Cruz dispels myth of 'compassionate' illegality, addresses Rubio's 'change of heart'

The response that continues to garner Cruz some of the most positive feedback from the Citizenry well after the last GOP debate was his honest assessment of illegal immigration and this phony sense of so-called 'compassion' for societal disruption and flagrant lawbreaking...

TRS: Ted Cruz struck the perfect tone on immigration and why liberals are wrong to say that we need to be more “compassionate” and open up our borders to whoever wants to waltz in.

He’s exactly right, and it really burns me up every time liberals claim that Americans aren’t compassionate enough. Americans have allowed our laws to be broken because our leaders have told us it’s compassionate and it’s just made a problem much worse for American citizens.

And I love his line about giving away someone’s job as “compassion.” Brilliant.

Sorry, this isn't another liberal entitlement. ENOUGH! This is about America's sovereignty. Better yet, if we want to discuss compassion, what of the American and his child's dream?! The citizen cannot be neglected and reduced to second class, while raising the illegal to undeserving heights, and still expect to maintain a functioning civil society. We are a nation of Citizens and Law!

To another point...though Rubio scored significant points in the debate on tougher talk alongside Cruz, managing to virtually escape answering for his record on this particular topic (arguably 'the' weakness for the Florida senator), voters must nonetheless consider the inherent differences on this matter between the two. And Laura Ingraham dug into this today...

TRS: Ted Cruz was on with Laura Ingraham today where she asked him to respond to Marco Rubio’s comments where he was explaining what he had learned from the American people after being part of the gang of eight in pushing comprehensive immigration reform in the Senate a couple of years ago. Rubio suggested that what he’s learned is they can’t pass comprehensive immigration bills, but rather that they have to prove to the American people that the border is secure and working and that illegal immigration numbers are way down before they will sign off on mre immigration reforms.

But Ted Cruz said this isn’t rocket science, that it was just as clear back then what the American people were saying as it is now and that he has an issue with people who do one thing and then say something completely different. He says that’s a cause for a good amount of skepticism.

Cruz also points out that while Rubio says he’s big on border enforcement now, he voted against every enforcement amendment that was offered in the Senate judiciary committee with his gang of eight Republican colleagues as well as the Democrats.

As Cruz points out, this isn’t something from 10 or 15 years ago. This was just 2 years ago in the Senate when Rubio stood with the gang of eight and voted for Comprehensive Immigration Reform.

I remember at the time I never thought Rubio would actually go through with a vote for the bill, believing that he was only fighting for immigration reform to prepare himself for a run for president and that at the end of the day he’d do the right thing.

But then he voted for it and that was something I just couldn’t support.

That’s why Rubio is not in my top tier of candidates because I just don’t know if he is trustworthy on this issue any longer.

Ted Cruz, on the other hand, is as good as they get on this issue and that’s why he is my top candidate for president.

It comes to no surprise that these two intelligent, articulate gentlemen are being sized up as the emerging frontrunners (mentioned in the previous post), and as TheHill made clear, 'Cruz would emerge as the standard-bearer of the GOP’s conservative wing, while Rubio would be the establishment-friendly figure.' So shouldn't that make it even clearer, understanding where we've been for far too long now, as to which candidate best reflects the direction we must move towards? Texans are taking note; it's time for the rest to.

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Cruz Hits Rubio For Supporting Obama/Schumer Amnesty Bill
Getting Desperate, Rubio Staffers Lie About Ted Cruz’s Views on Amnesty
Cruz Fought Amnesty, Rubio Fought Conservatives
TANCREDO: MARCO RUBIO CARRIES THE ESTABLISHMENT FLAG ON IMMIGRATION

Strategy, clarity, direction, foresight...Cruz wins the night

What a nice change...a salient debate of FoxBusiness. And even before the GOP's fourth debate, Ted Cruz was on the rise...

TheHill: Ted Cruz’s plan to win the Republican presidential nomination is coming together.

