Ted Cruz: "America has always been best when she is lying down with her back on the mat."

ABC News Twitter ^ | April 19, 2016 | ABC News

[Fast Ed97]

Ted Cruz: "America has always been best when she is lying down with her back on the mat." http://abcnews.go.com/politics/election-polls-primary-caucus-results/New_York …

[poconopundit]

Cruz is clearing off his desk of all the unused metaphors and oratorical flourishes that he dreamed about giving in the general election.

He's said to have given a "stirring speech" to a small gathering in Philadelphia.  The ultimate GOPe and Bushie insider compared himself to political outsiders like Reagan and John Kennedy.  The analogy didn't make sense -- just like his candidacy.

It's over for Cruz and he knows it.  He will never make it on the national stage again and will likely not get reelected in Texas.  He has shamed the heroes of Alamo with his wimpy and GOPe's last stand performance.

But being a loyal soldier of fortune, he will probably continue this tour of duty for Golden Sacks till the convention and then enjoy a bought and paid for career as a Wall Street lawyer -- with some off-Broadway acting roles as Dracula and a Canadian Royal Mounted police.

[JerseyDvl]

In front of his daughters.

[Califreak]

Best when down for the count?

No thanks.

[Psalm 144]

I agree with you. I think that is exactly the worm in his brain, and what he will do.

[poconopundit]

LOL...

[PAR35]

Has he hired Clayton Williams to run his campaign?

[apocalypto]

Creepy like his rats and fornicating statement.

[V K Lee]

The GOPe’s best version of Mr. Haney. On the mat or under the mat- toasTED

[Beautiful_Gracious_Skies]

This is going off topic a bit, but Duncan Duane Hunter, is the son of the father who ran for POTUS in 2008. If he had been elected President, America would not be in this miserable shape. If anyone reads the Secure Fence Act (below) it is unbelievable that 8 years later —we still have nothing in place! Hunter was able to get the Secure Fence Act passed, but they stalled and defunded it. (D@mn, this needs a thread of it’s own.)

Duncan Hunter is a devoted patriot who worked hard for American security post 9-11. He is responsible for leading the charge against the Dubai ports deal and working to get the ‘border fence’ built on the California / Mexico border. Hunter has a long history of being on the right side about a lot of issues. I doubt many remember the importance of these issues, but I’m compelled to drop them in here.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/2006/03/13/transcript-gop-reps-hunter-pence-on-fns.html

a clip from an Interview transcript with Chris Wallace, 2006

REP. DUNCAN HUNTER, R-CALIF.: Well, the president has an arm of government. It’s called the Committee on Foreign Investment, CFI. It is supposed to look at these foreign acquisitions and look at them from a security standpoint. These folks let him down.

The Dubai government in 2003 shipped 66 nuclear triggers, high-speed switches that can be used to detonate nuclear weapons — allowed that shipment to go to Islamabad, even while we had an American agent standing on the dock asking the customs director of Dubai not to let this shipment go.

That information was not given to the Committee on Foreign Investment. They didn’t get it. They let him down. They did a superficial look at this thing. And when the president turned to his people that he’d relied on, they gave him the go sign. They had rubber stamped this thing. So they let him down.

And you know, I gave the president the federal district court documents, the affidavits of our customs agents, and he was very interested in getting those before they made the decision to — before Dubai pulled the plug on this thing. So I think the president, having all the information, would have stopped this deal. (read the rest at article)

CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY - Homeland Security
By Eleanor Stables July 11, 2007

As Republican presidential candidate Rep. Duncan Hunter has staked out the U.S.-Mexico border fence as one of this top priorities, he has repeatedly criticized the DHS for planning to build only half of the 700 miles of border fence authorized by Congress last year and acting too slowly to do even that. The Mexican border “is our biggest homeland security problem” and “this administration has a case of ‘the slows’ on border enforcement,” Hunter said at a Republican presidential candidate debate in May, repeating “the slows” criticism in the June debate.

But Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has said technology such as radar can be more effective than fencing, and DHS is deciding on what mix of fencing and technology to build. “Fencing has a symbolic value, and it has usefulness in some parts of the border. And we’re going to use it where it is effective,” Chertoff said earlier this month on CNN’s “Late Edition.” “The idea that fencing alone is a solution, I think, is overly simplistic,” he said, adding as an example that tunnels can literally undermine a fence’s effectiveness. DHS expects to gain control of the border with Mexico over the next five years at a cost of $7.6 billion, according to a December report from DHS to Congress.

The department expects to complete the Secure Border Initiative investment that is “needed to gain control of the Southwest land border by the end of [fiscal] 2011, although we certainly expect to gain substantial control of the border prior to that time,” the report says. DHS does not want traditional fencing along the entire southern border, department spokeswoman Laura Keehner said in an interview. Hunter would like the entire 1,933-mile Mexican border to have double-layered fencing, according to his spokesman. Estimates vary but the Congressional Budget Office puts the expected cost of the border fence at $3 million a mile.

