Posted on 04/20/2013 1:51:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Is there nobody who can tell Ted Cruz to shut up?
The young senator from Texas has been on the job for about 100 days, but he has already turned the Senate’s ancient seniority system upside down and is dominating his senior Republican colleagues. He’s speaking for them on immigration, guns and any other topic that tickles his fancy; Republican leaders are seething at being outshone yet are terrified of challenging him.
Consider his news conference this week to promote the Republican alternative to gun control. With Cruz on the stage in the Senate TV studio: the bill’s primary author, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, a 32-year Senate veteran and longtime chairman or ranking member of the finance and judiciary committees; Lindsey Graham of South Carolina (10 years in the Senate and eight in the House); and Dan Coats of Indiana (12 years in the Senate and eight in the House).
But Cruz took over the lectern and refused to relinquish it. He spoke 2,924 words for the cameras, more than Grassley (904), Graham (1,376) and Coats (360) — combined. Factoring in his dramatic pauses to convey sincerity and deep thought, Cruz’s dominance was even more lopsided. The others shifted uncomfortably and looked awkwardly around the room. At one point, Graham requested a chance to speak. “Can I?” he asked Cruz.
Cruz is 42, the same age Joe McCarthy was when he amassed power in the Senate with his allegations of communist infiltration....
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LMBO!!
Milbank is such a scumbag!
He is, however, the perfect liberal Democrat columnist for the liberal Democrat Washington Post.
One's American parents, serving anywhere in the world when their offspring is born, does not disqualify one for President.
We might have to annex Canada so that Ted Cruz can qualify.
Everybody for annexing the Western half of Canada so that Ted Cruz can be our next President, say Aye!
Aye!
My aye has carried the motion. :-D
Both Parents also have to be American citizens to be natural born. Ted Cruz’s father, did not become a US citizen until 2005. Cruz’s mom was born in Delaware. But, hey, since the current resident of the White House isn’t a Natural Born Citizen either, I guess anything is possible.
As a student at Harvard Law, Professor Alan Dershowitz said, “Cruz was off-the-charts brilliant.” Cruz was also the first Hispanic to ever clerk for a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (William Rehnquist). I guarantee, you could easily plop Dana Milbanks' brain into one of Cruz's testicle sacs and shake it around.
Oh, dear! Congress has the fiscal record and approval ratings to prove just how well the ancient Senators with senior status under the ancient seniority system have done their jobs. What would happen to the dream of "fundamentally transforming America" if Cruz kept this up? It's a good thing a deep thinker with the status and gravitas of Dana Milbank is taking Cruz to task!
No..no..no..we need Cruz right where he is! We have Greg Abbot we should run for Governor of Texas next. Anyway..that is my humble opinion for what it is worth.
This means he is doing the right thing. Now if all of us conservatives will do the right thing as well and stand behind and around Cruz....we may start heading in the RIGHT direction!
God speed Ted!
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And what is so surprising about the Compost’s Tokyo Rose not attacking her enemies?
We can clearly see who are the socialist camp guards, and who these scum are trying to heard into the Gulag.
She seems upset.
Unfortunately, Cruz was born in Canada and doesn’t qualify.
Rather than flooding this thread with multiple posts, I’ll just parse the piece in one long post.
Some people are simply better communicators than others. The other Senators would not have been there had they not supported Cruz. As to his “dramatic pauses”, President Obama and former President Clinton didn’t exactly talk continuously, a mile a minute, either.
“The others shifted uncomfortably and looked awkwardly around the room. At one point, Graham requested a chance to speak. “Can I?” he asked Cruz.”
That was nice of Graham to ask. We keep being told that we need more “civility” in the Senate, so what’s the problem?
“Cruz is 42, the same age Joe McCarthy was when he amassed power in the Senate with his allegations of communist infiltration.”
