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Posted on 07/01/2015 2:36:18 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Texas Senator and Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) argued that the “elites” on the Supreme Court “look over much of this country as flyover country. They think that our views are simply parochial and don’t deserve to be respected” on Monday’s broadcast of NBC’s “Today.”
Cruz stood by earlier comments that the Supreme Court’s rulings constituted “some of the darkest 24 hours in our nation’s history,” stating, “What happened last week is, twice, back-to-back, the US Supreme Court, a majority of the justices, violated their judicial oath. On Thursday of last week, the court rewrote Obamacare, rewrote the statute, ignored the language of the statute, and as a result forced millions of people into this failed law. Millions of Americans are hurting, have lost their jobs, have lost their healthcare because of Obamacare. And then the next day, the Supreme Court rewrote the Constitution, and threw out the marriage laws of all 50 states. Now, listen. I’ve spent my life fighting to defend the Constitution, and there is a constitutional means. If someone wants to change the marriage laws in a state, the way the constitution allows you to do so, is to convince your fellow citizens to do so through the democratic process. What we saw instead, is five unelected lawyers saying the views of 320 million Americans don’t matter, because they’re going to enforce their own policy position.”
He was then asked whether, given his support for country clerks opting out of issuing licenses for same-sex marriages on religious grounds, he would support a county clerk opting out of issuing a license for an interracial marriage. Cruz answered, “there’s no religious backing for that, and I have spent decades fighting against bigotry and racial oppression. I’m the son of a Cuban
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Ted Cruz Ping! God bless Ted Cruz.
Fly over country is also the red portion of the political map. It is not just that non-urban America is ignored, we are vilified by the left as enemies of their utopian aspirations.
Now if he just had Trump gonads and hit the hell our of the rest of King Obama and his communists empire we would have our man.
"We are seeing a great awakening.
A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us -
a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of
the unlimited potential of free men and free women."Ted Cruz
Very few in the media have even the slightest clue about real flyover country.
“When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.”
Thomas Jefferson
You mean...the lack of gonads he had to stand on the Senate floor for hours for a filibuster...instead of paying lip service to an issue?
I get a little tired of people who purport to be speaking up for us outside the urban centers to use the term “flyover country” that was made up to diminish us.
How about “Heartland of America” instead, Ted?
In 2012, didn’t SCOTUS shoot down the Defense of Marriage Act because it was a state’s rights issue?
I have to say that Cruz has gonads of brass, first allowing himself to be interrogated by Couric and then by the Kommissars of Thought of the Today show.
And he handles himself admirably, in those lions dens, I must say.
Most of them have seen it from just 5 miles away (5 miles up).
These are people who thrive in a human constructed 'reality'. I don't begrudge them that, but to look down on those who thrive in an environment with constraints imposed by nature more than man because we do not thrive in their environment (or choose to thrive in this one) is to underestimate the abilities of those who live here.
Indeed, they did.
And it was the same five justices who voted to make single sex marriage "the law of the land". Moreover, the decision in both cases was written by the same justice -- Anthony Kennedy.
The urbanites just can imagine how anyone can survive without the “conveniences” of the city. Worse yet, they can’t even imagine that someone would want to. If we don’t want the same as they do its because there is something wrong with us.
I’ve never been to a Starbucks or Tim Hortons. In my 50 years I’ve been on a bus once and a train once and have never been on a plane. I’ve never lived with city water, a municipal trash service or electricity provider. Those urban services are tax creators that I can’t control.
Out here, I can control my costs through choices and conservation on my own. I can choose from a half dozen different trash pick up services that all have a half dozen different service packages. I don’t have a water meter and I don’t have a base rate to pay for water. I can use as much or as little water as I choose because I pay for the electricuty to pump it.
I do live in a “food desert” but that’s fine too. I grow or buy 75% of my vegetables at the farm down the road. I make a trip to the outskirts of town about once a month and buy meat, sugar, salt etc.
I’ve had the thought several times that the SCOTUS should meet not in DC, but somewhere more, shall we say, down to earth.
I would nominate Franklin CO, VA. but they may come to enjoy the local “spirits” too much.
Somewhere more remote, but not in a state with legal wildwood weed.
The middle of the Mojave desert?
A mountain top in very rural New Mexico?
A small kansas town with only a convenience store and grain storage facilities?
Let them learn what fly over country looks like, up close and personal.
I am a “Cruz or Lose guy.” But — his statement is stupid. The job of the SCOTUS is not to respect people or parochial views, but to respect the Constitution regardless of who it might offend.
So which condescending pos asked the loaded question, “it was asked?” By whom, Ian?
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