Posted on 07/24/2015 12:51:11 PM PDT by markomalley
I’m not going to excerpt it for you, despite the length. You need to watch it all; if you can’t spare 20 minutes, at least watch the middle third where he gets into corporate cooptation of the one-party state. This is one of the most brutal attacks — not incorrect, mind you, just brutal — you’ll ever see by a senator on his colleagues, starting with his own majority leader. Sample quote: “[This majority] does get things done, but it listens to one and only one voice: That is, the voice of the Washington cartel, of the lobbyists on K Street, of the big money and big corporations.” This guy is talking about his own caucus.
Nominally, this speech is about McConnell’s betrayal of opponents of the Ex-Im bank and his Reid-esque procedural scam to block conservative amendments that could have jeopardized the Iran deal. What it really is, of course, is a campaign commercial for Cruz 2016 aimed at all the Trump voters he covets but who prefer someone (for the moment) who stands outside the political class. This is Cruz’s way of showing them that not only is he willing to throw punches at the establishment too, he hits much harder than Trump does. The unspoken point is, “If you detest Washington and its endless corrupt excrescences, why would you support him instead of me?” Good question. I have no idea.
I wonder what Cruz is planning to do career-wise if his presidential campaign falls short. It’s hard to imagine him hanging around the Senate for decades, as it’ll be an even lonelier place for him after this than it already was. I assume he has his eye on a seat on an appellate court somewhere, either at the circuit level or SCOTUS itself, once a Republican’s back in the White House. Alienating the people who vote to confirm federal judges is an … interesting strategy, but maybe Cruz figures that a Senate Republican majority would be too scared of the base to reject him. Even if you dislike his style politically, there’s no question he’d be a staunch conservative as a judge. You deny the right another Scalia on the bench at your peril.
(video at link)
It sure didn’t seem like 20 mins. I want to hear more!
Go Cruz!
A guy walks into a post office one day to see a middle-aged, balding man standing at the counter methodically placing “Love” stamps on bright pink envelopes with hearts all over them. He then takes out a perfume bottle and starts spraying scent all over the envelopes.
His curiosity getting the better of him, he goes up to the balding man and asks him what he is doing.
The man says “I’m sending out 1,000 Valentine cards signed, ‘Guess who?’”
“But why?” he asks.
“I’m a divorce lawyer.”
Sick!
Two small boys, not yet old enough to be in school, were overheard talking at the zoo one day. “My name is Billy. What’s yours?” asked the first boy. “Tommy,” replied the second. “My Daddy’s an accountant. What does your Daddy do for a living?” asked Billy. Tommy replied, “My Daddy’s a lawyer.” “Honest?” asked Billy. “No, just the regular kind”, replied Tommy.
A lawyer’s dog, running about unleashed, beelines for a butcher shop and steals a roast.
The Butcher goes to lawyer’s office and asks, “If a dog running unleashed steals a piece of meat from my store, do I have a right to demand payment for the meat from the dog’s owner?”
The lawyer answers, “Absolutely.”
“Then you owe me $20. Your dog was loose and stole a roast from me today.” The lawyer, without a word, writes the butcher a check for $20.
Several days later the butcher opens the mail and finds a letter from the lawyer. He opens it and finds a bill for $100 for a legal consultation.
“I am not a supporter of Cruz, but I take my hat off to him here: this is the speech of a statesman and a patriot.”
If he is a statesman and a patriot, why do you not support him? That makes NO sense.
Taking his seat in chambers, the judge faced the opposing lawyers. “I have been presented by both of you with a bribe,” the judge bagan. Both lawyers squirmed uncomfortably. “You, Attorney Leoni, gave me $15,000. And you, ASttorney Campos, gave me $10,000.”
The judge reached in his pocket a pulled out a check, which he handed to Leoni. “Now, then, I’m returning $5,000, and we are going to decide this case solely on its merits.”
You’ve probably heard this one before, but with over a dozen Blonds in the Clan....
A blonde and lawyer are seated next to each other on a flight from LA to NY. The lawyer asks if she would like to play a fun game. The blonde, very tired, just wants to take a nap, so she politely declines and rolls over toward the window to catch a few winks. The lawyer persists (as lawyers are wont to do) and explains that the game is easy and a lot of fun. He says, “I ask you a question, and if you don’t know the answer, you pay me $5.00 and vice versa.”
Again, she declines and tries to get some sleep.
The lawyer, now agitated, says, “Okay, if you don’t know the answer you pay me $5.00, and if I don’t know the answer, I’ll pay you $500.00.”
This catches the blonde’s attention and, figuring there will be no end to the torment unless she plays, agrees to the game.
The lawyer asks the first question, “What’s the distance from the earth to the moon?”
The blonde doesn’t say a word, reaches in her purse, pulls out a $5 bill and hands it to the lawyer.
“Okay,” says the lawyer, “your turn.”
She asks the lawyer, “What goes up a hill with three legs and comes down with four legs?”
The lawyer, puzzled, takes out his laptop computer and searches all his references, no answer. He taps into the air phone with his modem and searches the net and Library of Congress, still no answer. Frustrated, he sends e-mail to all his friends and coworkers, all to no avail. After an hour, he wakes the blonde and hands her $500.
The blonde says, “Thank you,” and turns back to get some more sleep.
The lawyer, more than a little miffed, wakes the blonde and asks, “Well, what’s the answer?”
Without a word, the blonde reaches in her purse, hands the lawyer $5.00, and goes back to sleep.
Thank you!
Awesome speech. A tutorial on corporate welfare, a salute to Bernie Sanders for being one of a few Democrats fighting corporate welfare, a total stripping of McConnell as nothing but sold out to K Street, who is busy processing another fake and go nowhere show vote on Obamacare, and who is against defunding Planned Parenthood.
Cruz says McConnell came into power in 2012 and the first three things accomplished were no different than Harry Reid would have done. We funded obamacare, rammed through Loretta Lynch as AG, and funded Boeing and hooking taxpayers for millions and millions.
Just because I don’t support all his positions doesn’t mean I can’t recognise a competent grownup.
Here's my disappointment with the 2010 thru 2014 elections.
Void the bowels of Washington, D.C. 2014
Well the elections administered the stimulant for the evacuation but..
I'm broken hearted because
Washington only farted.
Ted Cruz Ping! He inherited a fortune on the order of $100 million and increased it two orders of magnitude to approximately $10 billion. I'd say that is a significant accomplishment.
The bankruptcies were not personal, but business. They allowed the companies to restructure their debt.
You tell ‘em, Ted!!!
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