Susan Combs's blog

What an exciting year 2012 has been for Republicans! Our party is having a national conversation about our concerns that our country is heading in the wrong direction. No matter what you hear from big media, you and I know that the current administration is bad for our country and bad for Texas. The 2012 presidential election is going to be a pivotable moment for our country.

And I vow to fight daily to make sure that moment allows America to pivot back toward the direction of liberty and freedom.

It is not acceptable that thousands of Texans spent hours trying to reserve appliance rebates on Wednesday, April 7, only to be met with dropped calls and an unavailable online reservation system. It is not acceptable to me or the many Comptroller employees who worked diligently to ensure mechanisms were in place to accommodate the extremely high demand we expected. And it certainly isn’t acceptable to the citizens of our state. We all deserve real answers.

After the past year of economic hardship, it is easy to forget what is most important in life. I wanted to take a few minutes and share what I am most thankful for this year.

Ninety-one years ago today, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the Armistice was signed ending World War I, sending our boys home with the hope of a lasting peace after a hard-fought victory on European soil.

As history would later reveal, that marked merely a stopping point in a struggle that would engulf the world in war two decades later, and eventually lead to a Cold War between two allies who were previously joined together in the struggle against the Axis powers.