'Preemptive Surrender': Cruz Criticizes Colleagues for Passing Spending Bill that Funds PP

Town Hall ^ | Sep 29, 2015 | Cortney O'Brien

[Isara]

'Preemptive Surrender': Cruz Criticizes Colleagues for Passing Spending Bill that Funds Planned Parenthood

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was fuming Monday night after his Republican colleagues voted for a "clean" spending bill that fully funds Planned Parenthood. The Senate voted 77 to 19 to advance the 10-week bill, avoiding a government shutdown that was looming Wednesday.

Cruz, one of several conservatives determined not to see one more taxpayer dollar go to Planned Parenthood in the wake of several disturbing videos, criticized his party after the vote for about an hour, accusing them of failing to show any passion for the causes for which they are supposed to fight.

While President Obama and the Democrats have no problem "walking through glass" to defend Big Government programs, Cruz said the GOP has failed to live up to its tenets.

"Unfortunately, leadership on my side of the aisle does not practice the same commitment to principles."

The Center for Medical Progress investigation is more than enough evidence to prove Planned Parenthood is not interested in women's health, but the revenue it gets from abortion. This sinister motive, which now seems to have resulted in criminal activity, is why the Texas senator wants to see the organization defunded.

"There are multiple statues that Planned Parenthood appears to be violating, perhaps on a daily basis," he explained. "The first are selling aborted baby parts for profit, which can be up to ten years jail time."

"It is a volume business," he added. "Taking the lives of unborn children and then selling them, apparently for profit."

House Speaker John Boehner, who recently announced his resignation, was likely not amused by Cruz's speech. Without directly admitting Cruz was the bane of his existence, Boehner did suggest he and conservatives like him who are willing to shut down the government over Planned Parenthood were "false prophets."

Cruz was joined by 18 other Republican senators in voting against the spending bill, including his fellow presidential contender Rand Paul (R-KY). Because the legislation did not come attached with the controversial anti-Planned Parenthood provision, Obama is expected to accept it.

[Isara]

FYI

[Bobby_Taxpayer]

Dirty rotten scoundrels!

[sparklite2]

The GOPe’s notion of negotiations is,
“You can have anything you want, but
that’s my final offer.”

[BigEdLB]

Who are the other 18 besides Cruz. I think Lee is probably one of them. WHO ELSE?

[The_Reader_David]

Scorn quotes around “clean” aren’t enough. Every time the left uses “clean” to describe as spending bill by which the Congressional majority refuses to use the power of the purse to reign in executive overreach, it should be described by us as a filthy spending bill, laden with filthy lucre for the left’s filthy agenda, passed by a filthy coalition of leftists who’d sell their own grandmothers to expand the power of the state and gutless wonders who pretend to their constituents to be small-government conservatives.

[Stand Watch Listen]

Sen. Cruz: The Real Story of What Is Happening in Washington (Sep 28, 2015 – 59:47)
……… OR... “Mr Cruz Goes To Washington”

Ted Cruz couldn’t get anyone in the Senate to back him tonight as he tried to get a ban on Planned Parenthood funding and a linkage of the Iran Nuclear deal in a government funding bill. He stood alone on the Senate floor:
Cruz’s amendment would place a one-year ban on federal funding for Planned Parenthood. It would also ban the Obama administration from using funds from the short-term bill to implement the Iran nuclear deal or any “assessed contributions” to the United Nations until lawmakers receive the “side deals” between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

The “side deals” have been a key point of contention among opponents of the deal. Cruz and House Republicans have suggested that the 60-day congressional review period for the Iran nuclear deal hasn’t started because the administration hasn’t given lawmakers the agreements.

After the procedural back-and-forth, Cruz slammed Republican leadership, suggesting they repeatedly “surrender” to President Obama.

“You know, President Obama has negotiated a catastrophic nuclear deal with Iran. Republican leadership goes on television all the time and rightly says this is a catastrophic deal,” he added. “I would suggest that if we actually believed the words that are coming out of their mouths, then we should be willing to use any and all constitutional authorities.”

After this Cruz launched into an hour speech, one that Mark Levin just tweeted out saying it’s a MUST LISTEN.

[txrefugee]

McConnell and Cornyn see nothing wrong with butchering babies and selling their eyes, brains and hearts. They are interested in giving Obama everything he wants before he leaves office. These liars should be run out of D.C, as well as the cowards who support their evil regime.

[Crucial]

Now I understand why my dad once remarked he was going to vote for atsxi driver for mayor. He knew politics is joke.

[napscoordinator]

What happened to annual budgets? We have not seen one of those in a decade. Why not just do an annual budget and be done with it? They can take planned parenthood's couple million out of the bill and get it passed. The problem is that Cruz should have kept his mouth shut and took out the provision in the budget and then get it passed. After Obama signed it, then Cruz announces, “Oh by the way, we took out Planned Parenthood funding”.....it would be too late for negatives by then. The way they go about getting rid of things is dumb.

[CPT Clay]

Great speech.