What I’d do as president
Part 2
Saturday May 03, 2008
By Ellis Washington
WorldNetDaily.com
Ours was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words: "We the people." "We the people" tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us.
– President Reagan's Farewell Address, Jan. 11, 1989
Note: Admittedly, many of the policy assumptions in this column are presently untenable in America, but could become practical once "We the People" regain control of all our courts and force judges (and politicians) at the threat of the Impeachment Clause to follow faithfully the original intent of the Constitution's Framers according to Article 2, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution, which declares: "The President, Vice President and all Civil Officers [=Judges & Congress] of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors."
My column last weekend, "What I'd do as president," received more responses than any other column I've written to date. In that piece, I believe I struck a poignant chord with the American people, as well as with people as far away as Brazil, China, Israel, Africa, Australia and other lands. Therefore, I will continue this theme in part 2 of "What I'd do as president."
Policy No. 1 – As your president, I would solemnly promise to fulfill Reagan's third term and even try to enact many policies Reagan didn't get to do because he was term limited and had people in his administration that lacked his magnificent vision for America.
Policy No. 2 – As your president, in my first speech to Congress I would have as my back drop a giant pen (about 6 feet tall) and would tell everyone of those political hacks on both sides of the aisle that if you send me one budget that has any pork, earmarks, political payoffs (bribes) or any unlawful spending measures that contravene the original intent of the Constitution's Framers, I will immediately call a press conference and use my giant pen to write on that congressional budget "DOA" – Dead on Arrival.
Yeah, I'd shut down the government (for my entire first term if I have to) in order to remind the great America people of their long-forgotten rugged individualism – that you don't need the government dominating every aspect of your life from cradle to grave to enjoy what Jefferson referred to as "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Policy No. 3 – As your president, I would put all 50 states on notice that states rights are constitutional again, but also states responsibilities. Therefore, any state that wants to provide services to their residents must pay for them. I would urge each state to prepare for every foreseeable (and unforeseeable) contingencies in their annual budgets, including "acts of God."
Policy No. 4 – As your president, I would champion the recent Supreme Court (6-3) decision upholding Indiana's mandatory picture ID requirement prohibiting voter fraud. I would also urge all 50 states not only to pass mandatory picture ID requirements, but also English-only ballots and a $365 annual "poll tax" (a non-racist poll tax, of course).
These polices would prohibit illegal aliens, dead people, bums and imbeciles from voting or any longer perverting our elections and help defray some (if not all) of the exorbitant operating costs in conducting federal and state elections. This is America's third generation without a poll tax. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said it best: "Three generations of imbeciles are enough!"
Policy No. 5 – As your president, I would construct a large computer screen (like the scrolling electronic board inside the stock exchange) of all 50 states citing their monthly progress (in real time) in all relevant categories: new business/lost business, property values, education, state economy, health, birth/death rates, crime stats, percentage on welfare, MEAP scores, population change, etc.
I want the American people to be able to clearly see, day by day, state by state, essentially which states suck and which states are nice places to do business and raise a family.
America has a wonderful tradition of people "voting with their feet" by moving the hell out of a city or state if the residents don't have the political acumen to impeach incompetent or corrupt politicians that are ruining their city or state.
Policy No. 6 – As your president, I would declare a proclamation to the world that true free trade will become legal again in America and with every country that desires to have true free trade with America.
Policy No. 7 – As your president, I would implement the biblical welfare policy taught for centuries by St. Paul the Apostle: "If a man doesn't work, a man doesn't eat." This simple but profound aphorism would immediately terminate many diabolical policies of the socialist welfare state that have utterly destroyed the black family; evil policies that Americans have been fooled into believing for the past 75 years – FDR's "New Deal" of the 1930s, LBJ's "Great Society" in the 1960s and regrettably, George W. Bush's expansion of Leviathan government in the 21st century.
Policy No.8 – As your president I would stop using our military as a multi-billion dollar "Meals on Wheels" program. As conservative intellectual Rush Limbaugh frequently says, "The military has two uses: breaking things and killing people." With the technology we have today, no war should last over 100 days if the military is unleashed instead of being micromanaged from Washington, D.C. That's why I despise the Nixonian foreign policy of détente, ("relaxing of tensions"), but I am a big believer in Reagan's foreign policy of "peace through strength" and the policy I would enact, "rocket diplomacy."
America! Look at our four greatest presidents enshrined at Mount Rushmore – Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. The three character traits these magnificent men all had in common, virtues that are so rare in modern times were these: 1) a brawny brain, a keen intellect and wise judgment, 2) an orator's tongue and the means to competently communicate the ideas inside their brain (without stuttering or saying "uuuhhh," "aaahhh," uuuhhmm" or "you know") and 3) a huge pair of brass cojones!
Stay tuned next week for part 3 of "What I'd do as president." God Bless America!
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Ellis Washington, former editor at The Michigan Law Review and law clerk at The Rutherford Institute, is a graduate of John Marshall Law School and a lecturer and freelance writer on constitutional law, legal history, political philosophy and critical race theory. He has written over a dozen law review articles and several books, including "The Inseparability of Law and Morality: 
The Constitution, Natural Law and the Rule of Law" (2002), "Beyond the Veil: 
Essays in the Dialectical Style of Socrates". See his law review article "Reply to Judge Richard Posner." Washington's latest book is "The Nuremberg Trials: Last Tragedy of the Holocaust."
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