Conservatives are used to getting attacked by the GOP establishment; indeed it was a badge of honor to most conservative activists when back in 2013 John McCain called Senators Rand Paul and Ted Cruz and Rep. Justin Amash “whacko birds” for standing up for conservative principles in opposition to confirming John Brennan as Obama’s CIA Director.

But the latest attack on Senator Cruz by establishment Senators John Cornyn, Orrin Hatch and Lamar Alexander is a new low for the Republican establishment, because they are not attacking Cruz over a policy disagreement – they are attacking him for telling the truth.

On Friday, Senator Cruz in a dramatic and in some ways historic speech said of Senate Majority Leader McConnell “…We now know that when the majority leader looks us in the eyes and makes an explicit commitment that he is willing to say things that he knows are false…”

That’s right. Ted Cruz told the truth about Mitch McConnell’s lies about his corrupt deal with the Democrats to revive the Export-Import Bank – the corrupt remnant of the New Deal beloved by K Street lobbyists and major influence peddling corporations like Boeing and GE – so Cornyn, Hatch and Alexander attack him, not Mitch McConnell.

Frankly, we think Cruz put it all too delicately, but Senate “decorum” does not allow for calling another Senator a liar.

It does, however, protect lying, as many others have pointed out in the case of Senator Harry Reid and his self-acknowledged lie about Mitt Romney not paying any taxes for ten years.

But we think that the real reason Cornyn, Hatch and Alexander went after Cruz was not so much his calling out of McConnell for lying about reviving the Ex-Im Bank – it was about another bit of truth-telling that was buried in Cruz’s remarks.

Said Senator Cruz:

“We've had a Republican majority in both houses of Congress now for about six months. What has that majority done? First thing we did, in December, is we came back and passed a $1 trillion ‘cromnibus' plan filled with pork and corporate welfare. That was the very first thing we did. Then this Republican majority voted to fund Obamacare, voted to fund President Obama's unconstitutional executive amnesty. And then leadership rammed through the confirmation of Loretta Lynch as attorney general. Madam President, which of those decisions would be one iota different if Harry Reid were still majority leader? Not a one. Not a one. This Senate operates exactly the same -- the same priorities…”

“It's not that this majority doesn't get things done. It does get things done, but it listens to one and only one voice. That is the voice of the Washington Cartel, of the lobbyists on K Street, of the big money and big corporations…”

“This institution, the majority and minority leader, arm-in-arm again, should not team up against the American taxpayers. It's why our children are going bankrupt...”

What really got Ted Cruz in trouble was not calling Mitch McConnell a liar – everyone in Washington already knows McConnell is a liar – what got Cruz in trouble with DC’s inside operators was telling the truth about how Capitol Hill works.

And that it doesn’t make “one iota” of difference if Harry Reid or Mitch McConnell is Majority Leader, because the same players are going to be behind the scenes calling the shots and plundering the public fisc to enrich their multi-billion dollar corporate paymasters with “green energy” grants, Ex-Im Bank loans and other legalized corruption.

And yes, that is why our children are going bankrupt.

Lying to the American people is never acceptable, yet it has become so commonplace among Washington’s ruling elite that three prominent Members of the United States Senate, Senators Orrin Hatch, Lamar Alexander and John Cornyn, actually took to the Senate Floor to criticize Ted Cruz for being “uncivil” and violating the Senate rules of decorum.

Something is disastrously wrong in the Republican Party if its leaders lie to the American people, and three of its top-ranking Senators are willing to go to the Floor of the United States Senate and defend the liar. We urge you to join us in standing with Senator Ted Cruz against the lies – and the liars – that are enriching the Washington Cartel and destroying this country.