Posted on 02/09/2015 10:16:53 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
On ABC News with host George Stephanopoulos, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) had the audacity to insist yesterday that Democrats are the “top one percent” party, reported Raw Story.
Stephanopoulos was interviewing Cruz about the current economy and Hillary Clinton’s prospects of running for president in 2016. Stephanopoulos noted that there were one million new jobs added to the American labor market in the last three months.
“Look, if Hillary Clinton wants to run by telling Americans that the economy is doing great and that you can credit President Obama and Hillary Clinton for that, I would encourage her to follow that strategy,” said Cruz. “Because the simple reality is that’s true for the wealthy.”
“The top 1 percent under President Obama, the millionaires and billionaires that he constantly demagogues, earn a higher share of our income than any year since 1928. Those with power and influence, who walk the corridors of power of the Obama administration, have gotten fat and happy under big government.”
Sen. Cruz is attempting to hijack the liberal narrative of pointing out that the nation’s one percent are the ones who’ve been reaping the benefits of the economic recovery. We on the left have been saying that for years. The reason is not big government, and it’s not Obama.
In fact, the Dodd-Frank Act, passed during Obama’s term, was the first piece of major financial regulatory legislation enacted in decades. It was designed to control the high-risk derivatives market the contributed to the 2008 crisis and to protect American consumer tax dollars from funding another bailout. Ted Cruz wants to repeal Dodd-Frank and help the big banks.
The major attempts to rein in Wall Street and close the income gap have come from the Democrats. The Republicans do nothing but perpetuate the problem. With the 2016 elections on the minds of those in Capitol Hill, Cruz’s narrative is a new variation of an old tactic: appeal to Blue Collar America.
By making the GOP look like the party of the working man, he’s trying to appeal to blue-collar Americans who are still suffering from the 2008 economic collapse. He’s pushing the fact that wages have stagnated, a liberal talking point. The sad thing is that some people will pay attention to this drivel, believe it, and take it with them to the polls.
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They’ve been trashing Walker for 5 years. No one besides Palin has taken more heat from the left.
This Walker bashing on freeeepublic is getting tiresome. I like Cruz and Walker. May the best man win.
That hit a rather large nerve, didn’t it? LOL!
I prefer Cruz but until he’s actually in the race, Walker is the guy.
This is what we need. PUT THEM ON THE DEFENSIVE. MAKE THEM DEFEND THEIR POLICY.
If the veil is ever drawn down, it will signal the end of the Democrat party.
Written on a one percenter’s blog. Last time I checked the Kennedy family was still in the 1% bracket. Last time I checked they were all democrats.
An interesting bout of hysteria by the writer. I wonder if Kennedy was sober when he typed this one? His uncle was known to have a few too many, at the wrong time—as an unfortunate young woman learned, as she breathed her last.
The flight crews, most probably.
Yes, it did! Notice Cruz supporters welcome and post criticism of our candidate, to see where the opposition is and what it’s doing, where Walker fans shriek when their #1 choice undergoes any sort of vetting.
Amazing—that really is the title!
Go look at the Forbes 400. Most of them are on the left.
Ted Cruz wants to repeal Doof-Prank because it stifles loans to small business, promotes loans that cannot ever be re-paid, favors digital money over real value, impedes the growth of the American economy and over regulates by a factor of 1,000.
Other than that, it stinks.
” This Walker bashing on freeeepublic is getting tiresome.”
Amnesty and unlimited HB1 visas are getting REALLY tiresome!
Dodd Frank is the mindless whine that works well for Democrats. They don’t want to understand complex issues. They want a simple bumper sticker fix. They get almost everything they want and then complain when it fails. They simply do not get it.
In the list of richest Senators, I don’t think you hit a republican until #45 or something.
Almost all tech billionares are lefties, so this alone hurts.
Neither Gov. Walker nor Sen. Cruz has officially declared their candidacy for the Republican nomination for the presidency. Only Sen. Santorum, at this point, has done so, as far as I’m aware.
Oh, but they are; it is the author who is lying.
Junior didn’t write it, one of his underlings did.
“And Robert F Kennedy Jr says so!”
yehp, look who is talking. Look at the MSM, look at the elite cities and the donation level to the Dem party from the upper 1%. There is also a lot of other places you can confirm that.
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