Posted on 07/28/2015 10:43:04 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
UPDATE: I have removed Governor Jindal’s twitter handle from the title. His staff reached out to me to say he is not engaging in politics right now. In the wake of the Lafayette shooting, he has gone off the campaign trail to focus on the situation in Louisiana. Today he is attending the funerals of the victims.
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It is stuff like this that has Donald Trump in first place, kicking everybody else’s back side. And it is stuff like this that is going to see Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 100% start rising in the polls.
I realize Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 100% is a competitor to the other candidates, but if they cannot share the Republican voters’ outrage over what happened in the Senate yesterday, they might need to let Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 100% run for office.
The Senate Republicans, joined with Democrats, and set the stage for reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank, a bank that Governor Rick Perry of Texas has been vocally critical of with Cruz, and the Senate Republicans refused to put up a vote for defunding Planned Parenthood or Obamacare.
The Republicans have all talked a great gam of late on the campaign trail, but when Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) 100% tried to get it defunded in the Senate, Mitch McConnell refused not only to allow the vote, but wouldn’t even allow a roll call vote on it.
Republican Senators refused to fight evil because they do not like Cruz and Lee.
Where the hell are the Republican leader? Of the 2,347 candidates running for President, surely there are more than just Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 100% willing to speak forcefully and vocally against the Republicans in Washington.
It is outrageous. The excuses of the Senate Republicans hold no water.
Jeb Bush, Rick Perry, Scott Walker, Carly Fiorina, Bobby Jindal, and the rest should be publicly calling on Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) 59% to allow the votes.
And Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) 91%, who tweeted he was headed to South Carolina today, should be headed to the Senate instead to help his friend Mike Lee defund Planned Parenthood.
Donald Trump is leading the Republicans in polling because he was the only guy showing leadership against Washington. Ted Cruz showed that leadership this weekend and Republicans should be thanking him for exposing the cronies and corruption.
We really need the desirable qualities of Cruz and Trump combined in the same president. Cruz with a big hammer would be nice. I fear that Cruz, if elected, would not be able to make any headway. He is too much of a Constitutionalist to kick ass and take names with the dictatorial powers that are now inherent in the office courtesy of the giveaways of the Court and Congress. He will have a Congress solidly in opposition to anything he wants to do, no matter the nominal makeup of the Congress.
Has Trump stated what his position on same-sex “marriage” is? Because that’s important. Indeed that’s the most important moral issue of our time.
What I am saying is the next president is going to be a dictator whether he likes it or not. I doubt Cruz can operate in that milieu. To get anything done against a solidly oppositional Congress, he will have to do extraConstitutional things. I can’t see him doing that. The only tactic I can see him perhaps being successful with is getting the states to call an Article 5 convention.
Never mind. George Takei is really ticked off at Trump’s comments on same-sex “marriage.” That means he’s on our side, not the side of the sodomites. I’d wager he’d appoint justices who are against SS”M.” Of course, we’re still stuck with the pernicious doctrine of judicial review, which lies nowhere in the text of the Constitution. But that’s for another day.
Or Cruz can pull a Reagan and go directly to the people and persuade them of the validity of his positions.
If he can do that (and I believe he has the smarts and demeanor to do just that)he doesn’t need Congress.
you forget his potential veto power. Also I think he would be a much better negotiator than given credit given his working conditions since in the senate. He has the speak the mind like Trump but not much attention without the celebrity plus the media, dems and GOPe doing their best discrediting jobs.
Hey Eric ! Trump had his chance to jump in on the Cruz expose. Instead he used that time because he knew the media and rulling class wanted that expose buried and attacked Walker . Which almost worked.
“We are at a moment of a crisis of the faith, a crisis which has repercussions indeed on other domains, on our whole religious, moral and social life.”
Pope Paul VI
Cruz has shown ample amounts of dexterity with the Senate. To his credit, he was able to move the House to support a LOT of things BEFORE we won the Senate and McConnell got a hold on Boehner and told him to down vote every conservative amendment, etc. We have McConnell to thank for the deal-doing. We need to keep the rhetoric UP about his promises while he was campaigning, even the thing he told Cruz during his campaign that “we do not tell the truth to the people, we promise what they want to hear, but after the election we do what we want.” We were outraged by his betrayal, but apparently not enough to flood his office with complaints and his own words. We need to record, or whatever it was, every single promise he made and make him eat his words!
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