Sipsey Street Irregulars: You've got to give the guy credit. At least he's trying something the Dead Elephants refuse to.

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

You've got to give the guy credit. At least he's trying something the Dead Elephants refuse to.

Ted Cruz filibuster tops mark set by Rand Paul; Texas senator wants to stop Obamacare.

As dawn broke over Washington Wednesday morning, Sen. Ted Cruz still held the Senate floor, 16 hours into a filibuster designed to draw attention to the GOP’s effort to defund Obamacare — and topping the length of Sen. Rand Paul’s filibuster earlier this year.

“As difficult as it is to cross one’s party leaders, I say — with perhaps a little familiarity to the consequences — that it’s survivable, and ultimately it’s liberating,” Mr. Cruz said in the early morning hours of his talk-a-thon, which he began at 2:41 p.m. Tuesday afternoon and showed little fatigue at 5:40 the next morning.

Over night he read excerpts from both Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” and from Dr. Seuss’ “Green Eggs and Ham” on the floor, cited approvingly the words of wisdom from actor Ashton Kutcher and hit TV show “Duck Dynasty,” carefully sipped water, and grabbed a quick snack at one point while fellow filibuster leader Sen. Mike Lee asked a 45-minute-long question, giving the Texas Republican a chance to stretch his legs, check messages on his iPhone and confer with his staff.

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Anonymous said...: The feckless GOP elite are scared of Ted Cruz because he's breaking the strangle hold they have long held.

This day he may well be the most despised man in Washington D C but he is the most loved and admired by Patriots. Cruz is saying and doing what so many of us have wanted said and done for decades. It's about time!

The founders and framers self. Evidently recognized that just power comes from the CONSENT of the governed. To exact this point, the peoples money was protected by the default answer when disagreement provided gridlock is NO! The HOUSE, which belongs to the PEOPLE, was empowered with the call - meaning all state governments can be unanimous in desire and the PEOPLE can STILL say NO be REFUSING to provide funding for X Y or Z.

THUS, the UPPER chamber, the HOUSE, holds the authority to DENY funding for Obamacare no matter how much Harry Reid cries and lies about it.

So who's ass is Cruz kicking the most? Why, the silent speaker, old yellow stain himself, john boehner. Ironic isn't it? It's from within the Senate, the LOWER chamber, from which the schooling of Boehner is coming and the POWER of the house is being exposed as not being wielded by the supposed leader of the majority party that CLAIMS to be the defender of the Republic.

Democrats and Republicans alike fear Cruz because he is showing the American people, the parties, the media and the rest of the world that standing for the CONSTITUTION is possible and the sky doesn't fall and the world doesn't end when a courageous soul actually does it from within government on the record for all to see.

The question now becomes - which choose to stand with him and which choose to oppose him. Notice that Sarah has turned up the heat too. I offer this to the GOP establishment. Get with those two or be run over by them and the army of joe six packs walking right beside them. We The People - the freemen who exist everywhere HAVE HAD ENOUGH.; September 25, 2013 at 9:30 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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Wednesday, September 25, 2013

You've got to give the guy credit. At least he's trying something the Dead Elephants refuse to.

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