Ever Had a Look at Ted Cruz's Resume?

The Reaganite Republican ^ | 11 March 2013

[justlittleoleme]

You know, the emerging conservative leader in the US Senate- same one the GOP old-guard spent million$ trying to defeat- that one:

Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 - May 2008, Cruz was the first Hispanic Solicitor General in Texas, the youngest Solicitor General in the entire country, and had the longest tenure in Texas history.

Partner at the law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, where he led the firm's U.S. Supreme Court and national appellate litigation practice.

Cruz has authored 80+ SCOTUS briefs and presented 40+ oral arguments before The Court

Cruz served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Cruz was the first Hispanic ever to clerk for a Chief Justice of the United States

Described as a 'superb' constitutional lawyer, the man's considerable skills and laser-like focus were on display for all last week when he took oily reptile Eric Holder by the neck and made him answer the frickin question.

In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz assembled a coalition of 31 states in defense of the principle that the 2nd Amendment guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms.

Cruz presented oral argument for the amici states in the companion case to Heller before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

In addition to his victory in Heller, Cruz has successfully defended the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds, the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools and the majority of the 2003 Texas redistricting plan. Cruz also successfully defended, in Medellin v. Texas, the State of Texas against an attempt by the International Court of Justice to re-open the criminal convictions of 51 murderers on death row throughout the United States.

Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission

Domestic Policy Advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign.

Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, where he taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation Ted Cruz is currently junior US Senator from Texas. In order to win the 2012 Republican nomination for the Senate seat vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison, Cruz had to defeat Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst -heavily favored/backed by the DC old-guard GOP- in the Republican primary runoff. In the event, TEA Party favorite Cruz crushed Dewhurst, 57-43%... he then beat Democrat Paul Sadler in the general election by a similar margin, 56-41. Cruz is also endorsed by the Tea Party Movement and the Republican Liberty Caucus.

AWARDS: "America's Leading Lawyers for Business," Chambers USA (2009 & 2010) "50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America," National Law Journal (2008) "25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century," Texas Lawyer (2010) "20 Young Hispanic Americans on the Rise," Newsweek (1999) Traphagen Distinguished Alumnus, Harvard Law School

On November 14, 2012, Cruz was appointed vice-chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. He is now spearheading efforts in the Senate to have Obamacare repealed root-and-branch...

Like The Great One Mark Levin says, re. this new wave of stand-straight-up patriots -TC, Rand Paul, Mike Lee, et. al: 'They're not perfect, nobody is- but they're damn good'.

[GeaugaRepublican]

As Texas Solicitor General, he oversaw the activities of over 4000 lawyers and personally argued many cases before SCOTUS.
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Reading the job descriptions are helpful. His resume screams “lawyer, govt. appointee, insider. He worked in private practice for two years.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/cruzted

“Oversee 4000 attorneys”. No, I don’t think so,. This job is a subset of the Attorney General’s office. “The Solicitor General of Texas is supported by two deputies, over a dozen assistant solicitors general and a highly dedicated support staff”. https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/agency/office-of-solicitor-general

Lawyer job, handful of govt. people on staff.

Political appointment by Bush, government job. Director, Office of Policy Planning
July 2001-January 2003 (1 year 7 months)
Responsible for leading policy development and legal strategy as part of the senior executive team for the FTC. In that capacity Ted chaired the FTC Internet Task Force, the State Action Task Force, and the Noerr-Pennington Task Force; testified before Congress and state legislatures and agencies across the country; and convened public hearings

See Org Chart below.
https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/attachments/office-policy-planning/opp-org-chart-june2015.pdf

Again, Lawyer job, handful of govt. people on staff

“And an insider”
“His party credentials are unassailable,” says veteran GOP strategist Ralph Reed. “He clerked for Rehnquist, worked on the 2000 Bush campaign, and served as solicitor general of Texas in the state attorney’s office. He’s not some bomb thrower who came out of left field.” As for his political bona fides, Cruz’s labors during Bush-Cheney 2000 including legal work on the Florida recount—won him Bush-administration postings first at the Federal Trade Commission (head of Policy Planning)”

Right-wing activists love the Texas senator’s anti-establishment persona. Which is strange, because until recently he was the consummate insider
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/12/the-reinvention-of-ted-cruz.html

In the end, we should just embrace the fact that Ted Cruz is an insider, Washington style lawyer. It is, what it is.

[GeaugaRepublican]

I imagine that at the beginning each of the 31 states had their own version of what they wanted to see be the final result. So lots of management and negotiations to get all 31 states together and on the same page.

That type of skill would be good to have to bring some real change to Washington.
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Taking into account this statement, Ted Cruz should be a great legislator. His legislative effectiveness is best described as middle of the pack.

[Solson]

Looks like YET ANOTHER consummate Washington insider who has never held a job in the private sector. He doesn’t understand anything but policy and politics. Unfortunately, it’s the very reason he will lose this election. Oh, and people generally think he’s a prick.

[cornfedcowboy]

Try this again? You compare Obama to Cruz? You are really spot on. You are brilliant. Let me guess. You support Trump.

