“I would not be in the U.S. Senate today if it were not for Governor Palin,” Cruz said.”
Posted on 06/29/2015 8:31:44 AM PDT by VinL
Ted Cruz continued his verbal assault on last week’s historic Supreme Court decisions on Monday, saying the justices who ruled in favor of Obamacare and gay marriage “rewrote the Constitution.” “They joined a team, they put on bright-blue Obama jerseys and they rewrote the law,” the U.S. senator from Texas told Yahoo News’ Katie Couric during a live sit-down interview from Yahoo’s New York City studios. “Those decisions are a threat to our democracy.”
Cruz slammed Chief Justice John Roberts, who wrote the majority opinion in the Obamacare case on behalf of what the 2016 Republican presidential hopeful called “five unelected lawyers.”
“I think the chief justice believes somehow that by rewriting Obamacare he’s keeping the Supreme Court out of politics,” Cruz said. “But sadly these will go down in his legacy as the most political decisions he has ever made. And they’re violating his oath of office.”
The Court’s decision to effectively legalize same-sex marriage in every state, Cruz said, is a “profound threat to the religious liberty to millions of men and women,” regardless of their faith.
The Supreme Court ruling extends to gay couples the ability to apply for and be granted state-issued marriage licenses, but some conservative religious leaders worry about being petitioned directly to take part in services or otherwise recognize marriages their faiths continue to oppose.
“Society has no right to force a Jewish rabbi to perform a Christian wedding ceremony,” he said. “Society has no right to force a Muslim Imam to perform a Jewish wedding ceremony.” “There’s nothing in the Constitution that demands we tear down the marriage laws in every state,” Cruz, a conservative Christian, continued. “I am eager to fight for religious liberty.”
Couric asked Cruz if he’s out of step with public opinion on gay marriage since 60 percent of Americans believe same-sex marriages should be recognized as legal.
“I’m not at all,” Cruz said, blaming “liberals” and Hollywood for pushing the gay-marriage agenda.
The 44-year-old first-term senator vowed to expose what he called the “Washington cartel” in his run for the White House.
“I think it’s wrong when our elected leaders are lying to the American people and treating us like we’re stupid,” the first-term senator said. “People are fed up with people who say one thing and do another.”
That includes the Supreme Court.
“The Supreme Court represents the elites in New York and Washington, D.C.,” Cruz said.
On the issue of the environment, Cruz dismissed climate change as a “pseudoscientific theory.”
“Satellite data shows there has been no significant recorded warming. None,” Cruz said. “When the satellites are measuring the temperature — it’s not happening.”
Climate change, he said, “is being driven by politicians who want more control over our lives.”
On the subject of terrorism, Cruz criticized President Barack Obama for not correctly defining the threat.
“We cannot defeat radical Islamic terrorism with a president who is unwilling to utter the words ‘radical Islamic terrorism,’” Cruz said. “It matters.”
The Obama administration, Cruz said, is engaging in what he calls “photo-op foreign policy” — “drop a bomb here, a bomb there.”
“We should be funding the Kurds and using them as boots on the ground,” he said.
On immigration, the Canadian-born Texan and son of a Cuban immigrant said America needs to “get serious” in securing the borders.
“There is no stronger champion of legal immigration than I am in the Senate,” Cruz said.
But the Texas senator declined to answer the question of what to do with the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States.
“With respect to the people who are here illegally now, I don’t think we have to solve everything at once,” he said.
On his chances to win the Republican nomination, Cruz dismissed polls that show him trailing his GOP rivals despite being the first to launch a campaign.
“I think national polls are almost entirely irrelevant,” Cruz said. “I think the energy and enthusiasm we are seeing [on the campaign trail] is incredible.”
I don’t think Cruz is intimidated by anyone. Good thing Heidi is a strong woman. Probably the only person on the planet who could win an argument with Ted.:)
Palin had incredible political chops, her role in Alaska was as a reformer, taking on both parties.
Palin was in the awkward position of having to filter everything she said, to not contradict a man she barely knew, and largely disagreed with.
Palin was having to speak as the veep candidate, and with no warning. One day she was governor Palin, kicking tail with the GOPe in Alaska, and then suddenly, she was having to parrot a GOP presidential agenda that she was not familiar with, and which was not instinctual to her.
Ted needs to understand that we are a Constitutional Republic, not a democracy..
And his little girl!
Balderdash.
Who cares about the excuses, sweep overs and hide the nut alibies for why Sarah got her clock cleaned? No one HAS to be a sucker for the obvious. Couric tactics have been on display for years. You don’t see Cruz on the cutting room floor. There are reasons for that, you know. He is smart enough for combat a filter is one reason, or has the chops to negotiate outcomes and then get it in writing.
If not Sarah herself showing a sliver of calculated smarts, the McCain campaign itself could have and should have negotiated for non-cut status of the Couric take down interview, or DECLINED the damn thing entirely!
It was a fiasco, an example of not ready for prime time, and there were MANY.
Alan Colmes Nephelium offspring.
Cruz gets it. The reason why we all must get behind Cruz.
Its a live interview, not a 3hrs interview and edited down to make you look bad as possible
On immigration, the Canadian-born Texan and son of a Cuban immigrant said America needs to "get serious" in securing the borders.So, what's her FR nick?
It’s good to see Cruz put her in her place, especially after the Palin debacle in 2008.
What they will do is kill each other.
Our main concern should be keeping Muslims out of North America.
I’ll certainly give him your message, the next time I see him. I’m sure he’ll be both surprised and grateful for your edification.
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Would someone with a direct line to Ted please inform Him climate change is real- but what it is NOT is man caused-
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Actually, I think that’s his view- at least, I’ve heard him express it.
I'm sure she has a lot of money to fall back on from her time at NBC and CBS, but now she's on Yahoo. That's gotta sting!
“I would not be in the U.S. Senate today if it were not for Governor Palin,” Cruz said.”
Ted Cruz Ping! It's ABOUT TIME SOMEONE SAID IT. Keep doin' what you're doin', Cruz. The Commie-Fascist MYTH of man-caused climate change must be EXPOSED.
Cruz/Fiorina 2016?
Fight vagina (Hillary) WITH vagina!!!!!!
Agree on your 2nd point, but believe the jury should still be out on the 1st. Its easy to say climate has been warming over the last several decades, but the published materials often lack sufficient analytical regard to measurement uncertainty. Engineers live and die by uncertainty analysis’, so why is that aspect so often neglected in the scientific research? The observed changes in temperature (very small, fractions of degrees) could easily fall within the measurement uncertainties of the instrument systems used for those measurements, so inconclusive. IMHO.
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