How do we affect change?

markbureau.us ^ | 25May2005 | Mark Bureau

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I am getting a little tired of seeing low poll numbers, spats over supreme court nominees, overspending, the size of government, and just about everything else that makes washington politics as usual. Either the republicans need to step up and take charge or we need to replace even them with people who wish to restore constitutional integrity.

I have written a vanity speech, a call to action so to speak, and I have posted it at www.markbureau.us and would like to share it.

Here goes....

In his farewell address, President George Washington heeded a warning about party affiliation when he stated:

“They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation, the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community.” It is my belief that President Washington, President Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and the rest of our nation’s framers would throw their hands up in disgust by what goes on inside the famed “beltway” in our time. Today, I wish to join those historic figures in their would-be disgust, and ask you to join me as well.

During this forum, you will find that I will invoke the names and quotations of several famous freedom loving Americans. I will do so to emphasize their significance in our great country’s history, in hopes that a real grass roots effort will be established to bring about necessary change...