As mentioned before…ALL CHARGES now PROVEN FALSE, so does he have a problem with the truth? (rhetorical question)
“Tail-gunner Ted debuted in the Senate this year with the insinuation that Chuck Hagel, now the defense secretary, may have been on the payroll of the North Koreans.”
Hagel was NOT DISCLOSING his sources of income for the Senate, he could have been on ANYONE’s payroll.
“ Cruz also wrote in Politico that “Hagel’s nomination has been publicly celebrated by the Iranian government.” “
Considering what kind of country Iran is, that would bother most people…but it doesn’t seem to bother the author of the piece.
“He later alleged that Democrats had told the Catholic Church to “change your religious beliefs or we’ll use our power in the federal government to shut down your charities and your hospitals.” “
They already have started wielding power – with the contraception mandate. Anyone who thinks the Dems won’t go all the way and shut them down has NO IDEA of what the Democratic Party stands for and who they answer to.
“Now Cruz is turning his incendiary allegations against fellow Republicans. On immigration, he has described as amnesty the compromise that Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) and three other Republicans negotiated with Democrats.”
It DEFINITELY meets the universal definition of Amnesty, in this context and even this author doesn’t dispute what he said, only that he said it. I guess, in the interest of “comity” the Republicans are supposed to all join the Democrats and LIE TO THE PEOPLE of this country.
“Cruz said such a plan would make “a chump” of legal immigrants.”
Anyone who knows what the LEGAL immigration process is would agree…obviously this author as NO CLUE.
“On guns, he said the background checks Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) negotiated in a bipartisan compromise would lead to a national gun registry — an outcome the doomed proposal explicitly prohibited.”
That’s also what the NRA says. Sorry, but if I have to choose who to trust with my gun rights, the NRA or Schumer/Bloomberg, the NRA wins. As to whether it leads to a national gun registry – “leading to” a gun registry, or anything else, CANNOT be prohibited in later legislation…and he knows that.
“Democrats see a potential bogeyman in Cruz because of his outrageous pronouncements, and reporters love his inflammatory quotes. Republican leaders, however, don’t know how to control this monster they created.”
Scary, the Republicans now have to deal with someone that TELLS THE TRUTH.
“GOP lawmakers encouraged the rise of the tea party, which now dominates Republican primaries and threatens the same leaders who nurtured it.”
No, they FORCED the rise of the Tea Party by giving Obama $1.5T deficits year in and year out. The last the Republican leaders wanted was an independent voice challenging their lies to the country.
“Cruz’s fellow Texan, John Cornyn, the Senate’s No. 2 Republican, could face a primary challenge next year and therefore can’t afford to cross Cruz, who beat an establishment Republican in the 2012 primary.”
You’re darn right…Cornyn either has to SUPPORT THE PEOPLE THAT ELECTED HIM, or he’ll be pushed aside. Scary thought for Republicans, but Dems seem to understand it just fine.
“Likewise, the Senate GOP leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, is up for reelection and has to keep on the good side of tea party favorites such as Sen. Rand Paul, also of Kentucky, and Cruz.“
Keeping the Tea Party happy means TELLING THE TRUTH and acting in a responsible manner.
“I’ve argued before that Cruz is more cunning than ideological. He’s Ivy League-educated and a skilled debater who has perfected a look of faux earnestness that suggests his every pronouncement is the most important oration since Gettysburg.”
I guess he could laugh things off, as Obama did with Boston and the Texas explosion – at least compared to gun control, where he seemed genuinely concerned. He’s also pissed because Cruz wasn’t BRAINWASHED in the Ivy League – that isn’t supposed to happen…but it did – a graduate got out of that mind-warping place capable of INDEPENDENT THOUGHT.
“Cruz has correctly calculated that the way to power among Senate Republicans is through attention-grabbing accusations. “
Actually, it’s through TELLING THE TRUTH…but I guess “attention-grabbing accusations” is what the telling the truth has now morphed into, at least in DC.
