In a follow-up to my previous post about Why Conservatives Struggle Holding On To Power…We WORK!, the anti-free speech elitists in Washington DC and the media are trying to intimidate us into shutting up.  It won’t work.

Who are we that are gathering together to push back against an out-of-control federal government? 

NEWS FLASH, we’re average Joe’s and Josephine’s with jobs and families; that’s who.  We’re not part of some grand insurance company conspiracy or rabble brought together by the local republican party…most of us are way past party labels.  No, we’re just plain ole’ common folk who provide the revenue the federal government needs to exercise power over us.  In some sense, we’ve been played as suckers for many decades - and perhaps we’re culpable in this regard - but, we’re waking up.  We’re getting up from our Lazy Boy’s and taking to the streets and a bully like Dick Durbin is hardly enough to stop us.

Many of us have been in the military so elitist snobs like the leaders of the House and Senate don’t make us quiver in our boots; we understand there’s strength in numbers and they’re beginning to grow.  So, it will be the elected leaders in the House and Senate who will quiver as in a short 14 months, we’ll take to the ballot boxes in our districts and vote them all out.  A voter tidal wave is building and it won’t be like we’ve seen before and it won’t be about republican or democrat…it will be about the Constitution, specifically Article 1, Section 8, the Enumerated Powers section.  We will force Congress to obey it by putting those, and only those who pledge fidelity to it, into office.

What we’re seeing at the Town Hall meetings is many decades of pent up anger as Congress encroached more and more on the freedoms many of our forefathers died protecting.  We’ve called and mailed letters hoping they would listen, but you didn’t.  Well, now Congress has woken a sleeping and slumbering giant and we’re not looking to any leader in particular to lead us, we already have it…The United States Constitution.  Congress has ignored the limitations it has placed on it and We the People, the greatest check and balance of all will force Congress to follow it.

Our constant and piercing battle cry will come in the form of a simple question: Where in Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution do you find the power to__________ (fill in the blank)?  The average congressperson will try to trick us with high-minded language about the General Welfare, or Commerce, or Necessary and Proper Clause, but we will not be tricked.  We know that the Founders (including Hamilton) never intended those clauses to give you unlimited power; we’ve read Federalist 45 and James Madison’s letter to Mr. Pendleton.  Then, it will be Congress who will quiver as they give account for their votes in the cleansing light of history as they face the ultimate judge this side of eternity; us, the voter.

So, it’s us, the common folk of America who are coming to these Town Halls and demanding a reckoning.  Congress may run, they may ridicule, they may try to bully, but they can’t hide in November 2010. 

We’re awake now.

Patriots Constitution