It’s Memorial Day and, as free citizens of the United States of America, we should be thinking of more than hamburgers, hotdogs, and NASCAR, but most of us won’t.  What a pity that the majority of us in the Land of the Free don’t have any idea why we are free.

The easy answer is that we have a Constitution and a Bill of Rights that tell us how our freedoms come from our Creator, and cannot be infringed upon by man.  We are citizens of the greatest nation that has ever existed on planet Earth and, as citizens of this great nation, it is our honor and our duty to protect our freedoms.  As Thomas Jefferson said, “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”

On Memorial Day we honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice to refresh the tree of liberty.  We honor those who served.

Is it enough?  Is it enough to spend one day a year remembering those who have given their lives that we might be free, and spend the rest of the year oblivious to the constant erosion of our freedoms by the government that is supposed to protect them?

I think not.  It makes the sacrifice we honor today meaningless if we live the other 364 days a year allowing the meaning of this day to be violated, the sacrifice marginalized, and our freedoms diluted.

The migration from constitutional government to European style socialism — the nanny state — has been in process for over 100 years.  In that time we’ve seen income taxes, the Federal Reserve, Social Security, segregation of the armed forces (and then desegregation), the Great Society, Medicare, and Medicaid become the practice and policy of our government, when each and every one of these programs and practices is unconstitutional.

Many will blame politicians, but that blame is misplaced.  Benjamin Franklin, when asked what type of government the Constitutional Convention had created, replied “A Republic, if you can keep it.”  The blame lies squarely on us, the citizens who don’t value our freedoms, our government, and our way of life enough to insure that the Constitution is followed.

Politicians are the symptom, not the cause, and you can replace them forever without effecting a cure.  Until the citizens of this country take responsibility for electing city, state, and federal office holders who will honor and obey the Constitution, we will see special interests pandered to.  An office holder whose only real job is getting reelected will never make the hard choice to anger their constituents by doing the right, constitutional thing.

So take pleasure in the day.  Hamburgers, hotdogs, and NASCAR make for an enjoyable time.  But remember why you have the freedoms to have this holiday.  Honor our veterans and wake up tomorrow with the commitment to restore constitutional government and our freedoms — and then do something about it.

You are the United States of America; you have a duty to protect this country and her Constitution just as those we honor today did.

We the People will protect the USA against all enemies, both foreign and domestic.  You should be one of Us.

In a previous article we discussed making the federal government more honest, smaller, and more fiscally responsible. That was the first part of what we thought would be a two-part article.  We were wrong on that.  This is the second article, and there will be more.  Reversing the Progressive downhill slide our country has taken in the last century will require more than two articles.

The second link in the chain we’ll need to tow the country out of the ditch the Progressives have driven us into is tax reform.  Tax reform is useless if it is not accompanied by legislation that requires the budget to be truly balanced.  We’ve had administrations that claimed to have had a balanced budget or to have decreased the deficit, but those claims were accounting tricks, not real.  Bill Clinton claims to have had the last “really balanced budget”.  He didn’t; what he had was an economic boom that created more revenue than the government spent.  His budget was not based on income, it was based on spending, and the fact that income was greater than spending was hailed as a great accomplishment.  If the USA’s GDP magically increased by 400%, the Obama administration would have a balanced budget too, at least according to Clinton’s (and most politicians’) definition.

What we need is a truly balanced budget for our proposed smaller government; expenses cannot exceed revenue.  The outcome of this is a smaller government, lower taxes, and reduction of the deficit.  Over time, with responsible fiscal policy, the federal deficit can be reduced to zero.

So how do we reform taxes to get this done?

Tax reform is a great idea until you try to figure out how to do it.  Government with access to money is like gas in a vacuum – it will expand to fill available space.  Give an official the ability to provide an advantage to a constituent in return for campaign contributions or votes and there’s no contest; the constituent will get the favor and the rest of the voters will get the bill.

So the first thing to do is to take away legislators’ ability to affect the tax code.  There are two plans out that claim to do this:

One, the Fair Tax, is a national sales tax.  Proponents claim a 30% sales tax rate ($23 on a $77 purchase) would cover all government expenses.  There are studies supporting and against this option.  All who support the Fair Tax agree that the 16^th Amendment to the Constitution (authorizing the income tax) would have to be repealed to protect citizens from being double taxed by the government.  Many against this option claim that it would put additional burden on the middle class, while proponents claim that a consumption tax would capture revenue for the government that is not realized now.  The bills before Congress now contain a pre-bate to exempt families from the sales tax up to the poverty level.  This pre-bate is designed to protect the poor.

