The PJ Tatler is not intended to be an all-Ted-Cruz-all-the-time blog. But he is one of the very few Republicans in Washington awake to what Obama and the Democrats are up to, and one of the fewer still capable of and willing to fight on every inch of ground.
Today’s evidence: A cheeky letter.
Last week Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel sent a letter to several banks that do business with US gun manufacturers. Emanuel wants the banks to strangle the manufacturers’ businesses by cutting off their credit. Emanuel evidently sees no end to his power as mayor of what, frankly, is becoming simultaneously one of the least free and most murderous cities in America. He also does not seem to care that his action could expose the city to massive lawsuits.
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas sees Emanuel’s overreach as an opportunity. Today he sent the following letter to the CEO of Bank of America, the CEO of TD Bank, and the CEOs of two gun manufacturers, Smith & Wesson and Sturm, Ruger & Co.
Letter from Senator Ted Cruz to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Bank of America, TD Bank Group, Smith & Wes… by Senator Ted Cruz
This is very mischievous letter, so naturally, we at the Tatler love it. In the Obama era, Texas has become the engine of our national economy. While the other big states mostly go blue and therefore lurch toward bankruptcy, Texas is keeping government small and attracting businesses from those sinking blue states. Illinois is as blue as they come. So, says Sen. Cruz:
In light of the reception you have received in the Windy City, please know that Texas would certainly welcome more of your business and the jobs you create. Texans value jobs and value freedom, and over 1000 people a day are moving to Texas (often from cities like Chicago), because Texas is where the jobs are.
Ba-da-bing, ba-da-BOOYAH.
Later in the letter, Cruz reminds Emanuel of his most recent failure to attack the Second Amendment.
…you recently were obliged to pay over $1.1 million of taxpayer money in legal fees due to your unsuccessful assault on the Second Amendment. And, your city’s longstanding policies of stripping citizens of the constitutional right to keep and bear arms have, in turn, produced some of the very highest crime and murder rates in the Nation.
Indeed. The Windy City has become the bloody city under Emanual’s poor leadership, with more than 500 murders last year and on track for more than 700 this year. Perhaps Emanuel should tend to succeeding in his fiefdom before telling anyone else how to life.
Read the whole thing. It’s heartening that we have one senator, Ted Cruz, who is willing to stand up for citizens and our constitutional rights.
Texas should be careful of welcoming to many people from blue states.. They may still vote for blue policies… I’m seeing here in New Hampshire. We use to be red but it seems we are going from purple to blue faster then I could have imagined.
It was only a matter of time before Vermontachusetts went the way of its neighbor to the south. You’ve been massholed! But don’t worry; Deval “Tax It All” Patrick is not to be outdone. He wants to hike the income tax here another percentage point.
Beware blue staters moving to red states. They implement policies that got them in a mess in the first place, then leave the mess they created, and head for greener pastures, whereupon they attempt to implement policies that will lead to another mess.
Your description makes them sound like locusts. That’s an apt description. Good post!
In the West we call it Californication. They flee the cesspool they’ve created in CA and immediately start trying to turn their new home into CA.
That place in Texas where liberal go is called Austin. Though Houston and Dallas are apparently trying to become the same way (I live outside of Fort Worth).
I’ve been told my views are tiresome, but your comment inspires me to add them here as a postscript. Folks, when you encounter these counterfeit-American Marxist-Democrats, whether they are new neighbors, tiresome “friends,” or family members, tell them what you think of them, and where it’s going to lead when the shooting starts—that you’ll be starting on them. Let them know you mean business.
Take the gun manufacturers, leave the Cannoli’s.
I just haven’t been clear on why Springfield Arms and it’s peers continued to be willing to subsidize the Chicago Machine and it’s anti-business policies through their tax dollars and employment of residents. And they’ve got a huge area to chose from for location. Heck, I bet we might even be willing to work out a deal for their employees who would like to relocate and buy homes.
The reason they do business in Illinois is because Springfield is the capitol of Illinois and Springfield Armory receives huge taxpayer kickbacks from the corrupt government to stay there. Springfield Armory makes wonderful firearms but the unnecessarily huge cost of them can also be attributed to doing business in Illinois. They would really thrive in Texas and we all would benefit from their lower prices.
Well, I can understand why so many in the Texas establishment were against him. Clear lack of political talent.
People need to look towards Arizona too. Under Gov. Brewer we have gone from a multi billion dollar deficit to a multi million surplus! Ruger has already moved it’s or most of it’s firearm production to Prescott, AZ just because of crap like this. We have also been listed in the top 10 states in which to start new business ventures. Of course, like Texas, we have a Republican Governor.
I think a nice welcome to Texas package is in order for those who migrate to Texas.
