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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The effort to prove it is benefitting from billions donated from non-democrat one per centers such as Soros, Gates, Buffett, Turner, Steyer, Spielberg, Katzenberg, Geffen, Hollywood, Wall Street, Kerry, Pelosi, Boxer, Kennedy...
Thanks so much.
RFK Jr. was also the one who said, in 2010, that the days of suburban DC kids getting to enjoy sledding in the snow were gone forever.
Hasn’t quite worked out that way ...
Ok, so the crux here is that Kennedy doesn’t get (or perhaps gets but chooses to ignore) the differences between free market capitalism and corportism.
The Dems have been the party of corporatism since Clinton made Robert Rubin his emmisary to Wall St. The crowning achievement of Democrat-supported Corporatism is ObamaCare, where a limited number of big companies get to implement federal policy, and get to rake in massive amounts of money (through the individual and employer mandates), enriching their leaders and wealthier shareholders in the process.
Cruz gets this, and calls it out for what it is.
You must have missed the very heated Texas primary where Cruz took out the GOPe candidate.
Is Walker any more "officially in" than Cruz??
"Dude, where's my car?"
Yeah, kinda, when Mittens dropped out he hinted strongly at supporting and endorsing Walker, then Walker said the other day ‘he’d LOVE’ to have Mitt’s endorsement, ‘who would have been a good president’.
You don’t generally ask for ‘competitor’s’ endorsement unless you’re pretty sure you’re running, having filed or not.
To contrast, the NRSC asked Cruz publicly NOT to endorse or campaign against any sitting GOP-e candidates. Otherwise John Cornyn would be missing in the Senate today.
Someone’s looking to borrow someone else’s GOP-e power, someone’s having to NOT LEND his support to GOP-ers.
I truly beleive that most "democrats" are incapable of understanding complex issues and the progressive/leftists that lead them are willing to lie about comlpex issues to keep the democrats heads in the sand.
Not that the right side of politics is repleat with geniuses; it does seem to have a verifiable higher degree of intellegence and common sense amongst its members than the left.
Well would you hire a “quota”when your life is on the line? Those execs would freak out if their pilot wasn’t a stereotype of one.
Tells you just who we should support, no?
Me too. They all laughed at Ronald Reagan too. The same thing is happening to Scott Walker.
Oh, well. Isn't that how Uncle Teddy got through Harvard at exam time?
This is one of the (many) reasons I like Cruz so much. He never accepts the leftist talking points and throws their own arguments right back in their teeth. He is always on offense.
And Cruz is both intelligent enough and gutsy enough to do it.
And then there are Boehner and McConnell.
In 1983, Kennedy was arrested in a Rapid City, South Dakota, airport for heroin possession. A search of his carry-on bag uncovered 182 milligrams of the drug.[11] Upon entering a plea of guilty, Kennedy, then 29 years old, was sentenced to two years probation, periodic tests for drug use, treatment by joining Narcotics Anonymous, and 1,500 hours of community service by Presiding Judge Marshall P. Young.[11]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy,_Jr.
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