Posted on 02/09/2015 10:16:53 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
On ABC News with host George Stephanopoulos, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) had the audacity to insist yesterday that Democrats are the “top one percent” party, reported Raw Story.
Stephanopoulos was interviewing Cruz about the current economy and Hillary Clinton’s prospects of running for president in 2016. Stephanopoulos noted that there were one million new jobs added to the American labor market in the last three months.
“Look, if Hillary Clinton wants to run by telling Americans that the economy is doing great and that you can credit President Obama and Hillary Clinton for that, I would encourage her to follow that strategy,” said Cruz. “Because the simple reality is that’s true for the wealthy.”
“The top 1 percent under President Obama, the millionaires and billionaires that he constantly demagogues, earn a higher share of our income than any year since 1928. Those with power and influence, who walk the corridors of power of the Obama administration, have gotten fat and happy under big government.”
Sen. Cruz is attempting to hijack the liberal narrative of pointing out that the nation’s one percent are the ones who’ve been reaping the benefits of the economic recovery. We on the left have been saying that for years. The reason is not big government, and it’s not Obama.
In fact, the Dodd-Frank Act, passed during Obama’s term, was the first piece of major financial regulatory legislation enacted in decades. It was designed to control the high-risk derivatives market the contributed to the 2008 crisis and to protect American consumer tax dollars from funding another bailout. Ted Cruz wants to repeal Dodd-Frank and help the big banks.
The major attempts to rein in Wall Street and close the income gap have come from the Democrats. The Republicans do nothing but perpetuate the problem. With the 2016 elections on the minds of those in Capitol Hill, Cruz’s narrative is a new variation of an old tactic: appeal to Blue Collar America.
By making the GOP look like the party of the working man, he’s trying to appeal to blue-collar Americans who are still suffering from the 2008 economic collapse. He’s pushing the fact that wages have stagnated, a liberal talking point. The sad thing is that some people will pay attention to this drivel, believe it, and take it with them to the polls.
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If Cruz is lying it should be easy to prove, no?
And Robert F Kennedy Jr says so!
Ted is starting to really scare the Left. This is GOOD.
You mean the clean energy freak who stopped windmills off Martha’s Vineyard?
Pray America is waking
Cruz is right. Here’s proof:
Washington Sees Incomes Soar as Most of U.S. Declines
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2013/09/19/washington-sees-incomes-soar-as-most-of-u-s-declines/
Robert F Kennedy talking about liars? A man who cheated his wife into an early grave has some sort of moral authority here? Just like every other Kennedy, he’s a d-bag.
“The income of the typical D.C. household rose 23.3% between 2000 and 2012 to an inflation-adjusted $66,583, according to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, its most comprehensive snapshot of America’s demographic, social and economic trends. During this period, median household incomes for the nation as a whole dropped 6.6% — from $55,030 to $51,371.”
They sound worried about Cruz. But not about Walker. Whatever could that mean? /s
Notice that they call him a liar, however, do not refute his statement. Instead they are upset because he HIJACKED their narrative. You gotta love it!!!! Of course that irony will escape the liberal followers.
Such a whiner.
The truth is like sunlight to a vampire with a Kennedy.
Funny how the author, Joshua De Lyin, never substantiates what he asserts in the headline.
The top 1% buy and trade politicians like trading cards. Virtually all politicians are implicated in this.
If you don’t believe me, answer me this:
Why would anyone running for public office, especially top federal offices like congress or the presidency, raise and spend hundreds of MILLIONS of dollars to get a job that pays at most half a million a year for only a few years?
Yeah, that would be the same as me spending a hundred grand to get a job at a fast food joint, and take a lifetime to make back.
Cruz is correct. The Dems have been the party of the rich ever since FDR’s National Industrial Relations Act allowed the Dems to take over American business.
how many conservatives were among those who flew 1,700 private jets to Davos?
Yup, it only seems like it is the "Cruz or lose" crowd that sound worried about Walker. Sheesh, where have you been?
Aren’t a lot of those Davos attendees making plans to bug-out after the final scalping of Middle-class America?
Republicans ought to be playing a modern political version of “Marco Polo.” Whenever extremist on the left yell “Koch,” republicans should yell back “Soros.” Koch,” “Soros.” Koch,” “Soros.” Koch,” “Soros.” Koch,” “Soros...”
Wow...the author does nothing to prove Cruz wrong. Liberals usually have a hard time refuting facts...but this is pathetic.
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