This week moderate Senate Republicans once again rolled over and acquiesced to another dramatic increase in our federal debt ceiling, hastening our nation’s appointment with the day or reckoning.  Below is my response to my Senator, Bob Corker.

Senator Corker:

Once again I was very disappointed in Republican Senators to so willingly acquiesce to raising the debt ceiling this week.  While the clique of moderate Republicans may totally disdain Senator Cruz and the principles that he holds to (which by the way tens of millions of Americans agree with, of which I happen to be one), I fail to see or understand just what strategy you and the rest of the moderate R’s are employing to stop the precipitous increase in our national debt.

There is no “courage” (to use your word) in voting to enable our debt ceiling to continue to be raised at infinitum.  And there is no doubt that doing so is simply paving the way for the ultimate fiscal collapse of our nation.

Senator Corker, are you willing to look every Tennessean in the eye when the proverbial crap hits the fan and our nation collapses into a deep depression and say your cloture vote this week was courageous and it was all that could be done?

I am growing so weary of the moderate Senate Republicans unwillingness to stand firmly and with unified resolve on one of the main principles of the Party’s platform – fiscal responsibility.

I quote directly from the 2012 platform:

Unless we take dramatic action now, young Americans and their children will inherit an unprecedented legacy of enormous and unsustainable debt, with the interest alone consuming an ever-increasing portion of the country’s wealth. The specter of national bankruptcy that now hangs over much of Europe is a warning to us as well.  http://www.gop.com/2012-republican-platform_Restoring/#Item6

I would suggest that voting for cloture to enable a vote to increase the debt ceiling is not the kind of “dramatic action” that the platform above had in mind.  Further, I would again suggest that there is nothing “courageous” about continuing to enable our federal government’s extreme deficit spending which is plummeting us into the abyss.

Senator, I realize that you have spoken often of reigning in our spending and even sponsored some bills to do so.  But talking is not a strategy in and of itself.  And neither are failed bills.

I fear that the dysfunction of not only our entire government, but more specifically the moderate, compromising Republican power brokers in DC, are quickly leading us to a point of no return… or perhaps we have already passed that point.

So what “dramatic action” are you, McConnell and the other moderate R’s planning?  And how can we help?

George Washington, perhaps our nation’s greatest President, wisely warned:

“No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable.  Avoid likewise the accumulation of debt… not ungenerously throwing upon our posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear.”