The Flat Tax establishes a single tax rate for all taxpayers.  People and corporations pay the same rate.  Proponents of the Flat Tax claim it would end government giving tax advantages to individuals or special interest groups as any change to the tax would affect everyone.

There are many consequences of each option, and much study needs to be done before either is adopted.  First, we need an honest, fiscally responsible government.

We need an additional piece of the puzzle to make the government smaller and more fiscally responsible.  Some services and agencies will have to be removed.  We’ll talk about which government agencies and services need to go away in a future article, but we need to understand that if government gets smaller and taxes are lowered some services cannot be provided over time.

This will not be easy or popular, and it certainly won’t be fun.  It must be done.

We the People are up to the task.

So here’s the deal – the health care bill(s) of 2009 were nothing more than a trough at which the pigs in Congress fed.  You need look no further than Joe Lieberman, Mary Landrieu, Ben Nelson, and Arkansas’ own Blanche Lincoln to see what happened when Harry Reid put the right slop in the trough.  There was no thought of doing right, or good, or helping anyone; their only incentive was and is to impress their constituents and get reelected.  This has to change.

We’ve heard the Congress called socialists, but that’s wrong.  What’s happening in Congress, led by the new “Chosen One”, Barack Obama, is Progressive politics pure and simple.  We’re not getting health care, or anything resembling it.  What we are getting is concentration of power in the federal government, designed to provide a mechanism by which the federal government can control our every action.  These health care bills are not designed to help us, they’re designed to further weaken States’ Rights and make us slaves of a central government.  All of this is in direct opposition to the Constitution.

It’s not that the government wants to socialize everything; they don’t.  What they want is for you and me to be dependent on them for all of the decisions that free people make for themselves.  You won’t be able to decide if you want or need health care, and if you wish to, you won’t be able to put the money for health care into a business, or a boat, or a cottage on the lake.  You’ll get health care and like it, or you’ll pay a fine.  The result in either case is the government will control your life.

If you pay the fine and choose to go without health care, there’s no danger there; find out you’re sick and you can sign up for health care with no penalty.  This “health care” plan actually encourages healthy people to not get insurance until they’re sick, and everyone else who has a policy will pay the added cost.  This legislation is designed to put more power into the federal government, not help citizens, and certainly not reduce costs.

The engines of commerce will remain in private hands; remember GM “selling” the stock the government owns to pay the loans back.  The plan there was to put the unions in a position of power, just like Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, FDR, and Benito Mussolini did.

A sympathetic citizenry makes the government takeover easier – in this case there’s a symbiosis; Obama needs the unions to provide the muscle for his takeover and the unions need the government to subsidize their super-expensive health care and retirement plans.  Notice how quickly Andy Stern of SEIU turned on Obama when the Senate health care bill came out with taxes on union health plans; notice how quickly congress exempted union health care plans from the Cadillac tax when the unions called them to task.

The government will tell business how and what it can do.  The private sector will still own business, but the government will control it.  This is the progressive agenda, pure and simple.  People smarter than you will make the important decisions for you.

A lot of this has already happened; fuel mileage standards for cars are a great example of government intervention in the free market causing problems.  The government said cars had to be more efficient and passed regulations enforcing the standards.  Car companies in the USA were forced to make cars people didn’t want, and they made bad ones.  The Japanese, who built these tin can cars as a need of their society became dominant in the U.S. market.

That wasn’t bad enough, but while they tinkered with the products our car companies produced, the government also favored employees over employers.  When you add in progressive support for unions and the high costs of paying benefits that weren’t warranted the result is two of the “big 3” went bankrupt and are now government owned.  Remember the Obama Administration gave large portions of the auto companies to the unions and ignored the claims of investors who should have been paid first.

The systematic destruction of the capitalist free market system has been going on for over 100 years, and in 2008 we had the perfect storm.  Voters elected a president with no history and no experience on a platform of “change” without specifying what that change would be.  The last 15 months speak for themselves.  All that has happened is part of the progressive plan, and they’ve almost succeeded.