The Texas senator has been edging up in the polls and has a chance to drive home his advantage Tuesday night, when the fourth televised GOP debate takes place in Milwaukee.

GOP insiders say that the Tea Party ­favorite also has one of the most impressive political operations in the field. And the consensus is growing that he and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) could end up as finalists in the battle for the nomination.

In that scenario — which is dependent on the current leaders, businessman Donald Trump and retried neurosurgeon Ben Carson, fading — Cruz would emerge as the standard-bearer of the GOP’s conservative wing, while Rubio would be the establishment-friendly figure.

If it comes to that, Cruz supporters like their chances, given the insurgent mood rippling through the party’s base.

Yep! And last night, he further displayed how everything is coming together with his articulate, principled credentials in what might have amounted to the most time given to the statesman at any debate thus far:

Ted tipped off supporters through text/email messages as to what his intentions were to bring to this debate, and boy did he summarily satisfy!

Whether it's correcting the record on his reform policies, while soberly assessing how the Washington Cartel's view of amnesty and economics don't abide by the rule of law...

...to finding the principled middle ground between defending families and the nation without further indebting future generations...

...in laying out the presumed Democratic frontrunner's policy failure after policy failure, alongside the current occupant's...

...and speaking of failure, unequivocally answering the call for no more bailouts! No entity is too big to fail, there is the FDIC, Mr. Kasich, and enough with the straw man arguments, folks aren't buying it anymore!

In summary, bold colors, no pale pastels (and a great message for Veterans Day too!)...

And the winner of the night goes to, you guessed it!

Rich Lowry of NRO: Ted Cruz had a terrific night. He had a stand-out answer on immigration and wages, and made his own fortune by getting into an argument with John Kasich on bank bailouts, enunciating the anti-bailout position forcefully and repeatedly. He was pointed, eloquent, and, of course, very conservative.

Many are beginning to take note of this extraordinary patriot. How is the Texas senator the most likely GOP nominee? Because he's the most anti-Establishment candidate, making him the defining conservative of the bunch...

Lifezette: While Donald Trump and Ben Carson continue to dominate the polls and a gaggle of Establishment candidates battle one another, the favorite to win the Republican presidential nomination just might be Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, journalist Mark Halperin said Tuesday.

On the day of the fourth Republican debate Tuesday, Halperin said on “The Laura Ingraham Show” that Cruz might be best situated to, as Ingraham put it, “marry the passion to the substance.”

Halperin, co-managing editor of Bloomberg Politics, said Cruz is set up nicely for the Iowa caucuses and would have favorable terrain in the early voting Southern states. In addition, he said, the Cruz campaign has a highly sophisticated effort to master the rules and intricacies of capturing delegates.

“If you total up the assets and problems and look at the calendar, you look at the fundraising, you look at message, I could make a case today that Cruz might be the most likely nominee,” Halperin said. “And people are underestimating him and continue to underestimate him. I think the Establishment might be less happy with Ted Cruz as the nominee than even Trump.”

#CRUZ2016!

Related links: Ted Cruz proposes eliminating Energy, HUD, Commerce, Education, IRS
Cruz Shines On Immigration In GOP Economics Debate
Ted Cruz on the Laura Ingraham Show
Ted Cruz DESTROYS Harry Reid on Senate floor

ADDENDUM: Other praise heaped on Sen. Cruz...

“Cruz really won tonight. He had just a stellar performance. Every word was memorable. Every line was precisely delivered. His defense of his tax plan was solid.” ~ Erick Erickson

“I thought Ted Cruz was very strong. I thought he had substantive answers that were well delivered…I thought he was just impressive.” ~ Bill Kristol

“Ted Cruz, fabulous night. He followed up on a great night in the previous debate. He had more time than he had in other debates. I think you got to see the knowledge and substance and passion. I would say by far Ted Cruz probably had the best night of everybody.” ~ Sean Hannity

“TedCruz just hit 94 by saying all the rules that apply to America will apply to Congress.” ~ Frank Luntz

