Finally, treat domestic energy production as the economic necessity it is and the job creator it can be. Drill, and frack, and lease, and license, unleash in every way the jobs potential in the enormous energy resources we have been denying ourselves.

In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it.

The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.

We see government's mission as fostering and enabling the important realms - our businesses, service clubs, Little Leagues, churches - to flourish.

A government that doesn't work is in no one's interest.

When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.

We have revenue coming in. We can pay our interest payments. And then we can prioritize what government programs that have been given to the American people that are unsustainable promises that have been made by reckless politicians that can't possibly be sustained. We can determine which one of those if any we need to keep.

In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.