Posted on 10/30/2015 8:58:41 AM PDT by Isara
Sen. Cruz: The Budget Deal Is a Corrupt Betrayal of the American People (video)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today delivered a speech on the Senate floor, denouncing the shockingly bad budget deal and outlining the Republican establishment’s multitude of broken promises.
Excerpts of Sen. Cruz’s speech can be read below. Watch the speech in its entirety here.
“Mr. President, for many months, I’ve been speaking about what I call the Washington Cartel. The Washington Cartel consists of career politicians in both parties who get in bed with lobbyists and special interests here in Washington and grow and grow and grow government. The Washington Cartel is, I believe, the source of the volcanic frustration Americans face across this country. And it is difficult to find a better illustration of the Washington Cartel than the charade we are engaged in this evening. This deal that we are here to vote on is both shockingly bad on the merits, and it is also a manifestation of the bipartisan corruption that suffuses Washington, D.C.
“What are the terms of this budget deal? Well, in short, what the House of Representatives has passed and what the senate is expected to pass shortly is a bill that adds $85 billion in spending increases…$85 billion in spending increases…$85 billion to our national debt…85 billion to your children and my children that they’re somehow expected to pay. I don’t know about your kids, but my girls don’t have $85 billion laying around in their rooms…”
“…It’s worth thinking about just how much $85 billion is. It’s more than the Senate negotiated with the House when Harry Reid was majority leader. When Harry Reid was majority leader, the Ryan-Murray budget agreement, which was a flawed agreement, an agreement I voted against, increased spending by $63 billion over two years. Now, Mr. President, what does it say to you that a supposedly Republican majority of the United States Senate negotiates a bigger spending bill than Harry Reid and the Democrats?
“…Republican majorities have just given President Obama is a diamond-encrusted, glow-in-the-dark AmEx card. And it has a special feature. The president gets to spend it now, and they don’t even send him the bill. They send the bill to your kids and my kids. It’s a pretty nifty card. You don’t have to pay for it. You get to spend it and it’s somebody else’s problem.”
“…Let me point something out. You know, this bill that we’re voting on, this bill was not cooked up overnight. This wasn’t a slapdash on a post-it note last night. This represents days or weeks or months of negotiations. This represents the Cartel in all of its glory because this is the combined work product of John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid. The entire time Republican leaders have been promising, ‘We’re going to do something on the budget. We’re going to rein in the president,’ they have been in the back room negotiating to fund every single thing Obama did.
“…Now, if someone is an effective Democratic leader, you would expect them to be able to pass legislation when a majority of Democrats supported it and a majority of Republicans opposed it -- if you're a partisan Democrat, that would be almost the definition of an effective Democratic leader. Nineteen times in the last ten months this so-called Republican majority has passed legislation, has had a vote succeed where a majority of Democrats supported it and a majority of Republicans opposed it…”
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Why didn’t Cruz join Rand in loudly protesting the continued rape of the makers?
Because it was a show filibuster and not a real filibuster.
Rand didn’t even stand long enough for anyone to stand with Rand.
For our great Republican ‘leaders’ and all too many others, the main purpose of this two year deal is to get as many contentious issues off the table as possible in an election year.
They don’t care how much they’ve increased the national debt or how many of Obama’s destructive policies they’ve fully funded.
The don't even know how much they've increased the debt, because it is unlimited. Rather than agreeing to raising it by a set amount (which is bad enough), they have left it open-ended. See:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1314/text#toc-HCE3413FC90404754A8F5B0AA60486CAE
I've noticed that some commentators are talking about a raise of 1 or 1.5 Trillion, but I suspect that we will be "lucky" if that is all that has been issued by March 16, 2017.
The leadership of the GOP is against the American people. Pray we can get people elected that will truly stand for the people. Most of what I see in either party is in the pocket of big business or other special interests in some way.
Consider this overview of Constitutional (that is legitimate) Federal functions: Constitutional Overview.
Yeah, I heard that in one report which makes the GOP's cowardice and collusion with Obama even worse.
Hearing that The Emperor is “eager to sign it” (White Hut press release) should tell you everything you need to know about this “deal.”
Yes, exactly. Rand is not who he claims to be. He is morphing into his father, but a weird clone of him at that.
The despicable b@stards know there days are short so they're cashing in their chips while they can.
His old man is an @ss but at least he never looked like a freakin poodle
In this budget, the Devil actually is in the details!
Everyone should watch the clip at the top which shows Cruz’s entire speech. Outstanding. A well spent hour and a half!
A Stalin standing ovation would last ten times as long!
I wish I could get every body I know to watch this (especially demonrats who still call cruz stupid (I am sure watching this would promote him straight from stupid to evil), but alas, I will not even be able to get one. I would love to show bits of this speech along side prominent demonrats like maxine waters, etc...to show the difference
Why Free REPUBLIC isn’t CHEERING this man on to victory, beats me.
GO TED GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I like Cruz and all, but:
You want the leadership position (CiC), show you can BE a leader.
IE: If Paul’s was a non-filibuster filibuster, Cruz should have started one himself instead.
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