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To: markomalley
An old rant, by Jim DeMint. Not sure if it comes close to Cruz's remarks today, but in a few years of watching the Senate, I took this October 1, 2008 speech of DeMint's as a real highlight.

... our own Government appears to be leading our country into the pit of socialism.

We have seen this Government socialize our education system and make our schools among the worst in the world. We have seen this Government take over most of our health care system, making private insurance less and less affordable. We have seen this Government socialize our energy resources and bring our Nation to its knees by cutting the development of our own oil and natural gas supplies. And now we see this Congress yielding its constitutional obligations to a Federal bureaucracy, giving it the power to control virtually our entire financial system. Americans understand this and they are angry. ...

If we were honest with the American people and explained the failures that have led to this financial crisis, we might have the credibility to ask our citizens to allow us to borrow another $700 billion in their name to try to fix this problem. But we are not being honest. This problem was not created by our free enterprise system. It was created by us, the Congress and the Federal Government. ...

We are telling people not to worry because we are going to rescue them with their own money.


15 posted on 07/24/2015 1:12:31 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

I called on Senator Dean Heller to Oust McConnell I called Mitch a Pussy and a liar.

Obama is a low approval rating lame duck and yet he gets what he desires and more.

Dashel and Reid stopped Bush from getting anything he wanted, Mitch is a Pussy and a Fake conservative.


18 posted on 07/24/2015 1:18:12 PM PDT by Zenjitsuman (New Boss Nancy Pelosi)
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