Consider:

"1. Immediate revision of taxes on capital gains and undistributed profits in order to free investment funds

2. Reduced expenditures to achieve a balanced budget, and thus, to still fears deterring business expansion

3. An end to coercion and violence in relations between capital and labor

4. Opposition to "unnecessary" government competition with private enterprise

5. Recognition that private investment and enterprise require a reasonable profit

6. Safeguarding the collateral upon which credit rests

7. Reduction of taxes, or if this proved impossible at the moment, firm assurance of no further increases

8. Maintenance of state rights, home rule, and local self-government, except where proved definitely inadequate

9. Economical and non-political relief to unemployed with maximum local responsibility

10. Reliance upon the American form of government and the American system of enterprise"

Would you have ever guessed who accepted "culpability" for having written those ten authentically conservative tenets in 1937, amid the storm FDR was creating with the impending New Deal?

A normal conservative Republican, you would have thought.

Wrong!

It was a Democrat, U.S. Senator Josiah Bailey of North Carolina, who took responsibility for what is knows as "The Conservative Manifesto".

He wasn’t alone, though; he coauthored it along with other few Democrats and some Republicans. He was the only one who had the guts to step forward, though.

Would any Democrat in the U.S. Congress--or even a Republican, for that matter--of nowadays have the minimal boldness to adhere to anything like that?

Not even in dreams!

Worse, if the following entries were added, to catch up with the times and to neutralize the prevailing noxious atmosphere created by the Democrats and the rest of the Left in American society:

11. Absolute respect for innocent life, particularly the unborn, ensured by a constitutional amendment banning abortion on demand

12. Strict enforcement of the immigration law and no path to citizenship to those illegally in American territory

13. Strict respect for the Constitution as written

14. Strict respect of the inalienable truth that supreme sovereignty resides in the people

15. No legislation by the Judiciary

16. Effective-democratic republic for America, meaning a republic with free, secret ballot and participatory-democracy form of governance at all levels of government

17. Term limits at all levels of government

18. Maximum respect for individual rights

19. A constitutional amendment to protect marriage as an entente only between two consenting adults of the opposite sex

20. America as a melting pot, not as a caldron of "diversity," which is a codeword the Democrats and the Left use for Balkanization

21. A constitutional amendment mandating federal balanced budgets

22. English as the official and only language for government business

23. English as the official and only language to imparting K-12 education; other languages as optional courses in curricula

24. Maximum protection of America’s sovereignty

25. Minimal necessary taxes

26. Minimal government spending

27. Line-Item Veto power to the President

28. Minimal size, but functional, government at all levels

29. Maximum respect for, and promotion of, free entrepreneurialism

30. Maximum functional power to state and local government; minimal necessary power to the federal government

31. An overall almighty America, socially & morally, and politically, financially & economically, militarily & intelligence-wise, law & order, educationally, scientifically & technically, industrially, and infrastructurally

32. Total national energy independence

33. Spread of effective democracy abroad as one of the best tools for America’s national security is, for not ever an effective democracy has inflicted physical aggression on America

34. In summary, total commitment to ". . . hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

Ha! If you give such a kind of a proclamation to a Democrat in the U.S. Congress to sign, you would for sure give the poor bastard a heart attack accompanied with a stroke just after reading it. If given to a generic-Republican one, the spineless, jelly-legs jerk would, on the spot, get a very aqueous gastrointestinal dysfunction that would require from him, or her, to gulp a bottle of Imodium washed down with a bucket of PeptoBismol.

It’s unbelievable how easy --and with something so simple-- is to make seriously sick any member of the U.S. Congress.