[Isara]

Ted Cruz: "I just think the Department of Commerce is such a base of cronyism, we need to eliminate it twice."

[Sacajaweau]

I heard that boo boo and laughed.....

[Yashcheritsiy]

If only that were possible!

[mylife]

He landed on his feet

[TADSLOS]

That’s the problem with Fedzilla. There’s so many sacred cows to gore, it’s hard to keep track.

[skeeter]

Yeah he lost that one department.

Of all the really good points he made last night this is the third reference to this slip I’ve heard this morning.

If thats all they’ve got the ol’ Ted must be in pretty good shape.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I noticed that he listed Commerce twice but it was really minor. Cruz was and is always the most elegant speaker in a debate. I imagine a lot of folks didn’t even catch it.

[demshateGod]

I was watching and didn’t even notice. Way different than Rick Perry.

[Envisioning]

Why not the EPA Ted?

[Texas Eagle]

Okay, fine. Now Cruz needs to take advantage of all the air time this is going to generate and point out that not one student has ever graduated from the Dept. of Education, not one job has ever been created at the Dept. of Commerce other than the gargantuan bureaucracy, the Dept. of Energy has never created on watt of energy, etc.

[Glad2bnuts]

The Dept of Education which educates no one, but installs ropes on every educator in America to tie them to the whims of theorists and puppeteers.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Is the Dept. of Energy the same as the EPA? If not, we need to eliminate that too, or severely curtail it.

[LostInBayport]

When I heard him start listing the departments I thought “don’t forget one like Rick Perry” and then I heard the briefest pause and Commerce a second time.

He handled it much better than Perry did.

[loveliberty2]

Conservatives instantly filled in the blank for Cruz in their own minds and moved right on with what he was saying!

Surely, intelligent viewers understand that a constitutional scholar like Cruz would include the Department of Education in any list of unnecessary arms of their federal government.

[Sacajaweau]

I’d say the Education Department is the one that can easily be shut down. All others would require some type of replacement.

[oldplayer]

Try as Politico and the Hill might wish, this is not going to stick or even be a bump. 58 States?

Oldplayer

[cripplecreek]

The reason it won’t hurt Cruz is simply because he didn’t stumble over it like Perry did. It brought Perry to a dead stop as he thought about it.

[11th Commandment]

I would be in favor of turning over many national recreational areas and parks to the states. I have been to many national parks with adjacent state parks, and without exception the state park is better.

[reegs]

In addition to the five mentioned, he also lists the following from his "Five For Freedom" page.

Eliminate the following Agencies, Bureaus, Commissions, and programs:

1. Appalachian Regional Commission
2. Climate Ready Water Utilities Initiative
3. Climate Research Funding for the Office of Research and Development
4. Climate Resilience Evaluation Awareness Tool
5. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
6. Corporation for Public Broadcasting
7. Corporation for Travel Promotion
8. Global Methane Initiative
9. Green Infrastructure Program
10. Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program
11. Legal Services Corporation
12. National Endowment for the Arts
13. National Endowment for the Humanities
14. New Starts Transit Program
15. Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund
16. Presidential Election Campaign Fund
17. Regulation of CO2 Emissions from Power Plants and all Sources
18. Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Vehicles
19. Renewable Fuel Standard Federal Mandates
20. Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
21. Sugar Subsidies
22. Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery
23. UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
24. UN Population Fund
25. USDA Catfish Inspection Program

[FourPeas]

Cruz can think fast on his feet. When it comes to communicating with adversaries this is an incredibly valuable capability.

[GreenHornet]

I did catch that little stumble last night, but didn’t think it was any big deal. Cruz didn’t let it throw him off, and continued on with the point he was making. However, I thought to myself that the mainstream media is going to try to make a big deal out of this.