A Very Junior Senator’s Bomb-Throwing Debut (Ted Cruz)

WASHINGTON — As the Senate edged toward a nasty filibuster vote on Chuck Hagel’s nomination to be defense secretary, Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, sat silent and satisfied in the corner of the chamber — his voice robbed by laryngitis — as he absorbed what he had wrought in his mere seven weeks of Senate service.

Mr. Hagel, a former senator from Mr. Cruz’s own party, was about to be the victim of the first filibuster of a nominee to lead the Pentagon. The blockade was due in no small part to the very junior senator’s relentless pursuit of speeches, financial records or any other documents with Mr. Hagel’s name on them going back at least five years. Some Republicans praised the work of the brash newcomer, but others joined Democrats in saying that Mr. Cruz had gone too far.

Without naming names, Senator Barbara Boxer, Democrat of California, offered a biting label for the Texan’s accusatory crusade: McCarthyism.

“It was really reminiscent of a different time and place, when you said, ‘I have here in my pocket a speech you made on such and such a date,’ and, of course, nothing was in the pocket,” she said, a reference to Senator Joseph R. McCarthy’s bloody pursuit of communists in the 1950s. “It was reminiscent of some bad times.”

In just two months, Mr. Cruz, 42, has made his presence felt in an institution where new arrivals are usually not heard from for months, if not years. Besides suggesting that Mr. Hagel might have received compensation from foreign enemies, he has tangled with the mayor of Chicago, sandbagged the Senate’s third-ranking Democrat on national television, voted against virtually everything before him

I dare not keyboard what I am thinking might be needed to save the USA, as we once knew it.

I am sick, thinking about the next few years, and the trouble we are in as a nation, and how doomed we might be.

But, I remember the unusual tactics taken by the heroes in our early American revolution against the oppressive British, and then, the unique talents of an American hero, Chris Stevens (may he rest in peace).

Does there come a time when free men have to defeat the tyrannical enemies in their midst (even if elected), find a way to demoralize them, silence them, and make “redistributionists” fear conservatives?

The “redistributionalists/socialists/communists” are doing their best to convince the “mass body-politic” to fear conservatives and constitutionalists, making these out to be “justifiable” targets of state-sanctioned violence. Who doubts that will eventually lead to violence!

Violence is horrible, unless it is in self-defense. It is easy to understand the need to defend home and family, but how are we to defend our Republic and Constitution, preserve our rights and freedoms, when these are usurped and distorted by those who get elected by “selling to the illiterati” silly and unworkable notions of how society should operate?

Loyal Americans prefer the ballot box, of course. But... if a time comes when that fails, because of bribes, lobbying, selling of votes, promises and pandering to those who would take from the productive to give to the unproductive, then what do the productive do?

Unconventional warfare might be the only alternative, and it makes me so sad.

But, if it (violence) discourages those “elected” who have no loyalty to their oath to uphold and defend our Republic, who demand voting for a descent into socialism, then communism, might it be a horror we will have to endure, if our republic is to survive?

I have no answers, only worries, questions, and wondering. I never thought we would sink so low as we have in the past decade.

To think I was once shocked and disgusted by Clinton’s lying under oath. Since his disgusting time in office, we have deteriorated even farther, totally losing the culture we once knew, and now are dominated and taken over by the radical left, and the leftist media.

And now they join in with demand to take our guns away? Who will protect them, when they figure out this isn’t a game, and they have been used?

For the record, I am an old grandma, and have no guns, do not know how to shoot one, but totally support the right of others to protect me. I hope a neighbor of mine will come to my defense, if needed.

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