“TedCruz scores big (hits 98) with ‘I’m tired of being told I’m anti-immigrant. It’s offensive.’ Actually outscores Trump on immigration.” ~ Frank Luntz

“I think it goes Cruz, Rubio, Fiorina.” ~ Bret Baier

“Cruz is showing why so many insiders think he’ll eventually be in the final two or three when the field winnows” ~ Chuck Todd

“I think that is the best moment Ted Cruz had in the debate last night was talking about immigration in the way he did.” – John McCormack

“[Cruz] had a very good night.” ~ Jonah Goldberg

“Ted Cruz proved that he didn’t need to assault the media to turn in an impressive performance… it was the strong answer to the bailout question that put him over the top in my view. The contrast was obvious… none of [the other candidates] gave a clear answer on what they would do differently in the same situation. Then Cruz absolutely dominated it.” ~ Ben Domenech

Related link: Why Ted Cruz Is the Right Guy at the Right Time

Thank you, Veteran

We all know them, whether in our families, as our friends, working or visiting or talking with them often, from America's founding to the Greatest Generation to the current servicemember and beyond into our nation's future. We give thanks for the American soldier on this day.

The first of the great world wars ended on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918. This year, as with every other, we pause to honor the bravest among us. From one generation to the next, you serve our nation and embody the very safeguards to liberty. Dare I say, we could use more of your honor in our elected offices these days!

For your service and sacrifice to our great nation, we can't say THANK YOU enough. Many Blessings from God Almighty and the American People to all our Veterans past, present, future.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved, and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.

~ Lt. Col. John McCrae (1872 – 1918)

O LORD God of Hosts, stretch forth, we pray thee, thine almighty arm to strengthen and protect the soldiers of our country; Support them in the day of battle, and in the time of peace keep them safe from all evil; endue them with courage and loyalty; and grant that in all things they may serve without reproach; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

O ETERNAL Lord God, who alone spreadest out the heavens, and rulest the raging of the sea; Vouchsafe to take into thy almighty and most gracious protection our country’s Navy, and all who serve therein. Preserve them from the dangers of the sea, and from the violence of the enemy; that they may be a safeguard unto the United States of America, and a security for such as pass on the seas upon their lawful occasions; that the inhabitants of our land may in peace and quietness serve thee our God, to the glory of thy Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Related links: Veterans and Leadership
REMEMBERING OUR VETERANS ON VETERANS DAY

Obama's illegal amnesty order DENIED by appeals court!

Wow! How 'bout that rule of law for a change? Although good to hear, 1.) it's not the job of the courts to restrain a rogue, imperial president; that responsibility belongs to an effective CONGRESS, if we had one! And 2.) Obama will likely treat these with the same reckless disregard as others, advancing his lawless, post-Constitutional tyranny. Even so, perhaps this might provide some temporary relief...until he's deported!

BREAKING: Appeals court rules against Obama's plan to protect about 5 million people from deportation.

— The Associated Press (@AP) November 10, 2015

AP: President Barack Obama's plan to protect from deportation an estimated 5 million people living in the United States illegally suffered another setback Monday in a ruling from a New Orleans-based federal appeals court.

In a 2-1 decision, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Texas-based federal judge's injunction blocking the administration's immigration initiative.

Republicans had criticized the plan as an illegal executive overreach when Obama announced it last November. Twenty-six states challenged the plan in court.

The administration argued that the executive branch was within its rights in deciding to defer deportation of selected groups of immigrants, including children who were brought to the U.S. illegally.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott praised the ruling.

"President Obama should abandon his lawless executive amnesty program and start enforcing the law today," Abbott said in a news release.

The ruling further dims prospects of implementation of the executive action before Obama leaves office in 2017.

Now that is good news!

Folks, it is time to reunite these families...in their own countries! It's also time to cut off the crony syphon of slave-wage employment, as well as bureaucratic handouts from on high. We've got too many citizens in need, not the least of which is motivation and incentive. If illegal aliens genuinely want to assimilate and become Americans, there is a way...and law-abiding immigrants pursue it every day.

