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)
When Ted Cruz was Texas Solicitor General he successfully defended Texas in the Medellín v. Texas case in the supreme court. It was a death penalty case against a Mexican illegal where the Bush white house was urging Texas to take the death penalty off the table on behalf of Mexico citing international treaties and law.
Ted Cruz stood up to the international community, Mexico and his own party’s president and the death penalty against the illegal alien animal was carried out.
The court ruled.....>>Medellín v. Texas, 552 U.S. 491 (2008), is a United States Supreme Court decision that held that even if an international treaty may constitute an international commitment, it is not binding domestic law unless Congress has enacted statutes implementing it or unless the treaty itself is “self-executing.” Also, the Court held that decisions of the International Court of Justice are not binding domestic law and that, without authority from the United States Congress or the Constitution, the President of the United States lacks the power to enforce international treaties or decisions of the International Court of Justice.<<
For the record what José Ernesto Medellín did.
>>On June 24, 1993, José Ernesto Medellín (an 18-year-old Mexican citizen) and several other gang members participated in the murder of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Peña, when they raped a 14-year-old and 16-year-old girl for an hour in Houston, Texas. Both girls were killed to prevent them from identifying their assailants. Medellín strangled one of the girls with her own shoelaces. Hours after Medellin’s arrest he admitted to his part in the crime and boasted of having “virgin blood” on his underpants.<<
This all happened before most of us outside of Texas had ever heard of Ted Cruz.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medell%C3%ADn_v._Texas
He sounds nothing like the Donald.
Look, Trump is fun, and we have all enjoyed having him stir the pot, but he speaks like the blowhard businessman he is. Cruz (whom I don’t support, even though I admire this performance and consider it presidential) is methodical and judicious; his words are carefully considered and he possesses real gravitas. Trump by contrast is a attention-hungry clown, a poo-flinging monkey whose naughty tricks make us laugh because most of the poo is landing on our enemies.
There is not one single person on FreeRepublic who can accomplish what Trump has. He is very, very talented there is nothing clownish about him.
He is getting results every day. None of the others are. Fact!
Ping for Later.
“But the question was “why isn’t he polling better,” implied in that is “now.”
Polls are taken by phone calls. The person answering may not yet know much about the candidates so the person doesn’t choose or chooses a name he/she has heard. There have been phone calls to our phone to answer political questions and we hang up, don’t do it.
If 5,000 show up to hear Cruz and a phone poll is taken in that area, they may not phone any of those 5,000.
In another election cycle, Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson, each, were at the top of the polls at one time near the beginning, and they crashed.
Trump is up there now, but Bush was up there, too, and there is no way I think Bush will win.
I think the grassroots will be a powerhouse for Cruz after debates start. The debates will start a more likely correct poll than is happening now.
Great synopsis and so True!
Like Cruz takes orders from anybody.
Hallelujah and hell yes!
Tell it like it is, bro!
Cruz or lose!
“There is not one single person on FreeRepublic who can accomplish what Trump has. He is very, very talented there is nothing clownish about him.
He is getting results every day. None of the others are. Fact!”
What garbage. You on Trump’s payroll?
How many lf made billionaires are on freerepublic ?
One thing I would like to point out is the hysterics I’ve watched over the years if one party feels the “character” of a colleague has been impugned. One of their friends will race to the floor demanding an apology and that their words be stricken from the record. Cruz made a lengthy speech pointedly calling out McConnell’s lies. The fact no one came to shout him down was telling.
Wake me when they kill funding for NPR. It’s political theater and Cruz is an actor.
Inheriting wealth and then taking bankruptcy three times doesn’t mean you are all that talented.
Because people are having their Trumpgasm like they do with every liberal that pretends to be the conservatives friend.
I just heard a lot of the speech on Mark Levin along with an his interview.
This has never been done by a sitting Senator since the two party structure came into existence.
Cruz just called the Majority Leader of his own party a liar on the Senate Floor. He gave detailed examples of how McConnell is a serial bald faced liar and not to be trusted by anyone.
Cruz either committed political suicide or he just won the nomination.
I'm praying it is the latter.
Go Cruz!!!
Besides myself, I don't think there are any.
Tagline.
I’m back on board with Cruz.
This sacrifice covers a whole multitude of sins. :-)
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