Tom Delay posts at RedState - Lays out game plan

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Tom Delay posts at RedState - Lays out game plan

http://redstate.com/stories/the_parties/republicans/whats_that_thumping

It's Time We Get Back To First Principles
By Tom DeLay—
RedState is pleased to welcome the Hon. Tom DeLay, former Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives, to the front page.

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Some self-described conservatives have even said that the House and Senate spent too much time on ‘wedge issues’ like illegal immigration and gay marriage rather than engaging in protracted battles on social security and entitlement reform.

It seems to me that the protection of our border and the legal definition of the fundamental building block of our society are issues at least worthy of consideration in the public square. These fundamental issues are at least as important as retirement security and revamping a broad range of government programs. In fact, the 109th Congress raised all of those issues, and I believe that our nation’s public life was richer for the debate.

YES, PLEASE! Continue working on these failed wedge issues from prison sir! It will provide us with endless hours of enjoyment.

Second, we must lead an effort to radically redesign government and return it to its constitutional roots. The problem with our government isn’t simply that it has gotten too big or that it spends too much – but that it is involved in aspects of our lives and our economy in which it has no business.

Huh? Wow! I agree with you, I don't want government to become "involved in aspects of our lives and our economy in which it has no business." It would be shameful for our government to insert itself into the personal lives and life decisions of homosexuals, unexpectedly pregnant women and terminally ill patients. Thank you for seeing it that way.

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Fourth, in order to achieve true justice, we must make every effort to reverse the culture of death that threatens the weakest and the most infirm among us. Conservatives want a society that respects and protects all innocent human life regardless of some political activists notion that some lives may not be of sufficient quality to avoid termination at the hands of an abortionist or a euthanizer.

Oh well. And sir, "Euthanizer"??

At least you've given up that lame "judicial activist" meme, right?

Fifth, conservatives are united in their agreement that we must bring into check the powers of an increasingly imperial judiciary which seeks to manufacture, rather than interpret the law. The Judicial Branch must be returned to coequal status with the Legislative and the Executive, lest we undermine the very principles of Order, Justice and Freedom upon which we believe our society to be built.

Oh, jeepers!

Last, but certainly not least, the really lame rallying cry::

So for me, and I hope for many conservatives, this week is a time of reflection and rededication and not one of recrimination and retreat. The ‘thumping’ I hear is of a conservative movement with a strongly beating heart.