In the Beginning

Inspired by the Tea Parties, the 9/12 Project, Fox News and the recent 9/12/2009 march on Washington, I am beginning this blog to air out my thoughts on today's political situation and how to possibly fix things.

By choice, I am a conservative Independent. I once was a member of the Republican Party but am eschewing party politics for two reasons. One, partisan politics does not appear to be getting us anywhere and, two, the Republican party seems just as corrupt as the Democratic party to me. So, I take this opportunity to declare myself an Independent. I am not beholding to any groups ideals except those which I choose to adopt.

And speaking of corruption, I have gotten the distinct sense that the entire Washington system is riddled with corruption on both sides of the aisle. It seems to me that in order to get rid of the corruption, we must first apply that well-known surgical technique of cutting out all visible infection.

We, as American citizens, are not helpless or powerless to remove this corruption from the halls of Washington. This is why I propose Total Recall 2010/2012/2014 as a project to remove ALL career politicians from office and to prevent us from ever getting into this situation again.

Everyone wants to blame someone for our present circumstances. Well, I believe that career politicians are to blame. They are either corrupt and in bed with special interests or have just been in office so long they have forgotten just who their REAL boss is, us the American people.

Politicians should respect their constituency and posses a healthy fear of losing their privilege of power bestowed by the American people upon them. I have recently seen demonstrated, by people like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the disdain and arrogance which Congress harbors towards us regular citizens. Well, my response to that is that we should put the fear of God into them. They believe they are safe or, more pathetically, that they are truly representing their constituents. Neither of those things are true, I believe and we need to make a public statement to our leaders:

"We are the American people and we are in charge, not you!"

I believe the best way to drive this message home is to vote ALL incumbents out of office in the November 2010 elections and replace them with people who will do our will and represent us appropriately. Then repeat the process in the 2012 elections by replacing everyone including the President. The final cleanup would be in 2014 to pick up any lingering Congressmen who might have their terms expire in 2014.

As this turnover is taking place, we need to put term limits (2 terms max) into place for all Congressional seats. That will prevent us from ever having professional politicians again. Our Constitution allows us to clean house periodically in a peaceful manner and we should avail ourselves of it's powers granted to us, the people.

But who do we elect in place of the current corrupt politicians? Glad you asked! I have worked up a Purpose Statement for this project/organization along with a Platform that a candidate should support in order to be assisted by TR2010 in getting elected as well as a Candidate Profile which gives voters a point of reference to judge whether or not a candidate is worthy of the honor of representing us in US government. I will post that document here as I finish it this weekend.

But, now you have the general gist of what I am going to attempt to accomplish with Total Recall 2010/2012/2014.

There is more to come so stay tuned.

-Doug Cochran