American Revolution 2.0 - Reverse, Repeal, Rescind

Our American Revolution 2.0 series continues…springing from complete frustration with the wild disconnect we are experiencing between the Political Class (including the Pravda media) and the American people. We’ve talked about tea parties, Supreme Court nominees judicial and the need to drill now. The second American Revolution is brewing—all that’s missing are a few confident leaders who get it and are willing to lead it over, around and through the Pravda attack dogs.

Let’s look now at moving deliberately and immediately to nationalize the next election cycle around the tea party energy, by specifically and aggressively building an American Freedom Agenda around these ‘three R’s’: Reverse, Rescind and Repeal. The reason is very simple: NO ONE can seriously argue that the November 2008 Presidential election placed a radical left agenda squarely in front of the American people, and they chose it. This is preposterous; it is stupid; and it is inexcusable for conservative leaders to buy into it in even the slightest degree. And the way to prove that the American people did not choose this is to tell them point blank: elect us next time around, and we will reverse the direction of this government. We will repeal whatever portion of the $787 billion stimulus bill can still be repealed; we will rescind the $4 trillion budget model; we will reverse course on the nationalization of banks and auto companies; and will restore the preeminent American founding principles of limited government and maximum individual freedom in a system of ordered liberty.

If this American Freedom Agenda were adopted today, disseminated actively through talk radio and the alternative media, you’d be astounded to watch brushfires of freedom spread across this country.

That’s because we and a growing majority of engaged Americans are more than a little tired of officials and commentators lamenting the ‘irreversible’ course Obama has put the nation on; the sweeping changes that ‘permanently’ alter life in America; the ‘unstoppable’ radical left agenda that is steamrolling its way through the Beltway because Republicans/conservatives/opposition can do nothing about it. In American political life or, as we used to put it, ‘in a free country’—nothing is irrerversible; nothing is permanent; nothing is unstoppable. Not if we the people say so.

Brushfires has said it over and over, and in many different ways (most recently in “Not the Obama We Knew; Not the Government We Chose" ), but we’re happy to come at it again: there isn’t an American voter in the November 2008 election who could honestly say that what we have seen in 100 days of the Obama administration is even close to what he or she expected (and that includes the Obama voters). That’s the inescapable and unalterable truth, and it is pathetic to watch Republican and conservative leaders seem unable to keep it clearly in mind. Instead, they freak out at some popularity poll, and leap to the totally unwarranted conclusion that some ephemeral notion of job approval constitutes enthusiastic acceptance of a radical left political agenda.

Think about this! A poll by definition is not an election but a temporary opinion; it does not reflect the initiative of anyone but the pollster; it is invariably slanted by who responds or refuses to respond; and anyone with a brain knows that if you phrase any question in the right way, you can get the answer you want. We’ve yet to be convinced of the integrity of any popularity poll, but even if we assume honesty and good faith by the pollster, the most a 56% approval rating means to us is that in some sample of maybe 1,000 people picked by a pollster that 56% of the respondents essentially expressed their view that Obama seems like a pretty cool guy.

And so the answer in the next election cycle is to make sure the vote isn’t about coolness; it’s about the direction of America under its Constitution—humanity’s last, best hope on earth. We can all agree that skin color of the candidates is utterly irrelevant to any election (and so is coolness), but the ideas for what direction to lead the country are profoundly relevant and critically important. So let’s just see what the American people want; let’s make the contest one of spelled-out agendas; and let’s make the lightning rod of debate an express call for an American Freedom Agendato reverse, repeal and rescind every major action of this government.

Sure, Pravda will go apoplectic; Soros will pay for polls that say Americans like some things Obama is doing and it’s too extreme to go for the three R’s. But let’s find out through some serious, unflinching, unapologetic conservative leadership that simply pays no attention to the spin or the psychology or the atmospherics of the Beltway, the Political Class or Pravda. We want this government stopped; all we need is a few political leaders to step up and say so. The second American Revolution is brewing.

Paul Gable

Posted May 3, 2009