Posted on 03/08/2016 11:51:39 AM PST by Catsrus
Well, well, well.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
First of all, I’m not a “buddy,” and secondly, I don’t drink -unlike Cruz who hangs out in bars and drinks with reporters. Keep your head in the sand you ignoramus - you have drank the kool aid - Cruz is a phony, a fraud and a huckster. You’ll learn or not. “Wise up -
You are ignorant - embrace it. It isn’t about agreeing with me - the facts are right in front of your face, but you choose to believe a lying, scoundrel like Cruz.
Cruz and his wife are NOT outsiders. They both had jobs in the Bush admin. Heidi has held Wall Street jobs and has been a member of the CFR and co-authored the North American Union paper.
Here is some info on Neil Bush for those too young to remember.
NEIL BUSH. In 1990, federal regulators filed a $200-million lawsuit against Neil Bush and other officers of the Silverado Banking, accusing them of “gross negligence” contributing to its $1 billion collapse.1 “Our conclusion is that Silverado was the victim of sophisticated schemes and abuses by insiders and of gross negligence by its directors and outside professionals,” FDIC Senior Deputy General Counsel Douglas H. Jones said in a statement.2
Bush was reprimanded by the Office of Thrift Supervision for “multiple conflicts of interest” as a paid director of the S&L, including his approval of $132 million in loans from Silverado to two business partners, Bill Walters and Kenneth Good.3 Bush, in turn, had received $550,000 in salaries from a company funded by Walters and Good plus a $100,000 loan from Good that was subsequently forgiven.4 Walters and Good looted an estimated $330 million from Silverado; one Silverado director had shared instructions on how to establish family trusts to protect such secreted funds from repossession by the government.5
A top federal regulator testified to Congress that Washington officials postponed Silverado’s shutdown from October to December 1988, after George Bush’s presidential campaign was successfully culminated.6 The director of the Office of Thrift Supervision asked the Treasury Department to investigate whether political considerations caused the delay, but no such probe was conducted.7 Neil got off paying only $50,000 in a settlement of the $200 million federal suit against him other Silverado directors.8 He didn’t have to worry about his $250,000 legal bill, as Thomas Ashley, a friend of George Bush senior and the head of a banking association that was lobbying the federal government for bank deregulation, formed a legal defense fund to pay the bills.9
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JEB BUSH. In 1987, Miguel Recarey, a longstanding business associate of Tampa Mafia boss Santos Trafficante, fled the U.S. under three indictments for labor racketeering, illegal wiretapping, and Medicare fraud.1 His firm, International Medical Centers (IMC), which was America’s largest health maintenance organization for the elderly and which had received $1 billion in Medicare funds, collapsed.2 Recarey’s HMO left $222 million in unpaid bills,3 and was suspected of up to $100 million in Medicare fraud.4 “IMC is the classic case of embezzlement of government funds,” said William Teich, who headed the U.S. Office of Labor Racketeering in Miami. Teich called it a “bust-out operation” where money was “drained out the back door” and disappeared down “a black hole.”5
But in 1985, Recarey had faced a major obstacle to building his Medicare empire: a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regulation that restricted an HMO to drawing no more than 50% of its revenue from Medicare.6 Jeb Bush came to the rescue: he called both HHS Secretary Margaret Heckler and a top aide, C. McLain Haddow and successfully convinced them to waive the regulation for Recarey, Haddow testified to Congress.7 Bush’s lobbying of HHS took place during the same period that top-level Republican lobbyists whom Recarey had hired for $1 million were also courting HHS for the waiver.8 Bush said that said he did not recall making any calls to Heckler or Haddow, but confirmed that he made one call on Recarey’s behalf to Haddow’s assistant, to secure Recarey a “fair hearing” within HHS.9
You are a typical Trump supporter thinking insults are the same thing as sound arguments. Sad.
Cruz is the only consistent conservative in the race. I am proud to support him.
Any of you Cruz supporters STILL think Cruz can’t be bought of sold? He’s going to sell you out if you vote for him. He already has.
Ah, now all of the anti-Bush folks will automatically come out against Cruz. I guess this mean’s they’ll vote for Rubio instead.
I’m a Trump supporter, but I think the characterization of Cruz’s wife is a bit over the top.
Another gopE member joining Cruz. Bush will be there to destroy the finances once they’ve used Cruz to stop Trump.
I honestly can’t think of a single way to explain this other than the Bush ckan threatens assasination of any candidate that doesn’t cut them in.
Cruz did a lot of good in Bush’s FTC.
https://pjmedia.com/blog/what-no-one-seems-to-know-about-ted-cruzs-past/
At the FTC, Cruz’s agenda could have been written by Milton Friedman.
Cruz promoted economic liberty and fought government efforts to rig the marketplace in favor of special interests. Most notably, Cruz launched an initiative to study the government’s role in conspiring with established businesses to suppress e-commerce. This initiative ultimately led the U.S. Supreme Court to open up an entire industry to small e-tailers. Based on his early support of disruptive online companies, Cruz has some grounds to call himself the “Uber of American politics.”
Moreover, and perhaps surprising to some, Cruz sought and secured a broad, bipartisan consensus for his agenda. Almost all of Cruz’s initiatives received unanimous support among both Republicans and Democrats.
Neil Bush, Yikes. I guess the Bush clan is upset with Trump.
Yep, better to vote for Bernie that Bushbot Cruz
"Cruz, who has long been one of the top fundraisers in the crowded GOP field, added 13 new bundlers who will help him raise the cash to compete with Donald Trump."
http://www.kcci.com/politics/neil-bush-jebs-brother-joins-ted-cruzs-finance-team/38404608
Maybe the Bush’s will make Teduardo an honorary son, like Slick?
Yes, Neil Bush robbed Silverado and got away with it.
Now he’s helping Cruz, and Cruz like a happy puppy is wagging his tail and saying “Yay!”.
Ted the ‘outsider’, now surrounded by ‘insiders’.
Cruz is bought and paid for. Period.
The way he's being pushed in the media as the only "real conservative" who is "anti-Establishment like Trump" is disgusting. You cannot tell me that he would even CONSIDER giving his delegates to Trump in a brokered convention. Like you said, he would side with the GOPe globalists in a New York minute.
Every single person from now on who votes Cruz is essentially agreeing that this would be okay with them. I'd be interested to know how anyone who's planning on voting Cruz after him climbing into bed with the "open borders" group can justify or rationalize it. Anyone? About the only honest answer is that border security/US sovereignty just doesn't mean that much to you.
If I thought the same thing about Trump -- that he would possibly turn his back on conservatives and side with the pro-illegal immigration globalists -- I could never vote for him. I would just leave it blank. Without a control on illegals, this is the last election that is even remotely possible to win. Once they're allowed to vote and pushed onto the welfare dependency, it's over.
I don’t think any of them are outsiders. Not one.
Its all one big incestuous family.
Of course they won’t. Anyone that continues to hold on to the stupid notion that Cruz is an outsider is either blind or a complete idiot. I’ll let you decide which one of those applies to the Cruzoids around here.
The other possible plan the gopE is counting on is one Cruz gets the nomination it’s determined Cruz isn’t eligible.
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