When Rubio made the rounds of the Sunday talk shows April 14, he was confronted with Cruz’s criticism by both NBC’s David Gregory and ABC’s Jon Karl.”
POOR BABIES, if Rubio wants to spew a bunch of lies, then he SHOULD expect to be challenged on it. It’s good that Gregory and Karl did challenge him, that’s rare – we sure wish that would have been done a bit with Obama.
“On immigration, his Latino credentials have helped him undermine Rubio’s bipartisanship.
Ok, let me apologize for one thing about Cruz, WE’RE SORRY THAT HE’S LATINO!!!, ok, feel better now…we should have elected a Gringo to fight Amnesty (i.e., they just hate it when we play at their level). And if getting the truth out “undermines Rubio’s bipartisanship” then it should be undermined.
“On guns, Cruz’s high profile required Grassley to give the upstart a premium chunk of floor time for his trademark falsehoods.”
What has Cruz said that has been PROVEN FALSE…certainly nothing in this piece?
“Cruz claimed that his bill was the “result of multiple hearings in the Judiciary Committee.” (It was never brought before the panel.)”
He never said that it was brought before the panel!!! He said the panel had multiple hearings (on gun control) and that his bill was based on that. It is not Cruz’s fault that Democrats run the Senate and wouldn’t give his bill its own hearing…but Cruz certainly didn’t lie here.
“He claimed the opposing legislation would extend “background checks to private transactions between private individuals.” (The bill applied to only advertised sales.)”
The last time I checked, a private gun sale was a sale between a person who is not federally licensed and another person that is not federally licensed (advertised or not). What exactly did Cruz say that was incorrect?
“Off the floor, he made the patently false claim that the “so-called guns show loophole” doesn’t esist.”
It doesn’t exist because bad guys aren’t trying to buy guns at gun shows – they have plenty of other ways to buy guns – in fact private sales are very rare at gun shows, it’s practically all dealers anyway. Also, if this clown ever goes to a gun show, he’ll see that there are cops all over the place (uniformed and undercover). Bad guys do not hang around at those places very long. The bottom line is getting rid of this “loophole” will not have a measurable effect on crime – so why call it a problem when it doesn’t exist.
“If Republicans are willing to look the other way when Cruz assaults the facts, they may find it increasingly grating to endure his assaults on their dignity.”
Oh, I see now, he’s trying to whip DC Republicans into getting into a fight with Cruz. I think, given their record in the Senate, especially, that the DC Republicans know who would win that.
“At their news conference on guns, Grassley was made to stand silently for half an hour while Cruz gave an eight-minute opening statement (more than twice the length of Grassley’s) and fielded six questions before yielding to his senior colleague.”
Grassley is MORE THAN WELCOME to call his own news conference, but he knows that the country has no interest in what he has to say.
“I’m just going to say one thing,” Grassley said, “and then I’m going to have to go.””
Now I get it. This piece was DIRECTED BY GRASSLEY. He knows that he can’t hold a candle to Cruz, so he runs CRYING TO THE MEDIA to get a friendly reporter to write this piece.
Cruz is potentially a great American Senator, but he is not a natural born citizen. A NBC is someone who is born in country to citizen parents.
Since he is NOT Constitutionally eligible for the office, I will NEVER vote for him should he run for POTUS, but I do hope with all my natural born American heart he is made Senate majority leader.
Clearly, the Constitution doesn't mean much any more, so y'all can be just like the demonrats and do whatever you like.
Now you’ve gone and given Dana a thrill up his leg!
Many a rogue or ‘maverick’ has cross the Potomac only to be eventually felled by Potomac Fever.
Hardly any are immune to it; most eventually succumb.
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Interesting take on that subject in the following linked article. Should Senator Cruz make the decision to run his NBC will definitely be a topic of discussion. My guess is outside of some banter from both sides Senator Cruz would be sworn in as President should he get the required number of Electoral College votes.
Take care ..
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