Reasons I like Ted Cruz for POTUS

[Mertex]

As it turns out, a lot of people like Ted Cruz
Tonight Show Audience Cheers When Ted Cruz Says ?ObamaCare's the Biggest Jobs Killer in This Country? | NewsBusters

The only ones that like Ted Cruz are the ones that are uninformed about what his little shutdown cost the US in $$$ and jobs. The rest of America knows who was responsible and don't like him or his tactics much.

The 16-day government shutdown cost the economy jobs, delayed mortgages and lost retail sales — at least $12 billion worth, and maybe as much as $24 billion.

As federal workers returned to work Thursday, statisticians and business people began toting up the damage:

■ Estimates of the toll range from $12 billion to $24 billion for the U.S. economy, or as much as $1.5 billion per day, and as many as 250,000 jobs. The shutdown trimmed fourth-quarter growth by 20 percent, economist Joel Naroff said — an outcome any business would "consider a disaster.''


Shutdown could cost up to $24B | Federal Times | federaltimes.com

 

[LiberalatHeart]

I do hope that Republicans nominate him, as he will be the easiest candidate to defeat in 2016...he would be a snack for ANY Democrat that gets the nominee, especially Hillary.

The guy caused the shutdown, is as extreme as it gets, and belongs in the loony-bin. Oh, and since "birthers" believe Obama should go back to Kenya (which is bullshit)...maybe he should go back to Canada??

Oh, and for those of your "birthers" here who believe Obama was born in Kenya:

 

[BDBoop]

As it turns out, a lot of people like Ted Cruz
Tonight Show Audience Cheers When Ted Cruz Says ?ObamaCare's the Biggest Jobs Killer in This Country? | NewsBusters

The only ones that like Ted Cruz are the ones that are uninformed about what his little shutdown cost the US in $$$ and jobs. The rest of America knows who was responsible and don't like him or his tactics much.

The 16-day government shutdown cost the economy jobs, delayed mortgages and lost retail sales — at least $12 billion worth, and maybe as much as $24 billion.

As federal workers returned to work Thursday, statisticians and business people began toting up the damage:

■ Estimates of the toll range from $12 billion to $24 billion for the U.S. economy, or as much as $1.5 billion per day, and as many as 250,000 jobs. The shutdown trimmed fourth-quarter growth by 20 percent, economist Joel Naroff said — an outcome any business would "consider a disaster.''


Shutdown could cost up to $24B | Federal Times | federaltimes.com

Yup. Nobody is buying that "I beat her because she was asking for it, this isn't my fault" bullshit that the neocons are peddling.

 

[Kathy58]

As it turns out, a lot of people like Ted Cruz
Tonight Show Audience Cheers When Ted Cruz Says ?ObamaCare's the Biggest Jobs Killer in This Country? | NewsBusters

The only ones that like Ted Cruz are the ones that are uninformed about what his little shutdown cost the US in $$$ and jobs. The rest of America knows who was responsible and don't like him or his tactics much.

The 16-day government shutdown cost the economy jobs, delayed mortgages and lost retail sales — at least $12 billion worth, and maybe as much as $24 billion.

You are wrong. I am very well informed politically and support Ted Cruz. The dems are the ones that absolutely refused to negotiate when republicans offered to fund the government except for Obamacare. Congress showed it's contempt for the American people by closing national parks the we paid for long ago; instructing Park Services to "make it hurt," remember?
And with the utter debacle of Obamacare, I'll argue Ted Cruz was right.

 

[rightwinger]

Why Ted Cruz can't get elected President

1. He was born in Canada
2. He is a Dick

Pick one

 

[Katzndogz]

If we can stand a Kenyan, and an ideological Kenyan at that, it the white house, we can take a Canadian.