#RuleOfLaw

TPP = Obama's NWO?

Last Thursday, when details of the behemoth Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) were released, Mark Levin had one CRUCIAL question for the media to ask: Has Barack Obama read this?

More than 2 million words over 6,000 pages, thirty chapters long (5x longer than Obamacare!), on a fast-track to passage, and touted by Obama as the greatest trade deal ever? Of course he hasn't read a damn word of it, and neither has anyone in Congress!

It's exactly as Levin's calls it, the 'destroy-the-Constitution deal'...

“No conservative—none—in the Senate or the House should vote for this based on the nature of this phony deal. It’s too long. It’s too massive. It empowers the government. It empowers the bureaucracy... it empowers other governments and bureaucracies too. This is not a trade deal. This is a destroy-the-Constitution deal.”

Levin added on Monday evening...

We saw how TPP is just another tool to increase bureaucracy in America. We are surrendering our power to bureaucrats and public officials. A 6,000 page and 2 million word document does not promote trade. TPP is contrary to the constitutional system and a line has to be drawn and must be defeated.

This is not about the rule of law, but a rule of global governance by a cabal of 12 multi-national oligarchs, contrary to any notion of American liberty, or really any thereof. When radicals rule and quislings cower, it doesn't take long for the concept of a 'new world order' to move beyond paranoia and conspiracy.

Related links: TPP PRINTED OUT ON JEFF SESSIONS DESK LOOMS SEVERAL FEET HIGH
JEFF SESSIONS: TPP ‘BREATHTAKING … EROSION OF SOVEREIGNTY’
JEFF SESSIONS: KILL THE ‘ANTI-DEMOCRATIC’ TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP IN THE CRIB, REPEAL FAST-TRACK AUTHORITY NOW TPP TRADE DEAL HITS U.S. IMMIGRATION IN ‘A MASSIVE WAY’
DONALD TRUMP: OBAMA’S TRANS-PACIFIC FREE-TRADE DEAL IS ‘INSANITY’
CARLY FIORINA ON TPP TRADE DEAL: ‘A MESS’ FULL OF ‘CRONY CAPITALISM’
MIKE HUCKABEE BLASTS TPP: WOULDN’T TRUST OBAMA TO ‘NEGOTIATE THE PURCHASE OF A COUCH OFF CRAIGSLIST’
MARCO RUBIO DISTANCES HIMSELF FROM TPP AS ‘PILLAR’ OF HIS PRESIDENCY
TPP TRADE DEAL HITS 5,544 PAGES, LONGER THAN OBAMACARE PLUS RUBIO’S ‘GANG OF EIGHT’ CHEAP-LABOR AMNESTY BILL
OBAMA POSTS FULL TEXT OF TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP TRADE DEAL
DEMOCRAT: TPP TRADE DEAL INCLUDES ‘EXCLUSIONS UP THE WAZOO’
4/24/15 - Levin: 'I'll be damned if I'm going to support cronyism for the left'
6/11/15 - Mark Levin interview: Sen. Sessions says TPP is a religion for some Republicans
6/11/15 - Mark Levin on Republicans supporting TPP
Mark Levin Obama trashes the Constitution and NOBODY SAYS A DAMN THING!

Green IS the new Red: Obama's enviro-statism run amuck

Obama's EPA, DoJ, the entirety of the regime's eco-statist 'green' agenda and his merry band of misfits are full steam ahead into the RED!

Yesterday, we heard about the Exxon Mobil witch hunt...

CR: New York has launched a political witch hunt into Exxon Mobil for not promoting the Left’s climate change policies.

NY Attorney General, Eric T. Schneiderman, has begun a sweeping investigation of Exxon Mobil to determine whether the company lied to the public about the risks of climate change or to investors about how those risks might hurt the oil business, the New York Times reports.

This is what happens when you don’t worship the same idols that the Federal Government does. They criminalize your dissent.

