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Thursday, March 20, 2008
Peter J. Wirs :: Townhall.com Columnist
Happy 154th Birthday, GOP
by Peter J. Wirs
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Seventh — We are Republicans because we believe Public Officials are Fiduciaries of the public treasury, duty-bound to exercise the greatest skill and prudence in the most diligent means possible, as government should be administered with the strictest economy and rigid accountability; the plundering of the public treasuries by "pork" or "earmarks" which so shamefully corrupt the halls of power impugns the Constitutional demand government serves only the General Welfare. Appropriations are justified solely on the premise of universal benefit for the commonweal, accrual whatsoever to any special interest at the expense of the general public is proscribed.

Eight — We are Republicans because we believe in Competence, for if Government is granted a power to exercise, it is presumed such power is exercised successfully. We require Public Officials at all times avoid arbitrary and capricious decision-making based on random or convenient selection or choice rather than on reason, and never fail to doubt their own infallibility by entrusting themselves with people vastly more knowledgeable, taking due pain to be rightly informed, and be guided by the priorities deem best fulfil the Public’s interest without self aggrandizement or being solicitous to public whimsicality. We believe of governance by reflection and choice, not by accident and force.

Ninth — We are Republicans because we believe we are stewards of God’s Bounty of clean air, pure water and the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of our inherited environment from sea to shining sea, being the common property of all, and accordingly, we shall conserve and maintain our environment not for the exploitation to satisfy greed of the elite but for the universal benefit all people, including generations yet to come.

Tenth — We are Republicans because we believe in Balance between guns and butter, knowing economic consequences of failing to sustain one or another but never both. Without our national defense we have no domestic tranquility, yet since we lead by example, not by force, our military are defenders of our cherished liberties, not worldly provocateurs. We believe taxation should never be an impediment, as every person has the right to govern himself, to fix his own goals, and to make his own way with a minimum of governmental interference, for government is to foster and maintain equal opportunity for the pursuit liberty and happiness; undertake only to provide needful things, rightly of public concern, which the citizen cannot himself accomplish.
 
By virtue of great principles given birth in Declaration of Independence, fulfilled by the Constitution and enshrined in the Bill of Rights as the true foundation of our Democracy by a Republican form of government, we labor with every breath all effort toward making these principles a living reality on every inch of American soil.
 

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Peter J. Wirs is currently the Chairman & Co-Trustee of the Republican Leadership Trust as well as the incoming President of the National Conference of Public Officials. The views and opinions found in this article represent the author's views and opinions and not those of any institution or organization with which the author is affiliated.
 
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No worries, Mark!
Hope to see you over at the blog! Cheers!

GOP Has Come Full Circle
The Republican Party's beginning is such that the present day GOP is really very like the party was at the start.

I wrote an essay on Lincoln and the start of the GOP.

You can see it at http://alicelillieandher.blogspot.com/2005_05_01_archive.h tml

Just scroll down a ways to see the part on Lincoln. Please leave comments! All opinions are welcome.
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