A Balanced Budget Amendment is not the answer. The crooks and/or mental midgets in Washington do not follow the Constitution now, why would they follow an additional amendment? Suppose the budget is not balanced, will the supremes order a tax increase?

All that is needed is for the members of Congress to follow their oath of office to follow the Constitution and abolish or repeal all agencies, bureaus, departments, rules, regulations, laws, etc. not authorized by the Constitution. This would probably cut the budget by 90% or better.

Barry and company are giving Bill of Rights protection to terrorists, but taking them away from U.S. citizens under the recently passed Defense Appropriations Bill.

We must remove Obama from office, and stop his abuse of executive power. More importantly, we must win control of the votes and the agenda in the House and Senate. The likely Republican nominee is not a Tea Party - Constitutional conservative.. but we can make certain that the Conservative Tea Party candidates win in every republican primary. Conservatives must take over the Republican Party in the primaries and re-make it as our Conservative party.

The leftist media has sequentially eliminated each of our conservative presidential hopefuls.

Again this time, we will have a small group of Iowa voters, including Independents and Democrats voting in the Republican caucus system, and shaping the field that the rest of us get to select from.. Bad deal.. This system needs to change.. Start with a "super Tuesday", and then let the Iowa folks talk to those candidates that the rest of us like.

This column is right on the money. Unfortunately, too many people don't realize this election is not really about jobs or the economy. Those are symptoms of the overriding cause: Obozo and the left's goal of taking down this country and fundamentally destroying (not changing) it. Their methods and policies are causing those symptoms--if we don't cure the disease, it won't matter what the symptoms are.

Dr. Timm is right on as is Ken Blackwell.

Anyone who refuses to vote for the nominee (whoever it is) is just not paying attention. Another 4 years risks possible irretrievable damage to our country.

I might debate some Mr. Blackwell’s details (a balanced budget amendment is easier said than done), but I agree with the principles.

There exists an inextricable, vital and symbiotic link between our national economy, our national defense, and our nation's common core values. Like a three legged stool: break one and the stool fails. Failure to support and defend the traditional family will create exponentially increasing quantities of fractured and failed families, with congruent dependencies on federal aid. Failure to maintain a sane fiscal policy creates burdens that will destroy free enterprise, paralyze our national defense, oppress future generations and depress any program our Constitution requires of our federal government. Failure to support and defend the Constitution will embolden rapacious enemies who will strike the crippled bald eagle with great joy and destroy mankind’s last best hope for freedom.

Three legs of this stool can be compared to our three branches of the federal government. While checks and balances must be maintained, each branch, the legislative, executive and judicial, must concur on application, execution and interpretation of our Constitution as originally defined, not as a “living document” subject to the whims of political powers.

Finally, there are three legs of social change: media, education and the church. These three legs are vital to change in our society. Each must be guided by the same dream, a vision that cherishes and promulgates the original intent of our Constitution. We must acknowledge the historical truth and value the anomaly that is the USA. If mankind’s freedom is to survive, it will require our nation repents, remembers and returns to our founders’ intent, our founders’ dreams, our founders’ prayers. 2012 is the year the people of history’s boldest dream either take back the pursuit of the dream and emerge securing freedom for our posterity and hope for all mankind; or fails and becomes an anomaly eventually lost in dusty pages of history.

Finally, conservatives will fail if the margin of victory is too narrow. Unless the win is overwhelmingly decisive and absolutely undeniable, the current liberal administration, supported by the the massive liberal main stream media, will take unprecedented action including threat and execution of deadly force, to maintain control. Unless a conservative victory is unqualified, a bloody loss is certain.

The left's god is government. They are souless.

The left believes ALL rights are bestowed upon the people from government.

Don't believe me? -Read all about it on the Huffington Post.

It almost made me ill but I had to check it out...

mnccrindle I disagree on the left's god (small g). It is Joe Stalin's best friend FDR. And their bible is the NY Slimes (oops Times). When Gingrich said, "FDR was the best President in the twentieth century", it was all I could do not to puke. I almost puked right before that when Gingrich was called a conservative.

