Ted Cruz hit pieces

An industry is growing up around attacking Ted Cruz. Cruz went to Washington DC telling everyone who would listen where he stands and what he hopes to accomplish. I don't recall him saying he was going to DC to fit in with the status quo and watch while establlished Senators continue to ruin the country. I don't recall Cruz saying he wanted to learn at the feet of John McCain and Lindsey Graham.

The Senate wasn't created to become a Good Ol' Boy's Club for professional, white politicians. Cruz made it clear that he wants to limit power in government not help maintain and expand power. Cruz made it clear he wants to free the economy not find more ways to control the economy. All the concern trolls like Dickerson at Slate obviously didn't understand Cruz when he said he wants to change Washington not praise it.

The funniest part of Dickerson's article was when he described Obama's short Senate career as marked by bipartisan cooperation. Well maybe another part was funnier, when he said unnamed conservatives had concerns about Cruz, then when he used Tom Coburn as an example, the quote he used from Coburn actually pertained to Obama. Wow, this article was some pitiful hit piece.

Obama strong arm tactics nothing new

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The more powerful government gets the more vicious the battles for control will be. The American people haven't been told the truth about their government, and they obviously haven't cared enough to discover the truth.

The Calculating Obama administration

I'm sure that the operatives and lackeys surrounding Barack Obama are incompetent to a certain degree, but Valerie Jarrett and David Plouffe and others who are behind the scenes are not bumblers. These Obama handlers are calculating. Despite what Obama has said, he had to know what was about to be revealed regarding Benghazi, the IRS and the AP and the other revelations that have media dancing between apologies and pressure to do their jobs.

The administration handlers calculated media response when all the "scandals" were revealed. Now that liberal journalists have criticized Obama, even from the NYT, because of civil liberties violations, when they say they have looked into the issues thoroughly and found no smoking guns to nail Obama for corruption, they'll have credibility, so that when Republicans continue with the investigations they'll look as if they're obsessed with destroying Obama. Even this morning journalists and reporters are moving on and praising Obama's foreign policy speech. The speech was simply more deception, a defense of the drone policy and a statement that Obama's interventions in the Mideast will continue. The Press is advertising the speech as a turning point, and it is -- it's an escalation of interventions, just without troops on the ground -- at least for now. These types of interventions always lead to boots on the ground, so the seeds of the next war are being planted by Obama's "turning point".

Obama handlers are also calculating that foreign policy policy will draw attention away from the "scandals". I put scandals in quotes, because, as I've stated lately, these are simply consequences of statism and progressivism. The media will help Obama build his foreign policy image as more confusion is spread about the IRS and the AP/Fox phone/email spying and the Benghazi gun-running deal that led to the death of four Americans. As media tell us that Obama is not implicated in any wrongdoing, honest Republicans will push the issues, but the GOP establishment will back off.

When the "scandals" have passed, the level of rights violations will have been raised to allow more violations. Rights violations are being normalized. The Obama operators calculated this.

Public overload (partial tongue in cheek)

With Benghazi, the IRS, the EPA, the AP and all the other "scandals", there's public overload and conditioning. Whether the scandal dump is intentional or not, the effect is that the public is being conditioned to accept this behavior from government. Does anyone think that Congress will impeach the first black President? Obama will be protected, but everyone will know that Obama is guilty of at least lying about knowledge of the government actions.

If it's not planned, it would make a good plan. If the administration keeps these coming, the public will soon expect government to violate rights and bully all those who are enemies of the State. Yes, there will be backlash and some in Congress will raise hell, but how many will actually persist to get the truth? In a year we'll be past all this and government will have created more space for authoritarian behavior.

If the public hasn't turned on Obama after five years of economic stagnation and high unemployment and numberous deceptions, they aren't going to turn on him now. If Republicans do insist on punishing Obama, media will portray them as obsessed with Obama, and they'll imply racist intent. As Tocqueville said, without so much as a whimper. Planned or not, I think it might work.

The coming crisis to overshadow all crises

The consequences of corruption we now witness in our statist system are nothing compared to the financial consequences looming from government's unfunded liabilites. Kevin Williamson has written about this, as I have for 7 years now.

 Williamson believes, as I believe, the coming financial crisis can be an opportunity for Americans to pull together and solve problems like we should've been doing all along. When interest rates start rising we'll have the chance. I don't think most American understand how serious this problem has become.

The American genius for cooperation, creativity and innovation is being wasted right now, but that will have to change if we are to survive and thrive going forward. We've allowed something terrible for way too long, but it doesn't have to be this way. It doesn't.