Ohio Citizens PAC
A TEA Party Rebuttal to the misguided attacks by the Republican Establishment and Conservative Media on Ted Cruz and the TEA Party
March 1, 2014
By Tom Zawistowski, President

In recent weeks a coordinated attack has been launched by the Republican Establishment on Senator Ted Cruz and any Congressman associated with the TEA Party, to belittle their efforts to do what is necessary to reign in an out-of-control government that even liberal law professor Jonathan Turley describes as being at a “constitutional tipping point.” This attack has been waged, using media stories by prominent conservative columnists, to label Cruz as “irresponsible”, “misguided”, “self-serving” and inferring that he is a using the TEA Party to benefit his own fortunes while single-handedly destroying Republican chances to win the Senate. We contend that nothing could be further from the truth and we will prove it.

The storyline the establishment is selling, that was articulated by Thomas Sowell and other well respected commentators like Charles Krauthamer, Kim Strassel, and more, is that “the only way to repeal Obamacare is to win the Senate”, and that anyone who doesn’t understand that is tactically misguided and, in Cruz’s case, destructive. To them it is perfectly fine for the Republicans in the Senate and the House to prostrate themselves in the face of an out-of-control executive branch that is spending us into oblivion, gutting our military, and destroying the personal finances of millions of American families through the implementation of Obamacare - as long as Republicans take the Senate and keep the House.

What the corporate-owned Establishment Republicans, like John McCain and John Boehner, want us to believe is that somehow, like magic, when the Republicans have control of the Senate, and presumably win the Presidency in 2016 with some “moderate” big-government proponent, that things will be different. That they will act conservatively, repeal Obamacare, reign in government spending and suddenly be all for lessoning their own power. Unfortunately, history tells a much different story, and we in the TEA Party know that it is a lie intended only to protect the Republicans Establishment’s power and money.

What Thomas Sowell and the others fail to add into their calculus is the fact that the 27 Republican Senators who threw Ted Cruz under the bus to end the President’s government shutdown, will mostly still be in office in 2016 and beyond -unless we elect someone else. We know that nothing will change as long as the same people, elected and un-elected, remain in control of our Government. As a case in point, no one can possibly defend the out-of-control spending and growth of government during the Bush Administration when the Republican Establishment did have total control and there was no TEA Party to stop them. Yet the conservative media is foolish enough to believe the Establishment Republicans when they shout that the answer to our out-of-control federal government is to have “less” TEA Party Representatives when they take back the Senate and the White House? That is laughable.

For another example just look at our state of Ohio where in 2010 the TEA Party elected every Republican from dog catcher to Governor. Republicans now hold super majorities in the House and the Senate and control the State Supreme Court. Total, supposedly conservative, Republican control led by a man that the Washington media continues to falsely hold up as conservative. What has that gotten us? How about a 23% increase in state spending over Kasich’s four years, the forced implementation of Medicaid Expansion through the Controlling Board against the wishes of the Republican legislature and 65% of registered Republicans, unemployment that is going up not down, and a state economy that is 43rd in the nation in job growth because our supposedly conservative Governor will not pass Workplace Freedom or even Pay Check protection, while neighboring Michigan and Indiana did so and rank in the top 10 in job growth. John Kasich is as Establishment Republican as they come and he is no conservative. Electing the Republican Establishment is not the solution, it is the problem!