Posted on 07/24/2015 12:51:11 PM PDT by markomalley
I’m not going to excerpt it for you, despite the length. You need to watch it all; if you can’t spare 20 minutes, at least watch the middle third where he gets into corporate cooptation of the one-party state. This is one of the most brutal attacks — not incorrect, mind you, just brutal — you’ll ever see by a senator on his colleagues, starting with his own majority leader. Sample quote: “[This majority] does get things done, but it listens to one and only one voice: That is, the voice of the Washington cartel, of the lobbyists on K Street, of the big money and big corporations.” This guy is talking about his own caucus.
Nominally, this speech is about McConnell’s betrayal of opponents of the Ex-Im bank and his Reid-esque procedural scam to block conservative amendments that could have jeopardized the Iran deal. What it really is, of course, is a campaign commercial for Cruz 2016 aimed at all the Trump voters he covets but who prefer someone (for the moment) who stands outside the political class. This is Cruz’s way of showing them that not only is he willing to throw punches at the establishment too, he hits much harder than Trump does. The unspoken point is, “If you detest Washington and its endless corrupt excrescences, why would you support him instead of me?” Good question. I have no idea.
I wonder what Cruz is planning to do career-wise if his presidential campaign falls short. It’s hard to imagine him hanging around the Senate for decades, as it’ll be an even lonelier place for him after this than it already was. I assume he has his eye on a seat on an appellate court somewhere, either at the circuit level or SCOTUS itself, once a Republican’s back in the White House. Alienating the people who vote to confirm federal judges is an … interesting strategy, but maybe Cruz figures that a Senate Republican majority would be too scared of the base to reject him. Even if you dislike his style politically, there’s no question he’d be a staunch conservative as a judge. You deny the right another Scalia on the bench at your peril.
(video at link)
Cruz or Lose!!!
His line about McConnell denying a corrupt deal three times, like Saint Peter, was well played.
Maybe he took a few assertiveness lessons from Trump during their meeting.
Now if he would realize that increasing H1B visas by 500% will do nothing more than feed the cronyism monster, he might regain some of the ground he has lost.
Ping 4 later.
I am going to spend the 20 minutes!
YOU BETCHA!
This is how Trump helps our guys either use the balls they have, or start growing them.
Bflr. Anxious to se this.
Some will attribute this speech to politics, or the influence of Trump.
It’s neither. Cruz has made these identical allegations many times before— listen to his floor speech on CrOmnibus- where he accused lame-duck congressmen of loading up the budget as graft for lobbyists, just so those exiting congressman could then get jobs with these lobbying firms.
Today, with a procedural maneuver, McConnell blocked conservatives from filing amendments to the Highway Bill (defund Planned Parenthood; reject Iran deal; defund Obamacare; mandatory 5 year sentence for deported illegal re-entering the country)
If was simply the last straw for Cruz- he was incensed.
Ted calls out the Uniparty!!
I forgot a third option which has already happened.
That is they grow a vagina and totally oppose his statements that are brutally true.
He forgot to say that Yertle is a blackmailed pussy too.
Ted Cruz is the last person whose future career prospects I worry about. For the path on which he now walks, I pray for him and his family.
I don’t see how anyone would give credit to Trump. Ted has been standing up to these frauds since he started running for Senate.
That nice speech just earned Mr. Cruz another 50 bucks to his campaign from me!!
... our own Government appears to be leading our country into the pit of socialism.We have seen this Government socialize our education system and make our schools among the worst in the world. We have seen this Government take over most of our health care system, making private insurance less and less affordable. We have seen this Government socialize our energy resources and bring our Nation to its knees by cutting the development of our own oil and natural gas supplies. And now we see this Congress yielding its constitutional obligations to a Federal bureaucracy, giving it the power to control virtually our entire financial system. Americans understand this and they are angry. ...
If we were honest with the American people and explained the failures that have led to this financial crisis, we might have the credibility to ask our citizens to allow us to borrow another $700 billion in their name to try to fix this problem. But we are not being honest. This problem was not created by our free enterprise system. It was created by us, the Congress and the Federal Government. ...
We are telling people not to worry because we are going to rescue them with their own money.
Now if we could only convince the everyday average Republican working schmuck voter to grow a set of balls and vote these worthless Republicrats out of office.
I called on Senator Dean Heller to Oust McConnell I called Mitch a Pussy and a liar.
Obama is a low approval rating lame duck and yet he gets what he desires and more.
Dashel and Reid stopped Bush from getting anything he wanted, Mitch is a Pussy and a Fake conservative.
They have proven they will not grow them unless they absolutely have no other choice but to do so.
DAMN that felt good.
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