Cruz: Meet the new 'Three Amigos'

The Hill ^ | September 20, 2014, 05:44 pm | Scott Wong

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Move over John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Kelly Ayotte. Tea Party favorite Ted Cruz says there’s a new “Three Amigos” in the U.S. Senate.

This week, Cruz, the conservative Texas senator, found himself on the same side as liberal Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in voting against arming and training Syrian rebels fighting Islamic extremists in the Middle East.

All three senators are considered prospective 2016 candidates.

“They call us the three Amigos,” Cruz joked during an interview at the Texas Tribune Festival on Saturday.

And though he’s on the opposite political spectrum as Warren and Sanders, Cruz was quick to praise the two liberals for sticking with their principles.

“I actually respect them a great deal ‘cause both of them I think are honest about what they believe. They are unapologetically on the left and I respect that,” Cruz said. “I think there are far too many politicians in Washington in both parties who pretend to be something different back home than they are in Washington, and I think both Bernie and Elizabeth run honestly on their principles and beliefs.

“I would far rather a Senate with more Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warrens,” he continued, “but also a lot more unapologetic, honest conservatives than a Senate right now where there is a disconnect about what people say and do in Washington and what they say and do at home.”

Two other senators eyeing the 2016 presidential race were split on the Syria plan, which was folded into a larger bill to fund the government. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) voted yes, while Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) voted no.

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	"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

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“I actually respect them a great deal ‘cause both of them I think are honest about what they believe. They are unapologetically on the left and I respect that,” Cruz said. . . . . "I would far rather a Senate with more Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warrens,”

Alright, let's not get carried away here . . . . .

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Alright, let's not get carried away here . . . . .

Oh, I don't know about that. If that same sentiment is OK by God, I think it should be OK by us as well.

Revelations 3:15-16
15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

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"I would far rather a Senate with more Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warrens,” Alright, let's not get carried away here . . . . .

In a sense, I agree with him. A Senate of about 25 Sanders/Warrens, and about 75 Cruzes/Lees/Bachmanns, would be just about right.

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Alright, let’s not get carried away here . . .
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The Cruz analysis resembles a great line...

“Better to keep your enemies inside your tent peeing outside
than
kick them out where they will be trying to pee inside it.”