This plan has been the wet dream of every Progressive since before 1900.  The progressive movement needed then, and needs now, for the Constitution to be weakened.  A weak Constitution allows all of the unconstitutional bills and projects they advance to be enforced.  Read about Woodrow Wilson to see the start of the Progressive attack on the Constitution.

A progressive president – and don’t doubt that Barack Obama is a progressive – will not veto the progressive bills Congress passes.  The Supreme Court, weakened as it is by progressive leaning justices, will find in favor of the progressives more and more.

The cure is Federalism.  With a weak federal government and strong states, the feds don’t have the power to push their agenda.  The federal government provides defense, dollars, and protection from those who would limit our God-given freedoms.  The federal government need do no more, and can’t if you believe the Constitution.

Federal taxes would necessarily be lower if we were Federalist, as the feds would not have all the entitlement programs we presently pay taxes for.  Want Medicare?  Go to a state that has it and pay your fair share.  See how this works?

Under Federalism most of the power is in the states.  There’s more freedom for the individual because if you don’t like the rules in one state you can move to another state that has rules you like.  Ronald Reagan called it “voting with your feet”.

Don’t believe abortion should be legal or illegal?  Move to a state where it is legal or illegal.  Think you pay too many taxes?  Move to a state that taxes less.

Under Federalism the states can get back to being the great experiment that they should be.  With no strong central control, a state can create laws that meet the needs of its citizens, not compromise on rules that don’t meet the needs of anyone but the politicians.

States were supposed to have the freedom to try new things; if the processes in one state worked, other states would be free to copy them.  A mistake wouldn’t cost the whole country, just the state that made it.

Federalism is a system that encourages trying new things.  If the citizens of a state want it, they can have it if they’re willing to pay for it and it’s Constitutional.

We don’t need bloated, inefficient federal agencies to run our lives; we need our brains and our God-given freedom.  .

Some states might want to provide medical care for their citizens.  Great — the citizens would vote for it, pay the taxes, and have it.  And please don’t think that Federal dollars are a gift.  There are studies that report for every dollar the feds return to a state they collect over $2.50 in taxes – bureaucracy is never cheap

That’s Federalism.  The founders designed a country that could innovate.  Men of poor character and deficient morals whose only interest is the accumulation of power have taken away our ability to innovate through government control.  It’s not Democrats or Republicans, it’s all of them.

It’s time to take this country back.  Tell the weasels in Congress you’re not happy with their performance every day; if they don’t listen send them packing on Election Day.

The United States of America and We the People deserve better.

Before we start, let me say that this article is a very simplistic explanation of an exceptionally complex solution to non-responsive government.  It doesn’t take a Nobel Laureate to come to the conclusion that the government of the United States is broken.  In order to apply the fix I am advocating here will take years.  We will have to elect people who commit to this project and keep adding to their numbers until we have enough in the senate and congress to get the job done.  Just getting enough people elected may take ten or twelve years or more.

The federal government has a very well defined job, and it’s nothing like what they currently do.  Over the years politicians have expanded the government as a way to get reelected.  What better way to get the voters to love you than to bring a project home that’s paid for by someone else’s taxes?  The federal government is responsible for the three Ds, Dollars, Defense, and Diplomacy, and that’s all.  Look in the Constitution; it’s all documented there in just a few pages written in plain English.

Sure, there are some things the federal government is supposed to do in addition to those three things, but they are minor as written in the Constitution.  Things like the Interstate Commerce Clause were meant to have the federal government regulate (as in to make regular, easy, and consistent) the trade between states.  This clause of the Constitution has been bastardized to the point where almost all federal power is justified through it.  There are other articles here and here and here that explain this in detail, so I’ll not spend the time here to do so.

The problem is that, once elected, a senator or congressman or president has but one job: to be reelected.  For a while people talked about term limits, but that fell by the wayside.  That’s fine; term limits as currently defined won’t work anyway.  If a public official has to stand for reelection they are open to influence peddling.  Companies pay for access; it’s all legal, but when you make a big donation to a campaign you expect something in return.  Access is what you get.

So here’s the first step in making our government honest and responsive again.  It’s sort of a term limit solution, but it differs from term limits as popularly understood in that we give them only one.

Representatives get one three-year term, Senators one six-year term, and Presidents get one five-year term.  One.  No worry about re-election, just service.  Do it, be done with it, and go on with your life.  It will work.

And no Federal retirement; there is no reason to pay someone for the rest of their life for less than 6 years worth of effort.

