Thanks, Erick, for the fine post and needed exhortation! Indeed, thanks for all you do and thanks for Red State!

Just one suggestion – “Cut, Cap and Balance” is all well and good (very, very well and good). But please can we get “growth” somewhere in the headline with “cut” and “cap”. It is the flip side of same (or should be). What we do now looks like an ad for broccoli that extolls its vitamin and mineral content but does not tout it primarily as a food that tastes good (and, oh by the way, it is also good for you).

I’m more than willing to sign and uphold pledge! I have always kept my pledges and the people in my district that support me know it.

Scorched earth on this policy is all there is. I make that position clear to my Representatives and Senator(s) here in Missouri.

I CANNOT stress the importance of this enough. DO NOT pass a balanced budget amendment. You will be arming the enemy with nuclear weapons!!!! Do you want spineless RINO’s and lefty progressives to back the true conservatives into a corner where there is no other choice than to raise taxes to balance a budget? For crying out loud!!! How this ever got to be a plank on our ticket is beyond me. NO BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT.

Don’t raise the debt ceiling! Pass THAT amendment!!! Don’t raise taxes. Pass THAT amendment! Do cut spending. Pass THAT amendment! But DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES EVER PASS A BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT. For the love of Pete! How many times have we seen even our own friendly reps slip one past us? Raising taxes is politically the “path of least resistance” and it IS the slippery slope your mother warned you about! DO NOT BE FOOLED!!! A balanced budge amendment could mean you owe 450k tomorrow because of reckless government spending. Do you really want to force that position? No, of course not. What you want, instead, is fiscal sanity.

my response to any of ours who try to wiggle around this life and death critical moment. Newt’s vocal stand on Paul Ryan’s effort has earned him the “Bart Stupak” award for abandoning principles.

Time for me to use social engineering to separate those I will support and those I will oppose.

Stand firm on principle, sign the pledge, and follow through or write Bart Stupak the next time you want a campaign donation or support for your cause.

they need a list of citizens who will blast and not support them if they fudge even a little Erick. I would be happy to sign that pledge!

So many RINO’s, So little time!

Imagine the honor of golfing with The Big O. Now, what is more important, slash spending, or a day on the links with an honors graduate of the Reverend Wright College for Progress?
This will be a tough one, The O, most Dems by far, and the grossly ignorant but rabid hyenas of the media, will fight like hell.
After all, America’s destruction is on the line, you can’t expect them to give up that easily.

By establishing a ceiling of 18% of GDP, the BBA will also install a floor: if it is passed, Federal spending won’t go above 18%, but it will never go below 18%, either. Is this the level of Federal expenditure that we should be satisfied with, now and forever? As a Constitutional amendment, it will be codified and difficult to change.

I disagree with the Amendment. 18% is still excessive. By establishing the Amendment, we will never shrink government below the 2007 spending levels. A lot of pixels were being burned back then describing in great detail how intrusive the Federal government was, and how it was operating so far beyond the bounds of is Constitutional establishment as to be frightful. This Amendment will render all of those arguments moot, and the 10th Amendment will be rendered toothless.

Then there will be the arguments over the definition 18%. Is it 18% of raw GDP, or 18% of corrected GDP, and which correction? For that matter, which GDP? Is the GDP correctly defined? Does it contain all the proper elements? Is an 18.0000000001% budget unconstitutional? If so, what is the remedy – and how will that remedy be different from the lack of a “remedy” for the very lack of a budget that we are now experiencing? I predict that the application of the Amendment will be crushed under the weight of bickering.

And, no, I don’t have an alternate solution. That’s what is so frustrating about this budget mess. If we have the votes to pass the Amendment, then we have the votes to balance the budget – but that does not bind the next Congress in the manner that an Amendment would. We can make a strong presence to batter our Congress to keep it in line and focused on fiscal responsibility, but incumbents get reelected – what is it, 90% of the time – regardless of their record.

That pretty much leaves “change from within” as the only real solution. God willing, and God help us, that it will be the current leadership of the Republican Party that melts down, before the nation does. Pressure, my friends – pressure, pressure, and more pressure.

You’ve risen a bit in the past couple years, Mr. Erickson; and now you want to call on conservatives to hold Republican feet to the fire. I do appreciate your earnestness, but must say I find it a bit embarassing. You’re like someone who comes galloping in three days after Custer’s last stand. Everyone has already left, Mr. Erickson. Leading American Conservatives are dead, retired, or they’ve been replaced by people who are content to remain Republican Party Lapdogs. When American Conservatives aren’t droning on endlessly about the Reagan glory days; like fat, balding, former high school football players; they are getting kicked in the teeth by Republican leadership. In the next election, Conservatives will get behind Bachman and she will go no further in the end than Huckabee did last time. Republican idiots can only be counted on to lose to Obama again.

You’ve risen a bit in the past couple years, Mr. Erickson; and now you want to call on conservatives to hold Republican feet to the fire. I do appreciate your earnestness, but must say I find it a bit embarassing. You’re like someone who comes galloping in three days after Custer’s last stand. Everyone has already left, Mr. Erickson. Leading American Conservatives are dead, retired, or they’ve been replaced by people who are content to remain Republican Party Lapdogs. When American Conservatives aren’t droning on endlessly about the Reagan glory days; like fat, balding, former high school football players; they are getting kicked in the teeth by Republican leadership. In the next election, Conservatives will get behind Bachman and she will go no further in the end than Huckabee did last time. Republican idiots can only be counted on to lose to Obama again.

No Woe here. My family, friends and I will be fine. We will watch out for each other, our church and our small community as best we can. Not all lost – but we are backed into corners from where the fights get more interesting and we finally get down to it. Obama has not won yet – he may in fact get beaten by a stinking Republican. But I’m not fool enough to think that would make much of a difference. “I’ts such a fine line between political party team player, and grownup.” Me.

DeMint’s SCF has proven to be a good resource for finding the right candidates.

Previous votes for Medicare Part D, TARP and O’stimulus are other criteria to keep in mind.

Great post! Where do I sign up?

I posted earlier i’m contacting all my friends and family in Boehner’s district to primary him if he goes soft on us.