 

[JakeStarkey]

The following are the revelations of an uninformed low information tool: "The dems are the ones that absolutely refused to negotiate when republicans offered to fund the government except for Obamacare. Congress showed it's contempt for the American people by closing national parks the we paid for long ago; instructing Park Services to "make it hurt," remember? "

It is hard to sell far right reactionary revision when we all lived through it.

Maybe the far right forget we were all here when it happened.

 

[BDBoop]

As it turns out, a lot of people like Ted Cruz
Tonight Show Audience Cheers When Ted Cruz Says ?ObamaCare's the Biggest Jobs Killer in This Country? | NewsBusters

The only ones that like Ted Cruz are the ones that are uninformed about what his little shutdown cost the US in $$$ and jobs. The rest of America knows who was responsible and don't like him or his tactics much.

The 16-day government shutdown cost the economy jobs, delayed mortgages and lost retail sales — at least $12 billion worth, and maybe as much as $24 billion.

You are wrong. I am very well informed politically and support Ted Cruz. The dems are the ones that absolutely refused to negotiate when republicans offered to fund the government except for Obamacare. Congress showed it's contempt for the American people by closing national parks the we paid for long ago; instructing Park Services to "make it hurt," remember?
And with the utter debacle of Obamacare, I'll argue Ted Cruz was right.

We called your bluff, and y'all have been walking funny ever since.

 

[Mertex]

As it turns out, a lot of people like Ted Cruz
Tonight Show Audience Cheers When Ted Cruz Says ?ObamaCare's the Biggest Jobs Killer in This Country? | NewsBusters

The only ones that like Ted Cruz are the ones that are uninformed about what his little shutdown cost the US in $$$ and jobs. The rest of America knows who was responsible and don't like him or his tactics much.

The 16-day government shutdown cost the economy jobs, delayed mortgages and lost retail sales — at least $12 billion worth, and maybe as much as $24 billion.

You are wrong. I am very well informed politically and support Ted Cruz. The dems are the ones that absolutely refused to negotiate when republicans offered to fund the government except for Obamacare. Congress showed it's contempt for the American people by closing national parks the we paid for long ago; instructing Park Services to "make it hurt," remember?
And with the utter debacle of Obamacare, I'll argue Ted Cruz was right.

So, what you are saying is that you are not concerned about the debt, you don't care that $24B was just wasted on an effort that Ted Cruz knew would go nowhere - and had it gone where his intentions wanted it to, it would have cost more and still nothing would have been accomplished. How dumb is that?

"One" against "two" is not negotiation but stubbornness. If you are so well informed, surely you know that our government rules on majority. The Senate and the President were going against the House....thats two against one, who could be so dumb as to think the minority is the one that should get their way. Obamacare is the "law" - Congress (House) has no authority to not want to fund something that is already the law. That is why Republicans caved in - if Ted Cruz is such a hero, why didn't he get his way?

Looks to me you're not as well informed as you think you are.

 

[Mojo2]

Why Ted Cruz can't get elected President

1. He was born in Canada
2. He is a Dick

Pick one

Don't you know?

Ted Cruz is your FATHER!

 

[Mertex]

Why Ted Cruz can't get elected President

1. He was born in Canada
2. He is a Dick

Pick one

Don't you know?

Ted Cruz is your FATHER!

Ad hominem

 

[JakeStarkey]

Mojo2 and his folks need to get on the Christie train or be left at the station and prevented from helping to govern America.

 

[Mojo2]

As it turns out, a lot of people like Ted Cruz
Tonight Show Audience Cheers When Ted Cruz Says ?ObamaCare's the Biggest Jobs Killer in This Country? | NewsBusters

And Politifact has decided he is eligible.

Sarah H. Duggin, a professor of law at Catholic University, has written about and studied the issue extensively. She told us in 2008 that the question of what natural born citizenship is "one of the most deceptively simple, complex issues."

We reached her again this week to ask about Cruz’s eligibility. "It would be reasonable to interpret the Constitution’s natural born citizenship provision to include children born abroad to U.S. citizens, including Senator Cruz, for a number of reasons," she said.

