TED CRUZ

Times are rough when the ballistic Harry Reid says:  "I'm not going to bend to these Tea Party anarchists".  Whoa there, Senator Reid.  Take a breath.

People opposed to the President's agenda find themselves characterized as circus freaks who want to "hurt the people".  But Senator Reid, there's room for another opinion besides yours, right?  After all, the Congressional phone lines melted this afternoon after the filibuster, so not everyone is in favor of Obamacare.

WHO'S WHO in this fight, anyway?

On one side is Senator Ted Cruz who stood for twenty-one hours in opposition to Obamacare.  On the other side, Democrats and Rhinos are "going along to get along" and supporting Obamacare.  

O'Reilly, a normally conservative voice, is saying "Get over it!  It's the law and you're not going to change it."  Then there's my hero Krauthammer...who freaks me out by saying "Leave room when the opposition is committing suicide."

But you know what?  A pox on all their houses because DAMAGE is being done to our country.

All the polls say no one wants Obamacare.  So far it breaks every promise made without even kicking in.  HARD NUMBERS OUT TODAY  from HHS say insurance premiums will increase 99% for men and 62% for women.  Heck, even the unions are squealing for exemptions.  EVERYONE wants an exemption and political friends "got theirs".  You don't have to worry if you are a political ally, a big business corporation, or Congress.  Everyone else, line up.

But when a period of time passes and we look back, I'm betting the Rhinos who "signed onto the inevitable" will wish they had stood on the conviction of Ted Cruz.

"Oh, but Cruz is just a showboat in search of a spotlight!"  Really?  How do you know that?  "Well, he doesn't consult the other Republicans but just goes and does his own thing."  And that's bad?  That's GOOD.  They had a chance to stand up and they didn't.  Those old "establishment" Republicans have given us nothing but losers.  The last time we had a true conservative to get excited about...was Ronaldus Maximus.

When you overlay Ted Cruz's life over his record, you see him running in Texas and promising opposition to Obamacare.  You see Texans demanding that.  So he's keeping his promise.  Isn't that the way representation is supposed to work?

The opposition has made Cruz out to be a buffoon; that's what they do to people that make them quake.  They act like he's a hick from a cowboy state.  Well, he was a debate champion at Princeton (cum laude) and then got his law degree @Harvard (magna cum laude), where Professor Alan Dershowitz said "Cruz was off-the-charts brilliant."  Only a fool would try to make him out to be dimwitted.

In 1996 Ted Cruz was the first Hispanic to clerk for the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, then was Solicitor General (the state lawyer) for Texas.  He has been named as one of "Fifty Best Litigators Under 45 in America".  And he's worked in private practice.  But Cruz knew his purpose early in life...

When Ted Cruz was in junior high, he was reading Milton Friedman and the Federalist Papers and memorizing the entire Constitution...and by the time he was out of high school, he had given 80 speeches across Texas about limited government and free enterprise.  I don't know any teenagers like that, do you?

If you wonder where the fire in Ted Cruz' belly came from..JUST WATCH A FEW MINUTES OF HIS FATHER'S STORY.  Today the senior Cruz is a pastor in a Dallas suburb.  But when he was fourteen, Rafael Cruz joined a freedom fighter named Castro to fight in the revolution in Cuba.  He was captured and tortured by the Batista regime and later came to the United States to work as a dishwasher and learn English.  Mr. Cruz has taught Ted to appreciate liberty in the finest country in the world.

I may be wrong, but this man doesn't look like the kind who is looking to build his resume.  And he could care less about being part of the establishment's kabuki theatre.  Senator Cruz wants his country back.  We have been searching for a voice to communicate conservatism; perhaps we've found him.

The Cruz daughters listen to Daddy read them their bedtime story
from the floor of the Senate during his twenty-one hour filibuster.