The requirements for this first step in making government honest and responsive will require an amendment to the Constitution, as terms are set there, but it can be done.

That’s the first step.  We’ll talk in a future article about the second step, tax reform.

This project will take a lifetime; it is not a quick or easy fix.  Elected officials will resist the change to the status quo, and we must expect that, but it must be done.

It won’t get done if We the People don’t take the first step.

In his book, 1984, George Orwell wrote two lines that describe the strategy of progressives today:

“If all records told the same tale — then the lie passed into history and became truth.”

“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”

These two classic lines from Orwell describe how the progressives tell us lies and the lies become truth.  There are many examples from the early 1900s, and some you would remember have happened in the last fifteen years.

Harry Reid, without even a smirk, said he’d never mentioned reconciliation.  Well there are only dozens of clips that put the lie to that statement, but repeated often enough, it becomes true.  When the media doesn’t report the facts, spin becomes reality.

Barack Obama promised no new taxes of any kind on those making less than $250,000 a year: then along came health care, and soon we’ll see tax and trade, and you’ll wonder whatever happened to no new taxes.

“I never had sex with that woman…”  Remember?  And he had to turn in his law license and pay a fine for that one.  But he almost got away with it.

“Read my lips, no new taxes”.  Well, sort of.

There are many more examples, but the purpose here is to illustrate a point not to incite or entertain.

The point of all of this is to say that politicians and others who wish to have power will change the meaning of words they don’t like or just flat out lie.  They will tell a story so often it is accepted as truth; when the Constitution doesn’t give them the power to do what they want, they ignore it or get their pet judges to change the law.

Now we have a health care bill that will not improve health care one iota, but will cost you more for less care.  If you listened to the President and Senate leadership, that wasn’t going to happen, but it has.

The only solution is for the voters in this country to know who they elect, what their positions are on the issues, and how their history matches their rhetoric.  It’s not Democrat or Republican anymore; it’s the beliefs and character of the candidate that will make the difference.  It’s whether they are working toward the best solution for the nation and all the citizens.  We need honest women and men in government who will do what they say, not what they need to do to get re-elected.

We the People should demand no more and accept no less.

There’s something refreshing about going to a city council meeting.  No matter how frustrated you are about national or state politics, going to a city council meeting is a way to refresh and recharge.

It’s not that the city council is any more honest or responsive than state or national politicians, although usually they are both.  It’s about access.  You can go to a meeting and actually look someone in the eye while talking to them.  You can ask a question, and usually get an answer.  You can present logical arguments and see change happen.  And you can see when they don’t especially care for what you say.  Access does that.

Try that at the statehouse or in Washington.  Not going to happen, at least not yet.  We’ve long advocated that all politics is local, and now is the time to prove it.  There’s an election coming up in which we’ll have the opportunity to vote for the candidates we prefer.  The assumption is that you know the candidate or at least their beliefs and voting record.  If you know these things about a candidate then politics is at least close to local.

What we need to do, and what we’re doing now, is to plan long term for all politics to be once again local.  This will happen if we groom people at the town and city level who can move up to the state and federal positions over time.  If we know them now, and keep in touch, we’ll know them when they get to vote on matters like health care and cap and trade.  Unfortunately we don’t know our state politicians very well, and our federal representatives at all.

When a hefty majority of the population doesn’t want something, health care comes to mind, and the legislation gets passed anyway, we don’t know who we elected.  The politicians deserve some blame, but the voters deserve more.  We all know the fable about the scorpion.  We should have known who they were before we sent them to do our business.

We can rectify those mistakes, at least partially, in the fall.  Our government needs a good sweeping out.  It’s time We the People picked up the broom.

Remember in the last installment we were talking about how Woodrow Wilson and Barack Obama are two versions of the same poison.  It’s not exaggerating to define these two as poison if you believe the Constitution is the foundation on which this country is built.

You don’t remove or change the foundation of a house casually; in all cases it’s pretty serious work.  The Constitution is the foundation of the United States, and the serious work of changing its foundation is amending the Constitution.  You don’t change the Constitution by legislation or because you think something is not fair; you don’t invent rights using “auras and penumbras” from existing constitutional rights.  Rights come from God, not legislators. The Constitution contains all of the government’s rights, and defines ours.

