Posted on 10/23/2015 8:10:18 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
According to attendees at a recent fundraiser, George W. Bush is no fan of a fellow Texan currently competing against his brother in the 2016 Republican presidential primary.
“I just don’t like the guy,” Bush reportedly said of Sen. Ted Cruz.
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Despite working on Bush’s 2000 presidential campaign, some speculate Cruz angered Bush by becoming too cozy with GOP front-runner – and frequent Jeb Bush critic – Donald Trump.
Cruz has also made an effort to distance himself from George W. Bush’s policies, offering some criticism of his administration during a recent interview.
“It’s not a good thing for a Republican president to grow the national debt from $5 trillion to $10 trillion,” he said, citing such spending as the impetus for the tea party’s formation.
Regarding Bush’s reported comment at his expense, however, Cruz chose to remain gracious instead of escalating the situation. “I have great respect for George W. Bush,” he said, “and was proud to work on his 2000 campaign and in his administration.”
He concluded that it is “no surprise that President Bush is supporting his brother and attacking the candidates he believes pose a threat to his campaign,” though he made it clear he does not intend to respond in kind.
“I met my wife Heidi working on his campaign,” Cruz said, “and so I will always be grateful to him.”
ditto
Classy and savvy; painting Jeb with W’s brush...
Agree to a point - he’ll help a little over 10%. We need more than 50% of the Supreme Court to do what they take the oath to do.
Because we can’t reasonably expect that, given the current culture, we also need to introduce periodic approvals of justices by the people to prevent them from *legislating*... as Ted has said.
Looking ahead to form alliances in a dynamic world is one thing. Restructuring national governments into one is a whole 'nother ballgame. The press release at the link doesn't really hint one way or another at that, at least to me.
Catherine, I'd sure love your input!
You can get the full report here: http://i.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/NorthAmerica_TF_final.pdf
One relevant piece:
Canada and the United States should expand programs for temporary labor migration from Mexico. For instance, Canada’s successful model for managing seasonal migration in the agricultural sector should be expanded to other sectors where Canadian producers face a shortage of workers and Mexico may have a surplus of workers with appropriate skills. Canadian and U.S. retirees living in Mexico should be granted working permits in certain fields, for instance as English teachers.
I have been one often enough -- I supported Dubya in good faith and he not only failed me, he pretty much defied me. I flat out refused to vote for Romney -- it would have been as nuts as voting for Obama.
As for those who are looking out for #1 instead of the country, up until 2011 at least, Donald Trump donated more than a million to the races of political candidates in both parties, favoring Democrats 54 to 46, according to this MSM story before Trump had become a seemingly committed politician.
In other words, "the cost of doing business" required him to give financial support to politicians who bring on more tyrannical government. Sure, his money helped Harry Reid and Terry McAuliffe -- but he gained financially from it. The cost of doing business.
I hope Cruz really is what he says he is; in the Senate, he's stood his ground often enough. Also, he is more "politically incorrect" than Trump by a huge margin, and I like that. Trump defends the 2A as being for self defense, a politically correct stance. Cruz defends the 2A as a "fundamental check on tyrannical government." That is as politically incorrect as it gets. It is also the greatest value of the 2A.
I know the home town of Heidi pretty well. Uggghhh. A town for little old ladies in tennis shoes, the original "community organizers."
If the accusation is bad enough, we should not care about such things. Gotcha.
-- I am afraid I'm not terribly concerned about the "relevant" piece you cite.
I am VERY concerned about having my right to deal with my medical care as I please on my terms, overridden by the government which will then presume to take cradle-to-grave medical responsibility for my well-being. Trump only wants his own version of Obamacare, is all I hear from him -- he wants to "take care of people." Cruz points out that first, Obamacare has to be repealed before you can start talking replacement.
The entire concept of nationalized health care is unconstitutional. Cruz is the only guy who sees it as such. Trump is already on to how he's going to do it better, and I refuse to vote for my own medical enslavement to the government.
