This article was originally published in the Capitol News Daily on 11Oct13, and the link is provided at the end of this article:

Today is a rainy, gloomy day in Washington.

And as John Boehner is up at the White House negotiating the unconditional surrender of House Republicans, I unexpectedly ran into Senator Ted Cruz outside of Washington’s Omni Shoreham Hotel.

Cruz was smiling and said he was invigorated by the outpouring of support for his campaign against Obamacare.

Of course, you may be wondering why Cruz is happy while the Republican leaders around him are groping for a lifeline from Obama and a way to settle the dispute.

The reasons are simple…


Strength Through Experience

First, Senator Ted Cruz isn’t like most politicians.

He was raised by a father who escaped from Castro’s revolution – a revolution that started by instituting socialized medicine, and then moved on to confiscating private property.

Initially, Castro was seen as a leader who could break the endemic corruption of the Cuban government and free his people. But the corruption never ended. Instead, Castro twisted the system, but kept the most insidious traits of the earlier Fulgencio Batista regime.

This family experience has made Cruz impervious to the usual pressures of Washington.

He isn’t really concerned with the media calling him names. Like Megyn Kelly. She launched her new show on Fox News by asking Senator Cruz, “What’s it like to be the most hated man in America?”

Cruz is impervious because he believes that America stands at a crucial crossroads. He doesn’t want what happened in Cuba to occur here.

So he isn’t playing for re-election or popularity. He’s attempting to build a coalition to retake America.

Passion the Founding Fathers Would Be Proud Of

Second, Ted Cruz knows the U.S. Constitution by heart. Literally. He was part of a group of high school students who memorized the document from beginning to end.

As a young man, he traveled through Texas, giving speeches about the Constitution and the free enterprise system.

When he talks with passion about the 1st, 2nd, or even 4th and 5th Amendments of the Constitution, his passion is similar to the Founding Fathers.

And during his recent 21-hour filibuster against Obamacare, he took some time to read at length about the signers of the Declaration of Independence. When you hear Cruz talk about these documents, you know immediately that he isn’t a man to be turned from his commitment.

So it remains to be known exactly what Speaker John Boehner will do to end the stalemate with Barack Obama. My only prediction is that he’ll eventually cave in to the pressure of the media and D.C.

John Boehner is very much a member of what I call the “Permanent Class.” They’re the ruling elite who always look to grow and expand the power of government.

But whatever Boehner, Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell, and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor do to bring Congress back into compliance with the wishes of the Permanent Class, Senator Cruz has won the debate.

Obamacare is a failure. And whatever D.C. does to fix it won’t likely work. And everyone in the country knows Cruz is the leader with enough courage to actually repeal it.

So along with launching the first broadside of the 2014 battle for Congress, Cruz has laid the groundwork to run for President of the United States. With that, he’s nicely positioned to be the anti-Washington candidate in the 2016 Republican Presidential sweepstakes. (Heck, since he’s such a perfect candidate, the election should just be canceled.)

Cruz should be smiling.

Your eyes on the Hill,

Floyd Brown

http://www.capitolhilldaily.com/2013/10/ted-cruz-obamacare/

My daughter, 21 now and in college majoring in ASL, spent her first three years of school in a one room school with about 20 other kids, kindergarden to 12th grade. She was Salutatorian in 10th grade in the public school she attended, and in 11th and 12th grades she took advanced classes. She took her first college class at 15 while still in high school and began college with 17 credits after her placement test.

I had a friend who's son, while attending public school, had been diagnosed with ADHD, and because he goofed off in class and his grades were poor they sent him to continuation school with the juvenile delinquents. Soon after he began getting in trouble with the law. As a favor to my friend I asked the minister who ran the school my daughter was attending if the boy could go to school there. He agreed, and the boy graduated high school with better than average grades. Now he's an ordinance man in the Army.

The psychology of Progressives amazes me. They dismiss the life experience of others. They sneer at the lessons of history. They can't measure success. They disrespect their elders...AND God...AND morality. They arrogantly believe their way is the best way and they're willing to throw the baby out with the bathwater to prove it - lessons of history and measurable success of time honored method be damned! Your references to fat old geezers and one room schools is a perfect example of why we should resist your way of thinking.