It’s Time to Foreclose on Big Government

Ernest Istook / October 14, 2010

The biggest foreclosure yet may begin on November 2nd, as voters start foreclosure proceedings against big government. It’s run up more debt than we can afford to pay.

The paperwork has been validated. It’s found in the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, duly approved and signed by our Founding Fathers.

Previous proceedings went awry. President Bill Clinton’s 1996 pronouncement that “the era of big government is over” proved to be empty words, as demonstrated by the subsequent free spending of Congress and Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

So what’s different about today? The Tea Party movement, for one thing. It’s here to stay, as noted in an approving op-ed by Heritage Foundation President Ed Feulner and U.S. Senator Jim DeMint and documented in the new bestseller by Scott Rasmussen and Doug Schoen. (more…)