The Secure Fence Act (PL 109-367), passed just before the 2006 midterm elections, authorizes 700 miles of fencing along the Mexican border. Then-House Homeland Security Chairman Peter T. King, R-N.Y., sponsored the bill, and Hunter was an original cosponsor and author of its fencing provisions. The bill passed after a comprehensive immigration overhaul failed last session; the defeat of the Senate immigration bill (S 1639) late last month means a comprehensive immigration overhaul is also unlikely this session. The Secure Fence Act says “the Secretary of Homeland Security shall provide for least 2 layers of reinforced fencing, the installation of additional physical barriers, roads, lighting, cameras and sensors” at five specific stretches of border totaling approximately 700 miles.

It sets three “priority area” deadlines — including one that was not met for an interlocking surveillance camera system along part of the border in California and Arizona by May 30, 2007, Hunter’s spokesman Joe Kasper said in an interview. Another deadline is for two-layered fencing to be installed in that section by June 2008. The third deadline is for the fencing to be installed in a Texas border section by 2009. No deadline is set for fencing to be completed in the three other sections.

Fourteen of the 700 miles of the fencing required by the Secure Fence Act have been built, in Arizona, and it is a single rather than double layer, according to Kasper, who said Hunter’s office consults with Border Patrol.... Keehner said 86 miles of fencing exist on the Mexican border and the total will be 150 miles by the end of September and 370 miles by the end of 2008. Hundreds of miles of vehicle barriers will also be added in that time,...

While the Secure Fence Act has authorized more miles, “there is a difference between authorization and appropriations,” she said. Kasper disagrees: “Hunter believes laws are meant to be followed” and “the money is there.” The fiscal 2007 Homeland Security spending bill (PL 109-295) appropriated $1.2 billion for construction of a U.S.-Mexican border “fence” that combines physical infrastructure, vehicle barriers and sensor technology. The law did not specify how much should be spent on two-layered fencing, such as that authorized in the Secure Fence Act, vs. alternative “virtual fence,” which consists of a mix of cameras, sensors, unmanned aerial vehicles and other technology.

DHS is determining what combination of infrastructure and technology is ideal and has thus far decided upon 370 miles of traditional fencing, said Keehner.
“A physical fence really only slows people down about 15 minutes and we are looking to strike the appropriate mix,” she said. Kasper disagreed with this as well, saying virtual fencing can be useful at very specific locations “but is not a substitute for physical fencing.” Hunter has never said double-layered fencing is the “silver bullet . . . but it’s a very important part” of border security, Kasper added.

Hunter often cites statistics on the 14-mile fence in his San Diego district, crediting the fence with reducing smuggling of people and narcotics by 90 percent and reducing the city’s crime rate by 50 percent. “Now, the other candidates have all got the right rhetoric with respect to the border, but I’ve done something about it. I understand the border . . . I built that border fence in San Diego,” he said last week on New Hampshire Public Radio. He also knows the barriers in building a fence — the 14-mile San Diego double-layered fence’s completion has been delayed because of environmental concerns.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“does he even listen to the crap that comes out of his mouth anymore???”

He’s a head case, on top of everything else.

[stephenjohnbanker]

I would love for every FReeper to read this, but that isn’t possible. I just pinged a bunch who are intelligent enough to appreciate it : )

[Lumper20]

I have friends all over Texas. Try every major city and many small towns.

[Lumper20]

Just before he was on his way to pester the females all the way across to the other side of the dorm. What a punk.

[Lumper20]

Just before he was on his way to pester the females all the way across to the other side of the dorm. What a punk.

[Lumper20]

I have plenty of friends who are in Texas as many of my SF pals retired and went to Texas. A number of the SF officers and NCO’s were from Texas prior to service. Several taught ROTC on their last assignment like one who was at St. Mary’s. He retired in a small town outside San Antonio. In fact, we have quite a few from the Dallas /FT. Worth area and probably all the larger cities. Many liked getting the extra land/acreage in Texas for veterans.

[DoughtyOne]

I knew that creepy young college kid would never grow up in certain ways.

He is still a kid inside with a screwed up view of when women are at their best.

And Trump was supposedly insensitive to women?

LOL

[Resolute Conservative]

As long as you are out of the Austin area or pretty much any town over 100,000 life is gold. The big cities are falling quickly to foreigners, hipsters, and left/east coast imports.

[stephenjohnbanker]

PING to post 89.

Duncan Hunter is the MAN!

[Jane Long]

Maybe he calls her Amandica and got really confused, after last nights utter schlonging.

[mkjessup]

*PING* to post #89 by one of our new FReepers 'Beautiful_Gracious_Skies', who as I see it: is OUR kind of FReeper!!

An excellent post, and a great reminder of why former Congressman Duncan Hunter would have been the greatest President since Reagan himself, if the GOPe had not torpedoed his presidential campaign that tragically never got traction.

Hat tip to my pal StephenJohnBanker for bringing this to my attention first ;)

Today's Trivia: It was Duncan Hunter who first coined the phrase 'The Ted Kennedy wing of the Republican Party', he was right when he said it, and he's still right today.