Posted on 09/22/2014 8:30:47 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
“Unfortunately the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party,” Cruz said in an interview backstage at the Liberty Political Action Conference (LPAC) in Alexandria, Virginia. “They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate. There are over 350 bills the House of Representatives has passed and they’re all sitting on Harry Reid’s desk. He will not allow a vote on them.”
The interview with Cruz aired on Breitbart News Saturday on Sirius XM Patriot.
Cruz has introduced two pieces of legislation designed to protect Americans both from U.S. citizens who join the terrorist organization ISIS and from President Obama’s amnesty. The ISIS bill would revoke U.S. citizenship from any American who joins ISIS, a concept that enjoys support from almost everyone in politics, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH). But when Cruz sought unanimous consent to bring the bill up for debate and a vote, Senate Democrats—through Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI)—blocked it.
“So the legislation I introduced was to address this crisis we’re facing with ISIS. ISIS is the face of evil,” Cruz told Breitbart News. “They are crucifying Christians, they are beheading children, they are beheading American journalists—and they have pledged to take jihad back to America to murder Americans here at home. There are roughly 100 Americans fighting alongside ISIS who have taken up arms in jihad against America."
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This is the right argument. Libs have successfully picked up support since Clinton on branding Republicans extremists, time to turn the tables.
I hope our Cruz has brushed up on community organizing, Alinsky style, because it has been on that grassroots field where the Marxists patiently advanced their themes, over years of effort, and it’s where we have not begun to engage.
Anglos and conservatives tend to hang around and wait for the ballot casting to commence, as if that is the end-all.
From what I understand about Alinsky, it is not a path for the lazy, but is constant and active with plenty of leg work for banging on doors, setting meetings, formulating agendas, goals, ballot questions, petitions and getting turn out, turn out, turn out. And, starting all over to do it all again, and again, over the course of YEARS.
The TEA Party came the closest as a conservative grassroots effort, years late to the new game in town, but it has made a mark if it wills itself to GROW and not retreat.
Ping
I am awaiting leadership that will lead us away from the business as usual politics and hope Ted will help fill those shoes as the leader of a new authentically conservative party.
I hope America finds its Nigel Farage and its UKIP.....
Ted Cruz has just now figured out that Democrats are run by their radical base?
Exactly what makes you think that he "just now" figured it out?
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