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As Congress continues to navigate this urgent and complicated debt crisis, you can count on me to do the right thing for the right reasons and to approach every vote as a free market, constitutional conservative. I have cosponsored a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution every session since 2001, and I am an original cosponsor of the Cut, Cap and Balance plan that puts America on track for a balanced budget. I will continue to strenuously oppose any tax increases, while pushing hard for massive spending cuts and enforceable spending caps.   Read more »

In 2009, I wrote a restatement of The Declaration Of Independence, in contemporary English and listing the offenses against its spirit of the current state of America, with the recent rush in the long trend of abandonment of constitutional principle. And that was even before the audacious passage of the federal healthcare law that has been called Obamacare.   Read more »

I regret that I am forced to paraphrase a quote from America’s founding that says in essence that the exercise of power is only limited by what is tolerated. It sounds like Jefferson of course, but might not be. One should copy such things immediately. I’ve spent enough time trying to find it again. Anyway, it’s consistent with the overall flavor of many quotes about overreaching power and resistance. What I want to point up is that the law is an agreement of a civil society. Just as its enforcers are not respected without the threat of penalty, they

Some of you will recall that I have affirmed the legitimacy of state nullification of unconstitutional (critical adjective) federal government actions in the recent past. We need as many as possible to be well-informed and able to articulate and defend these issues. Adding the article below to what I have already read of the history of The US Constitution and the conversation surrounding it, it seems some favored strength in the federal government while some state representatives feared and spurned it. Among our noted founders,

In my last post, I again made reference to the idea that states ought to refuse to comply with unconstitutional federal directives. There is affirmation for such nullification in the founding era, explicitly discussed in pre-constitutional deliberations and in the culmination of the consequent Bill of Rights, The Tenth Amendment:

Congressman John Culberson, U.S. Representative for Texas Congressional District 7, took a moment for TexasGOPVote before the Thanksgiving break to share his thoughts about the 112th United States Congress, which starts on January 3, and also about what to expect in the remaining days of the 111th Congress, or “lame duck” session. For the lame duck, Culberson gives a short list of near-term priorities that he hopes the Democrats will have the good judgment and grace to address before they get out of town. Culberson outlines several of the leadership roles that Republican House members, including many Texans, will be taking on in the new house and that for his role he will have the “personal joy of zeroing out czars.”

The Dallas Morning News and Dallas County GOP Chairman Jonathan Neerman should read the following:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,