The Most Brilliant Political Strategy – EVER!

I don’t watch the news. I’m sick and tired of all of it. What comes after a “fiscal cliff”? A “fiscal precipice”? A “fiscal tectonic plate shift”? Whatever they call it, it will come. It’s inevitable.

ONE thing will change the way Washington does business.

ONE THING: A balanced budget amendment to the constitution.

I am calling for the Republican Party to run every House and Senate race in 2014 on ONE ISSUE: A balanced budget amendment (BBA) to the constitution. And I mean just that – no candidate campaigns or debates on any topic other than the BBA. And they take up no legislation in Congress until a BBA is passed. The GOP holds the House now, we won’t lose it under this campaign. Let the Dems put forth bill after bill after bill. Nothing will happen until the BBA is passed and sent to the citizens for ratification.

It can’t miss.

Everyone in America knows what is happening. The Progressive Left loves the anarchy and chaos that unfettered spending is driving us toward. Economics cause revolutions, not social issues.

The Conservative Right is so busy trying to stitch together a tent big enough to cover gays, pro-aborts, and other minority misfits that they wind up with no tent at all – and a withering constituency.

A BBA is an idea so fundamentally sound and broad that it would create the tent the GOP is fantasizing about. Certainly, sane “Independents” would agree that a BBA is essential to the survival of the country.

AND, I’ll even sweeten the pot for the Libs. Give the president a line-item veto. I’m dead serious. Every president gets aroused at the idea of a line-item veto. Give it to him (or her when Hillary is crowned). How can it hurt us? Conservatives believe in limited government. We don’t want more stuff from DC. We want less. If a Lib is in the Oval Office, let him try to cut Defense – he’ll cause an uproar he can’t tamp down. If a Conservative is president, whack away at the NEA, PBS, and every other sacred “progressive” cow. They’ve been begging for it, give it to them. We win.

I’m just one little taxpaying pudnocker. Political parties don’t pay attention to people like me. (The Tea Party got a little traction for one election cycle. I think they got too big for their britches. They tried to take over the GOP instead of communicating and organizing at the grass roots level.) I don’t have any misgivings that 2014 is going to look like any other election cycle…

But I’ll promise that if the GOP became the single-issue, BBA party, we’d begin to fix what is so desperately broke in this country. And if they don’t? Marxist Socialism will become the de facto economic strategy in America until we dissolve under our own fiscal weight – like so much Greece on a hot skillet.

Clark H Smith