As Justice Clarence Thomas said in a speech to The Manhattan Institute in October 2008

“Let me put it this way; there are really only two ways to interpret the Constitution — try to discern as best we can what the framers intended or make it up. No matter how ingenious, imaginative or artfully put, unless interpretive methodologies are tied to the original intent of the framers, they have no more basis in the Constitution than the latest football scores.”

We’ve said in previous posts that the duties of the Federal government are limited to the three Ds; Dollars (supporting the currency), Diplomacy (responsibility for our foreign relationships), and Defense (raising and maintaining an army).  Not ensuring everyone has a color TV, or a house, or health care.  It’s not the federal government’s job to supply those things.  The government is there to protect us, our God-given rights, and this country.  Yet Barack Obama pushed and got passed a health care bill few wanted and which is probably unconstitutional.  All he knows he learned from Wilson, socialists, and communists.

Many of us know of the shame of the Japanese interred during World War II.  This was a policy pushed by FDR (Wilson’s Secretary of the Navy before he was President).  FDR learned his totalitarian ways from Wilson.  Wilson put people in jail for disagreeing that the U.S.A. should be in World War I.  The U.S. government made people political prisoners because they didn’t agree with the President.  Wilson had goon squads that broke into homes and intimidated people if they didn’t toe the line.

Wilson was a socialist.  Worse yet, he was the socialist’s socialist.  The Germans and Italians, Nazis and Fascists, learned what they needed to know from Wilson.  People tend to believe that Nazis and Fascists are worlds apart, but both are brands of socialism, and Hitler and Mussolini gave credit where it was due.  They learned their politics from Wilson, and now Obama is Wilson all over again.

So what to do?

You can start by voting for candidates that believe in strict interpretation of the Constitution, Federalism, states rights, limited federal government, and personal responsibility.  It’s not Democrat or Republican anymore, and it’s time the major parties understood that.  We need elected officials who will read a bill, understand what their constituents want, match that up to the Constitution, and vote their mandate for constitutional government.  Voting the party line should be the last vote they cast; caucuses should be dismantled, vibrant debate should be the order of the day.  Issues should be decided on right and wrong, on doing the right thing, and by always following the Constitution.

Politicians must learn that they serve us, not we serve them.  It’s time to sweep the government clean.  Even the “good” career politicians should go, because they’re still party oriented, career oriented, sound-bite oriented hacks who believe it’s in their best interest to look good by making someone else look bad.  That doesn’t work and must be gotten rid of.

We must reduce the size of government and pay down the deficit.  Representative Paul Ryan has a plan that seems logical and workable.  You can read about it here: Ryan Plan or you can read what George Will says about it here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/05/AR2010020503475.html .  In either case you’ll find logical solutions to the problems we face today.

It took over a century for the Progressives to put the United States in the precarious position it’s in today, and it will take at least that long to repair it.  Everywhere you look there’s something to do.  Restore Constitutional government, enforce the borders, get rid of entitlements, balance the budget, allow people to be free and responsible for themselves.  That doesn’t even scratch the surface, but with dedication and a renewed national pride in American Exceptionalism it can be done.

As he left the Constitution Hall when the Constitution was completed, a woman asked Benjamin Franklin “Sir, what have you given us?”  Franklin’s reply “A republic if you can keep it” is still true today.

We the People shall keep it.

Ever read about Woodrow Wilson?  Probably not.  Most people only know that he was president way back when.  Woodrow Wilson was the progressive’s progressive.  Many believe he was the father of the modern progressive movement in the United States.  Wilson was the first to advocate treating the Constitution as a “living” document, to be interpreted through the lens of the modern world, not as a fixed description of the limitations placed on government power.  What Wilson wanted was for the government to be run by an elite class of bureaucrat who interpreted the will of the people and legislated to have that done.  One problem was the bureaucrats weren’t elected, so the people had no real power to determine how they were treated by the government.  And of course if the bureaucrats were wrong the people got government programs they didn’t want or need.

Wilson believed the president should “educate” the people; make them aware of what they really wanted so the government could deliver it.  The president’s main asset was to be his speaking ability, not his knowledge or leadership.  The president would convince the people that the government knew what they needed.  In other words the president was a shill for the bureaucrats.

Fast-forward to today, and find Barack Obama is doing exactly what Wilson wanted a president to do.  An ideologue with no real assets except his ability to speak, Obama is a shill for the progressive movement, the embodiment of Wilson’s political theory.  An exceptionally dangerous empty suit.

