The diatribe is not up to your usual vitriolic standards, but its early, so I'll check back later.
Posted on 11/16/2015 11:36:51 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
For the 236 Republicans like Steve King who decided that Paul Ryan was their man to be Speaker of the House the challenge is to re-establish some common ground with the grassroots.
Supporting Paul Ryan is contrary to the will of the people and supporting Donald Trump may get you in deep trouble with the big money special interests that don’t want him to win.
Ben Carson is a ‘wild card’ and well others are perceived as full RINO’s or hybrid RINO’s.
So King has figured out it would be wise to endorse Ted Cruz.
I suspect many more of those I consider ‘fake conservatives’ in Congress will find Ted Cruz, my candidate for POTUS, to be a safe place to park their endorsement in the face of the wrath of us grassroots people who know they are leading this nation into the ground with the leadership they endorse in the House from Boehner to Ryan.
That quote stood out to me also. I will be more relieved and happy to see Cruz inaugurated than Reagan.
In 2013, Sen. Cruz proposed amendments to the "Gang of 8" bill that would strengthen border security, expand green card opportunities, increase high-skilled "H1B" visas...
Did he propose amendments to a bill that he had no intention of voting for?
Was he lying then, or is he lying now?
You look at the pourings and the plans and then you start digging a holeSo the most brilliant conservative lawyer that's ever walked into the Senate chamber never knew, until today, there is "massive" corruption with the H1B's. And apparently neither did King...
He's digging holes alright.
Apparently the Ted Cruz campaign still isn’t stating they will be doing any deportations. They told Bloomberg that everything is still on the table, and that he has no intention of talking about deportation or granting legal status or anything at all until after they “secure the border.”
Obviously, you can’t leave that sort of thing as an option and then tell people that Rubio is lying about you favoring the granting of legal status.
Sessions did indeed vote for the amendments with the idea that they would sabotage the bill, but Sessions also never came out, as Cruz did, advocating for “common sense immigration reform” that allows illegals to “come out of the shadows.”
"Trump said Wednesday in an interview with CNN's Dana Bash that as president he would deport all undocumented immigrants and then allow the "good ones" to reenter the country through an "expedited process" and live in the U.S. legally, though not as citizens...."
He’s a lawyer...
So your response to Cruz lying about his immigration views is to quote Trump? At least we know what Trump’s plan is, and can calculate its superiority over others. With Cruz, he’s spreading BS around and hoping we’re stupid enough to be happy with slogans.
So King falls for Cruz’s avoidance of what he’ll do with the current illegals—other than having said previously that he’d legalize them.
Cruz’s big deceit is defining amnesty only as providing with citizenship.
Ryan had a lot of votes already. Paul Ryan could have booted King off the immigration committee and Trey Gomez(South Carolina), Raul LaRazaPoodle(Idaho) & Ted Pinata Poe(Texas 2nd CD) would be holding committees asking Dreamers want their preferred kind of amnesty is.
I think King will eventually support Trump later on. I think this is because he knows he can hurt Rubio on amnesty at this point in time. Trump is already out there saying the right things.
King is against Rubio. Rubio and Cruz are fighting over immigration. Cruz has to come out and say he supports 90% of King’s plan. Then King’s plan goes mainstream and he is in a proxy argument with Rubiocare.
For all the trashing of Kim Jong Rubio, Steve King and Rubio haven’t been able to get close enough to debate.
“...Cruz, meanwhile, has discussed sponsoring a Senate version of the Resettlement Accountability National Security Act, which would suspend the refugee resettlement program until the Government Accountability Office conducts a review, according to the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas).
Republicans are seeking to drive a wedge between Obama and congressional Democrats ahead of an election year when national security is expected to be a top concern of voters. So far, Democratic leaders have kept their ranks mostly unified, but defectors are already emerging.
Centrist Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) signed a letter sponsored by two vulnerable Republican incumbents, Sens. Mark Kirk (Ill.) and Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), urging that no refugee from the Syrian crisis be admitted to the country “unless the U.S. government can guarantee, with 100 percent assurance, that they are not members, supporters, or sympathizers of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.”
Legislation to restrict Obama’s refugee program could set up a tough vote for some Democrats, who may be forced to choose between backing their president and responding to public fears about a potential terrorist attack in the United States.
The brewing fight could become an obstacle to finishing a year-end government funding bill by Dec. 11. Republicans want to include language in the omnibus measure that would halt federal funding for resettlement.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) earlier this month wrote a letter to Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) - the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee - and ranking Democrat Barbara Mikulski (Md.), threatening to block funding for refugees until the administration crafts a comprehensive national security plan.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, said Congress should cancel what he called the “blank check” for refugee resettlement in the omnibus.
“Under current admissions policies, we can be expected to resettle another nearly 700,000 migrants from Muslim countries over the next five years,” Sessions wrote....”
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/260337-pressure-builds-to-block-refugees
“KING: If you’re thinking about kicking doors down and deporting people, I know that’s not been mentioned or discussed between myself and Ted Cruz. That’s not the way - well, maybe it’s the way for another candidate, but it’s not the way Ted Cruz envisions this, and it’s not the way I envision it.”
Extremely dishonest statement. Trump has never hinted he would do that, except implied for violent gang members.
You and many Trump supporters sound like Obama/Perot bots from past elections. I can’t help but shake my head and roll my eyes. He is a mod/lib at best and using populist rantings to draw weak minded people. And so far it has worked. Glad it has blown away Jeb but he would be a disaster in the general and even more of a disaster if elected. Ted Cruz all the way!
The diatribe is not up to your usual vitriolic standards, but its early, so I'll check back later.
What of Trump’s recent past membership in the Democratic Party, his support for the Democratic Party Leadership that still serves on the hill, his agreement (past and or present) with universal healthcare, abortion, imminent domain, gun control, higher taxes, Wall Street bailout....?
I guess Trump is evolving like a revolving door.
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