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Cruz disciples take aim at Obama's immigration orders
Politico ^ | February 11, 2016

Posted on 02/11/2016 6:52:33 AM PST by GodGunsGuts

A pair of Texas litigators are following Cruz's lead as they gird for a Supreme Court battle this April. On the campaign trail, Ted Cruz has vowed to rescind President Barack Obama's controversial executive actions on immigration - but it's two of his former aides who could actually kill it.

Scott Keller and Chip Roy - who served in top roles in Cruz's Senate office - are now litigators on behalf of Texas, leading the lawsuit against Obama's unilateral actions, which are at the cornerstone of the president's immigration legacy. The duo's positions also underscore Cruz's enduring influence and reach at the Texas attorney general's office, where the Republican presidential candidate served as the state's top appellate lawyer and built a launching pad for his political career...

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida; US: Texas
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To: Heartlander

“What exactly has Trump done?”

It’s important not to forget that only a few weeks ago, Trump singularly upset the whole election apple cart! That’s what he’s done!

Trump set the national agenda by opposing illegal immigration and bringing up other issues that the GOPe and their allies desperately wanted to avoid, and now they can’t. No one would even be talking about illegal immigration today if Trump hadn’t forced the issue.

The GOPe was not prepared for this, and as a consequence they don’t have a clue about what to do, hence their almost universal collapse into a pile of quivering jello, flip-flopping like a bag of Mexican jumping beans dumped on a hot griddle. That’s what Trump has done.

Trump has exposed those who pretend to be conservative but are really just fronts for big money establishment campaign donors who purchase their candidates with campaign “donations”. That’s what Trump has done.

Trump, by actually being a real man, has exposed the other candidates (Cruz excepting of course) and their allies for the weak little sniveling sellouts that they really are.

Trump’s vociferous truth-telling and fearless neutering of the kommie media have been the catalyst that triggered a massive revolt amongst conservative voters who are infuriated at the GOPe Congress doing absolutely ZERO to stop Obama’s agenda, and suddenly the GOP RINO leadership is in full blown panic mode and in full blown retreat, and the SMALL conservative House contingent smelt blood in the water, took heart, and charged in against a weakened, frightened and paralyzed GOPe leadership, and Boehner was taken out as a sacrificial lamb. That’s what Trump has done.

Without Trump taking on the enemedia and beating them, the first time this has been done since Reagan, Cruz and the rest would be quivering before their concerted assaults and spending all of their time apologizing for having accidentally strayed into the shallows of political correctness and saying something Black Lives Matter or the Southern Poverty Law Center hate groups hated with consequent massive amplification by the enemedia as they pounded their PC drums against the GOP. That’s what Trump has done.

Trump is absolutely correct when he says that without Trump in the race, everything would be same-ol’, same-ol. The Joyful Tippy-Toes Turtle would be creeping closer to the finish line, Boehner would still be safely ensconced as Speaker, and there would be no mention of illegal immigration are any of the issues surrounding it by any politician in either party, other than possibly how critical it would be to pass immigration “reform”. That’s what Trump has done.

The media are loath to make the connection, but it’s obvious that the Boehner resignation was yet another falling domino, toppling due to the Trump Effect, because Trump’s unabashed truth-telling and fearless neutering of the kommie media triggered a revolt amongst the great unwashed GOP masses which emboldened a few conservative Congress critters to grow a few pairs. That’s what Trump has done.

And our nation wouldn’t even be having ANY of these conversations about illegal immigration and the myriad of other Obammunist issues destroying our country if it wasn’t for Trump. Instead, we’d simply be debating which RINO, GOPe squish would be least likely to be stomped by Hillary, and the GOPe would once again be exhorting the “base” about how critical it is for us to once again vote for the “lesser of two evils”, that is, vote for the GOPe side of the Uniparty coin. That’s what Trump has done.

And do note that ALL of the oligarchs and plutocrats are frightened to death of Donald Trump because the billionaires and millionaires can’t buy him like all of the other politicians they routinely purchase, because Trump doesn’t need nor want their money, and the kommie media is frightened to death of him because he isn’t afraid of them either, the bottom line being that Donald Trump can not be controlled by the rich and powerful or the corrupt media, so for anyone who is truly for campaign finance reform and wants to take money out of politics, voting for Trump is the only reasonable choice. That’s what Trump has done.

President Trump is really the last hope for this country: if he can’t undo any of the damage wrought by the Obammunists, the U.S.A. is done.

So least we forget, the above, and much more, are called “The Trump Effect”.

