My IOU to Senator Frist.

So I received a survey from Senator Frist's office regarding how Republican leadership should be doing their job. I answered it faithfully and when I got to the final question it asked if I wanted to donate money.

Given my current disenchantment with Senatorial Republicans (I'm looking at your Lott, Stevens, and Mccain), I decided I'd include an IOU. Once they get their act together, I'll send cash.

My IOU:

IOU NRSC

In lieu of a donation at this time, I’m enclosing this IOU that I will make good upon when the following conditions are met:

1. Earmark elimination – The outright elimination of the earmark/pork process in Washington. This open corruption is ruining this entire nation and must be dealt with firmly, swiftly, and totally. Support Senator Coburn!


2. Securing the border – A nation that surrenders sovereignty of its borders is not destined to last long. Our nation is in that situation now and must move to correct it. This includes 1) a border fence, 2) easing citizenship procedures for legal applicants, 3) enforcement of existing laws and full funding of Border Patrol, 4) a Solomon Amendment-like law forcing all cities, states, and agencies to lose funding if they do not enforce immigration law in full, and 5) demanding concessions from Mexico, if they can’t fix their problems then they need to have us help them fix them.


3. Opening America to energy exploration – Allow this country to drill for it’s own oil, remove/ease the anti-American barriers to refinery building, and slap down this talk about ‘price gouging.’ If a 4% profit by a company is gouging, then the 16% tax by the government is criminal. Besides, if people truly care about the environment they’ll be pleased to do drilling here where the environmental laws are strong and not in Saudi Arabia where they’re non-existant.


4. Permanent tax cuts or a flat tax – None of these two-year extensions. If it’s good enough for 2 years, it’s good enough for good.


5. Free Trade Area of the Americas – Expand NAFTA to each and every nation in the Western Hemisphere that wants it…start with Chile and move on from there. It’s been proven good for jobs here; it’ll just be more so and will build security.


6. Fighting back against Democrat lies – Every lie uttered by the Main Stream Media and the Democrats needs to be countered swiftly and forcefully…no more Murtha’s painting a false picture that becomes reality because the Republicans are afraid to lose their Tim Russert time.


7. Repeal McCain-Feingold – It’s immoral and criminal that Republicans would willingly scrap part of the Constitution just for media face time. The moment McCain stated he wanted a ‘clean government’ over “First Amendment protections” it became obvious this was a power grab, not reform.


8. Protecting the Blogosphere – Bloggers are journalists, in the purest sense of the word. Any attempt to silence or restrain them is an assault on the First Amendment and must be stopped.


9. Protecting the Internet – The attempt to kill the internet must be stopped. The www.savetheinternet.com site will help you see what I mean. Protect net neutrality or we all suffer.

When these 9 are addressed and met then I will be exceedingly generous with my donations and in my time spent campaigning. Until then, I’m not convinced Republicans in Washington are serious about governing this great land.