[cornfedcowboy]

Trump is all about “kindergarten awesomeness”.

[nathanbedford]

then Trump is leagues ahead of anyone

I share your pessimism respecting the economy, indeed, I am on record here some time ago arguing that a recession might well occur for the election citing declining numbers, especially in China. I share your view that if that occurs Trump will be the beneficiary. But I depart with you radically from the notion that Trump can put together "a team to pull us out of the big "R" or worse the big "D."'

I see nothing in Trump's biography which indicates he learned much of anything at the Wharton School Of Economics except how to make money with other people's money, especially the taxpayers money, in short how to engage in crony capitalism. There is no indication that Trump has a realistic apprehension of regulatory policy or a coherent tax policy. To the degree that any problems are generated by bad trade deals, those trade deals are not "bad" because they are negotiated by "incompetents" but because of the ideological commitment of the Democrats and rinos who quite knowingly negotiated what they wanted. Trump talks about competence because he fears us examining his ideology across the board.

As for "healthcare rescue" I see nothing in his biography that inspires any confidence whatsoever that he will rescue us from that problem, his public statements include admiration for single-payer. That is just one more example of Trump's love of big government. I know many in this forum think the issue is settled because Trump allowed as how he would replace Obama care with something "terrific." I suppose he will assemble a "terrific" team to do so?

As for "national defense" I hardly have confidence that the man who doesn't know what the triad is is the fella to turn to to make the critical decisions which will permit us to survive in the brave new world of war in space, cyberspace waged with computers, drones, lasers and satellites.

As for "foreign relations" Trump properly wants to keep us out of ground wars in the Mideast but he fails to recognize that there are two threats, one comes from Russia, possessed of nuclear arms and the capacity to deliver them by missile to the United States, allied with a caliphate running from Iran ( soon to have the atomic bomb and missiles with which to deliver it) to Syria, including Iraq in between, and granting the Russian Navy sees on which to play from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. Meanwhile Russia's Air Force is already in Syria and they have threatened to put 150,000 boots on the ground. They are creating incidents in the Baltic, over Scotland, near Iceland, near Canada, and just today once more in Turkey. Trump simply doesn't get it.

As for "Abortion" Trump at best is a Johnny-come-lately to his antiabortion stance and he has lied about everything else that he is ever done in life so I am not about to place confidence in his abortion epiphany.

As for "immigration" Trump's policy here is as incoherent as is his policy on healthcare, he talks a big game but the particulars are chaotic. He unrealistically says he can deport 11 million people (the actual number probably approaches 30 million) but having achieved this impossible task he would then re-admit the "terrific" illegal immigrants. Trump is bellicose but not coherent.

Give me a candidate whose default position is the conservative position rather than a candidate whose contrived position panders to the desperation of a sorely put upon people.

If a crash comes those who drink the Kool-Aid now will be hardly willing to listen to reason they will thirst more than ever for a Messiah.

[jaydee770]

“...Both equally NBC (natural born citizens)?...”

And Trump is every bit as NBC as Lee Harvey Oswald was. So what?

[JimRed]

I know a lot of people who prefer either their middle name or a derivative nickname based on their middle name. Big deal.

Edward M. (Ted) Kennedy (D-HELL)

[cornfedcowboy]

I agree that by this Fall we might be well underway in a very deep recession. If that happens even Gilmore might be able to win. And possibly even Sanders if it is really really bad. It sure won’t be Hillary or Biden.

[entropy12]

There is NO difference. That is the problem.

[entropy12]

It is NOT a question of whom we like better, frozen Canadians or sweaty Saudi’s. My problem is from legal point of view, if the Canadian is eligible, so is the Saudi.

And there are many Billionaires in middle-east, India, China, Africa, S. America who ALL become eligible to run as POTUS, if Cruz is ruled eligible by US courts.

[GBA]

The Founding Fathers put the strongest three-key lock that they could on the eligibility door to their new nation's highest office with their NBC requirement (born in country to citizen parents).

In times past, the natural born citizen requirement for POTUS eligibility would have saved US from the unconstitutional obama and all of the offenses the usurper and company have committed since assuming office.

In this election, this time it's the self-proclaimed constitooshunalist conservatives who agree(!) with the usurpers.

They are voting, not to restore that three-key lock, but rather to remove it once and for all in favor of the one-key version used for obama's fundamental remodel of the Constitooshun.

Regarding the obama remodel, I've agreed "to uphold and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic" and that seems to apply here once again with the Canadian born to a foreign father Cruz.

Why these Constitooshunalist conservatives want to choose obama's lowest standard to replace what the FFs gave US is beyond my understanding, especially when the FFs' highest possible standard, "born in country to citizen parents", has been decided and accepted as intended numerous times in court.

What reasons or motives would let "conservatives" rationalize promoting obama's lowest possible standard in spite of all that argues against it and them?

[entropy12]

I did not see any “trashing” in his post.
Since when Stating facts has become trashing?
The fact is Levin has taken sides. That is a fact.

If the poster had said Levin is an idiot or something like for supporting Cruz, that could be trashing.

Why quote a general statement from Jim Robinson to thwart the poster from stating facts? Why not stand on your own two feet?

