Is Texas’ Hensarling “The” Conservative Leader In America Now?

This prefaces a speech transcript of Congressman Jeb Hensarling (R-Dallas) over at The Red State:

You heard from the conservative leader of the Senate. Now hear from the Chairman of the Republican Study Committee, Jeb Hensarling, arguably *the* conservative leader in America right now.

Really? “*the*” conservative leader in America right now? I can’t say I smell another GOP Veep contender yet, though. We’ll leave that to Rep. Kay Granger (R-Fort Worth).

But, we can still amuse ourselves with some of what Hensarling had to say:

The Founding Fathers disagreed. They knew that as government grew, liberty yielded. Listen to their first statement of principle:

“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.”

Listen closely to those last three words, “Pursuit of Happiness.” PURSUE… Permit me to point out that the founders did not say “endowed by a government with an ENTITLEMENT to happiness, an APPROPRIATION for happiness, or even a FEDERAL DEPARTMENT of happiness.

The Federal Department of Happiness. I nominate Congressman Ron Paul to chair that one.

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