Posted on 09/29/2015 7:57:33 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Cruz is standing there fighting for our rights in the Senate, there are people in the House doing the same thing and now we have Trump showing how to say how it is and getting rid of the smell in Washington D.C. by supporting Cruz...
I think we will see a Trump/Cruz ticket really soon...and Cruz will be sitting in the Senate as V.P. where they all have to look up to him...
WTG you two, Trump/Cruz 2016 All the way to the White House!!!
“McConnell bit his tongue, quietly urging senators not to take the floor in his defense, wary of giving Cruz a bigger platform for his GOP primary run.”
Boy, what a hero McConnell is, huh?
Rope. Tree. Some assembly required.
No, I correct you. It will be President Cruz
Ted Cruz couldn’t get anyone in the Senate to back him tonight as he tried to get a ban on Planned Parenthood funding and a linkage of the Iran Nuclear deal in a government funding bill. He stood alone on the Senate floor:
Cruz’s amendment would place a one-year ban on federal funding for Planned Parenthood. It would also ban the Obama administration from using funds from the short-term bill to implement the Iran nuclear deal or any “assessed contributions” to the United Nations until lawmakers receive the “side deals” between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).The “side deals” have been a key point of contention among opponents of the deal. Cruz and House Republicans have suggested that the 60-day congressional review period for the Iran nuclear deal hasn’t started because the administration hasn’t given lawmakers the agreements.
After the procedural back-and-forth, Cruz slammed Republican leadership, suggesting they repeatedly “surrender” to President Obama.
“You know, President Obama has negotiated a catastrophic nuclear deal with Iran. Republican leadership goes on television all the time and rightly says this is a catastrophic deal,” he added. “I would suggest that if we actually believed the words that are coming out of their mouths, then we should be willing to use any and all constitutional authorities.”
After this Cruz launched into an hour speech, one that Mark Levin just tweeted out saying it’s a MUST LISTEN.
BTTT
Obviously, most of you people were not around when they said Dewhirst would bury Cruz.
“We had to be prepared,” said John Thune of South Dakota, the No. 3 Senate Republican. “He’s running for national office. He’s got a different endgame than we do. There are things we have to do here. We’ve got to fund the government every year.”
Thune really went down the sh***er fast.
Senator Thune: “We’ve got to fund the government every year.”
This is true, but Senator Thune doesn’t apparently realize that funding the government doesn’t mean endless continuing resolutions that give Democrats exactly what they want.
Senator Thune, if you want to fund the government so badly, why not pass individual budget bills for the various government functions? Send a DoD budget that has absolutely nothing to do with Planned Parenthood to Obama and see if he’s willing to veto it.
I don’t know what agency or agencies provide the PP funds. Perhaps it falls under HHS. OK. Save that budget for last and then send the president a separate HHS budget minus the funds. Leave some funding (with a lot of strings!) in the bill if that’s the only way to get it through the Senate. If he vetoes it, so be it. HHS can keep essential service only going, but the main point is the rest of the government will be funded.
If, on the other hand, President Obama vetoes everything, even things unrelated to PP, let him pay the political price for that.
One term as Trump’s VP, then Trump hands the reins over to Ted and gets back to his billionaire’s life.
McConnell’s going to gag when he ultimately has to address Cruz as either Mr. President or Mr. Vice President.
Cruz is not an egotistical, power hungry maniac like 99% of congress. You can tell he just wants what’s right for this country. He’s also one of only a few that hasn’t been bribed and/or blackmailed into toeing the “company line”.
Can you actually believe this crap they put out?
Trump will eat her alive!!!
And thank you for the post... :)
Delusional DC myopia. The fact that McConnell leveraged GOP senators to silence Cruz, is tantamount to the GOP senators silencing their base. In the DC bunker, they may think McConnell and his sheep have won-— those of us in the country know they lost.
What idiots. This wasn’t the end, it was just the beginning.
One doesn’t “out fox” Ted Cruz. He’s declared war on the DC oligarchy, and the battle has just begun.
As for those who say “Vice President” Cruz, why would anyone want that???? In this battle for the American people, where were the other candidates?????
In Cruz, one is seeing true leadership-— and incidentally, he can articulate in full, coherent sentences.
I believe Trump truly loves his country and is making great sacrifices to foil the DC Uniparty. He’s going to serve one term with Cruz as his VP, then turn the reins over to Ted and get back to being a billionaire.
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