{"id":6775,"date":"2015-09-13T00:43:57","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T07:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/?p=6775"},"modified":"2016-03-12T21:27:34","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T05:27:34","slug":"an-american-rubicon-and-a-few-good-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/an-american-rubicon-and-a-few-good-men\/","title":{"rendered":"An American Rubicon and a Few Good Men"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0An American Rubicon and a Few Good Men<\/strong><\/h1>\n

By Scott Rohter, September 2015<\/p>\n

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\"Louie<\/a>

Congressman Louie Ghomert (TX)<\/p><\/div>

\"Rep.<\/a>

Congressman Daniel Webster (FL)<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

Out of the depths of despair\u00a0a\u00a0nation was born.\u00a0From under the yoke of tyranny the\u00a0faint sounds of\u00a0freedom\u00a0began to ring.\u00a0They echoed\u00a0in the\u00a0hearts of a few good men. At first there weren’t many who heard the\u00a0sounds. There were even fewer still who knew what\u00a0they meant, but\u00a0they kept\u00a0resonating until\u00a0it was\u00a0hard to find anyone in the\u00a0thirteen colonies\u00a0who didn’t know what those sounds meant.\u00a0They\u00a0kept resonating until a\u00a0people of no little consequence\u00a0was united in a common cause\u00a0and bound\u00a0by a\u00a0shared destiny. Through\u00a0trials and tribulations\u00a0they\u00a0became convinced that\u00a0their destiny was\u00a0to\u00a0be free.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Soon a\u00a0consensus emerged\u00a0that something\u00a0needed to be done to facilitate that goal. What a\u00a0few good men\u00a0decided to do next was something that none of them had ever\u00a0contemplated doing\u00a0before. None of them had ever\u00a0considered starting a revolution. The very thought of\u00a0it was daunting, but they believed\u00a0in their cause\u00a0and for the\u00a0rectification of their grievances they put their\u00a0faith in\u00a0God. We can read about their decision to\u00a0start\u00a0the American Revolution in the Declaration of Independence.\u00a0It\u00a0took a\u00a0profound act of courage\u00a0by a few good men to\u00a0launch our country. Their names are written in the first chapter of America’s history.\u00a0 Some of them are\u00a0listed\u00a0at the\u00a0end of the Declaration of Independence. This article is not just about those good men, but it is about a few good men\u00a0of uncompromising character in Congress today.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After they declared\u00a0independence from\u00a0Britain\u00a0a few good men\u00a0 began a Revolution which would change more than just one nation. It would change the\u00a0entire world. If\u00a0a few good men thought their lives had been difficult before they crossed\u00a0their\u00a0American Rubicon, it was nothing\u00a0compared to\u00a0the kind of suffering they\u00a0were going to\u00a0endure in their immediate future.<\/p>\n

\"Tom<\/a>At first nothing went right.\u00a0A few good men went from failure to failure. They went from one defeat to the next. The news was\u00a0always bad\u00a0just like the news we hear in the media today. There were traitors in their midst just like there are traitors\u00a0in ours today. The situation looked bleak and hopeless in the winter of 1776, but a few good men refused to give up and they never lost their determination not to give in.<\/p>\n

They suffered\u00a0horrible defeats on and off the battlefield.\u00a0Each\u00a0defeat seemed\u00a0worse than the\u00a0defeat that preceded it.\u00a0\u00a0Most\u00a0of their defeats were much worse than the one\u00a0that we suffered in\u00a0Congress last week when President Obama\u2019s nuclear arms treaty with Iran passed the Senate without\u00a0so much as a debate or even a\u00a0single vote\u00a0being taken. The United States Constitution\u00a0which\u00a0our nation’s\u00a0Founding Fathers risked their very lives\u00a0for to\u00a0bequeath us means absolutely nothing\u00a0to\u00a0our political leaders in Washington D.C.\u00a0 Even the city that bears his name no longer honors America’s first Commander in Chief.<\/p>\n

The vote in the Senate on the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act <\/a>was 98 to 1 with one abstention. The lone dissenting vote was that of Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas.. He is one of\u00a0the few good men that we have left on Capitol Hill. The vote in the House of Un-Representatives <\/a>was not much better than that. It was 400 to 25 with seven abstentions. Some of the dissenters who can still recognize a violation of the Constitution when they\u00a0see one were Congressman Louie Ghomert of Texas, Congressman Tom McClintock from California, Congressman Tim Huelskamp of Kansas,\u00a0Congressman Dave Brat of Virginia and Congressman Daniel Webster of Florida.<\/a> These are a few of America’s good men. There were not many others in Congress who refused to go along with the President’s plan to implement a nuclear arms\u00a0treaty with Iran\u00a0by executive agreement\u00a0instead of\u00a0with the consent of two thirds of the members of the Senate. For a full list of Congressman who refused to strip the Senate of its Power of Consent over\u00a0this treaty click the link above to view the vote in the\u00a0House of Un-Representatives. Just a few good men is\u00a0about all we have left on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n

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\"Brat<\/a>The final stab in the back occurred on September 10th,\u00a0\u00a0just\u00a0one\u00a0day before the 14th anniversary of the attacks on 9\/11.\u00a0The\u00a0person who thrust the knife\u00a0into America’s\u00a0solar plexus\u00a0was Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. He is the\u00a0 Senate Majority Leader who put forward\u00a0the motion for cloture which prevented any debate on the Iran Treaty\u00a0from ever occurring. It also prevented a vote from\u00a0occurring. Normally cloture is used to end a filibuster\u00a0or to limit\u00a0a debate, but not to prevent one from\u00a0occurring. On this occasion\u00a0Senator McConnell\u00a0used it to prevent\u00a0a debate from\u00a0taking place\u00a0and to prevent a vote on the treaty with Iran from\u00a0being\u00a0recorded. It also spared the President from having to\u00a0take out\u00a0his veto pen. The Iran Treaty passed the Senate and\u00a0became\u00a0law without\u00a0a single\u00a0Senator\u00a0voting for it. This is not the end of the world. It is just one battle in the war. The war is not lost and the cause is not lost.. not as long as we have a few good men.<\/p>\n

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Selected Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/a-president-who-really-shouldnt-be-president-negotiates-a-treaty-that-really-isnt-a-treaty-with-our-enemies-who-are-really-still-our-enemies-you-just-cant-make-this-stuff-up.html<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/the-death-of-our-republic-by-a-thousand-executive-orders-a-treaty-by-any-other-name-is-still-a-treaty-and-it-still-requires-senate-approval.html<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/webster.house.gov\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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