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The Republican Party, reeling from two devastating election cycle losses, has put together The National Council For A New America to help, “reshape the party’s image”.

Taken from House Whip Eric Cantor released this statement on the newly from NCNA:

Today, we are launching the National Council for a New America (NCNA), a caucus of Congressional leaders gathering the expertise of national leaders and doers. We hope that will form the foundation of a concerted, policy-based forum to listen to, partner with, and empower the American people with ideas and solutions that speak directly to the needs of our great nation. This forum will engage in a conversation with America that seeks to remove ideological filters, addresses the realities we are confronting, and speaks to the challenges our citizens are facing.

The NCNA will bring together citizens from across the country to begin a dialogue with the American people through a series of forums, town halls, and an online effort that will engage people in a discussion to meet our common challenges and build a stronger country through common-sense ideas. The NCNA will be a dynamic, forward-looking organization that will amplify the common-sense and wisdom of our fellow citizens through a grassroots dialogue with Republican leaders.

However, this is not a Republican-only forum. While we will be guided by our principles of freedom and security, we will seek to include more than just our ideas. This forum will include a wide open policy debate that every American can feel free to participate in. We do this not just to offer an alternative point of view or to be disagreeable. Instead, we want to ask the American people what their hopes and dreams are. Since January, the President and the Democratic Majority in Congress have – rightfully so – put forward their plan for the future, now we must listen, learn and lead through an honest, open conversation with the American people that will result in building policy proposals that will yield the best results for our nation’s long-term success.

I hope I am not reading to much into this. But how “grassroots” can these meetings be when you have already determined the agenda of the party for the future: economy, healthcare, education, energy, and national security? How “grassroots” can these meetings really be when the biggest RINO in the party, John McCain, is the one calling the shots? How “grassroots” can this event really be when you are specifically calling for non-republicans to participate?

I guarantee you that there are more people signed up with the Campaign for Liberty and with TaxDayTeaParty.com than this supposed “grassroots” NCNA organization will ever even engage.

Maybe the Republican leadership doesn’t realize that the base of the party no longer needs them to organize things. We can communicate via Twitter, Facebook and MySpace to the the real ideals that conservatives, constitutionalists and libertarians are thinking. We no longer need their permission to advocate Liberty and Freedom.

Here is another guarantee: should the Republican party ever decide to engage the party base, they will find RINO’s like John McCain completely and wholly disliked by the people who actually donate their time, labor and money into the party coffers.

If the grassroots had any say in the formation of this NCNA John McCain would have no place within it. In fact, if the grassroots of the Republican base truly had a say in recent affairs then John McCain would have been asked to leave the party along with Arlen Specter. Let us never forget that McCain suspended his campaign to vote in favor of the bailouts.

Look, Republicans shouldn’t have to go back to the party, the party should have to go back to them. Cut taxes. Cut government. Let people sink or swim based on their own actions, let them be accountable. Let failing businesses fail. Preserve the free market to give opportunity to new ones. Government is so big, so onerous now that even a mild yearly government growth of 3-4% is worthy of political revolution.

You want to know why the Tax Day Tea Parties were even necessary? Because the Republican party was not doing it’s job. Had the Republicans stood up to the TARP legislation and the expansion of social “benefits” under President Bush, hell really the last eight years of deficit spending, we wouldn’t be in this mess today.

I don’t want answers to come from Washington. I want answers to today’s problems to come from the free market, utilizing the government only when the Constitution specifically authorizes the power to do so. In fact, I will take it a step further, I want my political party to specifically advocate positions that would make it harder for government to intervene in the free market.

But, as it seems, the real patriots are the ones that once again will have to work twice as hard to save the country. Once again fighting with their own party to try and get them to listen to their real agenda: stopping the bailouts and shrinking government, all the while working more hours to support the moochers who are feeding off the social programs that the “big tent” philosophy supports.

Smaller taxes. Less Government. Personal Freedoms and Responsibility.

Can we please get a real call for conservative reform before Obama manages to completely destroy this country? Is that too much to ask?