Americans are not apathetic people.\u00a0 Although liberty took several hits this year with wars and rumors of wars on health care, energy, and taxation, freedom\u2019s defenders among the citizenry did not stand by quietly.\u00a0 They threw tea parties.\u00a0 They massed at Washington and hundreds of cities around the country.\u00a0 They spoke boldly at town hall meetings, and found unlikely support.\u00a0 They raised money, organized, and propelled candidates and ideas past the nay-saying conventional wisdom types.\u00a0 They won, they lost, and are learning.\u00a0 2009 was a dress rehearsal.\u00a0 2010 is the main event.<\/p>\n
Americans, by nature, are not defined by politics.\u00a0 But when events warrant, Americans are willing and able to refocus the political class\u2019s attention on first principles, reminding their hired hands that the government is by, for, and of the people<\/em>, and that when the governing authority becomes violent towards the people\u2019s self-evident, God-given rights, the people have the right to wipe the slate clean and start afresh.<\/p>\n There is much to be hopeful for next year.\u00a0 Before next New Year\u2019s Eve a new Congress will be elected.\u00a0 Let us resolve this December 31st<\/sup> to refound America on our constitutional principles so that a year hence our resolutions can move from the public square to the president\u2019s desk.\u00a0 And let him dare refuse us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Americans are not apathetic people.\u00a0 Although liberty took several hits this year with wars and rumors of wars on health care, energy, and taxation, freedom\u2019s defenders among the citizenry did not stand by quietly.\u00a0 They threw tea parties.\u00a0 They massed at Washington and hundreds of cities around the country.\u00a0 They spoke boldly at town hall […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[614],"class_list":["post-2945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-tea-party-movement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2945"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2951,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions\/2951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}