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May 19, 2010

The morning after the latest primary elections swept 30-year incumbent Arlen Specter out of the Senate, and made Libertarian-leaning Rand Paul Kentucky’s Republican Senate nominee, Fox Business News analyst Stuart Varney observed, “Economics is fundamental to politics today.”

Arlen Specter is emblematic of the type of politicians I can’t stand. They’re more concerned with their own re-elections, more concerned with making nice and getting along with other Members of Congress than they are about actually living up to the solemn oaths they swore when they took office.

Politicians who go along to get along can go along without my support.

Then you have characters like Connecticut Democrat Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal, who says “On a few occasions, I have misspoken about my [Marine Corps Reserve] service and I regret that.” Men of honor have no need to embellish their record. On his Facebook page, Marine Corps veteran Kevin Hermening says Blumenthal should be prosecuted under the Stolen Valor Act of 2005.

Kentucky’s Rand Paul and Wisconsin’s Terri McCormick are emblematic of the new breed of principled politician emergiong this year, people who aren’t obsessed with a career in politics, but, rather, people who enter the arena of politics in order to right serious wrongs being perpetrated on America by our elected officials.

From the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, to the Billions that were spent to keep GM and Chrysler out of bankruptcy, to H.R. 2346, the $ 177.3 Billion emergency supplemental spending bill that included $1 Billion + $2 Billion more under the ‘‘Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save (CARS) Program,” to HR2454 America’s Clean Energy and Security Act, aka the Waxman-Markey cap-n-trade “clean energy” bill, to the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) bailout of the banks (H.R. 1424), more formally known as the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, to Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, aka Obamacare, the career politicians running our government have run us into the ground. They’ve all but nationalized major sectors of the American private sector, without the Constitutional power to do any of these things.

The professional career politicians, on both sides of the aisle, play their political games to advance their own careers, while they let the taxpayers pick up the check for the whole thing. They're NOT principled Constitutional conservatives, as they pretend to be.

Actions speak louder than words. Anyone who voted for the original bank bailouts (TARP) is just as guilty of this stuff as those who voted for the stimulus bill, ObamaCare, etc.

No business is too big to fail. Government does not create jobs in the private sector. American entrepreneurs succeed despite, not because of, our government's “help.”

If our Constitution is to remain intact, those who swear an oath to support and defend the Constitution must be held to account when they vote for legislation not supported by the Constitution.

There is hope. No, not the false hope and empty promises of Barack Hussein Obama and his henchmen. I mean real hope, that comes from patriotic Americans, ordinary people who simply have had enough of the lies and the deceit and the generational theft being forced upon us by those elected to preserve and protect our Constitution, who are simply refusing to support the same old career politicians this time around.

We are witnessing (and participating in) a New American Revolution, rejecting the big government approach in favor of personal Liberty. Tell Uncle Sam to get out of the way and watch what happens when the creativity and entrepreneurship inherent in Americans of all stripes is unleashed.