Be it resolved:

Monday – January 3, 2011

Be it resolved:

Happy New Year, I hope that this year will be prosperous and one that will also bring good things.

A friend of mine told me over the holiday break that all good things take time. I thought about this statement and realized that he was right. Every movement and every action that moves a country and a people towards freedom takes time. In some cases, advancement has been moved back, because of a movement and action caused by those that don’t believe in our tradition of freedom and liberty.

With every action there is an opposing reaction. This is true in physics and in politics.

So, I am starting this New Year with a resolution. Apart from my writing and introducing our history in ways that we sometime forget, I am going to spend each day of this year talking with our elected officials and organizing you to do the same.

This little organization, that has no relationship with big money and has no relationship with the status quo, will be poised to become the voice of America. I ended last year with this paragraph: “We must use the lessons of the past to chart the determined course of free men and women in the future. There is an energy that cannot be denied to those who can lead and to those who want to be part of the story. The story will continue because new chapters are ready to be written. The story of liberty and freedom cannot be altered by the few that would take our liberties away because they do not believe in the story of American freedom and its exceptionalism.”

My resolution is one that will bring this concept of exceptionalism into every day discourse. Exceptionalism starts with how we conduct ourselves on a daily basis. It starts in the home and it ends in the home. Our President must know that American exceptionalism starts in the People’s House. Our elected officials must understand that their role in exceptionalism also starts in the House of Congress. This is why we must resolve ourselves to spread this concept and to act on this concept of American exceptionalism.

A new Congress will start on Wednesday, January 5. Our effort to keep our elected officials informed of our thoughts and in our desires also starts on January 5. Start a relationship with your Congressman and your Senator. They represent you and not the lobbyist. Ask them for descriptions of legislation and ask them to think twice about their votes when you think they are wrong. Ask them to encourage self responsibility and open path ways of opportunity and not tell us what we can’t do. Ask them to do what is necessary to let business expand and hire people to work here at home. Ask them to reduce the cost of government and eliminate the programs that that do not serve our public. In March, put pressure on them to establish a budget that is balanced and that does not grow just because government grows. Remember American exceptionalism starts at home.

The battle won’t be between Republicans and Democrats. It will be between Republicans. The president will come to the center, because he has too and not because he wants to. In six short months, the race to the White House begins. The race to finish what was started last November is the one we conservatives must be a part of.

Be it resolved that we will do our part in that race towards defining and articulating what American exceptionalism is all about!

Gregory C. Dildilian
Founder and Executive Director
Pinecone Conservatives

A footnote: This year we will resolve ourselves to doing what is right not only in our homes, but in the People’s House and each seat that represents the people.