CR Editor-in-Chief calls the investigation for what it is—a witch hunt—and eloquently unveils how the Left has been propping up climate change in order to greater regulate our lives.

Exxon Mobil is under investigation by an Attorney General in NY for possible lies about climate change – yet climate change itself isn’t even a scientific proof. Mark says that now the government has once again regulated another part of our lives – that once the government deems something that they don’t like as illegal or wrong, they can go after an individual or a company over it. We now have a criminal assault on those that produce electricity and gas in the country because the Democrat Party doesn’t believe in capitalism or America. ~ ML, 11/5/15

CR: Have you ever declined to promote the Democrat agenda while engaging in commerce? You might be under criminal investigation.

There’s a lot of talk in Washington these days about over-criminalization and the need for criminal justice “reform.” However, while Congress pursues an agenda of emptying the prisons of violent criminals, they are overlooking the true threat of over-criminalization – political witch hunts on the part of liberal government officials against companies and individuals who don’t obey their religion of global warming.

And of course the Clintonistas (Gore and Hillary) have jumped aboard, especially when their wells run dry!

Hillary Clinton has called for a federal investigation into Exxon Mobil Corp.’s funding of climate change denial just months after the Houston-based oil giant decided to end its sponsorship of the Clinton Global Initiative.

Related links: Exxon Mobil being INVESTIGATED over ‘misleading statements’ on CLIMATE CHANGE
Exxon Mobil Investigated for Possible Climate Change Lies by New York Attorney General

Then first thing today, Obama genuflects to his environmental altar and rejected the Keystone Pipeline in yet another Washington power play...

But didn't he use it as a 'campaign cudgel' at one point? That's precisely what he did...

GatewayPundit: Barack Obama went to Oklahoma to promote the Keystone pipeline in 2012. Obama said he was “making the pipeline a priority.”

But it was just another lie.

Obama also took credit for the oil boom in America.

The Keystone Pipeline project was expected to create tens of thousands of high paying jobs in the oil industry. The project itself would create 20,000 construction jobs. And the pipeline would bring oil from Canada and North Dakota to refineries in the United States.

Obama rejected the plan in 2012.

Then Obama vetoed legislation that approved construction of the Keystone XL pipeline in February 2015.

Today Barack Obama will announce he is killing the project.

Related link: Obama BOWS to environmentalist EXTREMISTS and DENIES Keystone Pipeline!!

Here's more about the power play involved...

RedState: What took them so long? The Obama Administration finally rejected the Keystone XL pipeline on a Friday when everyone had already moved on to other things. Sure, Warren Buffet and other Obama donors will benefit because they own trains that will be used to transport the stuff. Sure, the EPA will stay busy with train derailments and natural disasters, etc. But why now?

Well, Hillary finally was brave enough to come out against it, so Obama had his cover. See, the Democrats are going through a political realignment. They no longer are depending on entrepreneurs, they cannot win in the west, and they know black voters will never leave them. So they can take this step, finally, to make highly educated, rich, while people from New England feel good about themselves and then expand the welfare state to take care of those who’ll be out of jobs.

Never mind the potential environmental problems. Every week another train derails it seems. They are fine with that. Better for the EPA to earn its keep than harmful, awful oil be transported from Canada.

What makes this so silly is that everyone knew they were going to do this. But they waited until Hillary Clinton was ready to announce her opposition to do it. I guess Barry really is controlled by strong women.

The truth of the matter is that America has built the equivalent of 10 Keystone pipelines since 2010, and nobody said anything. But now, when sights are set on a literal keystone of a deal for American opportunity, capitalism and energy independence, as well as the majority of Americans still backing its construction, Obama plays his political hand (or iron fist rather).

Boy, how these guys have absolutely SNOWED the environmentalists for their own reward. It's party first and foremost, and if it takes pushing the green agenda to halt advancement and independence across the energy landscape, both side of that eco-coin are game. That's all this concern really boils down to. 

