[Home]  [Headlines]  [Latest Articles]  [Latest Comments]  [Post]  [Sign-in]  [Mail]  [Setup]  [Help] 

Status: Not Logged In; Sign In

US Bunker Buster's "Weak Spot" Revealed? China Finds Attack Tactic to ‘Stop’ Bomb That Hit Iran "This is an EXTINCTION LEVEL EVENT" CIA MKULTRA Whistleblower sounding the alarm Burn Brown Fat With Food Cartels Moving to Canada For Fentanyl (And other reason) Bees Benefit from Mushrooms, You Could Too Top 11 SWAT Operations in History Inside 'Return to the Land': The group making a whites-only community in Arkansas Ana Kasparian: Epstein Cover-Up, Israel Strikes Gaza Church, & the Great American Political Shift McDonald's McHire AI Bot Just Exposed The Personal Data Of 64 McMillion People I think your EV is charged now. You can go ahead and unplug it. Gen-Z Can't Answer the Most Basic Questions - OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM IS A JOKE. Your car is spying on you, but here is how you can stop it. The Real Reason Why Brigitte Macron Is So Worried...(Candace Owens) Arsenic tested in food. For the First Time! Russia Uses Italmas Drones to Attack Ukraine Leaked Hospital Images Reveal Netanyahu’s TRUE Condition! First Net-Negative Immigration in Decades Lefties Losing It: Democrats go from bad to worse "The Russia hoax is even worse than I thought" Journalist Matt Taibbi on CIA cover-up Harvard is the Favorite School Red China's Leaders for their Kids Lefties Losing It: If only there was a sign Hillary suffered from ‘psycho-emotional problems’ Apparently Hulk Hogan has died 10 Economic Facts That Nobody Can Deny Obama May Be Tried for Treason !!!, 4772 Largest U.S. Power Grid Issues "Max Generation Alert" Paul Joseph Watson: GO AD FREE This Doesn't End Well Visualizing Health Insurance As A Share Of Median Income By US State Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron Sue American Political Commentator Candace Owens Putin was about to drop a BOMBSHELL on Hillary Clinton, Tulsi Gabbard reveals The Toxic Combination Of Illinois' Sanctuary Status And The SAFE-T Act

(s)Elections
See other (s)Elections Articles

Title: HATE HIS GUTS IF YOU WILL, BUT HE'S RIGHT ON THIS ONE .. Cruz Calls ‘Republican Leadership’ the ‘Most Effective Democrat Leaders We’ve Ever Seen’
Source: [None]
URL Source: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/mel ... ffective-democrat-leaders-weve
Published: Oct 19, 2015
Author: By Melanie Hunter
Post Date: 2015-10-19 15:46:56 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
Keywords: None
Views: 207
Comments: 6

“The truth of the matter is, Republican leadership are the most effective Democrat leaders we’ve ever seen. They passed more Democratic priorities than Harry Reid ever could,” Cruz said.

In an exclusive interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told NBC’s Chuck Todd that the Republican leadership has “passed more Democratic priorities than Harry Reid ever could.”

“The truth of the matter is, Republican leadership are the most effective Democrat leaders we’ve ever seen. They passed more Democratic priorities than Harry Reid ever could,” Cruz said.

Cruz said the Republicans voted to fund Obamacare, amnesty for illegal immigrants, and funding for Planned Parenthood, in addition to confirming Loretta Lunch as U.S. attorney general – all Democratic priorities.

TODD: Have you overpromised? You were sitting there saying that you could stop Obamacare if you just did what you did and shut down the government and that Republicans could stop the Iran deal. The fact is, you couldn’t. The numbers weren’t on your side. There’s a Democratic president, so did you overpromise, because I understand you’re saying others, but didn’t you?

CRUZ: When it comes to promising, what I promised is that I would fight with every breath in my body to stop the out-of-control spending and the debt that is bankrupting our country, to stop Obamacare, to protect our nation, and all of those are promises that I have honored every single day in the Senate. And you know it’s amazing—so I was visiting with a colleague recently, who was making that pitch about, oh gosh, the problem is expectations. We need to define expectations.

TODD: Correct. A bunch of Republicans have been saying this, and they blame you.

CRUZ: And Chuck, it’s complete nonsense, because you know who the people promising are? It’s actually Republican leadership when they campaign. Let’s rewind the clock. Go back to ‘09. Republicans told Americans all across the country, if only we had a Republican majority in the House – things would be different. We won a tidal wave election, and very little changed. Then we were told, if only we have a majority in the Senate – the problem is Harry Reid in the Senate. Remember, when I was fighting against Obamacare, when I was fighting against amnesty, Republican leadership said, no, no, Ted, you don’t understand. We can’t do this without the Senate. If we retire Harry Reid, then we’ll fight. 2014, millions of Americans rose up. We won another tsunami election, picked up nine Senate seats, retired Harry Reid, had the largest majority in the House since the 1920s, and the position of Republican leadership is we can stand and fight for nothing.

TODD: Who’s issue—you know it’s funny. You talk to House Republicans, they blame the Senate Republicans. You talk to Senate Republicans, they say well why doesn’t the House Republicans send us a bill, and we’ll try to do it.Who’s fault is it?

CRUZ: It’s leadership in both chambers.

TODD: So this is Mitch McConnell, John Boehner?

CRUZ: Why do you think Boehner’s stepping down? He’s stepping down, because the American people are furious with Republican leaders that don’t do what they promised, and you know it’s interesting. I do town halls all over the country, and I asked folks, okay, we have the Republican majorities in both houses for 10 months. What on earth have they accomplished?

Every town hall you do, the answer is always, absolutely nothing, and usually I respond and say it’s worse than that. It would have been better if it were nothing. In fact, what the Republican majorities have done – we came back right after the last election, passed a trillion dollar crominbus bill, filled with corporate welfare and pork. Then Republican leadership joined with Harry Reid and the Democrats to do that. Then leadership voted to fund Obamacare. Then they voted to fund amnesty. Then they voted to fund Planned Parenthood, and then Republican leadership took the lead confirming Loretta Lynch as attorney general.

Now Chuck, which one of those decisions is one iota different than what would have happened under Harry Reid and the Democrats? The truth of the matter is, Republican leadership are the most effective Democrat leaders we’ve ever seen. They passed more Democratic priorities than Harry Reid ever could. 

Post Comment   Private Reply   Ignore Thread  

#1. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#0)

I think Cruz is full of shit but he is right about Republican leadership.

"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." - Frederic Bastiat

Southern Style  posted on  2015-10-19   16:44:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

“The truth of the matter is, Republican leadership are the most effective Democrat leaders we’ve ever seen. They passed more Democratic priorities than Harry Reid ever could,” Cruz said.

Cruz is spot on with this one.

The way I see it, whether you have Republicans or Democrats in charge, it is six of one and half a dozen of the other. ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2015-10-19   16:45:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Agree, Cruz is too Jewey for me but he is correct in his assessment of the Chamber of Commerce Pubbies. It has been a long time coming but I'm seeing dents in the Establishment armor.

Jethro Tull  posted on  2015-10-19   17:58:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Trump is sledge-hammering their tin-foil facade.

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2015-10-19   18:13:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Trump

Never miss an opportunity, do ya? :-)

"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." - Frederic Bastiat

Southern Style  posted on  2015-10-19   19:20:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

People are tired of eating shit sandwiches.

They want some other flavor of shit sandwich.

U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY

HAPPY2BME-4UM  posted on  2015-10-19   19:21:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

[Home]  [Headlines]  [Latest Articles]  [Latest Comments]  [Post]  [Sign-in]  [Mail]  [Setup]  [Help]