Posted on 04/29/2016 11:23:34 AM PDT by OneVike
The media is working hard to convince you that they caught Ted Cruz in a lie about working with John Boehner. But they are the ones lying, as usual.
During an interview hosted by Stanford in Government (SIG) and the Stanford Speakers Bureau, former House Speaker John Boehner referred to presidential candidate Ted Cruz as “Lucifer in the flesh.” He continued, “I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life.”
But Boehner did not “work” with Ted Cruz. Boehner only worked against Cruz as he golfed with Trump, who Boehner referred to as his “texting buddy.”
The comments are reminiscent of other nasty names Boehner has used to describe the constant anti-establishment thorn in his side. Last year, the failed Speaker referred to Cruz as a “jackass,” and still another time as a “false prophet.
It doesn’t matter who’s lawyer he has or has not been, it’s the fact that he’s a lawyer, period!
Where is the actual rebuttal?
Or is this to be an article of faith?
Where is your link to your proof?
Pretty sad
Because so was Scalia.
I guess we can forget about getting any decent appointee to the SCOTUS since they will all be Lawyers. I guess we can get another professor nimrod.
Wouldn’t want any lawyers on the courts deciding what constitutional and whats not.
Go to the article moron.
I posted it.
I didn’t write it
“I was a junior lawyer. My boss was hired to be [Boehner’s] lawyer,” Cruz explained. “So I worked on the case. I worked on some appellate briefs. I don’t know that I ever met him. We haven’t said 50 words to each other in our lives. I was a baby lawyer a couple years out of law school working on editing some briefs and helping write them. But I don’t know the man.”
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ted-cruz-says-he-was-just-a-baby-lawyer-when-he-worked-for-john-boehner/
If he’s telling the truth.
I followed a gawker(sp)/twitter link on FR yesterday and saw Boehner say Cruz was his lawyer.
STOP THE SADNESS! I didn’t make mention of the SCOTUS, I’m talking about another lawyer in the White House, which i am 100% against.
“In the old days we had proper balance on things when a lie was posted. Well, I like the old days, so here is some balance...”
Well said.
Seems to me an admission that he was, at one time, hired as a lawyer for Boehner and Company. The fact that he was a “baby lawyer” doing some appellate briefs for his boss on Boehner’s behalf doesn’t make the claim that he was once Boehner’s lawyer untrue.
We are still waiting to see a SINGLE piece of paper that shows that Ted Cruz’ birth was registered with the United States Government at his birth. All the official paper we have seen so far, i.e. his Canadian Birth Certificate, and Renunciation of that Canadian Citizenship, indicate that he was in fact a Natural Born Canadian, and do not establish any claim to American citizenship at all.
Sorry. Its the article not you.
"The fund-raising letter is much ado about nothing," Cruz told The Seattle Times. "Congressman McDermott has consistently attempted to delay the litigation and drive up the expense. It is reasonably expected that Congressman Boehner will use the means at his disposal to raise the funds to pursue this lawsuit."
Asking for proof of a negative is a classic debating ploy that is easily shot down.
“The alleged disclosure at issue here did not involve a conversation on a purely private matter,” McDermott’s attorneys argue. “It involved a conversation regarding an attempt to orchestrate a political response to a reprimand of the speaker by the House Ethics Committee in violation of an explicit agreement to the contrary between the speaker and the committee.
“This is core political speech and lies at the very heart of the First Amendment,” the reply argues. “If a citizen who lawfully obtains such speech can be punished for disclosing it to the media, the protections of the First Amendment are more illusory than real.”
But Ted Cruz, Boehner’s attorney, said the fund-raising letter demonstrates nothing and highlights the weakness of McDermott’s defense. Boehner alleges that McDermott gave the taped phone call - which Republicans argue did not violate any promise made by Gingrich - to The New York Times, The Atlanta Journal and Roll Call, a semiweekly congressional newspaper.
“The fund-raising letter is much ado about nothing,” Cruz said. “Congressman McDermott has consistently attempted to delay the litigation and drive up the expense. It is reasonably expected that Congressman Boehner will use the means at his disposal to raise the funds to pursue this lawsuit.”
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19980602&slug=2754000
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