With so many things to literally hate in Washington these days, it's all too easy to forget those in the brave minority who go there bringing genuine representation of the people, and are willing to fight for what is right.  So I'd like to take this opportunity to present to you a local hero, Representative Thaddeus McCotter!

We are indeed living in historic times ...  The federal government, controlled by the Democratic Party, has started an all-out attack on just about everything American! They are determined to squelch free speech, institute conscription, take away our guns, and even spend the earnings of our great-great grandchildren.

Make no mistake about it, America is under attack! So the time has come for "we the people" to wake-up, accept the severity that confronts us, and take destiny into our own hands!

Michigan Representative Thaddeus McCotter, who was first elected to Congress in 2002 to represent the citizens of Western Oakland and Western Wayne Counties, gets it! Let me share with you 2 great highlights which illustrate this fact.

Back in September 2008, when President Bush and Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson were attempting to scare Congress (and the People) into passing the first $700 billion (with threats of Marshall Law) in what was to become an endless spigot of taxpayer cash, Thaddeus McCotter stuck to his principles and protected the taxpayers by saying "No!"

But that's not all ... because McCotter explained his "no" vote in detail, drawing upon the wisdom and knowledge of our Founding Fathers:

Thank you. I rise today not to change anyone's mind but to express to my constituents my reasons for opposing this bill. There will always be time and pretext enough for people to compromise their principles and put forward poor public policy that may in the short run be popular but in the long run will be detrimental to the long-term interests of the American people. We learn this through history.

In the 1832 Bank Panic, Andrew Jackson had the question of whether he would remove the Bank of the United States' charter. The people in the bank did not like that. They threatened the prosperity of the American people and in the middle of the panic Andrew Jackson looked at these bankers and said: "There are no necessary evils in government. The treasury to you, gentlemen, is closed." This was an act of courage on the part of President Jackson because he understood what was at stake was not merely an ephemeral prosperity or a panic caused by the very people with their hand out. Andrew Jackson understood this was about majoritarian rule. It was about the faith in the people's representative institutions and those who inhabit the seats in which they are entrusted.

Today we are in a global financial bank panic. It is the first of our global economy. We are seeing a leveraged bailout of the United States treasury. And in the end these interests that want your money are threatening your prosperity. And the choice you face is this. You will lose potentially, for prosperity for a short period of time, at the expense of your long-term liberty. Once the federal government has got you to take that risk and pass it onto you as a quote-unquote moral hazard, they will be in the marketplace and as the free market is diminished your freedom itself is diminished. And as your Congress does not stand up to these and put forward a better plan that truly protects the taxpayers and truly has the long-term interests of the United States at heart, you will be in jeopardy of losing both your prosperity and your liberty.

The choice is stark and it was put forward in the book by Doestoevsky. In the Brothers Karamazov the Grand Inquisitor came to Jesus and he said if you wish to subject the people, give them miracle, mystery and authority; but above all give them bread. And it has always been the temptation in a crisis especially to sacrifice liberty for short-term promises of prosperity. And it was no mistake during that during the 1917 Bolshevik revolution the slogan was "Peace, land, and bread." Today you are being asked to choose between bread and freedom. I suggest that the people on Main Street have said they prefer their freedom, and I am with them. I yield back.

Now fast-forward to the fiascoes of today ... and just listen to what he had to say about the Congressional Circus Side Show regarding the AIG bonuses.

There's a reason that the Republican National Committee's "rebuilding" project looks more like a soap opera than anything of substance.  It's because they're dancing the fence-line ... attempting to convince their constituents that they mean business about getting back to their principles, while at the same time coddling the Northeastern Elite's whom they really support.

Ouch!

Michigan's Thaddeus McCotter is a man of the people, not the Elite, and the RNC proved to us all in their treatment of Gov. Sarah Palin, that government "of the People, by the People" doesn't fit their agenda. So let's rise up and support people like McCotter on our own!

It doesn't matter if he's in your district or not, because it's representatives like him who go to Washington to defend "we the people," both in Michigan and the rest of the United States.  And we gotta start with someone!

Michigan Republicans ... except nothing less than McCotter, from any politician starting this day forward!  Personally ... I will vote for a third-party, long before I'll ever vote for another politician offering even an ounce less.

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