Meanwhile, as places in the world that don't like us very much maintain their stranglehold over energy production, we're dragged further into degrowth. What a utopia...

Related links: EPA Vows To Lead The Global Fight Against Air Conditioners
Al Gore caught LYING about fish swimming in streets of Miami – [VIDEO]

GOP-led House votes AGAINST blocking Iran from receiving taxpayer-backed subsidies

63 Republicans sold us out and voted against an amendment to ban Export-Import subsidies for Iran and other terror-sponsor states. Iran was directly involved in the slaughter of American soldiers and they vote against this amendment? ~ ML, 11/5/15

See how even when we trounce the left locally, so many of our national GOP representatives FAIL us miserably...

DailySignal: The House today rejected an amendment that would have prohibited the Export-Import Bank from providing loans, loan guarantees, and credit to state sponsors of terrorism such as Iran.

Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, introduced the amendment amid concerns that President Barack Obama would issue waivers to state sponsors of terrorism that would allow them to receive taxpayer-backed subsidies from the government bank.

Republicans, however, helped Democrats defeat the amendment, 244-183.

“Some parts of U.S. law, most notably in the Foreign Assistance Act, does prevent Ex-Im from engaging with state sponsors of terrorism,” Royce said on the House floor. “But these commonsense prohibitions are subject to presidential waivers, and we have seen the president abuse waivers to pursue his agenda over and over again on Iran.”

Royce called on Congress to close the “loophole” that would allow the president to make such exceptions.

“I think we can all agree, Ex-Im supporters and opponents alike, that Iran should not be entitled to American taxpayer-financed aircraft deals,” Royce said.

The measure went down with 181 Democrats and 63 Republicans voting against it.

Congress allowed the charter of the Ex-Im Bank to expire in June, citing examples of cronyism, but efforts are afoot among lawmakers to revive the government bank.

Yet another case for an Article V Convention of the States, folks. If you didn't catch Levin yesterday discussing this, here's another opportunity (particularly relevant to what we see these federal officials have done here)...

What do recent state election victories mean in the fight for liberty and self-governance?

#ConventionOfStates

Related link: Iran Responsible for Killing 14 Percent of U.S. Troops in Iraq

ADDENDUM: Btw, here's the names of those 63 traitors. Know their names, give them hell, and don't let them continue to commit such travesties against the very nation each and every one have pledged an oath by. Absolutely we should hold Democrats accountable, but the men behind these names ought to have known better than the defeatists they've become...

The 63 Republicans who voted NO on Royce amendment to ban Ex-Im subsidies for Iran and other terror-sponsor states. pic.twitter.com/twVac2XDBm

— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) November 5, 2015

Bevin's win a sign of things to come?

That's certainly what many pundits and politicos are scratching their heads over today, hoping it's not the case, while conservative America rejoices and prays for more...

AmericanSpectator: Matt Bevin, a well-spoken and uncompromising conservative businessman, challenged Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in the Kentucky 2014 Republican primary.

He didn’t win. He didn’t actually come close, losing an ignominious 61-39 race to the GOP’s most powerful senator. Bevin, a down-the-line conservative of the Tea Party variety, engendered all the vitriol the Republican establishment could summon; he was the poster child for the “destructive” insurgent candidate.

Interestingly, after Bevin was beaten by McConnell, he tried again — this time for governor of Kentucky. And he won in the primary.

Bevin was, of course, a figure of fun among the smart set — such a conservative rube, with his curious stories about the Constitution and 19th-century theories of governance. They laughed at the idea he could win against the modern sophisticate Jack Conway, who has had an astonishing record of “failing up” as a candidate despite losing a congressional race to Anne Northrup in 2002, a Senate race to Rand Paul in 2010, and Bevin in this year’s gubernatorial race.

The polls suggested a Bevin victory was, in the immortal words of Dr. John, unpossible. The Real Clear Politics average of polls rolling into Election Day had the modern sophisticate Conway leading the primordial savage Bevin by three points, 44.3-41.3. Surprising, then, that the primordial savage Bevin should have engineered an Election Night ambuscade of the modern sophisticate Conway by a 52-44 count...

