Posted on 12/16/2014 1:56:31 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
The usual suspects are attacking Ted Cruz for doing his job.
Republicans and a chorus of conservative commentators are dumping on the sole conservative Republican senator from Texas because–the horror!–he dared to force his Senate colleagues to publicly take sides on President Obama's shameful extralegal unilateral immigration amnesty.
Apologists for Republican cowardice claim to be upset with Cruz because, as they claim, his parliamentary maneuvers to stymie the amnesty somehow allowed some objectionable Obama nominees to move forward in the confirmation process.
Of course, they're lying. All Obama nominees are objectionable–remember, our president is a red diaper baby–yet the Senate eventually caves to Obama on more or less all of them............Who really cares if a few bureaucrats who will be approved anyway by the incoming Republican Senate in the new year get to work a few weeks or months early?
What really infuriates namby-pamby Republican senators is that Cruz forced them to take a public stand on the president's unilateral amnesty. They know that the Republican Party base is mad as hell over the amnesty, and they don't feel the need to answer to mere hoi polloi. Bought off by the crony capitalist lobby, they support amnesty but don't want to face the electoral consequences for their betrayal of the American people. Just as Democrats don't want to get rid of poverty, Republicans in leadership don't want to stop the amnesty(or get rid of Obamacare, for that matter). They need villains against which to rail.
Just about nobody in the conservative punditry seems to be getting the story right. They are regurgitating an easily digested talking point generated by Democrats and the Senate's RINO establishment. If it hadn't been for Cruz,a slew of Obama nominees would still be sucking their thumbs in a state of constitutional limbo,they'd have us believe.
And as usual,they're wrong about Cruz....
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I see and hear about that city up there and the one thing that comes to my mind is Lot and Sodom. You can count the number on one hand it seems.
Ted Cruz, doing what every senator should be doing, what an inexcusable good example he is. Of course he’s being pilloried.
The GOPe is trying to cut away solid Ted Cruz-supporters and “leaning” to Cruz supporters [voters and colleagues].
I have never seen Sen. Ted Cruz be anything but polite and inclusive. He just speaks the truth. He stands his ground. He makes others put up or shut up [except for those who hide their votes when they know which way the tally is going].
So, those who find conservatism and the truth to be offensive, can only see him as a thorn in THEIR side.
The GOPe does nothing but sit as yes boys to Democrat lectures... makes them look like convicts, not presidential material. As for democrats they play the jail wardens, a sado mazo act between these two which could be reversed and bring nothing new.
The only way is to have a unified conservative fund raising without running a party, and then have them run as Democrat or Republican, does not matter, and siphon off their fund raising.
I agree, the more I hear from him the better I like him.
Fox News Channel is, of course, pushing Jeb Bush. They aired a report last night about his running for president and in his soundbite he said essentially that he doesn't care if people don't like his beliefs about amnesty and such. (He seemed to be attempting to be "tough" like Christie and "principled" like Rubio.)
Do those who make up the GOPe really think America wants another Bush in the White House?
The GOP-e has already squandered the mandate from the 2014 elections, and the new Congress hasn’t even been seated yet.
The Republicans are done as far as I’m concerned.
And Matt Drudge is pushing Mitt Romney.
That would be the GOPe "is done."
WE get rid of them.
It was tried by the Tea Party and they didn’t get far either. I’m sad to say, conservatism as we knew it is gone forever. I DO agree we need to replace the repubs and rhinos but who will take their place. They are too well in trenched.
It was tried by the Tea Party and they didn’t get far either. I’m sad to say, conservatism as we knew it is gone forever. I DO agree we need to replace the repubs and rhinos but who will take their place. They are too well in trenched.
I will never vote for Romney or another Bush again. If the name on the ballot is not Cruz, Palin, or Gowdy I will skip that part of the ballot.
Not really.
A new, conservative party has to recognize the enemy - Rockefeller Republicans - but also has to find new friends.
"Reagan Democrats" are not the solution, because most of them have died. But an analogous group of people DOES exist - working class and lower middle class whites who either don't vote (because there's nobody to vote for that won't hurt them) or who vote for the Democrat because the Republican candidate just sold his business and put them out of work.
A new majority will not emerge until its conservative element accepts the need to give Goldman Sachs and Bank of America a good screwing, to restore the powers of Congress over money, and to protect American workers BECAUSE THEY ARE AMERICANS.
Fauxcahontas is stealing this issue, which I believe is THE winning issue for 2016, and running the husband of a Goldman Sachs managing director against her is a bad plan, however many good speeches he gives.
Sorry for the multiple posts. Can you remove 16 and 17?
Before this last election, the Senate Conservative Fund was that. Their candidates did quite well. What happened is the NRC advertised deceptively that they were the ones funding conservative candidates, and I suspect took money away from where it was attended. Then there's the matter of those who just plain lie to get donations and votes.
GOPe "quislings" who voted against the Cruz/Lee Constitutional Point of Order.
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