An Open Letter

My Fellow Republicans,

In the last election the Republican base came out in record numbers to vote for President Bush and his agenda. And we won a great victory with a clear and decisive mandate. In the process we voters also put more Republicans in both the House and the Senate. But we didn't do this just to keep those seats in congress warm or because we want Republicans to get cushy retirement packages. We voted to help the President achieve his goals and to protect the county from those who would see it destroyed. We voted for the implementation of our ideas and our agenda. We voted for our party because we want action. We voted because we wanted to win. But now it looks as though some Republicans did not get the message that voters sent them. Rather, they seem to be more interested in currying favor with the opposition party and an elite media establishment that holds them, and us, in contempt.

What we are seeing is a group of Republicans who are helping the opposition party Democrats and the elite media to undermine and derail the President's foreign policy and his domestic agenda. And even some Republicans who are not part of this group seem unwilling or hesitant to act. In the end, it is the will of the American people that Democrats, the elites in academia, the media and some Republicans, are thwarting. This must change.

The President has nominated John Bolton to represent the United States at the U.N. because he is the kind of person who can get the job done and who will look to clean up the corruption that has been so evident there and which threatens U.S. interests as well as those of many other freedom loving peoples around the globe. And that is why the hard left of the Democratic party does not want him in that job. Democrats don't want to clean up the problems at the U.N. They don't want a Bush victory there. They don't want to see U.S. interests advanced at the expense of Kofi Anon and his fellow cleptocrats. And so they oppose the nomination of John Bolton. And that is to be expected from today's Democratic party because they are a party that is out of ideas. They are a party with nothing to offer but opposition for the sake of opposition.

But we expect more from Republicans. We expect them to stand for something other than their own petty interests. We expect them to stand up for principle.

In the Senate the Democrats oppose judicial nominations that would help to bring the courts back to some semblance of reason and sanity from their current activist condition. They oppose these nominations, not on the basis of competence, but on the basis of pure partisan political motive. The Democrats want an activist judiciary because they are unable to get the liberal-leftist agenda passed into law by legislative means. They cannot achieve their goals through congress, because they have steadily lost ground in legislatures throughout the country, including the federal legislature. They are losing elections and thus the power to pass laws they want. But they have a last ditch option; obstructionism. And the media has been cheerleading this effort all the way. In all of the long history of the United States, never has the Senate denied up or down votes for the high level courts on the basis of pure ideology as the Democrats are now doing. Never has the Senate stood in the way of nominees who wish to uphold the original intent of the Constitution as envisioned by the framers. Until now that is.

But we expect more from Republicans. We expect them to stand for something other than their own petty interests. We expect them to stand up for principle.

The Democrats have targeted specific Republican leaders such as Tom Delay. They are doing so because such leaders are motivated and effective in their jobs. But the Democrats do not want effective Republican leaders. The Democrats do not want Republicans to have any legislative victories if they can somehow be blocked. And removing effective leadership is a means to that end. The Democrats will continue to attack any and all Republicans without regard to reason or evidence, as they have amply demonstrated. In the last several years they have fallen to calling the President, a Hitler, a racist, a criminal and a threat to world peace. They throw the same accusations at any conservative or Republican who dares to stand up for the values and ideas we hold dear. But these are the accusations of a hysterical political party on the decline and with no hope of recovery. They are an indication of the Democratic party spiraling into its final and permanent irrelevance. They should be seen for what they are. And Republicans should take this opportunity to act with confidence and fortitude. It is time for Republicans to act like the winners that they are. It is time for Republicans to put the President's agenda into action. It is time to go to war with the obstructionists and defeat them in the congress, and in the court of public opinion, as they were defeated at the ballot box. It is time to take off the gloves. Nothing less is acceptable.

I call on all members of the Republican party base, and all Americans of good faith who value the democratic process, to make their views on this issue known to their representatives as well as to the Republican National Committee. And I call on all of those who want action to withhold financial and other contributions to Republican candidates and the Republican party until such time as action is forthcoming. The time for compromise and negotiation with the hard left Democratic party is over. The time to act is now.