(On the other hand, I do realize that Cruz and his merry band of “true conservatives” in the GOP-lead Congress did stand up to Obama and stop his agenda by passing a budget that eviscerated his illegal immigration policies, eliminated the energy-destroying EPA, eliminated the Marxist propaganda Education Department, eliminated the job-destroying Labor Department, eliminated the racist Civil Rights Commission, defunded the FCC until they give back control of the Internet to private industry, defunded Obamacare, defunded enforcement of 99% of Obama’s regulations and Executive Orders. So I will give them that.)


21 posted on 02/11/2016 8:55:14 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: GodGunsGuts

-— The duo’s positions also underscore Cruz’s enduring influence and reach at the Texas attorney general’s office, where the Republican presidential candidate served as the state’s top appellate lawyer -—

What’s not to love?

Imagine what Cruz could do with the federal judiciary.

No wonder the progressives are terrified.


22 posted on 02/11/2016 8:58:15 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Heartlander

-— Hillary Clinton - he said she was a fantastic senator and Obama is a great President. -—

Trump was sending money to Democraps, and NOT to the Tea Party, when the Tea Party was valiantly opposing Obamacare.

It seems like yesterday because it was yesterday


23 posted on 02/11/2016 9:01:54 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: catnipman
I respectfully disagree. I truly believe that we'd be better off if Trump had never entered the fray. The 'Trump Effect' (what 'he' said today, what 'he' did today) has taken over the news and we are not focused on Hillary's issues or Obama's latest decree - which should be daily headlines. We had a clear path to victory with great candidates and now we are divided. People who were allies of the conservative movement are now considered traitors and sellouts by Trump supporters ( Rush, Mark Levin, Fox, Megyn Kelly, Jonah Goldberg, National Review, Charles Krauthammer, Erick Erickson, Andrew Breitbart, and even fellow FReepers).

I realize that Trump has tapped into the anger in this country but we don't make good decisions when we are angry. IMO, we would be better off if Trump did not enter the race. The wall would still happen...

24 posted on 02/11/2016 9:19:55 AM PST by Heartlander (Prediction: Increasingly, logic will be seen as a covert form of theism. - Denyse O'Leary)
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To: moehoward

So your objection is that Cruz is influenced by cronies (and OMG - Canada!!!), but you have nothing against the cronies themselves (Trump)? That makes sense like liberals make sense.


25 posted on 02/11/2016 9:22:44 AM PST by MaggiesPitchfork
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To: MaggiesPitchfork

My objection?

I’m just pointing out the absurdity of the the post directed to me.

Not sure where you get Canada, just cruz apologists usually toss in plenty of diversion.


26 posted on 02/11/2016 9:33:56 AM PST by moehoward
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To: Heartlander

Hey! He’s talked about it!


27 posted on 02/11/2016 10:23:15 AM PST by DrewsMum (If they wanted a conservative, they'd vote for one.)
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To: montag813

Backed amnesty? When?


28 posted on 02/11/2016 10:26:15 AM PST by DrewsMum (If they wanted a conservative, they'd vote for one.)
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To: VanDeKoik; All

What the candidates(Trump,Cruz, Rubio) said about Immigration when they announced run for Prez
Stunning contrast!

http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2016/02/what-candidates-said-about-immigration.html


29 posted on 02/11/2016 10:29:40 AM PST by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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To: JediJones

-— The only thing he’s changed now is that the “good” illegals have to touch back on their homeland now before coming back in by “expedited” process to get their amnesty. -—

When the race gets down to Cruz, Trump, and Rubio, The Donald will have a lot of ‘splainin’ to do.


30 posted on 02/11/2016 11:52:13 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Heartlander
if Trump did not enter the race. The wall would still happen...
31 posted on 02/11/2016 11:57:14 AM PST by itsahoot (1st impression. Trump is a fumble mouthed blowhard that can't speak in complete sentences. VoteTrump)
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To: JediJones
You’re either with Ted Cruz and the Tea Party army or you’re with the establishment and its crony capitalist billionaire donors who funnel money to Democrats (e.g. Donny the Tramp).

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I am in the Trump army. Cruz is a life long govt employee (even in the private sector it was for govt work).

32 posted on 02/11/2016 12:12:15 PM PST by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
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To: itsahoot
Trump On Obama In 2009: "I Think He's Doing A Really Good Job... He's Totally A Champion... Well, I think he's sort of a guy that just has a wonderful personality, a good speaker, somebody that people trust."


33 posted on 02/11/2016 12:13:45 PM PST by Heartlander (Prediction: Increasingly, logic will be seen as a covert form of theism. - Denyse O'Leary)
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