Wilson’s idea was that the government be split into two parts, the elected officials who would have no real authority except to suggest policy and pass laws needed by the bureaucrats, and the professional bureaucrats who would actually implement and enforce the laws and regulations.

Barack Obama has placed Czars in strategic offices in the government and charged them with managing functions and projects that were formerly the responsibility of Senate confirmed appointees.  These Czars are Obama’s elite bureaucrats.

Wow!  Obama is Woodrow Wilson, or at least a good copy.

Constitution?  Forget it or ignore it; it’s meaningless anyway.

Your appointees can’t get past Senate confirmation?  Create Czars.

Can’t get a bill passed?  Require government agencies to regulate as if the bill had passed.

Someone disagrees with your policies or programs?  Marginalize them, call them names, make fun of them.

Barack Obama is a progressive.  Many think of him as a socialist.  Both are correct.  Next time we’ll look at how the progressive movement is the root, and all current brands of socialism are the branches if one evil tree.  Add a couple of dictators to the mix and we’ll have a fine time.

But that’s the next article.

Sometimes called the Nuclear Option, Reconciliation is a method of moving financial bills forward without filibuster.  It’s a tool of the majority party, no matter who they are.

As defined in Wikipedia:

“Reconciliation is one of the most important developments to emerge from the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. (See Pub.L. 93-344, § 310; 88 Stat. 297; 2 U.S.C. § 641.) Reconciliation developed into an important procedure for implementing the policy decisions and assumptions embraced in a budget resolution, in a way that was unforeseen when the Budget Act was written. Under the original design of the Budget Act, reconciliation had a fairly narrow purpose. It was expected to be used together with the second resolution adopted in the fall, and was to apply to a single fiscal year and be directed primarily at spending and revenue legislation acted on between the adoption of the first and second budget resolutions. But Congress has used the procedure to enact far-reaching omnibus budget bills, first in 1981.

The Byrd Rule was adopted in 1985 and amended in 1990. Its main effect is that reconciliation cannot be used for provisions that would increase the deficit beyond 10 years after the reconciliation measure.”

So it’s not supposed to be used for other than financial bills, and not supposed to raise the deficit beyond 10 years.  President Obama’s healthcare debacle loses on both counts, so it shouldn’t be eligible for reconciliation.

Then there’s the issue of whether it’s ethical or not.  Try taking your prompt from the Democrats as they defeated George Bush’s attempt to use the Nuclear Option:

http://www.the912project.com/2010/02/24/224-nuclear-option-is-evil-just-ask-joe-biden/

The clips speak for themselves.

The Nuclear Option is only a good option if:

1. Your party is in power
2. You have a bill the minority can block in the Senate
3. You have no ethics

Item 3 above applies to Republicans and Democrats alike.  It almost seems that they have no memory along with no ethics.  Whatever party is in power does just what the other party did when they were in power, and the arguments and complaints are the same as well

This will all come home to roost.  The people aren’t fooled by hand-wringing and some poor politician crying foul.

We the People are awake – politicians beware!

Has Blanche Lincoln had an epiphany?  Latest news reports indicate she may have had that life changing moment of clarity that most of us only wish for.

The real question is: “Does Senator Lincoln now see the world through the same lens that an overwhelming majority of her constituents do, or is she pandering for votes?”

Her history tells us that her only real goals are to get reelected and advance the Progressive agenda.  Her own statements lend credibility to the charge of pandering – she’s pandered before.  Pandering seems to be a slam-dunk.

But what if she’s actually had that epiphany?  What if she woke up on Tuesday and realized she’d violated the trust of the people of Arkansas, enabling the largest (albeit unsuccessful) government takeover of the private sector to ever occur?  By voting for health care, she obeyed the dictates of the Democrat leadership, knowing her actions would hurt Arkansas and the U.S.A.

What if she really wants to do the right thing and represent the people of Arkansas, her real and only job?  Will she trust the people of Arkansas to reward that fidelity with continued employment, or is it an act to get reelected?

We’ve made our decision, and you will have to make yours.  Voting for anyone is a matter of trust.  Do you trust Senator Lincoln to tell the truth now, if you suspect she hasn’t done so before?  Has she really had that epiphany or is this change of direction more Progressive misdirection aimed at advancing their agenda regardless the consequences?

We have time to make a decision, but a decision must be made.

We the People will speak.