Thank God Mr. Cruz Is In Washington

My email account was on fire, everyone excited about Sen Ted Cruz calling Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell a liar on the Senate floor. Cruz cited each of Obama’s unprecedented unlawful power grabs and repeals of our freedoms that the GOP promised to block, only to stab us (We the People/Tea Party) in the back. Immediately, I thought, “Thank God Ted Cruz is in Washington.”

Before I go on, I wish to address a guy whom I will call Ned. Whenever I praise a conservative, Ned emails to correct me, claiming the conservative is a deceitful traitor. When I share reasons for optimism, Ned vehemently disagrees, even seeming a bit angry that I would think our efforts could possibly make a difference in America’s corrupt political environment. Ned always sees the glass less than half empty. I guess we need people like Ned to keep us balanced. Although, I am not quite sure about that.

Sure enough, in response to patriots’ giving Cruz rave reviews for speaking truth to Washington power, Ned ripped into Cruz about questionable votes. Folks, I realize Ted Cruz is not perfect. But then, which presidential candidate is? Jesus is not running for president in 2016.

As a member of the Tea Party since it began, Cruz going down the list of GOP betrayals brought back memories. Remember how we fought and worked our butts off to give the GOP the House, then the Senate? We worked to elect Republicans to stop Obama from rolling out the welcome mat to illegals.

I thought of all the travel miles, funds, blood, sweat and tears sacrificed by Tea Party Americans; patriots who simply want lawful Constitutional government.

I thought about how Obama sent out his liberal mainstream media air force to bomb us with accusations of racism against the first black president; hoping to soften and diminish our ranks. The Tea Party is not racist, nor do we hate anybody.

In his speech, Cruz did two things that were quite remarkable. First – Cruz exposed the good-cop, bad-cop personal and corporate enrichment scam both parties have been playing on the American people. Second – Cruz spoke with unprecedented clarity. He did not say McConnell misspoke or McConnell was disingenuous. Cruz said McConnell lied.

Cruz has been on a roll speaking the truth, making mincemeat of Obama minions and Leftist ideologues. He really exposes DC insider political corruption in his book, “A Time For Truth.”

It was refreshing that when pressed by the liberal bias media, Cruz refused to jump on the destroy Donald Trump bandwagon. This tells me that Cruz has backbone and will not automatically play by the Left’s rules of engagement.

It is fair game for GOP presidential contenders to express their disapproval of Trump’s style and tactics. However, when a GOP presidential contender joins the MSM in its evil attempt to brand Trump a racist for simply addressing illegal immigration, red flags go up regarding the character of that contender.

It tells me the contender will say whatever necessary to win. I call that “soulless” politicking.

Such behavior has the awful stench of what happened in Mississippi. In the primary, Republican Thad Cochran’s camp joined Democrats in branding the Tea Party racist. To beat the Tea Party conservative, Cochran’s people despicably made lying phone calls to black voters saying the Tea Party candidate would turn back the clock on racial progress. This is the kind of deplorable evil divisive totally self-serving politicking Cruz exposes in his book.

The GOP presidential field is rich with honorable contenders. I ask myself the following question.

When I lay my head on my pillow at night which candidate winning the WH will cause me to sleep the most peacefully? Who is most likely to remain true to their promises to We the People; fight to repeal Obamacare, end the invasion of our borders, defend life and traditional values?

Who believes in Conservatism enough to throw a lifeline of inspiration to those drowning in the treacherous deep dark sea of Obama’s welfare state America? Who will pray as the song says, “Lord lift us up where we belong” as Americans?

Realizing the fruitlessness of trying to instill a bit of hope/sunshine into Ned, I delete his emails without opening them. Ned has gotten creative. After lunch the waiter brought the check and my fortune cookie. The message inside said, “Ted Cruz sucks! – Ned” (Just kidding)

“Whenever I praise a conservative, Ned emails to correct me, claiming the conservative is a deceitful traitor.”

People who call themselves “conservative” too often have not fully thought through what they are attempting to conserve. I would beg conservatives to do so in light of the Declaration of Independence. That in order to enjoy the blessings of liberty, we must have government, but that government by its very nature, at least in this life, destroys liberty.

I would advocate this: that we must focus on maximizing liberty and not maximizing government.

I say this because too often conservatives love big government power and the love a decently powerful military, almost no matter how much of a budget deficit we have to run in order to pay for it.

What they don’t stop to realize is that when we borrow in order to spend, we are incrementally destroying liberty forever for our unaborted children. We may enjoy when we can invade a country and relieve tyranny overseas, yet we are slowly and surely imposing debt slavery on every taxpayer, that is every “US Person” (those who are required by law to report and pay taxes to the US Treasury.

This is made possible by government’s self-granted power to create near-infinite amounts of money and debt. Today, over 40% of what the federal government spends is created out of thin air! This is not “sustainable”!

But worse, when government has the power to create near-infinite amounts of money, it can buy near-infinite amounts of bureaucracy and dependent voter blocks. A well-funded bureaucracy can think of a near-infinite ways to grasp for power and to hire auditors, form-shufflers and enforcers.

This is exactly how the current administration is able to afford to build a massive database of racial information with which they plan to find every little pocket of housing discrimination in the country, that is at least how they define it. Then every area that is more than 50% “white” will come under the microscope. Those communities that have above average incomes, above average number of in-tact two-parent households, and below-average rates of crime will get their own solar-powered, broadband enabled, multigenerational Ferguson-like Section 8 subsidized housing enclaves.

This is how the EPA can propose to put the gutter down your driveway under federal control because it now falls under the Clean Water Act as a “federal navigable waterway.”. And so on.

With near-infinite government, there will be no end of the ways that it destroys liberty, until there is none.

Up until the modern welfare state and near-infinite debt, the first limit on government was the amount of money that taxpayers were willing to be taken from them. But no more- the difference is made up by pressing the mouse: “create one trillion now?” “Yes/No” “Are you sure?”

When an Article V convention of the states is called, the first order of business must be to conserve liberty by restraining government’s ability to spend money that it does not have, money it creates out of thin air.

Then we must focus on maximizing liberty for all future generations (at least, those we don’t abort)

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