Posted on 12/19/2013 5:44:49 AM PST by cotton1706
ed Cruz stood on the floor of the Senate and answered his critics: “….do you expect me to remain here silent, or to shrink from the discharge of my duty?… I will speak in spite of all the intimidations, or threats, or discountenances that may be thrown upon me.”
Actually, Ted Cruz did not say that. But the fact that it is so easily believable that he did say it says exactly why Ted Cruz, Time magazine’s selection of the Pope notwithstanding, is the real “Man of the Year.” In fact, while Cruz did make Time’s shortlist, he also popped up in a Rasmussen poll just behind the Pope and President Obama as 2013’s “most influential person.”
The man who said the words above was another celebrated Senator from Texas.
That would be Sam Houston, one of the fathers of Texas independence and the first United States Senator from Texas, as he rose on the Senate floor in 1854 to oppose the Kansas-Nebraska bill. Kansas-Nebraska, an overwhelming favorite with Houston’s fellow Democrats, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and reopened the issue of extending slavery that had presumably been settled by the Compromise of 1850. Houston, correctly as it later turned out, saw the bill as fueling the fires of civil war.
His fellow Senate Democrats were infuriated with Houston. Already viewed with suspicion for what was termed his “eccentric dress and his habit of whittling pine sticks on the Senate floor while muttering at the length of senatorial speeches,” Houston was now assailed as a “traitor.”
Today, the term of art is not “traitor” — it’s “wackobird.”
And the target is another United States Senator from Texas — Ted Cruz.
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Ted Cruz is whip-smart and loves his country. What’s not to admire about that?
A lot of Americans are simply not smart and have no love of country; that’s why Ted has a huge army of haters too.
Davy Crockett: “You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas.”
Admire? Yes. Man of the Year over the Pope? No way. Sorry but he and that Abortion Clown did basically the same thing. Thank God that she was not even considered for “Man of the Year” for Time Magazine. The Pope has done something that the Catholic Church has not seen in a while. An abundance of newly minted church attendees. That is significant and I believe you will be seeing more of it. Not many Pope’s have washed the feet of dirty sinners like Jesus and this Pope did (except perhaps on Holy Thursday for the annual washing of the feet which usually consists of people from the Church and not folks on the street).
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