Cruz to Obama: Let’s Settle This Like Men

PJ Tattler ^ | July 31, 2015 - 4:43 am | Michael Walsh

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One of the reasons for Donald Trump’s continuing high standing in the early polls is his perceived willingness to stand up to PC bullies and speak his mind. Now along comes Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, standing up to the man who put the “bully” back into the bully pulpit:

According to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran is essentially financing terrorism. And he’s not backing down after the president called his comments “outrageous.”

“If this deal is consummated, it will make the Obama administration the world’s leading financier of radical Islamic terrorism,” Cruz said during a round table Tuesday. “Billions of dollars under control of this administration will flow into the hands of jihadists who will use that money to murder Americans, to murder Israelis, to murder Europeans.” Cruz has said the remarks before.

On Monday, Obama responded to criticism of the deal. He also addressed Cruz’s comments, and others from members of GOP lawmakers, calling them “outrageous attacks” that crossed the line. “We’ve had a sitting senator, who also happens to be running for president, suggest that I’m the leading state sponsor of terrorism,” Obama said during a press conference from Ethiopia. “Maybe this is just an effort to push Mr. Trump out of the headlines, but it’s not the kind of leadership that is needed for America right now.”

Crossed what line? Vigorous give-and-take between independent branches of government, each member of which is sworn to uphold the Constitution, has long been a hallmark of American republican democracy. If you can’t take the heat, as another Democrat president famously said, get out of the kitchen.

In fact, a debate on Obama’s latest vengeful attempt to shove bad policy down the throats of a people he so obviously holds in contempt is very much what we do need. So Cruz has called Obama to take it outside:

“Yesterday, I invited President Obama to participate in a debate, I would be happy to debate him … anywhere in the country in the next 60 days, to discuss the substance of this deal. If he believes that this deal can be defended, I would encourage him to defend it in front of the American people,” Cruz said. “If he’s unwilling to do so, then he can send as his proxy Secretary of State John Kerry because on the merits, this deal is catastrophic for the American people.”

What fun it would be to see that on Pay Per View. Don’t hold your breath, though.

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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 " Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." - John Quincy Adams

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[BenLurkin]

Nobody, and I mean nobody seriously thinks of Obama as a man.

[trisham]

What a mensch.

"Instead of a president who boycotts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, imagine America’s standing unapologetically with the nation of Israel.

Imagine a commander in chief standing up with clarity and saying we will defeat radical Islamic terrorists. And under no circumstances will the nation of Iran be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons.

Some weeks ago I joined with 46 other senators signing a letter that we sent to Iran explaining that under the United States Constitution there are only two way something becomes a law, either it is a treaty ratified by two-thirds of the Senate or a law passed by both houses of Congress signed by the president.

Well the Obama White House went a little hysterical about that letter."

Ted Cruz

click the pic

[rktman]

LOL! If they both showed up there’d still only be one man.

[COBOL2Java]

LOL! If they both showed up there’d still only be one man.

Seriously

[Former Proud Canadian]

Here’s a stupid question: Why didn’t 100 senators sign that letter?????

[basil]

My thought exactly!

[trisham]

That’s a good question.

[Corky Ramirez]

Mano a chumpo.

[Fungi]

This man, a real man, deserves to be president. He has cajones, unlike a certain feckless fool.

[Go Gordon]

LOL! If they both showed up there’d still only be one man.

Reminds me of another's observation regarding a fundraiser: "An empty limousine pulled up and president Obama got out."

[SkyDancer]

First time Cruz made a mistake. 0bama isn’t a man. If anything he’s a girlie-man.

[piytar]

GO CRUZ!!!

[fatnotlazy]

Does anyone have that pic of the girly man throwing a baseball?

[cripplecreek]

[MeshugeMikey]

in related news Mrs Obamas lil baby boy Obie is trying to pretend to make nice nice...with Mr Cruz....

[BenLurkin]

[SandRat]

Cruz gonna go Chuck Norris on them???

[BenLurkin]