Ted Cruz joins Elie Wiesel in raising alarms about nuclear Iran

WASHINGTON –Sen. Ted Cruz joined with Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel on Monday to condemn Iran and rally support for Israel, on the eve of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial speech to Congress.

Cruz mocked complaints that Netanyahu’s appearance Tuesday before a joint session of Congress — scheduled without the Israeli government or Speaker John Boehner consulting the White House — amounts to a breach of protocol or etiquette.

“It’s all nonsense. What matters is what we do right now to ensure that in no circumstances will the nation of Iran be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons capability,” Cruz said.

Unfortunately, he added, the Obama administration’s eagerness to seek a deal with Iran shows it doesn’t seem too concerned about such a chilling possibility.

“The behavior of the Obama White House suggests that they do not see any meaningful threat in Iran acquiring nuclear weapons,” Cruz declared.

Administration officials say their negotiations are aimed at curbing Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

Wiesel, a Nobel Peace Prize winner widely revered by Jews, echoed Cruz is insisting the threat from Iran is real, and urging Congress and the White House to heed Netanyahu’s warnings.

As a Holocaust survivor, he said, “I learned to rely not only on the promises of our friends, but on the threats of our enemies.”

Sheldon Adelson, the Las Vegas casino magnate and major donor both to GOP and Zionist causes, sat in the front row of a packed Senate auditorium for the hour-long event. Most attendees wore credentials from the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee; Netanyahu addressed the pro-Israel group earlier Monday.

"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

If by some miracle the cheating, voting the graveyards, voting illegals, packing the ballot boxes, can be overcome and Cruz is elected I hope he has the fortitude to accomplish an unfortunate necessity and use EO/EA to invalidate everything the kenyan has done. Screw the poor unfortunates who will “suffer” and screw the house and senate who will surely oppose any of the Constitutional ways of accomplishing what is needed.

I’m sure drastic steps will have to be taken to reset the damages and then outlaw the use of these actions to circumvent the law.

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