I thought this link and this letter from Senator DeMint was worth consideration if we are serious about our national debt. Read the letter and click the link to get the ball rolling.
http://senateconservatives.com/stopthedebt
Dear Fellow Conservative:
The first major test for Republicans this year will be on how we address our nation’s exploding debt. We are quickly approaching the statutory debt limit of $14.3 trillion so this issue will come to a head very soon.
President Obama wants Congress to raise our nation’s debt ceiling again without doing anything serious to cut spending and balance the budget. His economic advisor, Austan Goolsbee, recently argued that the sky would fall unless we keep borrowing. But the truth is the sky is already falling BECAUSE we keep borrowing.
We must stop the debt and balance the budget, and that’s why I’m writing to ask for your help today.
There are senators on both sides of the aisle who hope their constituents won’t be paying attention when the Senate considers the debt limit in February. They want to quietly vote for more debt without paying a political price.
We can’t let that happen.
Please join me in doing two things right now.
First, visit http://stopthedebtpledge.com and sign our “Stop the Debt” pledge. It states, “I hereby pledge to support only those candidates who demand that Congress stop the debt and pass a Balanced Budget Amendment.”
In the last 10 years, Congress has raised the debt ceiling 10 times, but it has not voted a single time to pass a Balanced Budget Amendment. The only way to keep Congress from creating more debt is to pass a Constitutional Amendment that forces it to balance the budget without raising taxes.
Second, call your senators and tell them to “stop the debt and balance the budget”. Urge them to do everything it takes, including a filibuster, to block the debt limit increase and pass the Balanced Budget Amendment. Click here to contact your senators.
The Balanced Budget Amendment will:
Require Congress to balance the federal budget each year
Prevent Congress from spending more than 20 percent of GDP
Require a 2/3 super-majority vote to raise taxes
Every state except for Vermont has a requirement to balance its budget and so should Congress. This is a commonsense reform that is overwhelmingly supported by the American people. There is no reason why the Senate cannot pass the Balanced Budget Amendment.
The last time the Senate voted on the Balanced Budget Amendment was in 1997 when it was just one vote shy of the 67 votes needed for adoption.
We can win this policy battle if we’re willing to fight for our principles. All 47 Republicans voted in November to make the Balanced Budget Amendment the policy of the Senate Republican Conference, and there are 23 Democrats up for re-election in 2012 who won’t want to vote against it.
The President may attack conservatives who filibuster the debt limit and accuse us of putting the nation at risk, but the President and the politicians in Congress who refuse to balance the budget are the ones hurting our country. The time has come for Americans to draw a line in the sand and say “enough is enough”.
Please sign the “Stop the Debt” pledge, forward it to your friends and family, and call your senators to urge them to stop the debt and pass the Balanced Budget Amendment.
Respectfully,
Jim DeMint
United States Senator
Chairman, Senate Conservatives Fund
No Loss for Words 
Obama the Moderate? NOT!
by Steve DanaI don’t understand how folks in our country can expect the President to suddenly change his spots. If there was ever a politician that was predictable when he was elected, this one was that one. I think Obama is more committed to being a liberal progressive than being an effective politician. The impact of this president will be viewed by historians as the most crippling for our country twenty years down the road. We could not have elected a more committed liberal than we did with Obama.
The Democrats had a lot to say about Barack Obama when he was a candidate. Not a one ever characterized him as a moderate. He has always been on the left side of his own party.
During the first two years of his presidency he continually demonstrated his liberal intent. Combined with the overwhelming majorities and most liberal leadership in both houses of the congress President Obama trampled on the Constitution and the rights of most Americans without a lick of resistance. Two years of the perfect storm.
Remember when he reminded John McCain that he had won the election.
Even now, following the election, the balance of power has shifted in the House to the Republicans and nearly balanced the vote in the Senate but the President and his management team who run the bureaucracies continue to march with regulatory changes that will cripple efforts to create jobs for many years to come.
By itself the EPA will dictate our National Energy Policy by preventing our domestic energy resources from being exploited through lawsuits by watchdogs at every critical point in the permitting processes.
We won’t build any oil refineries or nuclear power plants or hydroelectric dams. Period.
They won’t even let some of the preferred Green Energy sources be developed with federal subsidies because of the lawsuits. Their campaign is to cripple, not develop better policies.
The Congress gave up closer oversight because it was easy. It takes a lot of effort to do your job and hold the President’s bureaucrats accountable. The Checks and Balances laid out in the Constitution were set up to prevent one branch from gaining too much power.
Having so many liberal judges in the Federal Court System, the courts have taken a more aggressive approach to legislation than we should be comfortable with. That would leave us with the weakest Congress in the history of our country.
Americans cannot be hoodwinked by a President who is trying to re-spin himself into a moderate. If the Republicans fall for any of his spiel, it will give him breathing space to regroup. The stakes are too high for America to lose our momentum now. Keep the heat on!
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