Bringing in all the military brass that were purged, and making the case that this administration has committed treason though implementation of The Cloward-Piven Strategy.

Dead serious.

What both you and Euda said. Disband the Dept of Education (an oxymoron anyway), Dismantle Home Land Security back to pre-2001. Defund obamacare. Most of all Get The Hell Out Of The Way.

while the house is busy defunding, the Senate should immediately repeal Sarbanes-Oxley and repeal much of Dodd-Frank.

Immediately pass a national requirement to show ID to vote. Second, start scrubbing voter roles for dead and otherwise ineligible people.

I think we have to be careful on the short-term that we are not labled obstructionist. You know Obama is going to take that position. We owe it to the public to put a bill on the presidents desk that will repeal portions if not all of Obamacare. Pass XL pipeline Boarder security is important too. I would put bills on his desk that are good and let the President vetos them so the public can see who is the real party of No. One bill a week would be nice and then start moving into tax reform and limit the IRS. I would also start investigations into corruption we believe we can win. We have to think about things that can pass too. There maybe some Dems who view Obama as toxic and may be inclined to vote with conservatives. i.e.XL If we get to 54 seats its only 6 dems needed for an override. We also need to look at safeguards that will prevent the President from circumventing the consitution and using it to destroy the country from within. Obama has laid the blueprint for some other Maxist who might be president someday and use our own laws agains us. This cannot be allowed. We can not have a department of Justice that is political. Possible when Eric Withholders replacment is named we can address this issue in confirmation hearings. There are so many issues we need to address. Thats when is going through my mind at the moment. I reserve the right to revisit this after I get some sleep after staying up all night watching and being at election events.

Step 1. Repeal all of Obamacare.
Step 2 Initiate Impeachment of Obama.

Mandatory review of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and their Oaths of office. I believe too often they mouth the words without comprehension. Then offer a bill that anyone authoring a bill found to be in contradiction to those founding documents by 25% of either House or Senate should have their privilege to offer bills or amendments suspended for a period of six months. Second offense one year suspension and tar and feathers. :) De-fund/rescind all executive orders not directly related to enhancing the security of the nation and still congruent with the Constitution. Pass a bill that restricts all executive orders to same and include similar sanctions. Abolish the IRS and all other Federal agencies in conflict with the Constitutional protections of the citizens or within the enumerated powers. I could go on, but that should keep everyone busy for a day or two. Return responsibility and thus sovereignty to the states.

Repeal the federal reserve act and close down the TBTF banks. Forgive (tax-free) all the outstanding loans made by those banks in the past 50 years to individuals and small businesses.
Take the military from Iraq, Afghanistan, et al, and assign them duty to protect the lower-48 US borders.

It would take someone with extremely firm principles to vote themselves a smaller budget, less power, and ultimately a smaller paycheck. Republicans are better than Democrats, but sadly, I'm not very hopeful.

This is fairly abstract, but...

Reduce taxes and regulation on production (truly stimulate the economy) and initiate federal sales and/or value-added taxes on consumption to get us out of debt (for as long as it takes). Our national debt is everyone's problem whether we approved of it or not.

A national sales tax with exemptions for basic food items ought to satisfy the left's welfare instincts. Grade the sales tax if they want - I have no problem paying sin taxes for my alcohol and cigarettes - I really need to cut back anyway - Wouldn't that pacify the left? Tax the crap out of yachts, private jets, luxury vehicles and other luxuries - The left should love that. VAT "might" make local businesses more competitive with chains (by taxing all the middle-men) and bring communities closer together - I can’t imagine either party not wanting to claim credit for that. VAT seems like a hassle though. It could just be rolled into sales tax by removing sales tax exemptions for resellers.

Imagine how quickly individuals and businesses could get out of debt and build wealth if their income weren't taxed at all and they chose not to spend under this model. Imagine how much less it would cost to produce, and how many more jobs would be created by reducing the burdens on employers. Now imagine all that rapidly saved wealth invested in new business endeavors, and/or capital investments by existing businesses to improve production.

Incidentally, the IRS would become irrelevant, and quite a few accountants, lawyers, and government employees would end up looking for more honest work, but hey, it would probably be better for their self-esteem. Really, who wants to be associated with the IRS anyway?

On other issues:

If they come out too strong and too early against the ACA, O will just wall off and pout for 2 years with his veto stamp close at hand.

I think choosing which agencies to defund, and in what order is vital to the shrink agenda. If they are too aggressive and cause a swing back in the favor of the left, what will they get accomplished that won't be undone? The same holds true for impeachment - most people will just see it as an abuse of power no matter how justified it might be. Give O more rope to hang himself, and start subtle.

Well, you have many "firsts" there. I agree with them, by the way.

My first would be to slash taxes - both personal and corporate. My second would be to abolish the current tax code. There is so much work to do here...

Push, push, push. Republicans have to actually do something (or make Obama the bad guy by vetoing their proposals). Otherwise people will say that the Republicans didn't accomplish anything and vote Democrat for the presidential election.

One of the **very** first things would be to sponsor a constitutional amendment to remove the unbridled and irresponsible practice of these "Executive orders" to circumvent the law, the constitution, and congress. Without that all the changes can be "re-executive-ordered" back, with a clever failsafe worded into each and every one.

Without that - whatever else you do, from killing Oblammascare to stopping the migratory influx of illegals to reconstituting the military from a band of yessayers to a Military - will be for naught.

I cannot see how the "new" congress can be expected to initiate any drastic proposals when they convene in January. I believe that the most effective path would to return to the business of the people and conduct themselves as our representatives were intended. They should prepare and pass a balanced budget that they are prepared to implement and fund. It does not seem to matter if the Executive Branch likes it or not if they do their job and control the purse strings as intended. It is not the purpose of the Executive to pass or fund legislation, but to implement it.

Obviously, the House will have to make some hard decisions and prioritize where funds will go and to propose tax increases as necessary. ( I would like to see corporate income taxes abolished since consumer-taxpayers pay them anyway and we need to see the cost of government not have it hidden in the cost of goods we purchase.) The Senate should deliberate on these measures and reach agreement with the House. The electorate should be allowed to see the process and be as informed as they desire to be in the details.

We the people have asked that they do this on our behalf and we should demand that they do this diligently and with our oversight. Seeing this, for the first time in many years would make us believe that these people were doing their job of protecting our rights and greatly increase our faith in government.

My simple mind cannot begin to fathom all the details and complexity of the Federal Government but I don't think they can either. That doesn't have to be the case if they decide what they want, can afford and are willing to be accountable for. Let the rest languish for cleanup in future deliberations.

One other thing I think I would do is under the national debt clock in Washington DC and New York I would place another clock that counts down the days until Barack Obama leaves office.

My dream is that they come up with a plan to slowly shrink gov't in all forms. They would actually make hard decisions about specific prisons and military bases that will close. They also would be dialing back nutrition and Welfare programs at the same slow rate. (They'd have to find a way to keep the president from getting the agencies to cut high-profile things to make the move seem Draconian.)

The nice thing about this notion is it forces the other side to defend gov't.

I wish one party would do this.