Ted Cruz spills secret of GOP amnesty sabotage

WND ^ | 03/01/2015 | Garth Kant

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NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, strongly suggested the fix was in from the beginning by GOP leaders to sabotage the fight against Obama’s amnesty, saying, “The cake was baked from the start.”

The senator said that was evident to him immediately when GOP leaders chose a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, as the vehicle to try to stop the amnesty President Obama granted to five-million illegal immigrants by executive order in November.

Cruz made the observations while speaking to a small group of reporters across the street from the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, on Thursday.

WND kicked off the conversation by asking: Why won’t GOP leaders fight amnesty?

If the GOP leadership had really wanted to stop amnesty, Cruz explained, they would not have attached the provision defunding Obama’s amnesty to the DHS funding bill.

They would have attached it to a bill defunding the Environmental Protection Agency, “or some other non-essential agency.”

He described such agencies as “hostages the GOP could afford to hold.”

What do YOU think? Where do GOP leaders really stand on amnesty for illegals? Sound off in the WND Poll.

Cruz insisted GOP leaders knew all along that rank-and-file Republicans would never vote to defund the DHS during a time of increasing terror threats at home and abroad.

Instead, he said, they chose a strategy that was clearly designed to fail.

Cruz said he is optimistic in the long run but pessimistic in the short term about stemming the flow of illegal immigrants.

He is pessimistic because “GOP leadership joined with (Senate Minority Leader) Harry Reid, D-Nev., to pass amnesty.” Cruz was referring to the move this week by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to offer a “clean” bill funding the DHS, which meant dropping the provision in the bill that would have

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[combat_boots]

The balkanization and conquest of the country proceeds without anyone to call a stop to it.

In 10 years, we will be the 3rd world hell hole of all time.

[House Atreides]

Senators such as Mitch McConnell are nowhere near Ted Cruz in intelligence, guts, integrity and strategic thinking. They are mental midgets compared with Cruz. And Mitch McConnell is the midget of midgets.

[dragnet2]

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, strongly suggested the fix was in from the beginning by GOP leaders

Many have known that for well over a decade now.

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[4rcane]

this is a very good point.

[Theodore R.]

Of course, the fix was in; but the American people will never understand.

[Theodore R.]

Watch it, or those Kentuckians will come after you with all in their arsenal.

[dowcaet]

I used to get angry when I was younger whenever I heard a European call us out as “stupid” Americans. Sadly, they may be right. Check that they were right!

[Lurkinanloomin]

I dare call it Treason

[mowowie]

The entire country is being played as fools...

[oldbrowser]

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, strongly suggested the fix was in from the beginning by GOP leaders

I've been saying from the beginning that conservatives don't have a dog in this fight. (We have no representation.)

[Paladin2]

And then there is his important ally, Thad Cochran.

[Reno89519]

I want to know what Cruz will do on this? Seriously. Actions, not words. Nice to hear tidbits like this but we otherwise hear about Cruz being silent on the topic. He has not proposed or actively supported legislation to deport illegals, to deny jobs or id them the, to deny in-state tuition, etc. Instead, we hear him giving approval to increasing H1B to undermine American skilled workers. Not nice.

[Paladin2]

We were smarter, on average, when we were getting a large inflow of motivated and intelligent Europeans in the 1800s.

[hosepipe]

AH!... so Cruz.. HID THIS from his CPAC speech?.... WHY?
Very suspicious... What ELSE?.... is he hiding?..

Is he afraid of committing suicide like so many have?...
You know suicide; with TWO bullits to the back of the head..
And being Vince Fostered?...

With Obama the Alpha Dog in the CIA, NSA, FBI, IRS, all Military covert activities.. and GOD knows what else..
And total invisibility, after all WHO will expose it all?..

What if there was a shadow givernment and all politics was just Kibuki Theatre?..
AND...... voting was just a voter fraud ceremony..

Funny how few speakers at CPAC even MENTIONED VOTER FRAUD..
actually NONE HAS... Levin alluded to it.. but hit so many other items..

2015 Elections!... <<— voter fraud.. WILL RULE.. in most places..
NOT all places.. just most places..

AND at CPAC not a mention.. barely an allusion to it..
Must be cause most republicans could care less...
Some completely AFRAID.. to think about it..
Others..... looking thru their fingers (at the light) like an autistic child..

Cause if they did.. would have to admit.. the chance to change things was about TEN YEARS AGO.. maybe 30 or 40...

My point.. embrace Marxism or be miserable -OR- REVOLT..

[txhurl]

Cruz said he is optimistic in the long run but pessimistic in the short term about stemming the flow of illegal immigrants.

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Texas alone has deported 20K this year.

Keep telling us the truth, Ted. When Turtle and the Chamber said they’d crush us, we believed them.

[glorgau]

It still baffles me as to why “our leaders” are so hell bent to legalize so many illegal aliens. Cheap labor can’t make that much difference. The way they’ll vote is not guaranteed. And the cost is astronomical.

[duffee]

thad said “my job in the Senate is to fund government”

[chris37]

Because the goal of our leaders is to collapse the system.

This isn’t about cheap labor.

This is about wrecking the train and then building a new and better train out of the wreckage.

And if that plan seems insane and impossible, it is.