by Nancy Coppock | October 2, 2011 | bcsteaparty.com
When it comes to casting a long shadow in man’s quest for liberty, Texas has both a heritage and a reputation.
The first Texans went to war with President/General Santa Anna because of his decision to nullify and then renegotiate their original land grant contracts. The Texans saw this act as a threat to the rule of law and private property – the foundations of appreciating liberty. They fought and captured him. Ultimately Santa Anna signed the peace treaty that dictated that the Mexican army leave the region, paving the way for the Republic of Texas to become an independent country.
Heritage collides with reality
While this is our Texas heritage, the reality is that Texas is currently not the vanguard in defense of liberty. According to a new HeritageActionforAmerica – Scorecard, the true defenders of liberty hail from the great state of South Carolina. (The Scorecard rates legislators by weighing the bills they sponsor as well as actual votes according to ensuring and defense of liberty for their constituents, as well as the rest of the nation, suffering under the yoke of Federal Imperialism.)
Unfortunately for Texans, as well as the rest of the nation, the entire Texas delegation serving in Washington, D.C. is more on par with South Carolina’s one RINO, Senator Lindsay Graham (63%). Texas has 25 Republican delegates serving in Washington, D.C. and only one – Rep. Louie Gohmert - scores 90%, with 20 scoring less than 80%!
Both Texas Senators score less than 80% in this Heritage Action Scorecard which grades according to liberty ensured and defended. Senator John Cornyn scores 74% and Senator Kay Hutchison scores an abysmal 65%.
Such an appalling overall state delegation scoring is proof that while TX District 17 has a problem with Rep. Bill Flores (75%), the rest of liberty loving Texans should have a problem with their representative, too. This is a problem that encompasses the entire Texas delegation to Washington, D.C. While we must admit that the Democratic Party most certainly has a problem with ensuring and defending Liberty, that this problem exists in the Republican Party means that the unifying principles of the Declaration of Independence, The Federalist Papers, and The Constitution are not the premier source of inspiration in our candidate vetting process, nor in our elected representatives’ appreciation of their sponsorship of resolutions or votes.
Necessary vigilance against breach of trust
James Madison, in his recommendation of The Constitution in Federalist 55, wrote these three specific observations regarding the genius of the American people to protect their liberty:
○ “. . . I am unable to conceive that the people of America, in their present temper, or under any circumstances which can speedily happen, will choose, and every second year repeat the choice of, sixty-five or a hundred men who would be disposed to form and pursue a scheme of tyranny or treachery.”
○ “I am unable to conceive that the State legislatures, which must feel so many motives to watch, and which possess so many means of counteracting, the federal legislature, would fail either to detect or to defeat a conspiracy of the latter against the liberties of their common constituents.”
○ “I am equally unable to conceive that there are at this time, or can be in any short time, in the United States, any sixty-five or a hundred men capable of recommending themselves to the choice of the people at large, who would either desire or dare, within the short space of two years, to betray the solemn trust committed to them.“
The Texas delegation in Washington, D.C. has forgotten that it is the priority of our American government, as well as their authority of elected position, to ensure and defend the liberty of their constituents. In that endeavor they appear to be miserable failures. Whether Texans who love liberty do anything about this depends upon our personal determination to ensure and defend liberty.
Nancy Coppock, Bryan/College Station Tea Party
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Please publish the list of our representatives and let us see how they are rated. Thanks