Tea Party Democrat Resolutions

Temple of Mut has honored my request to post on the subject of New Year's Resolutions for Democrats, even at great personal cost to her psyche. In addition to highlighting a rational perspective for Democrats, she provides insight on the battle to rescue the Democratic party from the far left extremism represented by Nancy Pelosi.
This battle is important; as Dean has pointed out, it has mostly been Democrats fighting to free our schools from a union tyranny of mediocrity. As long as the the Democratic party is working for union bosses, not working people, such battles will be a steep uphill struggle.

Please take a moment to read Temple of Mut's post.

New Year's Resolutions for Republicans - Correction

Dean and I are both Republicans, even if many Tea Party supporters are not. The Republican Party has been the recipient of Tea Party energy and votes, even if not always wanted by party leadership. I will admit that it even cost the Senate seat in Delaware. However, the Tea Party primary challenges put real fear into Republican leadership. The early pay off was the defeat of Omnibus and its earmarks. So in the spirit of helping the Republicans get re-elected by doing the work of the people, I propose the following New Year's Resolutions for the Republican Party members of Congress.

• We will focus on reducing spending as our number one priority. (With the temporary extension of Bush tax cuts, tax policy can temporarily take a back seat.)
  
• We will start the spending reduction by de-funding Obamacare.
• We will swear off earmarks.
• We will hold hearings on the failure to enforce the border.
• We will investigate Obama regulatory overreach.
  
• We will not introduce a flag burning amendment, school prayer bill, or a challenge to DADT, etc.
  

That should be a good start, there are certainly many more worthy resolutions and I invite your comment. But I like to keep these lists short, because rule #2 in B-Daddy's Book of Management is that the resource in shortest supply is always management attention. The corollary being that management should focus only on the most important things.

I leave it to the Temple to collaborate with Dawn for resolutions for the Democratic party. Maybe W.C. or Shane could take a stab at Libertarian party resolutions.

Cross posted at Beers with Demo.

Correction

Dawn will not be commenting from the Democrat perspective, because she is in fact, a Republican, as pointed out by Mutnodjmet in the comments. My apologies for the error.

Happy New Year!

Light blogging today while we visited friends, finished off some final gift exchanges and watched the Pac-10 complete a perfect 5-0 bowl season against the hapless Big-10 challengers.

We pray for success for our new President in the coming year. He faces great challenges. But let us not forgot that our country overcame greater challenges in the twentieth century when we survived a great depression, not just a recession, defeated fascism and then communism. This is a great country and continues to be so because of our ideals of freedom, democracy and rule of law.