Newt Gingrich. Ed Morrissey. Larry Kudlow. Hugh Hewitt.
The all-star lineup of conservative speakers on the last day of the Americans for Prosperity Summit had one message in common: it's time to shake things up.
With health care faltering in the Senate, the momentum to push the conservative revolt beyond the health care debate was tangible. Kudlow said it was through tax policy:
"We need to do a lot of things," he said "But we need to revive the tax cutting story, because if you tax something less, you will get more of it."
That was Morrissey's message, too.
"Taxpayers are bought by the IRS through refunds," he said, explaining that the cost of adhering to the tax code was twice the total revenue it produced.
Herman Cain, a conservative pundit based in Atlanta, simply quoted the Declaration of Independence: "Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government."
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