Is Texas’ Hensarling “The” Conservative Leader In America Now?
Vince Leibowitz | Mar 02, 2007 | Comments 0
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.â€
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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that he is the “past” of a Texas Republican Party that is looking for new faces. He’s also go a long Congressional record opponents can seriously attack. Congressman Jeb Hensarling. The Dallas Congressman is widely viewed–in Texas and nationally–as a rising conservative star. While he’s a lock to run in a special election, don’t look for him to get the appointment. Why? Because it would create a special election in a district that has a significant number of voters in Dallas County. There is some chance, and it isn’t as
