Ted Cruz: Lightning Rod

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Cruz has become a lightning rod, and all because he’s daring to do what he promised during his campaign for the Senate. That simple act of integrity has set him apart from the pack. Most politicians know what to say to get elected but then arrive in Washington with no real spine — or in many cases, no intention of ever doing what they promised.

Not Cruz. He’s proved himself an effective advocate for the founding principles that made our nation great: personal freedom and responsibility, local control and adherence to the law as it is written, not the way some politicians wish it was written.

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What is at stake could be the very future of American Conservatism.

FORBES: Will Jim DeMint Destroy The GOP Or Save It?

Did you know: 94 percent of the bills that pass the U.S. Senate, pass in secret

...if our legislators aren't writing the bills, nor are they reading the bills, then what job is it that We the People, have hired them to do?

Be afraid

Be VERY afraid...of grandma (oh, and of Jim DeMint, too):

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I'm very afraid that we can't get rid of these idiots fast enough before the Good Ship America f---ing sinks!

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...because of the Senator DeMint’s objection, unless the House votes for the Senate bill unchanged — which is highly unlikely (see below) — then the Senate ObamaCare bill must be amended on the House floor to gain the votes they need to pass it on the House floor. And because of Senator DeMint’s objection to the appointment of the conferees, there will be no conference, or conference report.

If the House amends the Senate bill, they then have to send the amended bill back to the Senate — where all the 60 vote margin cloture votes still apply — cloture on the motion to proceed, and cloture to end the filibuster and cloture on any amendment.

Do I believe that this objection to the appointment of the conferees will kill ObamaCare? Yes, if the progressives or those 64 House Democrats who voted for the Stupak amendment do not roll over and play dead.

This monkey wrench may explain why the White House is putting out the word that it wants the health care bill to pass the House after the State of the Union, in February.

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Obamacare sparking 10th Amendment rebellion, action in seven states

Looks like the steadily growing list of constitutional, ethical and political outrages that constitute the Harry Reid version of Obamacare is sparking a rebellion in the states, as AP reports South Carolina's attorney general plans to investigate the vote-buying that surrounded the proposal in the Senate majority leader's office.

According to AP, South Carolina's Henry McMaster is being joined by the attorneys general of Michigan and Washington state in a suit to determine the constitutionality of the Obamacare proposal. Their initiative was prompted by a request from South Carolina's two senators, Lindsay Graham and Jim DeMint, both Republicans.

Attorneys-general in at least four other states are also considering joining McMasters...

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Paging Sarah Palin: the death panel is unkillable

...the issue Jim DeMint raised on the floor of the Senate last night. Why did the authors of the legislation want to specially protect the Independent Medicare Advisory Board by making it difficult for future Congresses to legislate in that area? Because the heart of the bill is the attempt to get control of our health care permanently in the hands of federal bureaucrats, who would allegedly know better than doctors and patients what’s good for them, and who would cut access to care and the quality of care so there’s more money left over for various big government liberal social programs.

As people learn more about the sleazy sweetheart deals and the creepy permanent death panels—this thing could still go down in the House next month in the face of popular outrage.

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Why does Obama always side with evil?

ONE:

250 Rabbis Sign Letter to Obama: Hands off Jerusalem

TWO:

[Jim] DeMint is one of 17 Republican senators who wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this month asking the administration to reassess its stance on Honduras...DeMint asked why Washington would want to be on the same side as Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Cuba's Fidel Castro, in the Honduran crisis. "President Obama rushed to side with Chavez and Castro before getting the facts.

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It causes me no small amount of embarrassment and shame as a proud American that Obama systematically sides with evil and the suppression of free men across the world as a matter of foreign policy. Nothing illustrates this as nakedly as Obama's support of the mullahcracy in Iran and the Chavez backed Zelaya coup on Honduran democracy.

UPDATE - FOUR:

Remember: There is no killer regime too violent or undemocratic that the Obama Administration will not reward: Obama Administration Signs Non-Aggression Pact With Killer Myanmar Regime