God bless you Jim, and may He keep you safe.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 09/19/2010 4:41:32 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
Sen. Jim DeMint argued for a “devolution of power out of Washington,” saying Sunday that “the fact is, education probably would work a lot better without the Department of Education.”
The South Carolina Republican had been asked on CNN’s “State of the Union” whether candidates whom he and the tea party movement have endorsed are too far out of the political mainstream. When host Candy Crowley gave Sharron Angle’s call to abolish the Education Department as an example, DeMint said, “She’s very bold to say it.” Angle is the GOP candidate challenging Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) for his Senate seat in Nevada.
“I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation, and I’ve introduced a lot of legislation for that, too,” DeMint added, saying the power should go to the states. “And you can do it in a common-sense, reasonable way that doesn’t disrupt any of the activities that we support.”
A friend of mine called it a Conservative Renaissance.
I like it.
Actually the decline began with the “Supreme Court” and Madelyn Murray O’Hair taking prayer out of the schools in the early 1960s.
“...we can get a President and Congress that would go along with it”
Sounds good to me. The states themselves should be in charge
of a lot of that stuff for the folks who live within their
borders!
Tea Party should become a third party and rename itself “Constitution Party.”
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NO!
NO!
And Hell NO!
(anyhow, the “constitution party” already exists.
Keep on saying it, DeMint.
Take power away from the federal behomoth and return it to the states.
Every conservative should be preaching this.
I think DeMint is running for POTUS. That works for me he is a darn sight better than Huckabee or any of the other wanna bes and for God sake Newt. Stay out of it. You had your shot...keep teaching but don’t run the media will crown you and we will have a McCain redux with the media picking our canidate.
I aint going down that road again...
Freegards,
Lex
God bless you Jim, and may He keep you safe.
Rove is a rino.
Go, DeMint, Go! In a time of excessive debt, we should start by slashing the DOE, the EPA, NPR, the NEA, PBS, DHS, etc.
Tell the people we can pay for that sort of opulence again as soon as we get the debt below $100 million. Until then, that’s all extremely unnecessary.
Realistically, it's probably not going to happen if the Republicans get control of Congress next year. I base that prediction on past performance during the years that Republicans had both houses of Congress and the Presidency.
But there is another way to de-fang the federal wolf that can be done by citizens and elected officials at the state level, whether or not Congress remains in Democrat control: Nullification.
The States will reign supreme, just as was intended by the Framers.
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“...God bless you Jim, and may He keep you safe...”
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Amen, brother.
This is what Sharon Angle and Joe Miller are both saying and AFAIK is how O’Donnell leans as well.
Is this all talk or does DeMint have a battle plan?
For example, every company has to tighten its belt during downturns by shrinking their expenses. They do this by consolidating departments(which eliminates some higher paid managers), eliminating noneffective sections, and reducing expenses across the board especially for non-essentials. Almost everyone understands and accepts this, in fact that is just what families do in bad times.
The federal government should follow this example. This means for example, the department of education could be combined with some other department and scrutinized to eliminate unsuccessful programs, and if there are things that the states and localities can do better assign them to a more appropriate venue.
The federal government has become increasing involved in education, but the results seem to keep getting worse(maybe one size does not fit all). It is high time someone took a serious look at why federal involvement has not been more successful, and adjust policies to some thing which works better.
Sheeple get scared when things change too fast, and stating the case as above doesn't sound near as scary and radical as saying we're are going to eliminate the department of education.
If Obama had stated that he was going to make the constitution irrelevant, circumvent congress by appointing Czars, and destabilize the economy by borrowing money to spend hand over fist, would he have been elected?
Republicans need to learn how to frame their issues so that people agree with them at once, then the protestations of the media and cries of radical fall on deaf ears.
WOW. That took some stones to say!
I LOVE the idea! Washington DC has TOO MUCH POWER OVER OUR LIVES, and it is utterly un-necessary. Beyond that, it takes our freedoms and our choices from us, and dictates TO us. That is one of the biggest complaints the people have about the Federal Government.
Good on ya DeMint! You have my support!
Yes, Storm the Bastion!
Adversity employs great talents; prosperity renders them useless and carries the inept, the corrupted wealthy and the wicked to the top
May they bear in mind that virtue often contains the seeds of tyranny
May they bear in mind that it is neither gold nor even a multitude of arms that sustains a state but its morals
May each of them keep in his house, in a corner of this field, next to his workbench, next to his plow, his gun, his sword, and his bayonet
May they all be soldiers
May they bear in mind that in circumstances where deliberation is possible, the advice of old men is good but that in moments of crisis youth is generally better informed that its elders
Denis Diderot
Apostrophe to the Insurgents, 1782
“Tea Party should become a third party and rename itself “Constitution Party.”
Naah....Tea Party just needs to track voing records and intervene when some congresscritter starts voting unconstitutionally. Easy to do. Requires little to no formal organization...extremely effective.
“Actually the decline began with the “Supreme Court” and Madelyn Murray O’Hair taking prayer out of the schools in the early 1960s.”
And don’t forget Roe v Wade. In fact, it is amazing how much liberty has been destroyed by the courts. Issues that could never have made it through congress have become law through the courts. Something is really wrong with that.
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