It only takes one CongressCritter to have the courage to start raising heck from the floor of Congress on this issue to get the battle lines drawn.

If the anger sweeping this country is not proving anything, it’s that people are worried about what the Federal Government is up to, and a clarion call from the floor of the House for an investigation into the “Fishy” program would resonate with the American people. Somehow I think it will.

The trick will be to not overplay the hand. The facts of the “Fishy” program are out there, the question is “Is it legal, is the Obama White House breaking the law”? An investigation by Congress is in order, and calling for that investigation into the “Fishy” program is called for, nothing more, nothing less. Heck I might even write my CongressCritter who is a R and ask him why he’s not calling for an investigation.

It will take some time for the Obama White House to get a spanking in court even if you could get someone who has standing.

As a matter of political capital, this as an issue is something that Republican CongressCritters need to jump all over. The real court here is not in Black Robes, nope the real judge of Hope and Change and breaking the law to achieve moving this country and the health care system to a socialist model gets decided during the mid term elections and in the Presidential elections of 2012.

Fear can be a good thing. Courage is the effective response.

We did not have even one so-called conservative senator with the courage to take a stand and prevent the $2 B expansion of the unconstitutional “Cash for Clunkers” program. Any one of them could have stopped the vote on the bill before the recess. A bunch of them were quoted in a newspaper article (sorry, I don’t have the link handy) about how bad the bill was, and how they thought it should not pass, yet not one of these so-called “leaders” stood up to take stand to fight for the American people. In a few sentences they could have explained on Senate floor to the American people the virtues of stopping this idiotic program, but, no, they slinked away to the recess. And another $2 B went down a rat hole, added to the national debt that our children and grandchildren will be saddled with. Why? Because they had nothing to fear. With a relatively weak number of conservatives in the Party ranks nationwide, why would they be fearful of any kind consequence for their lack of courage?

Pathetic. But understandable under the circumstances.

Now many here are suggesting we should all “pressure” our congressmen and senators and urge them to be courageous and call for a full investigation of “Axelrod e-mail-gate.”

Let’s see, the Constitution and their oaths did not motivate our so-called conservative senators to fight for the American people on Cash for Clunkers. Or Sotomayor’s nomination. And on, and on, and on.

Will a bunch of letters and faxes motivate them to investigate “Axelrod e-mail-gate?” Maybe. I send faxes, and make telephone calls, to these “leaders” all the time and urge others to do so, too, because I cling to my perhaps naïve notion that maybe, just maybe, a faxed letter or phone call might help motivate them to do the right thing, especially when many others are doing the same thing on a particular issue. (I also put these hard questions to them face-to-face whenever I get the chance.) Such fax and phone campaigns stopped the Harriet Miers nomination and the backroom “Shamnesty for Illegals” bill. Maybe we can motivate these “leaders” to actually lead for a change through a similar deluge of faxes and phone calls.

I watched a great video out of Texas today. Good people who were protesting socialized medicine. The videographer interviewed about fifty of the folks. Over and over I heard “this is the first time I’ve gotten involved in the political process.” Ahem. I am so glad they are at least participating in a protest and holding a sign, but they aren’t really “involved in the political process.” At least not in that part of it that determines the direction and leadership of a political party. That only really happens one way.

Okay, if you’ve read this far, you probably know where I’m going. If you don’t want to hear it, stop reading. If you are already a precinct committeeman, you don’t have to read any farther. You get it.

I submit that the single best way we could make these spineless “leaders” gain some courage is through fear. Faxes and phone calls don’t cause fear. I know one thing that would cause fear. And that would be a tidal wave of applications NOW by conservatives in every local GOP headquarters asking to be appointed a precinct committeeman and asking how one goes about becoming an elected precinct committeeman so they can vote in the next round of leadership elections and next round of Party endorsements for primary candidates in the 2010 election cycle.

If conservatives do THAT, we will get the attention of the status quo-ers. Because then their buddies in the Party leadership hierarchy could all be new faces after 2010. And maybe those new faces wouldn’t be so friendly. Maybe they’d be real conservatives. And maybe the “boots on the ground” precinct committeeman in their legislative district will have changed drastically, demanding more conservatism from the primary candidates.

Nationwide, about 50 per cent of the PC slots are empty. Fifty per cent! The Party is there for a conservative takeover. If we take it.

Will you help take it? I pray that you will.

Here are some links for more info:

http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/07/02/the-power-of-small-numbers-a-butterfly-effect/

http://www.redstate.com/coldwarrior/2009/06/30/lets-change-the-world-now-like-the-obamabots-did-or-not/

http://www.redstate.com/martin_a_knight/2009/05/05/the-committeeman-project/

http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com

The Maricopa County GOP web site has a good explanation of the precinct committeeman position:

http://www.maricopagop.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=44

Thank you,

Cold Warrior

I am only one. But I am a conservative Republican Party precinct committeeman and trying every way my feeble brain can think of to recruit more of them as fast as possible.

thinking that meant “change for the better”.