Posted on 01/12/2017 5:36:35 PM PST by ForYourChildren
Texas Senator and former presidential candidate Ted Cruz ripped the mask off an ACLU attorney pretending to be “strictly nonpartisan” on Day 2 of Jeff Session’s confirmation hearings to be the nation’s next attorney general.
David Cole, a Georgetown University law professor and national legal director at the ALCU, a communist front group, was trying to desperately smear Jeff Sessions as a racist and Ted Cruz cut him up with a butter knife, asking him why he omitted key facts from his argument that would have invalidated his argument if he were truly “strictly nonpartisan.”
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Ted is a good man!!!
That butt-hurt seems to be forever with you guys. LOL
Who are you to call into question a mans Christianity!? Not your role nor function.
Please note that I am hereby putting forth a motion to nominate Ted Cruz for the United States Supreme Court for the vacancy created by the passing of the Honorable Justice Antonin Gregory Scalia.
Good job, Ted!
You’re the one saying totally stupid things. I don’t know who “you guys” refers to.
Please don’t respond because I’m not interested. Seek counseling instead.
Begs the question how much support someone had nationwide.
Even with 318, we’d be in a better position.
I’d also have liked to have seen that popular vote spread less wide.
The closer you get to a broad mandate, the broader the message is to those who need to consider the rejection of Obama. A broad mandate does have impact.
I agree with your conclusion, and even with other observations.
You know, watching folks on our side refuse to support Trump cost us votes too. There were some pretty big ones right up until the 9th of November.
I think this cost us in some circles outside of our own camp too.
I watched Cruz’s “Cross” of the NAACP guy, and it was quite impressive. The witness did not seem to fight back very much.
But the a**hole non-lawyer, Al Franken, poked some serious holes in Cruz’s arguments. For example, Cruz said a certain witness’ testimony (against Sessions) was retracted, and Franken went right to the record and pointed out that only a small portion was retracted, and that had been a portion benefiting Sessions.
I wanted so badly for Cruz to demolish this clown, but it just didn’t happen. He seems to do better on the prepared portions of his remarks, like the litany against the NAACP guy about their biased scorecard . . . but, when a strong lawyer opposes him (EVEN IF THEY’RE DEAD WRONG) like the ACLU guy, then he did not appear to me to have the desired follow-through.
Again, I was pulling for Cruz every step of the way . . . but was not highly impressed by the overall performance, even when I agreed strongly with his positions (like backing Jeff Sessions).
Thank you for your assessment.
I didn’t see the whole thing, so I’m not going to chime in on what took place.
That was an interesting observation.
It’s amazing to me that Franken could ever have been elected to the Senate. Good grief.
I have read of some of Tead’s actions, and I heard a clip on Rush. Frankly it was very good. It did call the Democrats out. Under normal circumstances, I’d really be profusely appreciative.
These are not normal circumstances after last fall.
Thanks for your comments.
Perhaps...but...this was still an epic takedown if I’ve ever seen one...it could not have been done better.
His birth certificate says he is a natural born Canadian.
Thank you for that.
I’m not immune to the descriptions. I just can’t back a guy that could pull what he did last year.
While I am glad someone is doing this, if I can’t count on him when the nation is hanging in the balance, nominations hearings pale in comparison drastically.
He’s very lucky he’s addressing Trump’s appointees right now rather than Hillary’s.
Right on all counts.
LOL....you’re not very good at this. LOL
But he is defending Sessions. His first statement (yesterday) was very good.
[[The name-calling is a poor substitute for reasoned discourse among brothers and sisters in common cause.]]
Exactly, but unfortunately every single thread with Ted’s name in the headline is going to turn into a free for all against Ted and those who supported him because Ted- AFTER being accused of being a serial adulterer- of being accused repeatedly of having affairs with his helper amanda carpenter, of being accused of ‘not denying that his father was involved with the assassination of Ted Kennedy”- Of ‘being in bed with goldman sachs’- Accused of beign a wife beater- being accused of being an abuser who’s child was ‘afraid of him’ (remember the video where she pulled away as he tried to kiss her at the end of a long day of campaigning) etc etc etc got onstage for the man who started much of that crap and said that this country can not afford to have hillary as president- but didn’t come right out and endorse donald by name-
Cruz lost me when he hitched himself to lunatic blowhard Glenn Beck. Their mock “swearing in” ceremony & other onstage antics were truly bizarre!
As a result, I could never support Cruz for any public office & I question his sanity.
>>But he is defending Sessions. His first statement (yesterday) was very good.<<
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Yes, I agree. And this is a very important service to the nation. I’m just suggesting we tap the brakes on saying his overall performance was highly effective.
I want Cruz to be a fantastically effective Senator on behalf of the Trump programs, and still see him as potentially one of Trump’s most significant allies.
Then, after 8 years of Trump, if Cruz plays on our team the whole time, I could see supporting him for another POTUS run.
I am ignoring most of the idiocy of Lyn’ Ted, Levin, and Beck supporters but yours tops it. Have I OR ANYONE ever mentioned Lyn’ Ted’s religion, ever once? No. Stop the BS digging, it is embarrassing.
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