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Are you ready to get radical to preserve American liberty?

Are you ready to think and act outside the box to return America to  constitutionally limited government?

Are you ready to join a grass-roots political movement to return America to  the lost principle of constitutionally limited government – a goal we’re losing  ground on every day in Barack Obama’s America?

If so, we must we must understand that Obama and the Democratic Party cannot  continue to grow government without the total complicity of the Republican  Party.

Obama and the Democrats don’t make any excuses for wanting unlimited  government.

Republicans do. Republicans claim to support constitutionally  limited government. In fact, few if any Republicans would ever be elected to  office if they didn’t at least pay lip service to the strict limits the  Constitution places on the federal government.

So how do we use this critical philosophical difference between the two  parties to put the Republicans to the ultimate test? If they pass this test,  Washington returns overnight to something resembling constitutionally limited  government. If they fail, America at least will know that Republicans are not  true to their word, not serious about liberty, and we can build a third party  that does or start organizing the revolution.

Fair enough?

Here’s the plan to do this starting right now with a target completion date  of the first quarter of 2015.

It’s called the No More Red Ink  campaign.

Republicans say they don’t like Obamacare. They say they don’t like  entitlement programs. They don’t like wealth redistribution schemes. They say  they don’t like out-of-control spending. They say they like constitutionally limited government.

But here’s the dirty little secret in Washington: Republicans, even with  control of only one house of Congress, have the absolute power to stop all of  these abuses and more with one negative vote. Republicans in the House  alone can do this. They have the power to return us to something resembling  constitutionally limited government – overnight! They have had  opportunities to do it in the past, and they will have more opportunities to do  it again in the very near future.

They could kill Obamacare. They could kill unnecessary and unconstitutional  Cabinet-level departments like Education. They could kill the EPA. They could  kill taxpayer subsidies for state-controlled media like PBS and NPR. They could  kill all foreign aid. They could kill taxpayer subsidies to Planned Parenthood.  They could kill thousands of wasteful and counterproductive programs and much,  much more simply by refusing to approve any more raises in the debt limit.

They don’t need to bargain with Obama. They don’t need to make deals with  Harry Reid. They don’t need to plead with Nancy Pelosi. They simply have to say  no the next time a debt-limit hike comes before them.

In fact, House Republicans could do it without even all the  Republican votes in the House. They could do it with only 218 of the 234 votes  they control.

Could that happen? How could we force the issue? How could we let John  Boehner know that his job as speaker of the House depends on it?

That’s where the No More Red Ink  campaign comes in.

To date, this campaign has generated 1.5 million red letters to House  Republicans urging them to live up to their own rhetoric and use the political  nuclear weapon they have at their disposal. They can’t overturn Obamacare  without help from the Senate and a signature from Obama. But they can defund  it.

By freezing any more outrageous borrowing, they can force Washington to live  within its means and cut more than $1 trillion annually from federal  spending.

I figure it will take about 10 million letters to do this before the next  debt limit vote sometime this fall.

Is that possible?

Absolutely. Here are some polling facts in round numbers:

• 80 percent of Republican voters say they want to freeze borrowing.
• 70 percent of independent voters say they want to freeze borrowing.
• 60 percent of Democrats say they want to freeze  borrowing.

In other words, we’ve got the people on our side. We’ve got the wind to our  backs. We’ve got a mechanism in place to flood House Republicans with a message  that will instill panic in them. And we start with more than 10 percent of the  House Republicans already committed to voting no. We just need to convince most  of the rest that their very future in Washington depends on voting correctly on  this one issue.

Now let’s talk practical politics here for a moment.

What is the main obstacle to getting this done?

In the 1990s, Newt Gingrich did something like this as House speaker, and  Bill Clinton, with media help, turned it around on him. That’s been the fear  ever since by the Republican establishment.

Obama has gone even further. What did he do pre-emptively when faced with the  possibility his illegal and immoral spending would be dried up?

• He threatened to cut Social Security checks.
• He threatened not to pay military retirees.
• He threatened not pay soldiers and sailors on active duty.
• He threatened to gut spending on anything and everything Americans care  about.
• He even threatened not to pay interest on the massive debt he has already  incurred, leading to a default.

Notice he did not threaten to abandon Obamacare. He knows  Americans don’t want it!

Notice he did not threaten to threaten to stop paying for food stamps. He  knows Americans don’t want it!

Notice he did not threaten to gut foreign aid. He knows Americans don’t want  it!

All Republicans need to do is show Americans the transparent strategy Obama  is employing here.

The federal government could provide all of its vital and constitutional  duties and service the interest on the debt with the $1.6 trillion in revenues  it actually receives every year – with no borrowing.

It’s time for Republicans to look at the polls, explain that endless  borrowing is unsustainable and immoral. It’s time to be bold. If they don’t  listen, we know with certainty Republicans are nothing more than enablers of  monstrous, bloated, unconstitutional, unlimited government – clearly part of the  problem, not part of the solution.

Believe me, I understand that most Republicans will need to be dragged  kicking and screaming to this conclusion.

But the debt now stands at nearly $17.5 trillion.

Do you want your kids, your grandchildren and your great-grandchildren  saddled with that kind of obligation?

Do you agree that in order to get out of a hole like this you’ve first got to  stop digging?

Have you had it with business as usual in Washington?

Are you willing to get radical and stop listening to the state-run media  about what’s possible and what’s not?

The debt is a terrible thing. Most of us recognize that. But what most of us  don’t recognize is that it represents a political opportunity of enormous  potential. How many chances do we have to bring America back to  constitutionally limited government with one negative vote by one house of  Congress?