.Posted on 06/25/2015 4:57:59 PM PDT by markomalley
Ted Cruz said on Wednesday that since he joined the Senate in 2013 he was been waging his own war against the cartels.
No, the Republican presidential candidate is not fighting the Mexican drug organizations operating across the border from his home state of Texas, but instead the one he says is making moves inside the D.C. Beltway. And that, he said, makes him ideally suited to take the White House come 2016.
"If you’ve never taken on the ‘Washington cartel,’ you’re not going to magically start once you take office," Cruz told a group gathered at the conservative Heritage Foundation, according to the Dallas Morning News.
Cruz has consistently picked fights with members of the Senate – both Democrat and Republican – since joining its ranks and has often buddied up with House conservatives, urging them to defy House leaders and earning him the derisive nickname "Speaker Cruz."
Most recently, Cruz accused House Speaker John A. Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of agreeing to vote on renewing the Export-Import Bank if pro-trade Democrats would vote for trade promotion authority, or TPA.
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Don’t worry about friends in congress Ted. You’ve got MANY friends outside of D.C. We appreciate all you do for us.
The House SHOULD elect Cruz as Speaker.
LOL that sounds like a big plus to me.
I sent Ted another donation tonight.
Cruz and Trump thumping the Cartels, good.
So standing on principles is now picking a fight???
Senator Cruz?
Two of the proudest votes I’ve ever cast. The first for Ronald Reagan (miss u gipper) and the second..Ted Cruz.
On that note...I’m going out to his website and shoot him another donation.
Go Cruz Go.
>>On that note...I’m going out to his website and shoot him another donation.<<
DONE! Money well spent.
Ted Cruz traded a handful of corrupt crony opportunities for millions of wildly enthusiastic supporters in the grassroots.
Senator Cruz?"
I stand corrected, but I think the House can pick whom ever they want to be speaker. The constitution states,
"The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment."
It is silent about whether the speaker has to be a member of the house.
Goldman Sachs Billionaire crowd
WSJ Hedge Fund billionaires
Austin Semiconductor billionaire gang looking for Cheap H-1 visas aka cheap foreign slave labor.
You screwed the average working American .
Keep spinning traitorbr /> Your Pres Campaign is Bone Dry.
It is silent about whether the speaker has to be a member of the house.
If so, I'd be all for Ted as Speaker.
Check up on the restrictions of those who can be elected Speaker....
Why not?
He's got enough brain power to multi-task like that. Usually someone else is acting Speaker as it is. He would be a super-legislator in those two positions.
Maybe more powerful than the President.
You bet! “Who dares, wins”, Ted!
Ted Cruz Ping! I wish he would stay in the Senate and push to become leader. He would make an outstanding POTUS, I just don’t think the rest of the country agrees, especially the e-gop. But what a magnificent leader of the Senate he would make.
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