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Ted Cruz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"A Republican, Cruz was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2012 and is the first Hispanic American to serve as a U.S. senator representing Texas."
So we're wanting to follow 8 years of the first black President with 4 or 8 years of the first hispanic?
"...and domestic policy advisor to President George W. Bush on the 2000 George W. Bush presidential campaign."
And W's domestic policies were so wonderful weren't they?
"Born Rafael Edward Cruz
(1970-12-22) December 22, 1970 (age 44)
Calgary, Alberta, Canada"
Changed his name too apparently either ashamed of his real name, or thinking Republicans wouldn't warm to a hispanic.
"In August 2013, after the Dallas Morning News pointed out that Cruz had dual Canadian-American citizenship,[34] he applied to formally renounce his Canadian citizenship and ceased being a citizen of Canada on May 14, 2014."
Pretty recent. Seemed fine with dual-citizenship up until he decide he wanted to be President. How cravenly is that?
"Cruz has sponsored 25 bills of his own, including:[96]
* S.177, a bill to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the health-care related provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, introduced January 29, 2013
S.2415, a bill to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to eliminate all limits on direct campaign contributions to candidates for public office, introduced June 3, 2014"
"Cruz has frequently used harsh rhetoric against fellow Republicans politicians, and his relationships with various Republican members of Congress have been strained.[111][112] In 2013, Cruz referred to Republicans who he thought were believed to be insufficiently resistant to the proposals of President Obama as a "surrender caucus."[111] Cruz also called fellow Republicans out as "squishes" on gun-control issues during a tea party rally.[111] Cruz's role in the United States federal government shutdown of 2013 in particular attracted criticism from a number of Republican colleagues.[112] Republican Senator John McCain is reported to particularly dislike Cruz; in a Senate floor speech in 2013, McCain "resoundingly" denounced Cruz's reference to Nazis when discussing the Affordable Care Act.[112] In March 2013, McCain also called Cruz and others "wacko birds on right" whose beliefs are not "are reflective of the views of the majority of Republicans."[112]
In a heated Senate floor speech in July 2015, Cruz accused Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of telling "a flat-out lie" over his intentions to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank of the United States, which Cruz opposes. "What we just saw today was an absolute demonstration that not only what he told every Republican senator, but what he told the press over and over and over again was a simple lie," Cruz said of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell.[113] Cruz's "incendiary outburst" was "unusual in the cordial atmosphere of the Senate."[113][114] Cruz also assailed the "Republican majority in both houses of Congresses" for what Cruz termed an insufficiently conservative record.[114] Cruz's speech was condemned by various senior Republican senators, with Senator Orrin Hatch delivering"a lengthy floor speech reprimanding Cruz" and McCain saying that the speech was "outside the realm of Senate behavior" and "a very wrong thing to do.""
"Among Cruz's few close allies in the Senate is Mike Lee of Utah.[116][117] Cruz has expressed pride in his reputation for having few allies, saying in June 2015 that he has been vilified for fighting "the Washington cartel.""
Presidents need to be able to build coalitions and make friends. One who 'takes pride in having few friends' could make the US into a nation all on its own alienated longtime allies.
"He tied for 7th place in the 2013 CPAC straw poll on March 16, winning 4% of the votes cast."
Even CPAC doesn't like him.
"Cruz has adopted a "hard-line stance" on immigration issues during the 2014 border crisis[152] and is an opponent of comprehensive immigration reform."
Hypocritical for someone who only chose the US side 2 years ago and prior was fine with straddling the Canadian-US border fence.
"Cruz has "outright denied" the scientific consensus on climate change[164][165] and has received more than US$1 million in campaign donations from the oil and gas industry since 2011.[166]
Cruz voted against the Water Resources Development Act of 2013, that would have created the National Endowment for the Oceans and authorize more than $26 billion in projects to be built by the Army Corps of Engineers, at least $16 billion of which would have come from federal taxpayers."
Well oceans aren't very important since we all live on land. Not like if the oceans die off everyone on the land does too. ..Oh wait.
"Cruz has said, "I'm Cuban, Irish, and Italian, and yet somehow I ended up Southern Baptist.""
Most Presidential candidates say they're American.
