I must confess, I am shocked, stunned and amazed that there is still even one person crediting Cruz with stopping amnesty. It has been a long, long time since that myth was debunked. Months and months ago I labeled it “the Myth that will not Die.” Yet it did die, very slowly but ultimately surely.
Or at least it died for 99.9 percent of those who are paying attention. Yet now we find, like a single Japanese soldier defending a small, deserted island, a lone holdout. One person who still believes, “Cruz stopped Amnesty.”
The world moves on...but not everyone moves with it.
First of all, nobody is saying he did it single handedly.
In 2014 it was universally accepted that Cruz was instrumental in defeating amnesty. He publicly criticized it every step of the way from 2013 to 2014. He publicly criticized Cantor and the rest of the leadership. The issue of amnesty was central to Brat’s election. The reason it was even a topic of discussion was because Cruz was working so hard to kill it. When it ultimately failed, Cruz was applauded by the conservatives. He was shunned by the mushy Republicans. He was denigrated by the media. He was attacked by the Democrats. It was universally understood that he had a huge hand in it’s failure.
Jeff Sessions (-the Trump backer, Luircin), who is unarguably the grand master of opposing amnesty, credits Cruz for being instrumental.
I guess you geniuses here in 2016 know better than everybody back in 2014. Congratulations.