Posted on 02/15/2015 10:33:11 AM PST by VinL
Democrat strategist James Carville once called Ted Cruz the “most talented and fearless candidate he has seen in 30 years.”
Arriving in Washington in 2012, the Texas senator has proved a quick study of the corrupt Washington games that are breeding cynicism across both parties. Demonstrating himself to be a man steeped in America’s founding principles and a patriot who expects Washington to listen, Cruz pulls the curtain back in this exclusive video interview to expose why government grows, while economic and personal liberties recede.
Cruz, who’s expected to be a 2016 favorite among grassroots conservatives, found President Obama’s recent National Prayer Breakfast remarks “stunning.” He continued, “It shouldn’t be that hard for a president to lift us up or speak goodness to evil.”
Yet, the Republican senator says, Obama “preached a false moral equivalence that every religion is equal.” The president “didn’t even have the courage to praise Egyptian President el-Sisi for recently calling out the radicals” who are perverting the Muslim faith, Cruz said.
Cruz calls comments by Democrat Pat Caddell — who was featured in a popular video interview in this Leader series last week — lambasting the Republican leadership for estrangement from their base “truthful.” He says it is an “act of heresy in Washington to tell this truth.”
“The biggest divide in politics is between career politicians in both parties in Washington and the American people,” the senator says.
Cruz is most proud of his efforts to stop the train wreck that is Obamacare. As he travels around the nation, he hears of lost health care coverage, lost jobs, and rising premiums. Yet, he says “career politicians in both parties are perfectly happy to let Obamacare remain a permanent feature of our economy.” Cruz elevated the Obamacare debate, and leadership still hasn’t thanked Cruz for waging the battle that galvanized a nation, convincing enough voters last November that Republicans might really fight to stop Obama’s transformation of the nation.
The Texan thinks the only way to change what Pat Caddell is talking about is for the American people to rise up. From all he can see from the inside, “Washington is not listening.”
Cruz tells the revealing insider story of the 2014 debt ceiling battle, where too many Republicans said one thing and then did another, when it came to restraining out of control spending. Cruz said he wasn’t surprised when President Obama audaciously demanded Congress raise the government credit card limit without any spending reforms. But the House approved it, with only 28 Republicans voting with 190 Democrats to pass a clean debt ceiling per the President’s request, to the acclaim of Wall Street and media elites.
Next the Senate had to pass H.R. 325. Just as the Senate is now experiencing with the current battle over DHS spending that contains a defunding of executive amnesty, to proceed to consider a bill takes 60 votes. But the 60 vote threshold can be altered if the Senate changed it by unanimous consent. Senate Republican leaders, not objecting to more spending, more debt, wanted to “kick the can down the road.” Cruz reports GOP leaders asked all their senators to affirmatively consent to lower the threshold from 60 to 50 votes. The result? If we lowered it, Cruz says, it would “allow us to vote no on the substance and tell our constituents that we opposed what we just consented to allow happen.”
Cruz objected to the game, and says “nothing has engendered more animosity and vitriol in Washington than that.” It’s interesting to note that this Wall Street Journal editorial wrongly predicted Cruz’s battle would result in the Democrats retaining the majority in the fall 2014 elections, but no public apologies have been issued to Cruz from the Journal editorial page.
The senator told Republican leaders, “I can’t lie to the people who elected me.” The truth is “shining the light on the game being played in D.C. is worse than insulting another” senator, he says.
Discussing President Obama’s State of the Union address, he said he felt like he was “Alice in Wonderland.” The “president described facts that have no bearing on reality.”
Despite the Washington environment, Cruz is optimistic because his travels reveal “people are waking up across the country.”
“2016 will be an election like 1980,” he says. “We win by drawing a line in the sand. There is a better path for this country. Back to the free market principles and constitutional liberties that have made America the best country in the world.”
All well and good but when is he going to set up an Exploratory Committee. Right now Jeb is gobbling up the dough and hogging the limelight as is Scott Walker.
This isn't the first time I've found myself agreeing with Carville.
Has he got religion or do I need to get myself checked out?
Is this the nice politically correct way of saying we've been betrayed? Did he just now figure this out?
No. It will be like 1860.
Not to worry. A Super Money Bomb will be there for him from ‘the people’. I guarantee it.
The limelight being provided by the Ministry of Propaganda (abcnbccbspbscnn) and the money being provided by the Cheap Labor Express. The GOP nominee WILL be pro-amnesty. If you won’t swallow Jeb, then Scott is Plan B.
Ted Cruz may be our only hope.
It will require conservatives to coaleasce early, something the Cheap Labor Express is spending alot to disrupt. Huckabee isn’t working cheap.
As well as Democrat leaders. In fact most politicians are divorced from the American people. Power, perks & prestige and being re-elected are #1 on the ‘leaders’ list.
In addition many Americans love the gifts that these corrupt politicians provide them with. Thus, they keep re-electing such people so the gifts keep coming.
Sad, destructive but true.
You are right about that.
I’ll be donating my income tax refund directly to Ted.
It’s interesting to see someone still using the term Republicans with respect to DC. “Republicans” should be regarded as synonymous with unicorns imo, so think RINO.
And I am NOT paying ALIMONY to the idiots, who have the aggressive stance as does "0" !
RINO's deserve a divorce !
FUBAR .... FUBO !!
I agree with Cruz on this, however there is another perspective to consider.
A strong case can be made that our career politicians, especially since the 2008 election When the Democrats took full control and ran wild and unchecked, have so irreparably damaged the country that the only option available to them is to pursue polices, no matter how irrational or destructive , that kick the can down the road to delay the inevitable day of reckoning as long as possible regardless of how much worse they make that much delayed day of reckoning when it does finally arrive.
When the party no longer represents what your values are, or represent your beliefs,
it's time to support the candidate of choice, not the political party.
Starve the NeadanderTROLLS (RINOs / GOPe)!
They understand , perhaps too late, the effect of controlled contributions, and ignoring the electorate.
Once again, Senator Cruz is right on point with his observation.
IMHO the pejorative term `RINO’ is as an anachronism and there’s no need any longer to use it.
We know what “Republican” means when applied to those in DC purporting to represent us.
It isn’t necessary any longer to say that they are Republicans, but in name only.
They are Republicans and they are divorced from the American people.
And just as John Edward Bush is so estranged from us that he feels entitled to the WH (as `George III’), the Republicans feel the Democrats have had their two terms, so now the pendulum has swung back and it is their turn to lead the Uniparty.
Later
Cruz is the real meal deal. We were out with other conservative friends last night and the husband said Scott Walker is the guy for 2016 because he will fight the unions and he will do this and that but frankly I have not heard Scott Walker say what he will do. I’m going to have to hear a lot more from him to get on the bandwagon.
The three questions I would like to ask every prospective candidate for the GOP nomination are as follows:
1. If the FCC institutes Net Neutrality will you reverse it as soon as you take office?
2. What unnecessary/rogue agencies will you shutter after you take office.
3. Which if not all of Barack Obama’s illegal/unconstitutional executive orders will you reverse on your first day in office?
I’m not hearing much out of any of these guys so far.
I said I’ll be donating my income tax refund to Ted, not the RNC. I wouldn’t give the RNC a dime.
TED CRUZ PING!
Indeed—It is remarkable how quickly the Whigs collapsed.
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