Posted on 09/12/2009 7:56:07 PM PDT by papasmurf
Congressman Mike Pence delivered these remarks to the crowd at the National Tea Party here in Washington, DC.
I am Mike Pence. I am from Indiana, and it is an honor to welcome the largest gathering of conservatives in American history to your nation's capitol.
There are some politicians who think of you people as astroturf. Un-American. I've got to be honest with you, after nine years of fighting runaway spending here on this hill, you people look like the cavalry to me.
We stand together at a historic moment in the life of the conservative movement and in the life of this great country. The coming weeks and months may well set the course for this nation for a generation. How we as conservatives respond to these challenges, could determine whether America retains her place in the world as a beacon of freedom or whether we slip into the abyss that has swallowed much of Europe in an avalanche of socialism.
While some are prepared to write the obituary on capitalism and the conservative movement, I believe we are on the verge of a great American awakening. And it will begin here and begin now and begin with you.
This Administration and this Congress are getting a badly needed history lesson, starting with just what our founders meant by 'consent of the governed.' If silence is consent, it is now revoked.
We the people, do not consent to runaway federal spending. We the people, do not consent to the notion that we can borrow and spend and bail our way back to a growing America. And we the people, do not consent to government-run insurance that will cause millions of Americans to lose the insurance they have, and that will lead us to a government takeover of health care in this nation.
This week, the president came to this hill and he gave one more speech about the same bad plan. Mr. President, America doesn't want another speech, we want another health care plan that is built on freedom.
And we the people, do not consent to Members of Congress passing thousand-page bills without anybody ever reading them. Members of Congress should be required to read ever major bill that Congress adopts. I've got to be honest with you, I think Members of Congress should read major bills, but I'd be just as happy if some of them read this just a little more often - the Constitution of the United States.
You know, there is a lot of good stuff in there and it reminds us that we are a nation led by the people, and not the elites and the bureaucrats and the politicians. It reminds us that the powers not delegated to the federal government by the Constitution are reserved to the states or to the people.
And nowhere in our Constitution can you find the word 'czar.' It is time Washington, D.C. became a No Czar Zone.
The American people are not happy. But it is not just about dollars and cents. It is about who we are as a nation.
As Ronald Reagan said in 1964, it's about whether 'we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.' My money is on the American people. My money is on freedom. My money is on the future.
This great national Capitol is filled with memorials to freedom's heroes. Americans whose faces are carved in bronze, whose names adorn monuments, and just across that river, lie the remains of Americans who paid freedom's price so we could gather here today. In their time, they did freedom's work as citizens and patriots. Now it's our turn.
Let us do as those great Americans we remember in this city have done before: let us stand and fight for freedom. And if we hold the banner of freedom high, I believe with all my heart that the good and great people of this country will rally to our cause, we will take this Congress back in 2010 and we will take this Country back in 2012, so help us God.
Pence 2012.
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He is my congressman ,too! He’s been the best nothing like Mark Souder.
My older left wing libtard brother (I have a younger libtard brother, too-aren’t I lucky?) lives in his District. He and his (what we laughingly call) wife (I call her BigFoot’s baby maker) are livid about him. hahaha
Pence/Palin 2012. I’m ALL IN. Now LET’S ROLL!
I think you meant.
Palin/Pence 2012.
:)
Either way, I’d take it!
I saw him on c-span today at the rally in DC.This is the first time I have heard him. He gave an excellent speech. I was very impressed. He has a great future in the Republican Party.
You hit the nail on the head Donna...I was a tri-township coordinator for his first campaign. Naturally I followed him closely for the next four years and he voted for nearly every Neo-con bill that came across his desk. He has compromised his constitutional principles a lot of times.
And another thing I have noticed is that he plays off on the success of others. He does “nothing” and then when somebody does, he jumps out there and makes himself know as to give the impression he did something himself.
I believe the only reason he showed up in DC was to seal his seat in the next election. When he left, I was right there by the VIP exit next to the stage. It was everything within me to keep from punching him in the nose. I did not allow him to see me because he knows I am pissed at him. And to think he called me his hero once because I was the only coordinator that got the numbers (votes) assigned to me to get him elected.
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