This was heard on Glenn Beck’s show a few days ago, and is fantastic. Please spread it.

I’m a home grown American citizen, 53, registered Democrat all my life. Before the last presidential election I registered as a Republican because I no longer felt the Democratic Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. Now I no longer feel the Republican Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. The fact is I no longer feel any political party or representative in Washington represents my views or works to pursue the issues important to me. There must be someone. Please tell me who you are. Please stand up and tell me that you are there and that you’re willing to fight for our Constitution as it was written. Please stand up now. You might ask yourself what my views and issues are that I would horribly feel so disenfranchised by both major political parties. What kind of nut job am I? Will you please tell me?

Well, these are briefly my views and issues for which I seek representation:

One, illegal immigration. I want you to stop coddling illegal immigrants and secure our borders. Close the underground tunnels. Stop the violence and the trafficking in drugs and people. No amnesty, not again. Been there, done that, no resolution. P.S., I’m not a racist. This isn’t to be confused with legal immigration.

Two, the TARP bill, I want it repealed and I want no further funding supplied to it. We told you no, but you did it anyway. I want the remaining unfunded 95% repealed. Freeze, repeal.

Three: Czars, I want the circumvention of our checks and balances stopped immediately. Fire the czars. No more czars. Government officials answer to the process, not to the president. Stop trampling on our Constitution and honor it.

Four, cap and trade. The debate on global warming is not over. There is more to say.

Five, universal healthcare. I will not be rushed into another expensive decision. Don’t you dare try to pass this in the middle of the night and then go on break. Slow down!

Six, growing government control. I want states rights and sovereignty fully restored. I want less government in my life, not more. Shrink it down. Mind your own business. You have enough to take care of with your real obligations. Why don’t you start there.

Seven, ACORN. I do not want ACORN and its affiliates in charge of our 2010 census. I want them investigated. I also do not want mandatory escrow fees contributed to them every time on every real estate deal that closes. Stop the funding to ACORN and its affiliates pending impartial audits and investigations. I do not trust them with taking the census over with our taxpayer money. I don’t trust them with our taxpayer money. Face up to the allegations against them and get it resolved before taxpayers get any more involved with them. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, hello. Stop protecting your political buddies. You work for us, the people. Investigate.

Eight, redistribution of wealth. No, no, no. I work for my money. It is mine. I have always worked for people with more money than I have because they gave me jobs. That is the only redistribution of wealth that I will support. I never got a job from a poor person. Why do you want me to hate my employers? Why ‑‑ what do you have against shareholders making a profit?

Nine, charitable contributions. Although I never got a job from a poor person, I have helped many in need. Charity belongs in our local communities, where we know our needs best and can use our local talent and our local resources. Butt out, please. We want to do it ourselves.

Ten, corporate bailouts. Knock it off. Sink or swim like the rest of us. If there are hard times ahead, we’ll be better off just getting into it and letting the strong survive. Quick and painful. Have you ever ripped off a Band‑Aid? We will pull together. Great things happen in America under great hardship. Give us the chance to innovate. We cannot disappoint you more than you have disappointed us.

Eleven, transparency and accountability. How about it? No, really, how about it? Let’s have it. Let’s say we give the buzzwords a rest and have some straight honest talk. Please try ‑‑ please stop manipulating and trying to appease me with clever wording. I am not the idiot you obviously take me for. Stop sneaking around and meeting in back rooms making deals with your friends. It will only be a prelude to your criminal investigation. Stop hiding things from me.

Twelve, unprecedented quick spending. Stop it now.

Take a breath. Listen to the people. Let’s just slow down and get some input from some nonpoliticians on the subject. Stop making everything an emergency. Stop speed reading our bills into law. I am not an activist. I am not a community organizer. Nor am I a terrorist, a militant or a violent person. I am a parent and a grandparent. I work. I’m busy. I’m busy. I am busy, and I am tired. I thought we elected competent people to take care of the business of government so that we could work, raise our families, pay our bills, have a little recreation, complain about taxes, endure our hardships, pursue our personal goals, cut our lawn, wash our cars on the weekends and be responsible contributing members of society and teach our children to be the same all while living in the home of the free and land of the brave.

I entrusted you with upholding the Constitution. I believed in the checks and balances to keep from getting far off course. What happened? You are very far off course. Do you really think I find humor in the hiring of a speed reader to unintelligently ramble all through a bill that you signed into law without knowing what it contained? I do not. It is a mockery of the responsibility I have entrusted to you. It is a slap in the face. I am not laughing at your arrogance. Why is it that I feel as if you would not trust me to make a single decision about my own life and how I would live it but you should expect that I should trust you with the debt that you have laid on all of us and our children. We did not want the TARP bill. We said no. We would repeal it if we could. I am sure that we still cannot. There is such urgency and recklessness in all of the recent spending.

From my perspective, it seems that all of you have gone insane. I also know that I am far from alone in these feelings. Do you honestly feel that your current pursuits have merit to patriotic Americans? We want it to stop. We want to put the brakes on everything that is being rushed by us and forced upon us. We want our voice back. You have forced us to put our lives on hold to straighten out the mess that you are making. We will have to give up our vacations, our time spent with our children, any relaxation time we may have had and money we cannot afford to spend on you to bring our concerns to Washington. Our president often knows all the right buzzword is unsustainable. Well, no kidding. How many tens of thousands of dollars did the focus group cost to come up with that word? We don’t want your overpriced words. Stop treating us like we’re morons.

