Posted on 08/14/2016 6:26:59 AM PDT by fluorescence
Taqqiya.
Truthfully, Ted Cruz is too much of an asset to write him off.
What Mr. Trump should do is instead figure out what Cruz would be good at, and invite him to join the administration in that capacity.
One role could be as “government slasher”. In corporate America, a very valuable and useful role is as a “hatchet man”, who is hired specifically to close unwanted departments and fire people. He is the “bad guy”, and he goes from corporation to corporation doing just this job.
Critically important: once a cabinet secretary has been approved by the senate, the president can shift them to another agency at will. So say Cruz was made secretary of Veteran’s Affairs. This would make sense as Mr. Trump has said he wants to reform the VA.
He would likely be confirmed by the senate, just to get him out of there. But once confirmed, he could mow through the VA with a battle axe, purging thousands of useless and malevolent bureaucrats whose actions have killed veterans. He could then get the agencies’ books in order to provide much better healthcare to veterans.
Once he had done that, Mr. Trump could shift him to an agency where the senate would have *never* approved him. And the senate could not stop either of them.
Agency after agency: Department of the Interior, Energy, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Homeland Security, Education, Treasury, Labor, Commerce, etc. Try to limit his time to six months for the smaller ones, and an entire year for the gigantic ones.
Slash and burn.
Animosity to Mr. Cruz aside, what’s not to like? Sure, he will get so many enemies that he could never become POTUS, but in that role he will do the US so much good that he will be remembered warmly by conservatives for a century, and bitterly cursed, vilified and hated by Democrats for twice as long.
Go away Ted. I used to brag about you, identify with you, even use you as my political example. But you violated your oath, and it became all about you. You embarrass me now. Go away Ted -— begone. I’m already hunting for your replacement.
Really?
This @sshole pulls a stunt that does nothing but help hillary get closer to her throne to destroy everything we all love and consider great and you think he's actually got something to offer conservatives or this country?
I hope he loses a race for dog catcher, he's nothing but a two bit phony who only cares about himself. Eff him and anyone who still thinks he has anything to offer.
He’s next on the dynasty ladder and is very afraid that what his grandfather, father, and uncle have done may have actually ruined things for him. By the way -— he’s right as far as I’m concerned!!!
There, I fixed it for ya' :-)
Wow! If I lived there, I'd be in hog heaven.
The only decent Italian restaurant near my home is Fratellino's in Brea, where I used to take my mother every week, and there are a couple good ones in downtown Whittier. But with some notable exceptions such as Vince's in Ontario, Andre's in LA, across the street from Farmer's Market, Patsy D'Amore's Pizzeria inside Farmer's Market, owned by the family that ran the legendary Villa Capri in Hollywood in the 1950s, the Casa Bianca in Eagle Rock and Pasta Roma down by USC, good Italian food is hard to find out here.
Not that hard!! You ran off five places that sound really good!
I remember someone else mentioning Vince’s, I think.
yeah, I’m not exaggerating about the 20 within a mile. Maybe a mile and a half.
Some grandmas are still around in there, but the sons do the pizza making nowadays.
The best thing that happened to Mexico from the illegals flooding here is that mexicans learned from the sons AND the grandmothers how to make pizza.
Mexico will have some of the best pizzerias in the world!
Ate at Monte’s brooklyn restaurant where Capone used to eat.
Uncle is well respected in the neighborhood, so to my surprise they tore up the bill.
Food’s not that good anymore though.
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