Ted Cruz, Charlie Daniels, and Making DC Listen

Thank you, Ted Cruz.

An Article by The American Refugee

Conservatives have been frustrated over the lack of leadership coming from Washington.  Now Ted Cruz has given us a leader to believe in and caused a grass roots tsunami by stepping up to the plate.  For 21 hours from Tuesday till Wednesday, Ted Cruz stood on floor of the US Senate and gave a voice to millions of Americans.  We patriots have often felt abandoned by the Republican leadership as Obama and his minions run rough shod over the constitution. Now we say, no more.  Millions of patriots stayed up with Cruz and Made DC Listen this week. We tweeted, we e-mailed, and we blew up the Senate switchboard.  Rand Paul, David Vitter, Jeff Sessions, and especially Mike Lee stepped up huge to stand with Ted.  Twitter was lit up like I have never seen.  At one point Ted Cruz, DontFundIt, ObamaCare, DefundObamaCare, and MakeDCListen were all trending world wide, simultaneously.

Now the national media is trying to tell us that Cruz failed.  He did not.  19 Senators ended up standing with Ted and voting no on Harry Reid’s Cloture motion.  Also, think about this.  The House actually sent over a CR that defunded ObamaCare and while the Senate has gutted it and sent it back to the House, the House is not just lying down and passing the Senate CR. There will likely be a brief shutdown and we will extract a price.  None of this would be happening without all of the work and leadership of Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and Rand Paul. Multiple Democrats have grown week kneed and have begun to talk about compromises that they are willing to make.

A one year delay in the individual mandate could probably pass the Senate now, but inspired by conservatives, the House has decided to go even bolder. Republican congressmen have been bucked up.  Now the House is passing a full one year delay of ObamaCare.  This would not be happening without the Cruz filibuster or millions of patriots contacting congressmen.  There will be serious pressure on the Senate to pass this CR.  Not only will the Dems be shutting down the government in they don’t, but they are only being asked to delay ObamaCare for a year.  Considering that Obama already delayed the employer mandate for a year and has delayed the small business exchanges because they aren’t ready, how can they argue with a straight face that it is the right thing to do to shut down the government rather than delay the rest of ObamaCare for just one year?  We haven’t defunded ObamaCare yet, but we have made progress. We are on the move and ObamaCare is in retreat. The Conservative movement is alive and has a beating heart.

Finally, I want to promote a new, spontaneous, grass roots movement that is springing up. Many patriots are asking @CharlieDaniels to write a pro-America anti-ObamaCare song song to serve as our anthem as we #MakeDCListen. Perhaps Charlie would even write something that would shout out our leader, Ted Cruz.  I could imagine a great song to the tune of Devil Went Down To Georgia, of the Devil (Obama) trying to steel the soul of America through Obama-Care and Johnnie, “Teddie” standing up to him and saving the day. You can tweet to Charlie right HERE!