We want all of you to stop focusing on your reelection and do the job we want done, not the job you want done or the job your party wants done. You work for us and at this rate I guarantee you not for long because we are coming. We will be heard and we will be represented. You think we’re so busy with our lives that we will never come for you? We are the formerly silent majority, all of us who quietly work , pay taxes, obey the law, vote, save money, keep our noses to the grindstone and we are now looking up at you. You have awakened us, the patriotic spirit so strong and so powerful that it had been sleeping too long. You have pushed us too far. Our numbers are great. They may surprise you. For every one of us who will be there, there will be hundreds more that could not come. Unlike you, we have their trust. We will represent them honestly, rest assured. They will be at the polls on voting day to usher you out of office. We have cancelled vacations. We will use our last few dollars saved. We will find the representation among us and a grassroots campaign will flourish. We didn’t ask for this fight. But the gloves are coming off. We do not come in violence, but we are angry. You will represent us or you will be replaced with someone who will. There are candidates among us when hewill rise like a Phoenix from the ashes that you have made of our constitution.

Democrat, Republican, independent, libertarian. Understand this. We don’t care. Political parties are meaningless to us. Patriotic Americans are willing to do right by us and our Constitution and that is all that matters to us now. We are going to fire all of you who abuse power and seek more. It is not your power. It is ours and we want it back. We entrusted you with it and you abused it. You are dishonorable. You are dishonest. As Americans we are ashamed of you. You have brought shame to us. If you are not representing the wants and needs of your constituency loudly and consistently, in spite of the objections of your party, you will be fired. Did you hear? We no longer care about your political parties. You need to be loyal to us, not to them. Because we will get you fired and they will not save you. If you do or can represent me, my issues, my views, please stand up. Make your identity known. You need to make some noise about it. Speak up. I need to know who you are. If you do not speak up, you will be herded out with the rest of the sheep and we will replace the whole damn congress if need be one by one. We are coming. Are we coming for you? Who do you represent? What do you represent? Listen. Because we are coming. We the people are coming.

We are too negative! You cannot have change without hope.

Check out a new website, ISTAExposed.com.

Here is an informational video featuring Dick Morris:

It is interesting that three new House members received so much: John Barnes – $179,500, Mary Ann Sullivan – $35,000, and Ed DeLaney – $32,000. Those 3 wins were necessary for the Democrats to maintain the House, ESPECIALLY John Barnes. By the way, Greg Porter is chair of the Education Standing Committee – $5,000. Vice Chair, and Lt. Gubernatorial candidate Oxley received $27,000.

House Speaker Pat Bauer was given $20,000 by ISTA.

From Woodrow Wilson on, we’ve been increasing the power of our Presidency. With George Bush and Obama, we’ve hit the (government made) accelerator pedal. Read this post on Czars.

Power should be concentrated within the Congress if there is any real power within the federal government. It certainly should not be run like the mafioso, with the President of whichever party as acting Godfather. (Joe Biden is definitely Fredo.)

This story is why you separate and castigate those extremists within your cause or organization. They become the face of your cause, and define you. Next time you hear people saying ridiculous things like, “IT’S TIME TO GET THE GUNS!” ask them to keep their opinions to themselves.

America needs a revolution at the ballot box.

I am a nerd for political campaign and organizational research. Here is the LPIN’s site to share ours. Do you have any to swap? Email me at chris@chris-spangle.com.

For libertarian solutions to health care, please be seeing:

http://www.reason.com/topics/topic/164.html

and

http://www.cato.org/researcharea.php?display=6

For a Friday uplift, check this out. For some reason, it just hits you right. 

I can’t find an embed, so you will have to watch it in HQ here: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luRmM1J1sfg

Everyone is smirking and laughing at here, then she blew them away.

Because of my time working with Abdul, I operate with certain assumptions. Most elected officials, media types, and lobbyists are not bad people. They are sincere. They think what they do is generally right, and the best course of action. They also spend a tremendous amount of time with each other, and are friendly. It makes it difficult to criticize friends. They also have tremendous prejudices towards certain groups.

The folks that gathered yesterday are met with distrust because they are new. They aren’t dressed the same, they have no law degrees, they lack the same knowledge of the workings of the establishment, and have little desire to do so. They just want to stop getting screwed. 

Here is why I hate politics.

Instead of the two groups actually talking to each other yesterday, the media, the lobbyists, and some elected officials hung out on the fringes and mocked the protestors.

They never listened to the presentations. They didn’t engage anyone. They just mocked, and tried to dig up evidence of their own pre-judgments. They did not talk to Jerry Titus, Dave Bond, Paul Ogden, or any of the serious, thoughtful people that were asking thier government to do better. They pointed out the kooks and laughed.

I was interviewed by Jim Shella, whom I respect. He ran a great piece at Noon. The 6 PM news was a disgrace. Instead of using my minute long quote on why people were gathered, and why they were angry, Shella used the end of my statement where I lost my train of thought. Immediately after that quote, I stopped talking, and ended the interview. He was cruel towards the Campaign for Liberty woman. He clearly took a comment from one of the speakers totally out of context. He clearly had an agenda, and found tape to support it. It was very disappointing.

I’m not going to take leaps. I won’t ever say that any journalist has been bought off, because I don’t think they are. The shame is that some journalists, lobbyists, and elected officials will ever sit down with Paul Ogden. They won’t take the time to talk to Melyssa. They won’t give Dave Bond the time of day. They have no idea who Jerry Titus is. (No offense Jerry, it isn’t your fault.) 

If people in the “establishment” are tired of being mocked and ridiculed by bloggers and protestors, and eventually voters/viewers, I have a suggestion. Open your mind and have lunch with them. Hear their concerns. I always tried to do this at WXNT. The people that aren’t in ties and suits are just as serious about their government as you are.

Politics isn’t war. It’s about dialogue. If you think it’s war, and your side is always right, then you are wrong.