Posted on 07/15/2015 11:52:08 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Texas senator will have a very huge, very classy meeting with Donald Trump so he can benefit from Trump's collapse.
Donald Trump, the billionaire loud-talker whose head resembles a half-rotted cantaloupe, phoned in to MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” earlier today to discuss his bigly classy presidential campaign. The “Morning Joe” panelists did a fine job of pretending to treat Trump like a serious human politician, asking for his reaction to the Iran deal (“I could have made so much better a deal”) and once again asking him to defend his bigoted nonsense about Mexican immigrants (“I have hundreds and hundreds of Mexicans working for me. I love the Mexican people”). It was, in most ways, your standard Trump interview: irredeemably stupid.
There was, however, one interesting bit of news that Trump dropped: he confirmed that he is meeting with fellow Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz today, and he’s doing so at Cruz’s request.
TRUMP: Ted Cruz called me, and – I don’t know why I’m meeting him, to be honest. But I do have respect for him. I respect the fact that, along with a couple of others, he came out and he came out very strongly and agreed with what I said on illegal immigration. And he came out very strongly and he came out early. And I respect that. I like him. He called me, he wanted to meet, and we are going to meet. What it’s about, I have absolutely no idea.
Say what you will about Trump, he doesn’t shy away from the fact that the best way to earn his respect is to say nice things about Donald Trump. And, of course, he’s correct: Ted Cruz has been one of the few 2016 candidates to actually defend Trump for disparaging undocumented immigrants....
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
If you’re looking for a perfect man, He’s sitting on the right hand of the Father. All others are imperfect.
Not a smidgen of bias there.
I’m not looking for perfect, at the moment I’ll settle for Trump. I just object to someone from the Uniparty trying to dissemble his way into the hearts of conservatives.
You’re referring to Ted Cruz?
I think that Trump went full throttle once Congress, including Senator Cruz, made the country bend over and take it in the shorts from Obama once again.
Yes I am.
Then you’re delusional. Most sources rate him as the most conservative senator in the current body and some say in all of history.
I’m thrilled that Trump is speaking out, but I firmly believe that Cruz would be the better president.
What accomplishments has he got to back that up with?
Salon.com always concerned about the conservative campaign. LOL!
If you want a p*ssing contest, go over to DU, MoveOn or Kos. I’m busy.
I think Cruz is a very bright guy, and as a speaker he can out do John Edwards and without the baggage of horrible floozies. Thing is that for all of his formidable natural gifts, what’s he do? Campaign tirelessly to expand visa programs which might get done, blather on about conservative agenda items he conspicuously shoots himself in the foot over which don’t get done, and aggravate John McCain.
No, I do not want a p*ssing contest with you. But on this subject I am not going to agree with you unless Sen. Cruz comes up with a victory on something other than doubling visas.
Legislation
Cruz has sponsored 25 bills of his own, including:
S.177, a bill to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the health-care related provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, introduced January 29, 2013
S.505, a bill to prohibit the use of drones to kill citizens of the United States within the United States, introduced March 7, 2013
S.729 and S. 730, bills to investigate and prosecute felons and fugitives who illegally purchase firearms, and to prevent criminals from obtaining firearms through straw purchases and trafficking, introduced March 15, 2013
S.1336, a bill to permit States to require proof of citizenship for registering to vote in federal elections, introduced July 17, 2013
S.2170, a bill to increase coal, natural gas, and crude oil exports, to approve the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline, to expand oil drilling offshore, onshore, in the National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska, and in Indian reservations, to give states the sole power of regulating hydraulic fracturing, to repeal the Renewable Fuel Standard, to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating greenhouse gases, to require the EPA to assess how new regulations will affect employment, and to earmark natural resource revenue to paying off the federal government’s debt, introduced March 27, 2014
S.2415, a bill to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to eliminate all limits on direct campaign contributions to candidates for public office, introduced June 3, 2014
Senate bill 2195
Main article: Public Law 113-100
On April 1, 2014, Cruz introduced Senate bill 2195, a bill that would allow the President of the United States to deny visas to any ambassador to the United Nations who has been found to have been engaged in espionage activities or a terrorist activity against the United States or its allies and may pose a threat to U.S. national security interests.[85] The bill was written in response to Iran’s choice of Hamid Aboutalebi as their ambassador.[86] Aboutalebi was involved in the Iran hostage crisis, in which of a number of American diplomats from the US embassy in Tehran were held captive in 1979.
Under the headline “A bipartisan message to Iran”, Cruz thanked President Barack Obama for signing S 2195 into law. The letter, published in the magazine Politico on April 18, 2014, starts with “Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law”. Cruz also thanked senators from both political parties for “swiftly passing this legislation and sending it to the White House.”
Committee assignments
According to transcripts as reported by Politico, in his first two years in the Senate, Cruz attended 17 of 50 public Armed Services Committee hearings, 3 of 25 Commerce Committee hearings, 4 of the 12 Judiciary Committee hearings, and missed 21 of 135 roll call votes during the first three months of 2015.
Source: Wikipedia
Thank you.
And he thinks he is funny too...
Jokes about Hillary breaking the law but he thinks Trump is a racist.
Simon Maloy @SimonMaloy · 3h3 hours ago
can’t believe they found HILLARY’S EMAIL SERVER on Pluto
thanks, plz RT
Not saying he isn’t a great lawyer.
Well, congratulations to him on sb 2195 which appears to have passed unanimously. Now what’s he done to earn conservative bonafides other than introduce stuff that fails?
I don’t think that you are able to comprehend what it means to be a conservative.
My sympathies.
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