A package that details the evils of the blue where ever these people came from and why there is opportunity in Texas and a dire warning not to F–K it up.
Senator Cruz is letting the cat out of the bag. We’ve been moving financial and insurance back office operations to Florida for 30 years. All those fancy office towers in NYC and Chicago are just for show – the real work gets done in Florida.
Eastern time zone, pleasant climate, no state income tax. Now if we just don’t screw it up.
Much the same thing has happened to Silicon Valley… a lot of the company offices there now are just executives. The engineering has move to the Southeast or offshore.
unfortunately the boom in Fla might end because they are going blue as well. Remember they were stupid enough to vote for Obama. Soon those parasitic dem machines in south Fla will take over, and turn you into CA.
Rahm Emanuel, aka “tiny dancer 9.5″ is the worst of the worst. He is a “made guy” in the Daley crime family and back stabbing a-hole of the first order.
Suffering from a terrible case of short man complex, and a loss of dexterity from sawing a finger tip off with a meat saw, This ego-maniac compensates by using political position to “get” anyone not agreeing totally with whatever b.s. he can think up to glorify himself. In order to not have to stoop to ordinary graft like the lowly alderthieves here, he was allowed to profit to the tune of 18-20 mil as an investment banker or something in less than a year by his connections in the Daley crime family. pretty good for a degree in ballet dancing. Most of the few taxpayers left here are tired of him and his agenda.
Back in the 70′s and early 80′s, when northerners were fleeing the rust belt for Texas, there was a popular bumper sticker sported by natural-born and ‘naturalized’ Texans aimed at bossy, condescending, know-it-all refugees.
It read something like, “We Don’t Care How You Did It Back Where You Came From”.
The late Lewis Grizzard, writer for the Atlanta Journal and Constitution used to reply to Yankee transplants seeking to “fundamentally transform” Atlanta, “Delta Is Ready When You Are!” Here in Alaska bumperstickers saying, “We don’t give a damn how you do it Outside” used to be very common.
Back in the ’80s, I think it was Lewis Grizzard who said something like:
Come to the South! Marry our daughters! Just don’t tell us how much better it was in Cleveland.
Cruz/West 2016
-love it but –Bobby Jindal!
Cruz is still pulling punches.
I would have written; “Been to Detroit lately? That’s where your leaders are taking you. Get out now while you can.”
And then set up a hotline 1-800-ref-ugee to direct callers to likely employment in Texas.
Work in Texas dot com < no spaces, one dot
…and it’s ain’t just Texas!
The Third Coast (WSJ article by futurist Joel Kotkin)
…and it’s ain’t just Texas! They is some uther places what need grammer teachers, too!
I wonder how long it will be before all of Illinois looks like East St. Louis.
In the Obama era, Texas has become the engine of our national economy.
Statements like that scare me. You see, not long ago, I read a book in which a man identified the engine that ran the world and vowed to stop it.
We’re not there yet. We’re watching some blue states get bluer, yes, but there are counter-trends; remember Wisconsin? Remember when “shall issue” started to catch on, not so long ago?
Still, we’d better watch out. To the people in Washington who think they run our economy, “Atlas Shrugged” is a how-to manual, and James Taggart is a hero.
I have wondered for a while now when the Federal Government will begin making the punishment of Texas a higher priority.
I can’t believe they will simply stand by while Texas becomes increasingly more successful by employing sane principles, while other states, who do not, sink gradually into bankruptcy. Look for the Feds to make it illegal for Texas to be Texas.
We’d've likely seen a whole more trouble along the Texas border, had it not been for the 2010 election’s readjusting the general ‘drive the people out of the right-to-work states’ plan (Macondo and Fast & Furious). Elections have consequences, as they say –two of which may’ve been, ‘damn, we better cap this thing or we’ll get shredded in November’ and ‘damn, we got shredded in November, better blow the whistle on this gun thing’. Naw, i wasn’t born paranoid –i had to be taught.
Ted Cruz is an absolute jewel. The shame of it is, because we Tea Partiers here in Texas supported him over the establishment candidate Dewhurst, he will soon have to defend himself from Rove and Crossroads. Thus, he won’t be able to spend near enough time taking on the dimwit party.
I have really been impressed with Cruz. He has managed to remain a strong conservative, and strongly defend conservative values, especially smaller gov and sound fiscal policy, but he sounds sensible and moderate while doing it. Both the dems and the repub establishment must be terrified of him.
Not sure about jindal now, I didn’t like his stupid party bit. You dont defend repub values by accepting dem talking points.
I think a better partner for Cruz might be Rand Paul. Rand has all the idealism of his father, but he also has some good sense, and an ability to sound reasonable as he defends his libertarian/conservative values, just like Cruz.