"A Republican, Cruz was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2012 and is the first Hispanic American to serve as a U.S. senator representing Texas."
So we're wanting to follow 8 years of the first black President with 4 or 8 years of the first hispanic?
"...and domestic policy advisor to President George W. Bush on the 2000 George W. Bush presidential campaign."
And W's domestic policies were so wonderful weren't they?
"Born Rafael Edward Cruz
(1970-12-22) December 22, 1970 (age 44)
Calgary, Alberta, Canada"
Changed his name too apparently either ashamed of his real name, or thinking Republicans wouldn't warm to a hispanic.
"In August 2013, after the Dallas Morning News pointed out that Cruz had dual Canadian-American citizenship,[34] he applied to formally renounce his Canadian citizenship and ceased being a citizen of Canada on May 14, 2014."
Pretty recent. Seemed fine with dual-citizenship up until he decide he wanted to be President. How cravenly is that?
"Cruz has sponsored 25 bills of his own, including:[96]
* S.177, a bill to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the health-care related provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, introduced January 29, 2013
S.2415, a bill to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to eliminate all limits on direct campaign contributions to candidates for public office, introduced June 3, 2014"
"Cruz has frequently used harsh rhetoric against fellow Republicans politicians, and his relationships with various Republican members of Congress have been strained.[111][112] In 2013, Cruz referred to Republicans who he thought were believed to be insufficiently resistant to the proposals of President Obama as a "surrender caucus."[111] Cruz also called fellow Republicans out as "squishes" on gun-control issues during a tea party rally.[111] Cruz's role in the United States federal government shutdown of 2013 in particular attracted criticism from a number of Republican colleagues.[112] Republican Senator John McCain is reported to particularly dislike Cruz; in a Senate floor speech in 2013, McCain "resoundingly" denounced Cruz's reference to Nazis when discussing the Affordable Care Act.[112] In March 2013, McCain also called Cruz and others "wacko birds on right" whose beliefs are not "are reflective of the views of the majority of Republicans."[112]
In a heated Senate floor speech in July 2015, Cruz accused Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of telling "a flat-out lie" over his intentions to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank of the United States, which Cruz opposes. "What we just saw today was an absolute demonstration that not only what he told every Republican senator, but what he told the press over and over and over again was a simple lie," Cruz said of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell.[113] Cruz's "incendiary outburst" was "unusual in the cordial atmosphere of the Senate."[113][114] Cruz also assailed the "Republican majority in both houses of Congresses" for what Cruz termed an insufficiently conservative record.[114] Cruz's speech was condemned by various senior Republican senators, with Senator Orrin Hatch delivering"a lengthy floor speech reprimanding Cruz" and McCain saying that the speech was "outside the realm of Senate behavior" and "a very wrong thing to do.""
"Among Cruz's few close allies in the Senate is Mike Lee of Utah.[116][117] Cruz has expressed pride in his reputation for having few allies, saying in June 2015 that he has been vilified for fighting "the Washington cartel.""
Presidents need to be able to build coalitions and make friends. One who 'takes pride in having few friends' could make the US into a nation all on its own alienated longtime allies.
"He tied for 7th place in the 2013 CPAC straw poll on March 16, winning 4% of the votes cast."
Even CPAC doesn't like him.
"Cruz has adopted a "hard-line stance" on immigration issues during the 2014 border crisis[152] and is an opponent of comprehensive immigration reform."
Hypocritical for someone who only chose the US side 2 years ago and prior was fine with straddling the Canadian-US border fence.
"Cruz has "outright denied" the scientific consensus on climate change[164][165] and has received more than US$1 million in campaign donations from the oil and gas industry since 2011.[166]
Cruz voted against the Water Resources Development Act of 2013, that would have created the National Endowment for the Oceans and authorize more than $26 billion in projects to be built by the Army Corps of Engineers, at least $16 billion of which would have come from federal taxpayers."
Well oceans aren't very important since we all live on land. Not like if the oceans die off everyone on the land does too. ..Oh wait.
"Cruz has said, "I'm Cuban, Irish, and Italian, and yet somehow I ended up Southern Baptist.""
Most Presidential candidates say they're American.