What to make of this, on an evening in which San Francisco’s atrocious sheriff Ross Mirkarimi of Kate Steinle murder fame was turned out of office, Virginia’s noxious Democrat governor Terry McAuliffe failed, despite millions of dollars of Mike Bloomberg’s money, to flip his state’s senate, and Houston voters gave the proverbial Bronx cheer to the notion of allowing boys in dresses to use women’s bathrooms in local high schools?

For one thing, Republicans are underpolling — and perhaps by significant numbers.

But for another, the author wonders if this is an off-year fluke or a harbinger of a wave to come? Well, it would appear that while the conservatism of Matt Bevin proves it's capacity to win, Barack Obama's Democratic Socialist Party continues to experience the People's rejection...

RedState: Kentucky was a shining example for the Democrats of a place where moderate Democrats could hold their own and work to implement Barack Obama’s agenda. That came crashing down last night. Bevin has pledged to end Obamacare in the state. He also championed religious liberty against his liberal Democrat opponent. He has fought hard in coal territories and the GOP carpet bombed coal areas of Kentucky with attacks on the Obama Administration’s environmental policies.

What’s more, Bevin was able to consolidate the support of the GOP in Kentucky and win when so many counted him out. Most national pundits wrote him off, instead choosing to believe Democratic spin. National Republicans, initially inclined to walk away from the man who challenged Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) 54%, were impressed with Bevin’s willingness to build bridges.

Matt Bevin won in Kentucky. He won bigger than anyone expected. He owns this win. But it is again worth noting that nationally Democrats keep losing with Barack Obama as President. The public keeps rejecting the President’s party. They did it last night in Kentucky.

It’s only a matter of time before Democrats blame their losses on climate change in Syria.

This is a sting that quite honestly both sides of the aisle need to experience, in our states and on the national stage, particularly among the leadership...

"As the Democrats lose, Republicans win, and won BIG last night. The Left's agenda has been blown to smithereens once again. And yet, the Republicans in Washington, at least the leadership of the House and Senate, seem still more inclined to wanna do business with Obama, than represent those who REJECTED Obama and liberalism and the Democrat Party last night."

The time for incumbency and establishment must wane. The nation thirsts for a return to common sense and responsibility. That's what many Americans hope these wins suggest. And it's high time for the opposition party to follow through.

Related links: HOLY CRAP! Matt Bevin Is The New Governor Of Kentucky!
Seven Questions About Matt Bevin’s Win In Kentucky
‘Historic night’: GOP makes record gains at state level, on top of Senate wins
Conservatives Have A Big Night In Local And State Elections

ADDENDUM: Levin reminds us that our strength is in the States!

On Wednesday’s Mark Levin Show: The strength of the Republican party isn’t Reince Priebus, the RNC, Mitch McConnell, or John Boehner; it’s us at the local level. Conservatives are winning election after election at the state level during President Obama’s two terms, but the problem is the federal government trumps everything and anything it wants to at the state and local level. State legislatures and governorships are going Republican in ways we’ve never seen in modern American history. Our strength is at the state level and we need to tap into it in order to restore our republic and put the federal government back in the Constitutional box. Mark speaks with Kentucky Governor-elect Matt Bevin to discuss the Conservative surge in state elections.

Related links: From coast to coast, conservatives score huge victories in off-year elections
The 2015 election tightened the Republican stranglehold on state government
Kentucky’s New GOP Lt. Gov. Is Black Tea-Party Activist

$20 Trillion Tyrant: Obama presidency doubles national debt

“I sincerely believe… that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale… I say, the Earth belongs to each of these generations during its course, fully and in its own right. The second generation receives it clear of the debts and encumbrances of the first, the third of the second, and so on. For if the first could charge it with a debt, then the Earth would belong to the dead and not to the living generation. Then, no generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

No thanks to quisling Republicans who aided and abetted either. Thinking about that previous post, we should really work out a criminal swap! Obama leading the pack directly to the slammer...