"Kinda like Homer Simpson advising Stephen Hawking.
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Either you need not fear a sunburned scalp -- or you mistakenly got that totally bassackwards..
Wow .. I do so agree with you.
You’re entitled to your opinion, friend.
I will admit the healthcare policy stuff from Trump is his biggest weakness. But he’s supposedly got a new healthcare paper in the works so I reserve judgment on that aspect of things.
I just don’t see anyone else as having the chance to fight Shrillary the way she deserves to be. Everyone else can’t see the forest for the trees on how to take her down. Trump has crossover appeal that no one else does imo.
Cruz, to my mind, talks like he’s before a judge all the time and he doesn’t realize that regular people don’t think like judges do. They want humor and sarcasm and self-deprecation. Trump knows all this and he’s a natural. Cruz is very forced and more arrogant.
But hey, you don’t have to believe my viewpoint. I think there are plenty of people on FR who support candidates in good faith. Just be aware. Cruz says he wants 500% increase in H1B. That’s scary to me as someone who used to work in a tech job. Google Disney H1b and see what the point of H1B visas is.
Worrying about Shrillary or whatever nightmare the Democrats toss into the ring is playing defense. Hillary was dangled in front of us to terrorize us for two long years, into 2008, when the rallying cry was "Anybody but Hillary!" We got our wish. We got Obama. That's what conservatives get when they play defense. To boot, just because the MSM likes Hillary, real people loathe her. She is probably the most hated woman in America, everyone's nightmare ex-wife.
According to this, the US H1B visa covers "specialty occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise in specialized fields such as in architecture, engineering, mathematics, science, and medicine."
I know Disney has architects and engineers. I also know that any company that goes to the trouble of firing their American workers but first making them train their H1B replacements do it because they must to remain competitive.
I kind of have a hard time imagining doctors training their replacements, or mathematicians and scientists training their foreign replacements as a condition of end of employment compensation. Sounds to me like the definition of H1B visa has been stretched. Regardless, the bottom line is that it must be financially advantageous for companies to take this route than to keep their American workers. Why? Ten to one, because the sum total of government requirements involved make it a losing proposition.
When H1B visas are actually limited to "specialty occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise in specialized fields such as in architecture, engineering, mathematics, science, and medicine," it brings the best minds in the world to work for US companies, and deprives foreign competitors of that resource. That makes sense to me. It gives America the advantage in every way.
The villain here is a government that makes it too expensive for American companies to employ American workers, and/or universities that put out too inferior or not enough of qualified workers in these fields.
Reserve judgment on Trump's plan at your own risk -- his own words reveal that he is much more a Democrat on this issue, that he seeks to "take care of everybody." Cruz calls Obamacare and the concept it represents exactly what it is: against the Constitution, unconstitutional. The Federal government has zero business meddling in your or my health care; once it presumes control, you will be enslaved in a way that is very dangerous.
Voting for that or the promise of that, is a very bad choice no matter how intriguing the "healthcare paper."
Obviously, I'm NOT a history major.
Every American history course (HS and college) I took started with the initial settling of the British colonies, and barely reached the Civil War by the end of term.
If I was given the power to select the next President all by myself, no question it would be Cruz
What a MENSCH!
(That’s a GOOD thing, for FReepers who don’t speak Yiddish!)
A gracious gentleman. And true conservative.
There isn’t any choice in this primary at all.
And what makes you think that she won’t be “coaxed” by the Won to step down before he has to so that he can appoint someone worse? It’s going to happen, he’s going to repack the court anyway and the gutless GOP congress will quickly seat them.
You’re going to see a liberal president nominate and win approval for their seats. Cruz can’t be appointed as an SCJ until there is a conservative president to appoint him and Obama will have his way before that happens.
Cruz spanked W in 2008 Medellin SCOTUS case. Old grudge.
That was just another example of W’s One World heart.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/03/25/scotus.texas/index.html?eref=rss_us
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