Representative Andy Biggs has earned a Liberty Score of 100% [12].

Biggs sponsors [13] huge numbers of bills—in the current house so far, where the second-most-prolific representative has sponsored 64, Biggs has sponsored 593 [14].

Biggs ran for speaker, and led the opposition that voted against Kevin McCarthy, using strong minority power to change the current house’s processes [15].

Biggs voted against debt “limit” spending bills from start to finish—first against the current house Republicans’ spending bill, then against the McCarthy/McConnell/Biden spending bill. By these votes, Biggs and others who also voted against these bills would have put the existing debt “limit” resolution to work. It had been passed as just another plan to borrow a specified amount more by a certain date. But voting down every replacement plan would have transformed it into an actual debt limit.

This would have finally limited our current great inflation [16].

This also would have finally started making our liberty and property secure from our governments. If taken solely through taxes on labor income, the current revenues taken by the national government would total 36%, and the current revenues taken by state and local governments would total another 36% [17].

A president has zero constitutional power to defy the Constitution—although all modern presidents have, for instance, advanced or left in place the administrative state [18], or accepted war powers that were not constitutional [19]. A president has awesome constitutional power and the clear constitutional responsibility to shut down the administrative state, or to shut down wars that are not declared, but none so far have shouldered this responsibility by using this power [20].

Both parties favor candidates who are Progressive. This crests when the seat in question isn’t merely one of the many suburban or rural House districts that Progressives have no choice but to write off [21] but instead is the presidency—a single seat that’s winner-take-all.

In the primaries, the deck is stacked as much as possible. Cronies use all the money they can earn a return on. Parties use all the processes they’ve ever invented [22]. The candidates who are nominated are as Progressive as the cronies and parties can get. We voters have our work cut out for us.

But the only currency that matters is our votes.

We would do best to not compromise ever [12]. We definitely shouldn’t compromise now, while the races are just getting started.

A republican form of government [23] is a terrible thing to waste.