Posted on 10/08/2015 3:22:44 PM PDT by Isara
How many times have we been told that Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, running for the GOP presidential nomination, is an ineffective "wacko bird,"in Arizona Sen. John McCain's insulting words?
...it now looks like he's ended up being very effective in getting the Senate to do something about illegal alien violent criminals.
The first piece of legislation the U.S. Senate will take up after its October recess will be a measure that includes Cruz-backed Kate's Law, imposing a mandatory five years in prison for deported aliens who re-enter America illegally.
It's named after Kate Steinle, slain on the San Francisco pier July 1 allegedly by Juan Francisco Lopez Sanchez, an illegal who had been deported five times.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who is on bad terms with Cruz, on Wednesday set in motion the process of having the bill bypass the Senate Judiciary Committee, where it was going to have trouble, and bring it straight to the Senate floor.
Kate's Law is incorporated into a bill by Sen. David Vitter, R-La., to punish sanctuary cities like San Francisco, which won't cooperate with federal authorities on immigration enforcement, by withholding some federal grants from them.
This comes after Cruz and Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., refused to agree to Kate's Law being watered down, as suggested by Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz. Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, promised it would be the "comeback vote" on the Senate floor after the break. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who is also running for president and who has been accused of backing amnesty for illegals, also supports the bill.
Cruz staged a filibuster against ObamaCare in 2013 against party leaders' wishes and has accused McConnell of dishonesty. But McConnell's capitulation proves that sticking to principle can sometimes overcome intraparty squabbling.
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Go, Cruz, GO!
Go, Cruz!
Obama won’t sign it. President Trump will.
I wonder in what respects Mike Lee & Jeff Flake wanted to weaken it.
Nothing can compensate for the damage done by McConnell in the past 7 years. McConnell needs to go.
Will it pass or is this just another symbolic gesture?
You're right, that's what it's about. Is he responding to the handwriting on the wall, trying to make it go away?
It doesn’t matter, Cruz is winning. Make Barky veto it.
Good question! Jeff Flake has gotten on our nerves before, but never Mike Lee, that I can remember.
I’m personally a huge Jeff Sessions fan, particularly on immigration and TPP. No pussy footing around on the edges with those two issues, for Jeff.
Will it even get a vote in the Senate? The Dems can block cloture.
This is O’Reilly’s baby, no?
Build the prison north of Point Barrow and let the inmates stoke the heating system with coffee cans of Alaskan oil. Five years and they will welcome their trip home.
Nope. Pretty sure a significant number of staunch rock ribbed conservatives told us for the last two elections that principle and voting on principle was the problem so clearly they were right and Cruz is wrong.
Wait...He isn’t wrong? I guess those staunch rock ribbed ‘conservatives have some explaining to do. To ACTUAL conservatives.
It's going nowhere and ultimately will once again make Cruz look like a fool.
MORE LAWS! MORE LAWS! MORE LAWS!
Enforce the laws we already have.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1326
So if the bill doesn't have the vote, then it shouldn't be brought up for a vote??
do you think ole Tortuga can sense the exit door that he’s about to get pushed through?
I seriously doubt it will make Cruz look like a fool. It does make you look like a fool. You are quick to criticize and tell everyone how it is all hopeless, but you offer no solutions nor are you willing to make a difference.
Compared to Cruz you do not even register on the radar. Cruz is awesome!
Is that you Mitch?
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