Ted Cruz: GOP needs to ‘think bigger than Keystone’

Washington Post ^ | February 10 at 6:00 am | Ed O'Keefe and Juliet Eilperin

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President Obama should allow the construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, but Republicans need to start coming up with other ideas to boost the nation's energy output, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) plans to argue Monday.

The freshman senator, perhaps best known in recent months as one of the most strident critics of the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, plans to use a speech at a conservative policy conference Monday to start shifting his focus to other areas of concern, chiefly U.S. energy policy.

Aides said the senator is working on a bill that he plans to call the American Energy Renaissance Act and will outline its general principles during a speech at the Heritage Action for America's Conservative Policy Summit in Washington.

"There is only one thing that will stop us from embracing it to its full potential: the federal government," Cruz will say, according to prepared remarks provided by aides. "Nothing else will stop the next generation of American energy pioneers. It won’t be lack of determination, ingenuity, or grit. It will be some faceless bureaucrat sitting somewhere in some tall building who simply says, 'You’re not allowed to do that.' Or worse, 'We’ll do that for you.' "

"Yes, President Obama should drop his political opposition to the Keystone pipeline," Cruz plans to say. "But we also need to think bigger than Keystone. We need an energy policy that goes beyond Keystone. Here we stand with our toes at the edge of an energy revolution that could sweep the nation, providing an untold number of new opportunities and well-paying jobs."

Cruz is expected to advocate for more offshore oil exploration; increasing energy development on federal lands; loosening federal restrictions on hydraulic

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	"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

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Ted Cruz Ping!

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[USS Alaska]

If Cruz runs, I'm in and going on Cruz-control at 110 MPH.

This man has my values, a great work ethic, can think and react on his feet {no teleprompter required} and will crush competition in a debate setting.

Better than all of that, if elected, he will not bail out on us, his father will not allow it. {He knows who his father really is}.

[celmak]

It would be too pretentios for him to say this, so I will... uh-hum (clearing throat)...

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY NEEDS TO REPLACE ALL THE RINOS WITH PEOPLE LIKE TED CRUZ !!!

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[McGruff]

"But we also need to think bigger than Keystone. We need an energy policy that goes beyond Keystone. Here we stand with our toes at the edge of an energy revolution that could sweep the nation, providing an untold number of new opportunities and well-paying jobs."

Pardon the pun but now you're cooking with peanut oil. While others are focused on the illegal alien issue Ted is looking to create jobs. Drill Baby Drill 2.0.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

To create American jobs, America needs to bring back American businesses from Asia.

Just saying.

I strongly believe the only way we are going to make progress on trade, is to use trade tariffs.

If America employers won’t hire Americans, then at least new American employers will replace them.

Trade tariffs. An idea whose time is here.

[Sans-Culotte]

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY NEEDS TO REPLACE ALL THE RINOS WITH PEOPLE LIKE TED CRUZ !!!

I was watching the local news this morning, and there was a story that "Texas could be turning blue". The story was about some remarks that Rand Paul made about the party being more "inclusive", like reaching out to hispanics, etc. Every time I hear people say stuff like that, what I really hear is "we need to be more like the democrats in order to stay in power". These RINOs don't seem to get the fact that the GOP base is onto them. I'd as well lose all elections and see all our ideas repudiated than adopt the ideas that are repugnant to us in order to be elected.

[SAWTEX]

Reduce taxation, regulation and litigation and the jobs come back. More taxes in the form of tariff's is not the answer.

[Bigg Red]

I’d as well lose all elections and see all our ideas repudiated than adopt the ideas that are repugnant to us in order to be elected.

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I am on board with that idea.

I have given up on the GOP. We need a new party.

[malia]

How about ....... just being Republican.

[Bigg Red]

No, I am convinced the Republican Party that I signed onto many years ago is gone. I have not yet officially changed my registration, but I refuse to remain a member of the Republicrat Party any longer.