APRIL
2, 2006 --
Your
Wall Street Journal op-ed piece "Populists, Beware!" got
me wondering what now have we done.
Apparently you term people who want an effective barrier at our border with
Mexico "[p]opulists."
Did you perhaps mean to say "xenophobics" or, "demagogues"?
For LPR, the first half of Federalist 57 offers a basis for this definition
of "populist" --a person who believes public officials should 1)
stay close to the
people and 2) serve the common good.
LPR understands that Republicans believe they have been successful in holding
majorities in the House since 1995.
Yet the majorities have been kind of
narrow and might be a bit bigger if Republicans followed the advice in the
first half of Federalist 57.
LPR believes the small GOP House majorities are not much reason to claim
pride in political performance.
Republicans, with their narrow House
majorities, ignore the counsel of Federalist 57 and practice, instead, government
of the insiders, by the
insiders and for the insiders.
This is very disappointing, LPR believes, to a free people. Perhaps on November
8, 1994, the national will hoped the GOP
would work for the common good and stand with the people.
Alas, this did not happen and it seems the GOP is soon to pay the price of
chasing money instead of serving the common good -- to be harassed by
subpoenas once the House and Senate have Democrats as committee chairman again. |
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If
we are then to remain a free people we shall require a new political
party -- one that will utilize Federalist 57 to help us appreciate
that our Constitution provides government of, by and for the people,
not government of, by and for
the insiders.
Why can't Republicans simply honor their oath to uphold our Constitution by reaffirming,
each congressional term, the counsel to our leaders Madison set down in Federalist
57?
In your Wall Street Journal column, April 1-2 weekend edition, you suggest that
Republicans will long hold majority support by
being "pro-freedom and pro-growth."
LPR thinks otherwise if (like the Democrats) Republicans place personal ambition
over public service -- and set
themselves apart and above the people.--for the purpose not of representing us,
but of ruling us.
Federalist 57 opens with implicit criticism of those
seeking the "ambitious sacrifice of the many to the aggrandizement of the
few."
This is not a "common good" mindset but a the basis of government of,
by and for insiders.
If Republicans will not reaffirm the legacy of liberty indicated in Federalist
57, your voting majority is not likely to
last past November.
Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson once noted that the Constitution is not
a suicide pact -- nor is it a prescription for an economic policy based on the
feudal model.
Continue
to ignore the "common good" counsel in Federalist 57 and and see Republicans
attracting swarms of process
servers next year, not a majority of voters this
November. |
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