[Rashputin]

Shows that all you know about Cruz or Edwards is the talking points you like to hear.

We're talking about someones ethics across the board and just like Carlo Gambino was only married once and didn't run around on his wife isn't proof he was a wonderful person across the board. What Cruz does or doesn't do with regard to his wife and other women could easily have less to do with his integrity than with his understanding his target audience.

Rumors and tales about chasing skirt help a democrat with the democrat target audience and turn off the republican target audience. Curz is marketing himself to a different audience therefore some things are less of an indication of his overall ethics than they would be were he not making a career of marketing himself.

I don't have any use for people who aren't faithful to their spouse but I've also been around the block enough times to know there are people who are faithful to their spouse only as a means to an end. Rich old bastards die every day leaving a large or small fortune to faithful young things, for example.

[justlittleoleme]

And Mark Levin is nowhere near being the Great One. He's exposed himself as just another guy with a dog in this fight, just like all the rest of us.

Until Trump came on the scene along with his devoted followers, Levin was never bashed or spoken poorly of on FR. I have seen the above and much, much worse said on here as of late.

He is biased, as am I. I am biased towards conservatism as it used to be as a whole on FR.

If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, and looks like a duck... well it's a duck...

Trump, well.. Nothing he does, after I look at him as a whole, screams conservative to me. I don't see his recent supposed conversion to conservatism as sincere. For Trump it appears that he is treating his campaign like a reality tv show, and sadly people are falling for it.

If Trump wins the presidency, I sincerely hope that I am wrong. I know it could possibly happen. I place no limits on the citizenship of the United States. If Obama can be elected to two terms, Trump could be elected in this day and age as well.

[Smokin' Joe]

We weren’t talking about Trump not partaking, we were talking about Trump not taking part.

[Smokin' Joe]

So, if he's faithful that doesn't count because he stayed married and faithful as a political move. And if Trump has gone through a series of wives, that's okay because he will be faithful to the last one, but if Edwards was unfaithful that's bad, and if Newt had more than one wife that nixed him from consideration?

You guys have such cognitive dissonance the Kool-Aid just can't be the problem. More like crack.

Want to talk about across the board ethics?

Let's have a taste from that well, shall we?

Trump traded every motorist in the US and any user of small engines down the river (10% less fuel mileage, fuel system and engine destruction for small and marine engines) AND as a bonus said he'd keep the EPA to enforce that (only the most anti-industry agency in the Federal Government), all to curry favor with Iowa's Governor and the ethanol lobby after they had a cartwheeling sh*tfit because Cruz said he'd get rid of the mandate.

How he is going to keep the EPA and "Make America Great again" is beyond me. That Agency has done all it can to kill off the domestic energy industry and has virtually succeeded with coal and coal fired power plants. (Without energy, how are you going to power or fuel the economic recovery. Factories don't run on fairy dust.)

Those are the people who think your exhaled breath contains a pollutant (CO2) and have usurped the power to regulate that.

They have also deemed they have the power to regulate 'intermittent wetlands' (aka: "mud puddles"), so don't let your kid splash in them or fill in the one in the driveway, or they'll take your property. They are a rogue agency which has polluted rivers and attempted to change the borders of a State.

Trump said he would keep the agency, not abolish it, otherwise he couldn't use them to fully enforce the ethanol mandate.

Now, your 'faithful deal maker' did that 'deal' for Iowa.

Not California, not Florida, not New York or Ohio, but Iowa (the support of the Governor whose son is an Ethanol Industry lobbyist--ain't that a touch of bid'ness as usual).

He made a "deal".

He has a tremendous number of our assets and rights he can trade elsewhere to make a 'deal' and you fools are getting sold down the river and don't even hear the splash of the paddle wheel. If you did, you'd shout it out.

[Rashputin]

Yeah, that all sounds good to people looking at Chevys made in China, Fords made in Mexico, wood furniture from the Phillipines, and their Foodstamp allotment since the wife lost her job at an auto plant and daddy the guy in the woodworking industry is out of work.

I know this may come as a shock to you, but people being fed up is why Obama lies got him in office and now people are fed up and fed up with the whole Princeton/Harvard, lawyer, chattering class as well.

In the face of that reality, your solution is,our lawyer will be better than their lawyer

Cruz is more of the same surrenders to globalism with a different face, that's all.

[Smokin' Joe]

I know this may come as a shock to you, but people being fed up is why Obama lies got him in office and now people are fed up and fed up with the whole Princeton/Harvard, lawyer, chattering class as well.

No, what comes as a shock to me is that they'd not only elect the reincarnation of P.T. Barnum, but they'd make excuses to cover for him instead of look at the issues.

'Never give a sucker an even break'.

[Rashputin]

Your lawyer is better than theirs, I heard you the first time.

Read a little history and you'll realize that the people who started and won the Revolution that created this country were one Hell of a lot more like Trump than Cruz and any other candidate in the past twenty-five years. Up to and including being carny barkers and among the wealthiest people in the colonies.

And that's the revolutionaries who weren't smugglers like Hancock or taking a cut of piracy loot in exchange for outfitting pirate ships.