Gentlemen -

I try to read most every "opinion" on the Post and all comments. I can say that Mr. Blackwell's article is easily one of the most 'spot on' pieces in a long time and the comments listed above are very profound and well thought out.

I am inspired that there are indeed Patriots out there who are willing to stand up and be counted.

But, is that enough? or must we gently take our brethern aside and attempt to educate, convince, transform them from their sycophantic idolitry of "Dear Leader"?

That will take almost as much courage as the ultimate action of 'lock and load'.

To all- Be very prudent in writing anything about lock and load or revolution as it seems this last piece of legislation gives OUR Government the power to detain for just about ANY reason - indefinately.

Obama made sure it was in there.

"The demographic reality is that declining birth rates and rampant abortion creates a devastating loss of human capital that cannot sustain our entitlement systems or economic growth, and also result in millions of unfilled job positions that become a magnet for illegal immigration." Absolutely, we need more babies, expecially from those who would have aborted them, so that they can be raised without fathers, commit crimes, and get welfare from those who make a living, so when the workers retire they can get social security from the non workers on welfare. Oh....wait. Ok. So we need more babies so that they can require healthcare from medicare and medicaid and create a need for more nurses and doctors. Medicare and Medicaid are broke? Oh....wait. OK. So we need more babies so they can cause economic growth. Our roads are falling apart and the electric grid is maxed out and we're already consuming too much oil and gas, and we're importing food. Oh.....wait. Ok. So we need more babies so we don't get more illegal immigrants...and their babies. Oh.....wait.

Maybe we have enough babies.

The problem isn't that our birth rate is too low, it's that it was too high after WWII resulting in the huge baby boom of which I am part,along with my six siblings. That wasn't a problem from a contemporary standpoint, but is a huge problem as the post World War generation retires, whether they are in America, or Japan, or Russia, or Europe or China. That kind of birth rate is simply unsustainable and the social security systems can't support them when the birth rate is half or less than what it was back then. The governments of the world are like huge trucks heading full speed inside mine tunnels that increasingly become smaller and smaller until they can't accommodate them. There are no solutions on any horizon for the budget short-falls that are coming. Like all previous civilizations that have expired, no one can imagine what the consequences will be when the unthinkable begins to become reality. But one thing is certain, that reality will come far sooner if conservatives are not able to gain full control over the government and rein in its profligate spending, weed-out corruption, punish financial criminals, and pass legislation to prevent the same kind of fiscal calamity from reoccurring. So far none of those things has come close to happening. Why? Because people vote for the people they've always voted for because they are just like them, self-serving, short-sighted, fiscally irresponsible, apathetic about the future, unaware about the problems of the present, and too lazy to discover and face the facts about what a monstrous mess we are in due to our own doing. We have lost all reservation about spending money we don't have, -about putting a noose around the neck of future generations and pulling it ever tighter each time the national debt ceiling is raised.

Only a return to something resembling what made American prosperous will turn the tide and rectify our increasingly self-crippling approach to wealth creation. That begins with loosening the constraints on exploiting our natural resources. Without cheap energy and plentiful jobs, growth will return for us in the same manner as it has for Japan. They are still waiting twenty years after the massive collapse of their real estate and stock market bubble. And their debt ratio is even worse than ours. But they don't have natural resources to take advantage of while we do. If we keep them off-limits, we will be no different because there will be no primer to re-inflate any kind of bubble in the American economy. We are getting by today and things seem fine for all who aren't unemployed, but as pointed out in the article, we're living with the benefit of spending a trillion dollars that we don't have each year. Remember the pendulum. It has been swung far to the left, and now must swing far to the right to undo the damage.

The fact that the Republican party is dead set on running Romney tells the entire story. It reveals just what we see in the House over and over, a group of Republicans who are either enjoying the thought of all this Government power, or affraid to stand up and fight for us. American is screaming for a leader, yet they are afftaid to lead. Romney will do nothing for us but temporarily delay the left's final victory. He is more one of them than he is a conservative. I will never vote for Romney, and from here after I will be an Independent. We Americans are being sold out by all. Any true conservatives are quickly destroyed by a joint effort from both Dems and Repubs. I have lost all respect for both. The Media is also to blame for their lies and cover ups.