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So we should just sit back and shut up as our government gets bigger and more un-Constitutional?

You're snide rudeness aside, what is your proposal?

Keep in mind that you've got to sell the American people on cutting government explicitly.

Tax cuts, by the way, cut the size of government de facto by starving it of cash. Tax cuts are also a more tactful and diplomatic way of "cutting," albeit over a longer term.

Slash and burn ain't gonna work, friend. Gingrich tried it in 1994, and was slapped down, hard.

Now, if you want to continue a civil conversation, let's do so. If you just want to run your toilet mouth, then you can do that with somebody else.

NRST and burn the IRS.

Cite Constitutional Authority in each new Bill and make it a retro-acitve requirement on all legislation dating back to the year 1800.

The first will win big with the populace due to the fact that the IRS is pretty universally hated. "The Taxman has no friends". The second, most of the population will ignore until after it is passed due to their lack of comprehension of the full scope of the issue. The trial lawyers may fuss, but let the parasites sweat.

Those two steps there would go a long way towards restoriing our Constitutional Republic, complete with the support of the population.

If the Republicans in office are not talented enough to get changes through with the support of the public, why should we bother supporting them again?

If you weren't so "rude" to begin with, you would have gotten civil responses from the first. Calling people "losers", no matter the accuracy, is no way to endear them to you.

You are correct in stating that the people do not want smaller government. You stated "Gingrich tried it in 1994, and was slapped down, hard.". Yeh I remember the day after the 94 election Bob Dole saying in a press conference "Contract with America? That's a house thing. The Senate didn't sign on to any contracts." The shame was at that time a lot of folks were sick of government heavy handedness, waste, fraud, abuse and gov't scandals. If Gingrich had shut up with all revolution talk and had the Republicans held televised show trials on the failures of various government programs they could have accomplished something. Instead the ineptitutde of the true believers combined with the undermining from the non-believers and the Democrat propaganda insured failure. The time came and was opportunity was squandered.

Your focus on Real Polotik only strengthens my resolve to support the libertarians because as you point out it the current popular mind set has been noted and limited government will not be in the GOP program. On a national level the limited government message, I am afraid will not work for a long time to come however I do believe that in a small state a dedicated group of right minded people could restore limited government as the Free State Project proposes. Or so I hope.