from the people.  The Federalist camp saw an enumeration of Rights as unnecessary.  If the Constitution was set up to define the operating functions of this current incarnation of the United States Government, why would you need a Bill to tell the Government what it already knew it could not do?  Clearly, both sides were driving toward the same end of limited government.

How does that hit you?  Has it sunk in?  The debate wasn’t about limiting the Government.  The Government was supposed to be limited anyway.  Instead of debating what programs to spend their grandchildrens’ tax dollars on, the Founders debated on whether it was overly redundant to tell the Government, where it already stated by omission, its limitations.

Now we are living in an age of unprecedented government expansion into spheres of the private sector that would make Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton the best of friends.  This really is a Libertarian’s hell on earth.  Bailouts and Loans on top of illegal entitlement programs started by the Socialist agendas of the New Deal and Great Society debacles.  The one truly fiscally conservative policy that the current Bush administration attempted was to privatize Social Security, which is one of the best ideas of his Presidency.  It got killed because Bush tried to do the unpopular thing of taking away power from the Government.  Juevos Grandes.

After that resistance, whatever Laissez-fairre economic theory that the Bush administration had co-opted to get elected went by the wayside to preserve his image in the media.  The war situations will not sell in a vehemently anti-war media.  They felt like they got lied to.  Anything that Bush touched was automatic poison, so let’s get all cylinders firing against this guy.  They got help with fellow leftist conspirators in the United States Congress who measure their value by wins and losses every 2 or 6 years.  The role of the Congress was to shift the blame over the “fair” lending practiced encouraged by delusional Congressional Liberals, and even opposed by former President Bill Clinton, to the Bush administration.  Here they got help because Paulson wanted to save his old employer and started the Bail-Out Spree.

The Republican National Committee’s New Year’s Resolution should be a incorporation of Libertarian ideals into their fiscal platform.  That means that all answers to spending outside of Constitutionally mandated Government activities is an emphatic No.  No dealing, just No.

2009 should be the year of No.  No to Bail-Outs and loans.  If a company can’t hack it, too bad.  No help for struggling mortgages, if you can’t afford a house, rent an apartment.  Make the incentive to work more than not getting a smaller welfare check.  Make people responsibly plan their retirement instead of depending on their grandchildren to pay them $300/month.  Stop using income taxes to propagate inflated bureaucracy.  Cut programs.  Operate within the limits of the Constitution.  It sounds so simple, but it is not done because Liberals (i.e. Socialists, Communists, etc.) believe in a living document, loose interpretation.

Loose interpretation is tantamount to absolutely throwing away the document altogether.  RNC REVOLT!  Welcome more Libertarian ideals into the fold.  You will get more votes by promising to be more Constitutionally focused and delivering.  There is a Center-Right majority that is just waiting to be invoked into supporting a movement that we all have been waiting for.  Don’t depend on a bankrupting Presidency to laud the virtues of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit (not promise) of Happiness.