WT: When President Obama signs into law the new two-year budget deal Monday, his action will bring into sharper focus a part of his legacy that he doesn’t like to talk about: He is the $20 trillion man.

Mr. Obama’s spending agreement with Congress will suspend the nation’s debt limit and allow the Treasury to borrow another $1.5 trillion or so by the end of his presidency in 2017. Added to the current total national debt of more than $18.15 trillion, the red ink will likely be crowding the $20 trillion mark right around the time Mr. Obama leaves the White House.

When Mr. Obama took over in January 2009, the total national debt stood at $10.6 trillion. That means the debt will have very nearly doubled during his eight years in office, and there is much more debt ahead with the abandonment of “sequestration” spending caps enacted in 2011.

As Margaret Thatcher said, “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.” Well, when you have a two-party system run like one, spending hand over fist year after year, the debt mounts fast and the money runs dry even faster (not that most, particularly the one sitting in the Oval Office, care).

Moreover, the fact that a single president has been allowed to run the debt up in such a reckless manner is nothing short of tyranny in the making, folks...

Yellowhammer: President Barack Obama on Monday signed into law a two-year budget and debt deal that funds the government through the rest of his presidency and raises the nation’s debt limit yet again.

The deal was negotiated in what Sen. Richard Shelby called Washington’s “dark corridors” without input from most of the people’s representatives, then slammed through Congress in a rush as House Speaker John Boehner hightailed it out of town for the final time.

Spending caps that were put in place in 2011 were tossed aside by a bi-partisan coalition of big spenders, allowing $1.5 trillion to be added to the federal debt by 2017.

Republicans and Democrats alike ensured the U.S. federal debt will exceed $20 trillion by the time President Obama leaves office, almost double what it was when he came in.

This is one of the most profoundly immoral, even tyrannical, things a President — and the complicit Congress — has ever done.

Here is why:

Would you not say that “taxation without representation” is tyranny? Of course you would. Our forefathers fought a war over it. And yet we sit idly by and allow politicians to pile on debt that will be left to future generations to pay.

Do the unborn have a say — a vote — in this spending? Of course not. Yet they will be taxed to pay for it. That, my friends, is tyranny.

Obama issues executive order to shield criminals' records from federal employment, seeks ‘blanket pardon’ for Dem votes

Obama continues to side with criminals against law-abiding citizens, as shown by his proposal for a mass release of inmates. We never see liberals talk about criminal justice reform for corporate crimes or tax evasion, but always drug incarceration. What Obama is doing isn’t criminal justice reform; it’s just a massive release of criminals. True criminal justice reform would be fewer regulations, and more liberty. Obama wants to release criminals not for criminal justice reform, but because he sees them as future Democrat voters. ~ ML, 11/2/15

Once again, Mark's on to yet another of Obama's lawless moves. This time, it's Obama siding with criminals over tax-paying citizens. And it's not just about hiding records, Obama undoubtedly wants to give released prisoners a 'blanket pardon' so that they can cast Democratic votes in the 2016 election.

"Everything good is turned upside down, and now he wants to release thousands more prisoners. And he doesn’t want those hiring at the federal level, in the federal bureaucracy, to be able to know if people have actually served time in certain circumstances. This is just incredible to me. Just think about Obama, what his priorities are. Illegal aliens, not American citizens. American citizens he has contempt for, particularly white people — let’s be honest here — who have racism in their DNA. It’s the damnedest thing. This president sides with rioters against police officers. This president sides with criminals against successful tax-paying citizens. And I got to thinking. This is his constituent group. This is his constituent group, and so the more people they can release — maybe at some point he’ll release these people and give them a blanket pardon. You’ve heard it here first because I think maybe that’s what’s going on. You know because in some states you can’t vote."

By hook, but mostly by CROOK! And you know that's the case when they call it 'reform'. This is a jailbreak executed by the head criminal.

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