Since retiring from my "day job" I've taken a break from blogging. Now that I have more time on my hands I've been engaged in more hands on activism. I volunteer for the Harris County Democratic Party one day a week. I am also a Houston area neighborhood organizer for Battleground Texas. I register voters, make calls and knock on doors on behalf of Wendy Davis. It has been an empowering break from pounding away on the keyboard, week after week. But when I read about Ted Cruz's latest and most dangerous political stunt in our nation's Capitol last week, it brought me straight back here. - Carolyn Shore Aresu, aka Libby Shaw
Come home, Ted. You don't like Washington D.C. and Washington D.C. doesn't like you. Many of your Republican colleagues probably wish you were never born, much less elected.
It is not as if the majority of us want you to come back. Many of those who voted for you regret their decision. And honestly, Ted, the only reason someone like you could get elected in Texas is because we are a low voting state.
The thing is this. If you are in Texas instead of Washington D.C. you would not be able to inflict any more damage to our nation's financial stability, your constituents' health and economic well-being and to the already tarnished reputation of a state gone right wing red wild.
In a little over a year you, Senator, have turned Texas into the biggest and most loathed laughingstock in the U.S.
It has been bad enough for Texans, God knows, after having to live under the pay to play, crony capitalism and it's my way or the highway politics visited upon us by Rick Perry for the past fourteen long suffering years. During his seemingly endless tenure the Governor and his Republican right flank, which includes a toxic brew of the Texas Taliban, racists, xenophobes and corporate greed masters, have been masterful at dismantling the institutions and values that once made Texas great.
The Republican hard right has degraded public education. It has been on a tireless crusade to replace science with religion in school curricula. It has turned a taxpayer funded cancer research institute into a cash cow for itself and its crony donors. It has declared a misogynist war on women's reproductive rights. It proclaims to be pro-life while our state has a barbaric death penalty rate. It loves and protects the fetus but hates the born child, especially if the child is poor, black or brown. It punishes the sick who are poor by refusing to accept federally expanded Medicaid. It has outdone itself in making the right to vote harder for Texans who don't think and look like a member of its hard right white club.
This is the short list.
But as bad as all of the above is for the majority of Texans, at least none of the Governor's and his far right ideologues, for all their human wretchedness and depravity, moral bankruptcy, whoring politics, religious fanaticism, pathological greed, and abject heartlessness, have threatened to bring down the financial underpinnings of the state.
Alas, the same cannot be said for you, Mr. Cruz. For the stunt you pulled in the U.S. Senate last week should force you to find another job. After all, you have miserably failed to fulfill the basic tenets of the oath you took to serve the constitution and your constituents.
Worse, you seem to be on a one way mission to visit irreparable harm on the U.S.
Very few Americans know how close the country came to catastrophe this week.
What happens when a narcissistic demagogue and the jerk of all jerks goes to Washington D.C.
Cross posted on Texas Kaos.
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