Posted on 10/27/2015 2:54:39 PM PDT by Isara
Ted Cruz launched a searing critique of Capitol Hill's bipartisan budget deal on Tuesday afternoon, slamming outgoing House Speaker John Boehner for leaving Congress via a "golden parachute" and accusing GOP leaders of capitulating to President Barack Obama.
"It is complete and utter surrender," Cruz said. "We now have a GOP Congress, but no one watching this budget surrender would know it."
Though dozens of Capitol Hill Republicans have knocked the compromise legislation, Cruz's criticisms stood out from the rest of the pack just a day before he will take the GOP debate stage in Colorado. And they continued his running battle with Republican leaders that sharply escalated this summer when Cruz accused Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of lying about a vote on the Export-Import Bank.
"John Boehner’s golden parachute will certainly cement his legacy, but it is a slap in the face to conservatives," Cruz said on Tuesday.
Continuing his broadside against McConnell and Boehner, Cruz said the small spending hikes in the bill and the increase of the debt ceiling are "ridiculous, deceitful and a disgrace." He reached that conclusion by studying the budget on his own: Cruz was not in the Capitol for a Monday budget briefing from McConnell or for a Tuesday lunch devoted to the subject.
[Cruz’s criticisms stood out from the rest of the pack]
TED CRUZ keeps shining the light of truth on Congress.
Rand Paul On Shutdown: "Even Though It Appeared I Was Participating In It, It Was A Dumb Idea"I said throughout the whole battle that shutting down the government was a dumb idea. Even though it did appear as if I was participating in it, I said it was a dumb idea. And the reason I voted for it, though, is that it's a conundrum. Here's the conundrum. We have a $17 trillion debt and people at home tell me you can't give the president a blank check. We just can't keep raising the debt ceiling without conditions. So unconditionally raising the debt ceiling, nobody at home wants me to vote for that and I can't vote for that. But the conundrum is if I don't we do approach these deadlines. So there is an impasse. In 2011, though, we had this impasse and the president did negotiate. We got the sequester. If we were to extend the sequester from discretionary spending to all the entitlements we would actually fix our problem within a few years.[Posted on 11/19/2013 12:16:51 PM by Third Person]
Cronyism knows no party.
Do not vote for Cruz because he’s a Republican; vote for him because he alone will go to war against the Washington Cartel of billionaire businessmen and entrenched congressmen on the take.
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I don’t look at Sen Cruz as a Republican. I see him as a Ronald Reagan Consertative…….
The GOP has become the Grandiose Obama Promoters. I support Ted Cruz because he is the closest thing to a Constitutionalist in this country.
A Constitutional Conservative and apparently the only one in the race.
I support Ted Cruz because I support the constitution.
That SOB should have been shown the door the day he resigned! He's stuck around to really, really f*ck things up...worse!
Cruz or lose!
Every voice speaking out on this travesty is needed.
Thank you, Senator Cruz.
Lame Duck á l'Orange.
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