Posted on 11/16/2016 5:31:59 PM PST by markomalley
enator Ted Cruz surfaced as a possible nominee for US attorney general Tuesday night, following a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump in Manhattan. A Cruz spokeswoman did not confirm nor explicitly deny the reports, telling telling Bloomberg, “Cruz is focused on serving Texans in the Senate. He was there today to offer help in promoting the conservative policies that were campaigned on and that he’s long fought for.”
It’s those exact policies that should raise significant alarm about his potential nomination as attorney general. Throughout his failed presidential campaign, Cruz promised to focus law-enforcement efforts on abortion groups, Muslims, and other perceived political enemies and out-groups.
As he crisscrossed the country, Cruz would often begin his stump speech by outlining his first day as president. After promising first to rip up all of President Obama’s executive orders, Cruz would pledge that “The second thing I intend to do on the first day in office is instruct the US Department of Justice to open an investigation into Planned Parenthood and these horrible videos.”
Taken at his word, it is fair to conclude Cruz would do the same thing as head of the Department of Justice. He is referring to the videos produced by the Center for Medical Progress, a radical anti-choice group, which purported to show Planned Parenthood officials making deals to sell fetal tissue for profit. The videos were deceptively edited, and widely discredited. It’s legal and commonplace for entities to sell human tissue for research purposes, and it only becomes illegal if they turn a profit—which Planned Parenthood didn’t do. The unedited version of the tapes repeatedly captured Planned Parenthood officials saying they did not intend to make any extra money from the sales.
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I could live with him as AG.
I would be a lot more uncomfortable with him on the Supreme Court where he could render a decision that a child born in Saudi Arabia to a Palestinian father and an American mother is a natural born citizen and eligible to be President, gutting the natural born citizen clause for perpetuity.
Ditto
I think he could be very disruptive to the Trump cabinet. Sort of Al Haig-like. You want an independent thinker. But do you want an ego that is bigger than Donald’s?
More left panic, it’s going to be a great 4 years.
You can’t buy a better left wing endorsement.
“very dangerous” is bully language.
Trump should appoint Cruz as Attorney General, and then fire him a week later.
Only if his conscience tells him it's the right thing to do :}
Sorry. Stop dividing yourself among us. Guess what? We don’t believe you anymore. THIS IS YOUR PROBLEM. STOP BLAMEING. Stop being stupid.
Ahhhh, the law.....
The LAW my friend, she’s a Mother_kr.
Mooks at the bottom of the Hudson.
Podesta is having his last spirit ritual and pedo visit.
Hillary is hiding from the Libyans (just a little more time)
Bill in on the Epstein Island.
Chelsea Hubble is being groomed with a brush and soapy water.
This attempt by the Nation to use reverse psychology is not working on me.
Don't worry. I don't think even Ted Cruz has a bigger ego than President Donald Trump.
Many in the Senate would jump at the opportunity to approve Cruz for: AG, Solicitor General (my preference for him) or SCOTUS (please, please, some day?) mainly because the would have him out of the Senate for good.
He couldn’t be any more “dangerous” than the racist Holder and Lynch. Talk about some fascist bastards.
Which means AG Cruz will be THE BEST AG EVER!!!!! ;)
true dat. they seeing the whole world through bully colored glasses.
Unbelievable that this garbage is posted here considering the primitive Lynch wench that now resides in said office and she follows, an equally criminal AG by the name of Holder.
For the most part, a Rogue's Gallery of Leftistas and commie scum lunatics -
"This list of luminaries includes Henry James, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Frederick Law Olmsted, W.E.B. Dubois, E.M. Forster, Emma Goldman, Sinclair Lewis, Willa Cather, H.L. Mencken, Upton Sinclair, Margaret Mead, Mark van Doren, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Bertrand Russell, Pearl S. Buck, Albert Einstein, I.F. Stone, Eleanor Roosevelt, Hannah Arendt, Jean-Paul Sartre, Harold Clurman, Edmund Wilson, W.H. Auden, Anne Sexton, Martin Luther King, Jr., Gore Vidal, and Toni Morrison. In fact, James Baldwin, Ralph Nader, and Hunter S. Thompson..."
Later in life, Hunter was probably ashamed he got published in that rag.
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