[tomkat]

[DrDude]

Get rid of all non essential Gov’t. Slash the rest to bare bones. Let the courts do the work if they have to. I don’t care if the Czar(s) are cut. It will only add to unemployment “a little”.
Rules and Regs are getting complely out of control. Too many Chiefs and not enough Indians!

[MNJohnnie]

EJ Dionne is a superfical idiot. The Founders specifically worried about Dionne sort of untrammeled majoritarianism which is why they designed the check and balances into our political system.

[KantianBurke]

Cutting Medicare and Social Security? Ha! Good luck with that.

[tacticalogic]

Overturn Wickard v Filburn!

[Dead Corpse]

If they have a hard time deciding what and how to cut... Have them call me.

I have a list. Full list of Federal Agencies

I will provide detailed plans to use in crafting legislation and full citation of applicable Art 1 Sec 8 specified duties for what's left.

I'll do this for a grand total of $250k/year, plus medical and dental, and I'll consider myself under contract until the list above matches Art 1 Sec 8. I'll work from home on my own computers. I'll have the first bills ready to be voted upon by the time the next Congress is seated.

[PGalt]

BIG GOVERNMENT IS CRONY SOCIALISM

“Socialism Is Legal Plunder” - The Law; Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850

“Above all, if you wish to be strong, begin by rooting out every particle of socialism that may have crept into your legislation. This will be no light task.” - The Law; Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850

DEPOPULATE socialists from the body politic. Here are some...

http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/caucus-members/

DEFUND their collectives. Here are a few.../sarcasm

http://www.usa.gov/directory/federal/index.shtml

live - free - republic

[mo]

The only future for our kids...is just all that happening with powers transferred back to the States.

We will all live to see just how flexible and resilient a structure our Founding Fathers bequethed us.

[DoughtyOne]

Excellent! Now, here’s to actually doing it...

[marron]

Its really very simple. If half your budget is borrowed money, your government is twice the size it needs to be. It logically follows that you need to cut away about half of your government.

The things you don’t do from Washington don’t go undone. If they need doing, private people will pick up the slack, or private companies, or churches, or towns, counties, states. Thats how it works in a free country. If its a need, someone will build a company to do it. Or someone will set up a charity to do it. It will get done.

[Dysart]

Best headline I’ve ever read.

[Little Ray]

If that is not a reason to vote Republican, I don’t know what is!

[HarleyD]

They need to include Homeland Security in that as well unless they plan on controlling the boarders.

[SaxxonWoods]

There’s no way we could get that lucky.

[vet7279]

Yes! Good start.

[Peter W. Kessler]

Oh those pesky asterisk disclaimers...

[veracious]

Call me in, all the way ! Heros of the Republic, arise!!! Restore USC and heed your fore-fathers design.

[thingumbob]

Why is the GSA missing from that list?

[bmwcyle]

Take out Homeland Security and throw it away with the BATF.

[Spartan79]

I wouldn't worry about any of this coming to pass. The eGOP just looks at the platform as ad captandum vulgus. Even if the GOP wins massively in November and Etch-s-Sketch is installed as president in January, as soon as these guys and gals get to Washington and are installed in committee and subcommittee positions, the old guard will remind them that these agencies and the laws that created them are the key source of power of our rulers. Eliminate the Department of Energy and the members of various House and Senate committees having oversight of our energy affairs (and there are many with overlapping jurisdictions) will suddenly be stripped of much of their ability to extract contributions and nice junkets from the energy industry. The same is true of every other area dealt with by the various federal agencies and departments allegedly on the chopping block.

Reduce the leviathan to those matters clearly authorized in the ennumerated powers, and enforce the ninth and tenth amendments, leaving all other matters to the states? We could go back to a part-time legislature, pay reps $20,000 and senators $30,000, and give each a staff of two people.

It'll never happen, short of another revolution.