#MakeSacListen

Cruz talked tough with the US Senate: #MakeDCListen

In October 2013, When US Senator Ted Cruz stood on the floor of the US Senate in a twenty-two hour speech (interspersed with debate from supporters and detractors), the Twitterverse lit up in favor of Senator Cruz' efforts to highlight the damage that Obamacare was doing to Americans.

RNC Chairman  Reince Preibus started a hash tag #StandWithTed and tweets all over the country sounded off their support for the junior senator from Texas.

The issue in Washington truly is more than Democrats borrowing from the future, but also the reticence of key Republican US Senators to push against the folly.

Activists, conservative and libertarian, are angry not just with the Democratic Party preeminence in Washington DC, but also the spending-spree under "compassionate conservative" George W. Bush. Who can forget the TARP bailout, which abdicated the authority of Congress to administrative fiat, which in turn enabled the Obama Administration to bailout GM and pay off unions, instead of shoring up toxic debt.

Republican as well as Democratic voters have learned the hard way: if we do not like what we see in our state or federal government, then we have to be the solution.

Going back to the Twitter, another hash tag appeared

#MakeDCListen

It's important that very citizen, every voter recognize that if we do not like what we see in Washington, or in our state government, or even our city leadership, we have to say something,

We have to make them listen.

For too long, conservatives, Republicans, limited government and individual liberty advocates coasted on getting "the right people" elected. It's nice to get the right people elected. 1994 was a banner year for Republicans, for example. Yet within two years, the Gingrich Revolution lost its way, and the Contract With America was broken or incomplete. A balanced budget was nice, and welfare reform was a great step in the right direction, too.

But then came President George W. Bush, and the spending spree exploded.

That was wrong. That never should have happened.

If we do not like what we see in our government, and especially from our own elected representatives, then We the People have a responsibility to make them listen.

The United States Constitution begins with "We the People", not "You the President" or "They the Legislature".

Once again, governments begin and end with the just — righteous, legally established — consent of the governed

Now to Sacramento, California.

For the first time in decades, the California Democratic Party has regained supermajority status, effectively shutting down the Republican minority to mere spectator status.

Steinberg won't expel bad senators and bad laws. Time to #MakeSacListen

Well, that is until one state senator after another ended up convicted (Roderick Wright) or indicted for bribery (Ron Calderon) or bribery, influence-peddling, and gun-running (Leland Yee).

Even though voters had pressed at length for their removal, and editorial boards in newspapers throughout the state of California are demanding the removal of these legislators, Pro Tem Steinberg wants to take his time, and put aside any bold moves, hiding behind decorum and respect for the rights of the accused.

Yet even when Steinberg says that he wants to respect the rights of the accused before they are convicted, he had pressed for indicted Calderon and Yee to step down, but said nothing to convicted felon Roderick Wright.

That double-taking hypocrisy is just wrong.

State Sen, Lieu: An Example of #MakeSacListen

Instead of complaining, the voters in the state of California need to say, to petition, to fight back, to shape the culture in Sacramento.

When state senator Ted Lieu attempted to triple every California driver-car owner's car tax, the push  back was so swift, sudden, and immense, that he shelved the proposal.

When the state legislature recently tried to reintroduce state-sponsored discrimination in higher education, Assemblyman Tim Donnelly and immigrant groups throughout the state of California pushed back and one again Lieu helped shelved SCA5, which would have permitted the state legislature to amend Proposition 209, a 1996-backed initiative which took quotas of out consideration.

If you do not like what you see in Sacramento, then you need to let every legislator know about. They need to stop listening to the special interests, and start heeding the public interest.

Don't wait for Ted Cruz, Andy Vidak, or the next legislative or gubernatorial candidate.

You make it happen:

#MakeSacListen