In addition to specific policy issues I set forth in my campaign website and in debates and other appearances, I want to help the voter see what kind of changes we can expect after this tremendous historic backlash against the government takeovers undertaken under the Democrats "boot on the neck" during the last two years.

I focus to begin with on this excellent interview by Steve Moore, economics editor of the WSJ with "young gun" and Eric Cantor of Virginia, who supposedly could have become a candidate for the new Speaker of the House of Representatives I wanted to help lead. I since learned that he threw the Tea Party under the bus, and seems to be an opportunist, my bad. This interview, dated October 2, 2010, can be found at this link: http://bit.ly/bC4PMn

Here is my response to the discussion with WSJ, which shows the strong role and direction I believe is to be found in the Contract from America. I will also review what impact the Republicans' Pledge to America has. We have to roll up our sleeves and get to work. This will help to define the unity movement, designed to take our country back, and the relations between the Tea Party and the two major parties, and the American people.

Response to Cantor Interview.

Why yes, I have many comments. I'm a candidate for Congress from Minnesota, the 4th Congressional District (currently held by Betty McCollum for about 10 years). My website is http://www.stevecarlsonforcongress2010.com/

It's troubling that only 4 top leaders of the Republican House will be committed to anywhere near the kind of change that is needed right now. I was also reading in a recent WSJ article that the Democrats, like Ed Rendell, are trying to target candidates like myself, a Tea Party candidate as being "out of the mainstream" and it strikes me how could dovetail with the "old bulls" Moore refers to here.

Yes, we must eliminate agencies and departments, not just to balance the budget and initiate a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution (I have signed the Contract from America), but to create just the growth strategy Moore refers to in this article. The cornerstone of that growth strategy MUST be to return many powers and activities, and the funding with it, back to the states. Minnesota can do excellent education, and does not need Arne Duncan, Barack Obama or Bill Ayers to tell us how. The same can be said of health care, environmental regulations, financial regulations, and food and drug regulations. The role of the federal government has to be cut back and returned to the states, not to protect wrongdoers from enforcement actions, but to empower the states to grow their own economies.

There can be no national growth plan that is not largely founded on successful growth plans in each of the states. I look at Tom Horner's growth plan for Minnesota (Horner is the Independence Party candidate for Governor, and I am the Independence Party candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from the capitol city of Minnesota, St. Paul, 4th CD). Horner is avoiding raising any income taxes (Democrat Mark Dayton's plan is a mirror image of Barack Obama's for Minnesota), and he is trying to find another way to raise some revenue by taxes (changes in sales taxes) and to get the rest in some cuts and otherwise trying to grow business revenue through a positive environment for investment, and also state support for research and development to drive new industry.

So, the Tea Party must follow through with the Contract from America, and also set forth a growth strategy beyond cuts in taxes and spending, and defenses against the outrageous and gross measures of the Obama administration (we have to play offense as well as defense). And so these "out of the mainstream" ideas like cutting agencies and departments to return power and activity to the states is an important cornerstone that is reflected throughout the Contract from America. Cantor and the "old bulls" and Moore need to pay attention to this if America is to have not only a change in business as usual in Washington, but a national growth strategy.