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 Clintons 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 thats 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 nations one percent are the ones whove 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 its not Obama.
In fact, the Dodd-Frank Act, passed during Obamas 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, Cruzs 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, hes trying to appeal to blue-collar Americans who are still suffering from the 2008 economic collapse. Hes 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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Good for Ted, since it's become obvious as hell that the Democrat party is the party of the non-working man.
BUMP that!!!!
LOL, good one.
Walker fans shriek when their #1 choice undergoes any sort of vetting.
Walker has been vetted up and down and all over the last 5 years from the Democratic party who HATE him. Cruz is in a state that is very Republican so as long as he breaths he wins. Talk about lack of vetting.
I’m looking forward to polls out of WI where they ask about head-to-head matchups, Hillary v Walker, Walker v Cruz, etc.
I have heard the answer for many years. It is because they want to help the people(at the same time helping themselves).
Why is Cruz engaging in class warfare?
You can’t really believe that nonsense, can you? Ted Cruz beat both the establishment GOP nominee, who was better funded and backed by the then governor and the well-funded Democrat. Before that, he was the winningest Solicitor General in a generation. Read his biography. BTW, without Cruz, Al Gore would have won in 2000.
What? One million new jobs? Where?
And we should listen to Robert F J=Kennedy Jr - why? He who has lied about vaccination and about global warming?
Isn’t he the Kennedy son who was married to Frank Gifford’s daughter, then divorced her? I think he was also involved with the teenage babysitter to his kids, which caused his marriage to collapse.
Is he the one whose latest wife committed suicide a few years ago?
Since the Bob & Ethel clan is rather large, I may be mistaking his sins for those of some of his brothers. If so, I apologize.
Texas.
Actually I think most true conservatives here are cheering both Cruz and Walker on. We could use another dozen of these guys on the scene.
This Walker bashing on freeeepublic is getting tiresome. I like Cruz and Walker. May the best man win.
If Ronald Reagan were running he'd be told old and of course there was that divorce issue.
If George Washington were running there would be red coat gate due to his having been in the service of the British army during the French-Indian war.
If Lincoln were running he'd be a inexperienced corporate lawyer.
If Thomas Jefferson were running. His faith would be question and of course the racism and supposed affair would mean we would need a safer candidate.
If the good Lord himself were running he'd be out of touch with the common people, a 1% 'er.
Maybe the conservative writers and pundits should let the liberal do the rock throwing for a while and preach the values of conservatism in the arena of ideas.
If Dudd-Fag is so great then why have the banksters made out like bandits since its passage, and why is the middle class being eviscerated under it?
BTW, without Cruz, Al Gore would have won in 2000.
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I’m a Cruz guy. I’d be interested in hearing the details of that.
BTW, without Cruz, Al Gore would have won in 2000.
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Do a Vanity Post and tell us about that.
Cruz is a fighter; he just keeps punching away at his opponents many weaknesses, back them into the corner; keeping them on the defensive; making them duck and cover; “float like a butterfly stinging like a bee”, kicking azz and taking names.
CRUZ 2016!
Cruz joined the George W. Bush presidential campaign in 1999 as a domestic policy adviser, advising then-Governor George W. Bush on a wide range of policy and legal matters, including civil justice, criminal justice, constitutional law, immigration, and government reform.[45]
Cruz assisted in assembling the Bush legal team, devise strategy, and draft pleadings for filing with the Supreme Court of Florida and U.S. Supreme Court, the specific case being Bush v. Gore, during the 2000 Florida presidential recounts, leading to two successful decisions for the Bush team.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz
This Walker bashing on freeeepublic is getting tiresome. I like Cruz and Walker. May the best man win.
Amen! My preference is for Sarah Palin to run. However, I like Scott Walker and Ted Cruz as well. It serves no purpose to bash any of those three, especially since none of them are declared candidates. Let them announce, define their positions and agenda and then argue those differences without ripping their opponents apart. Regardless of who gets the nomination, the other two will be invaluable team members in reforming government. Why the hell weaken them unnecessarily?
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