Posted on 02/24/2016 12:57:22 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Taking aim at businessman Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz said at a campaign rally Wednesday that too much is riding on the 2016 presidential election to get fooled by a showman that is more bluster than substance...
"We can't be fooled by P.T. Barnum," Mr. Cruz said, alluding to the late founder of the Barnum & Bailey Circus. "The time for the clowns and the acrobats and the dancing bears has past."......
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Another poster who has no idea of how chapter 11 works.
BS! Cruz has had only 1 bill passed that he sponsored. I think Obumer did better than that. FAIL! Now lets see, 1 bill passed against a man who built a multi billion dollar industry employing thousands of people. CRUZ will LOSE.
May 8, 2013 Fox News Latino
Ted Cruz Files Amendment To Deny Path To Citizenship As Senate Works On Bill
......”The amendments filed today to strengthen border security and reform our legal immigration system will not only bring meaningful, effective improvements to our immigration system, but also have a chance of becoming law,” said Cruz in a statement. “America is a nation of immigrants, built by immigrants and we need to honor that heritage by fixing our broken immigration system, while upholding the rule of law and championing legal immigration.”
His amendments are among more than 300 filed by the Tuesday evening deadline. Republicans wanting tighter enforcement provisions filed a majority of the amendments, with Sen. Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, leading the pack with 77 amendments.
Supporters of the bill, mainly of the part of it that would legalize millions of undocumented immigrants, kept a steady drumbeat in defense of the measure though emails, websites and social media.
In a press release, America’s Voice, a leading national group that advocates for more lenient immigration laws, singled out Cruz’s anti-citizenship amendment as particularly worrisome.
“This would not only destroy the path to citizenship in the Senate bill - the popular heart of an immigration reform solution - but also turn its back on 100 years of precedent in immigration policy,” said the release..........
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Dec 17, 2015: Politico
Who’s right: Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio?
“....The bipartisan group of eight senators - including battle-tested veterans and relative newcomers like Rubio - painstakingly negotiated a delicate compromise in early 2013 that would overhaul every corner of the U.S. immigration system, including a 13-year pathway to citizenship for millions here illegally.
Fans and foes of the legislation, as well as observers at the time, knew the core bill couldn’t change too dramatically because that would upset that compromise, which not only had the backing of Democrats and Republicans in the Senate but also coalitions off the Hill, such as labor unions and the business lobby.
Cruz’s amendment - which called for stripping out a pathway to citizenship, but keeping a path for legalization - would have done precisely that.
The night before each Senate Judiciary Committee markup, senior Gang of Eight aides would huddle to scour through each of the amendments that were teed up for the following day, determining which proposals would be palatable and which would be unacceptable. This strategy was meant to ensure the core elements of the Gang of Eight deal would stay intact (the four members of the Gang who sat on the Judiciary Committee would vote in a bloc, usually with the rest of the committee Democrats, to vote down potential deal-killers).
“This one was one that clearly we all had to oppose because it went to the core of the deal,” recalled an aide to a Senate Democrat during the 2013 negotiations. “It could’ve unraveled the whole deal. Sure, Cruz himself never called it a “poison pill” at the time. But no senator refers to his own proposal as a poison pill, even if it plainly is. The Gang of Eight never considered Cruz as “gettable,” and it was well-known at the time that Cruz was never going to vote for the bill and was in fact, trying to kill it.”.....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3400777/posts?page=3
“Not gonna work.”
No. That flat, nasal mewling reached its peak effect in Iowa and is flattening out now like a dying whoopie cushion.
Civil case, not criminal. Get it. Plenty of ex students claim to have benefited from the class.
To save thousands of jobs he does!
Ted is about to lose all of his donors money......
And here he is as PT Barnum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZYjpBa4vfg
Cruz to testify at trial if he is a NBC.
Oooh, Photoshopped picture. LIAR! LIAR!
“We can’t be fooled by P.T. Barnum,â€
That is it? Is that all Ted has? Oh my, talk about the bottom of the barrel. Sounds like desperation to me.
It sounds like the recently departed Yeb? to me, but then, perhaps we are saying the same thing in different ways.
Well we for sure weren’t fooled by shaming letters and dirty trix in Iowa, NH and SC by Cruz. Trump even had to warn the NV Secretary of State yesterday that Cruz people were going to videotape the caucuses. Agains’t the rules of course.
So with Beck slobbering all over you 24/7 who’s PT Barnum? LOL!
The horse has died but Teddy won’t get off.
Cruz was beaten by almost 24.5%. Trump received over twice as many votes as Cruz did. Trump beat Cruz across nearly every demographic including white evangelicals. Perhaps you and Cruz should contemplate that before engaging in name calling against this winner.
P.T. Barnum was a sucessful businessman—he gave people what they wanted to see—even if it was the Cardrift Giant of the Figee Mermaid. Ted Cruz has shown himself the new Nixon with his dirty tricks (not done as well as tricky dick) He shafted Dr. Carson, insulted Rubio, and many enemies in the US Senate—not talking about Trump. He is done.
Good for starters, but Ted’s got to up it a bit.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/bet-on-donald-trump?mbid=social_twitter
Bump post 28
Bill Clinton Called Donald Trump Shortly Before Billionaire Announced His Presidential Bid
"Several weeks before Donald Trump announced his presidential candidacy, he received a phone call from former president Bill Clinton at his office in Trump Tower in Manhattan. While Clinton reportedly did not urge Trump to run for president during the conversation, [Bill Clinton told] the real estate billionaire that he should take a more prominent role within the Republican party and that he was tapping into a vein of frustration among GOP voters.".....
That’s a very Willard and the rats kind of post.
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