Well, it has certainly been a long time since I posted. I have thought about doing so many times in the recent months, but didn’t for several reasons. I have been traveling with my job quite often, and frankly, when I did strongly consider a new post, I could not decide what to write about. Too much going on.
Oh well, just like the government cannot force me to choose a health insurance plan, no one can force me to write until I’m good and ready! So how about I get loose with some random thoughts that might cause some of you to comment?
#1
The election results of November 2 are just the start if we want to restore and bequeath to our grandchildren and great grandchildren the America we know and love. You’ll notice I didn’t say children; we already know they will be busy for the rest of their lives!
#2
The best statement I heard about the “message” that voters sent the politicians last Tuesday was from the few pundits that realized we weren’t favoring Republicans over Democrats, though some may have been thinking that. Rather, the voters said in a loud voice that we want sanity and the American values of liberty and opportunity restored.
#3
Watch the new Congressional leadership closely. Better yet, write to them and tell them you will be watching and what you expect. Restoring constitutional limits on government will take imagination, courage, straight talk and a liberally applied lethal combination of disinfectant and roach killer followed by an armada of sewage removal trucks.
#4
Will someone please give me the constitutional justification for the modern preeminance (sp?) of the executive branch in matters of legislative policy and priority? In other words, can anyone tell me why or how we came to the point of relying on the President to set the agenda for the nation? I know that Article 2 Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution states that the President “shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient…”, but how to explain (other than the advent of television) the fact that the Congress seems to take its cues from The Oval Office? Anyone, please?
#5
I do hope that you voted last week, but don’t fall asleep now. The politicians, bureaucrats and other thugs in Washington and state capitols will try to ram through as much garbage as they can before January.
Okay, enough politics for now. How about something really importantf?
#6
I know all of you will agree with me that there is nothing quite as restorative as watching a great SEC football game on a Saturday afternoon – particularly if that game involves the best football team in the land – the L-S-U Tigers! (I’ll wait while some of you let the inevitiblilty of that fundamental truth sink in……….). 
I can be patient and take the Rush Limbaugh approach to this and wait until ALL of America agrees with me here.
Alright, one last serious thing before I stop. I plan on writing a detailed letter to the presumptive new Speaker of the House soon. In that letter, I will offer encouragement and some plain talk on where I hope the Congress will go with things in the next two years. I will share it with those interested and also encourage all of you to contact him, and other Congressional leaders as well. We need to step up the friendly pressure to make the hard decisions and do the work necessary to repair the wounds inflicted on this wonderful republic over not just the last 2 to 10 years, but the last several decades. The predicament we find ourselves in did not happen overnight or without our consent (yes, the real blame rests with the us). But, If God allows it, the solution also rests with us.
Man, is this a great country or what?
