Mitch .... for the love of God and Country .... it's your turn now to follow Boehner's lead to resign ....
Posted on 09/25/2015 6:48:15 AM PDT by Isara
WASHINGTON — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz says the Republican leadership in Congress is guilty of “peremptory surrender” once again, criticizing House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for not going along with the plan favored by conservatives to defund Planned Parenthood.
“Republicans need to act like Republicans,” Cruz said Thursday afternoon to a group of reporters inside his Capitol Hill office. “Leadership needs to lead. Together, we need to actually honor the commitments to the men and women who elected us.”
Speaking at a long brown table in his conference room and sipping on a diet Dr. Pepper, Cruz, a Republican presidential candidate, argued Republicans need to fight for a bill that funds the government while gutting money for Planned Parenthood.
“You have one side — President Obama and the Democrats — who are relentless, committed to advancing their principles,” Cruz said. “Like the Terminator, they never stop, they never give up. And you have the other side, Republican leadership, who commences every discussion with a peremptory surrender.”
Democrats in the Senate would block legislation defunding Planned Parenthood. The White House says it would veto it. Republican leaders, like Boehner and McConnell, say they want to avoid a government shutdown like in 2013 after the debate over defunding Obamacare.
“The results are predictable,” Cruz said. “It starts with Republican leadership’s promise at the outset there will be no shutdowns. Now, that promise on its face sounds quite reasonable. The problem is when you have a radical in the White House who will exploit that promise.”
“What it means in effect is Republican leadership will support every single failed big government policy of President Obama,” he said.
Some Republicans, like New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte, often point out that Republicans don’t have 67 votes to overcome Obama’s veto so the party shouldn’t commit to fighting for something that will lead to a shutdown. Cruz said Thursday, under that thinking, it really “makes no difference” that Republicans re-took control of Congress last year.
“Even though we have Republican majorities in both houses of Congress, under leadership’s view, that makes no difference,” he said. “Republicans will support every single failed policy of the Democrats. If that is the case, if that is how leadership approaches it, what difference does it make?”
He added: “Today, Harry Reid is the de-facto leader of the Senate. Nancy Pelosi is the de-facto leader of the House. Why? Because Republican leadership will advance nothing unless Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi agree with it. They have veto power.”
Cruz expressed frustration with how voters were led to believe during the 2010 and 2014 elections that things would change if more Republicans were elected.
“The American people were told if only we had a Republican House of Representatives, then things would be different,” Cruz said. “So millions of us rose up in 2010, and elected a Republican congress. Very little changed.”
“Then we were told the problem was the Senate…If only we get the Senate, retire Harry Reid, then things will be different,” he said. “So what happened in 2014? Millions of us rose up. We won an historic tidal wave. We won nine Senate seats. We retired Harry Reid with the biggest House majority since the 1920s. And what on earth has changed?”
Despite his criticism of the Republican leadership, Cruz was careful not to explicitly express support for removing Boehner and McConnell from their positions, as conservative grassroots activists would like.
“That is a question at the end of the day for the Republican conference,” he said. “At least to date, the Republican conference has been willing to accept leadership’s handing control of the agenda over to Democrats. I hope that changes.”
Indeed—Tie the DIMS to everything the majority of US citizens oppose.
Make the DIMS own and defend every shred of their agenda.
If a lot of second choice votes went to Ted, then I would wonder if Trump took a lot from him.
But that’s not the case. I think Cruz would be in the administration and he’s so young with another chance to run.
NOPE!!!
Cruz is there to clean out the Senate....and I for one am behind him on this...
I am a Trump supporter 100%, but I think Cruz is a great person who has had enough, the same as the American People have had enough.
Lets stand behind these men and give them our support to get OUR government back!!!
Well, the Bonehead part is done, now need to wake up another 8 to 10 senators to follow Cruz’s lead.
Mitch .... for the love of God and Country .... it's your turn now to follow Boehner's lead to resign ....
Not me. As usual Cruz is brilliant and completely correct.
well, for some reason, he’s not catching on with conservative republicans
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Agree that he’s currently trailing in these uninformed polls of “republican and leaning Republican” registered voters— none of these polls are of likely voters.
But, as to “conservative” voters, even these polls show that Cruz is only 2nd to Trump among those who identify as Tea Party.
From an article yesterday:
“Bob Vander Plaats, head of The Family Leader, a Christian group in Iowa, said he believes Mr. Cruz has the best infrastructure of support in the Hawkeye State and said that some of the other candidates eyeing the conservative mantle are struggling to keep pace.
“People still like Governor Huckabee,” he said. “They still like Senator Santorum. I still hear buzz about Bobby Jindal, but they are going to need some sort of game changer to put them into the upper bracket [with Mr. Cruz] and give them the fuel needed to sustain it.”
Cruz is well positioned to win Iowa, esp, now that Gov. Walker is out.
I want him on the Ticket. I think Trump/Cruz would be very, very formidable. Trump is nearly 70. If he wins I truly belive it would be for one term, for a couple of reasons. One is that he'd be 74 and two is that he'd have been away from his business long enough and would want to get back to his real business. In that case Cruz would be perfectly positioned for 2020.
amen!
Here’s a roadmap.
November: Sen. Ted Cruz elected Speaker of the House.
August: Speaker Sen. Cruz nominated as Republican candidate for Vice President.
November: Trump/Cruz ticket sails to victory.
January: President Trump presides from Mara Lago while VP Speaker Cruz handles day to day management of the U.S. government.
March: Chief Justice Roberts steps down.
April: VP Speaker Cruz nominated and confirmed as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
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Very interesting. We shall see what happens.
“Together, we need to actually honor the commitments to the men and women who elected us.”
The Crux of the Biscuit as presented by Mr Cruz is dead on!
I have no disagreemment with anything he stated!!
How can a Senator be elected Speaker of the House?
Anybody can be. Sarah Palin even.
Mainly his past record of kowtowing to much of the leftist party line and financially supporting their candidates.
I realize he is in New York and some of this might be necessary to do business, but he's gone above and beyond. Like Mitt Romney, he talks a good game but his actual record is less than stellar. As I said, he isn't the best we've got, but he could be the best we deserve at this point.
I believe Cruz beat Trump 2 to 1 in an informal FreeRepublic poll several weeks ago.
FreeRepublic is certainly representative of the Tea Party.
I am not a Constitutional scholar, but have learned from others here that anybody can be elected Speaker. You don’t have to be a Member of Congress. As to whether Ted could be both a Senator and Speaker at once, I don’t see anything that excludes it.
And the Armies of Israel was taunted by Goliath day and night even defying the God of Israel until King David came on the scene.
Unless they are not a true blue conservative ?
Telling us that we need a candidate that can appeal to the mushy middle.
That issues like abortion and gay marriage do not matter.
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