But is it 100 percent sure?

"Unfortunately, we cannot say for sure without either a definitive Supreme Court ruling, or an amendment to clarify the Constitution."

PolitiFact Texas | Is Ted Cruz, born in Canada, eligible to run for president?

So, absent a "definitive Supreme Court ruling, or an amendment to clarify the Constitution" we can assume he is good to run and win and be sworn in and serve!

That settles THAT loose end.

 

[Mojo2]

Mojo2 and his folks need to get on the Christie train or be left at the station and prevented from helping to govern America.

Until Ted is legally or statistically eliminated from contention I am riding the Cruz train.

Ted will be a President for ALL the people, including Christie's voters.

 

[Mojo2]

Why Ted Cruz can't get elected President

1. He was born in Canada
2. He is a Dick

Pick one

Don't you know?

Ted Cruz is your FATHER!

Ad hominem

No, Darth Vader.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-rSu6O3zSU]Darth Vader - I'm your father - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Mojo2]

The only ones that like Ted Cruz are the ones that are uninformed about what his little shutdown cost the US in $$$ and jobs. The rest of America knows who was responsible and don't like him or his tactics much.

The 16-day government shutdown cost the economy jobs, delayed mortgages and lost retail sales — at least $12 billion worth, and maybe as much as $24 billion.

You are wrong. I am very well informed politically and support Ted Cruz. The dems are the ones that absolutely refused to negotiate when republicans offered to fund the government except for Obamacare. Congress showed it's contempt for the American people by closing national parks the we paid for long ago; instructing Park Services to "make it hurt," remember?
And with the utter debacle of Obamacare, I'll argue Ted Cruz was right.

So, what you are saying is that you are not concerned about the debt, you don't care that $24B was just wasted on an effort that Ted Cruz knew would go nowhere - and had it gone where his intentions wanted it to, it would have cost more and still nothing would have been accomplished. How dumb is that?

"One" against "two" is not negotiation but stubbornness. If you are so well informed, surely you know that our government rules on majority. The Senate and the President were going against the House....thats two against one, who could be so dumb as to think the minority is the one that should get their way. Obamacare is the "law" - Congress (House) has no authority to not want to fund something that is already the law. That is why Republicans caved in - if Ted Cruz is such a hero, why didn't he get his way?

Looks to me you're not as well informed as you think you are.

Pot meet kettle.

Thomas Sowell

Who Shut Down the Government?

Even when it comes to something as basic, and apparently as simple and straightforward, as the question of who shut down the federal government, there are diametrically opposite answers, depending on whether you talk to Democrats or to Republicans.

There is really nothing complicated about the facts. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted all the money required to keep all government activities going — except for ObamaCare.

This is not a matter of opinion. You can check the Congressional Record.

As for the House of Representatives' right to grant or withhold money, that is not a matter of opinion either. You can check the Constitution of the United States. All spending bills must originate in the House of Representatives, which means that Congressmen there have a right to decide whether or not they want to spend money on a particular government activity.

Whether ObamaCare is good, bad or indifferent is a matter of opinion. But it is a matter of fact that members of the House of Representatives have a right to make spending decisions based on their opinion.

ObamaCare is indeed "the law of the land," as its supporters keep saying, and the Supreme Court has upheld its Constitutionality.

But the whole point of having a division of powers within the federal government is that each branch can decide independently what it wants to do or not do, regardless of what the other branches do, when exercising the powers specifically granted to that branch by the Constitution.

The hundreds of thousands of government workers who have been laid off are not idle because the House of Representatives did not vote enough money to pay their salaries or the other expenses of their agencies — unless they are in an agency that would administer ObamaCare.

Since we cannot read minds, we cannot say who — if anybody — "wants to shut down the government." But we do know who had the option to keep the government running and chose not to. The money voted by the House of Representatives covered everything that the government does, except for ObamaCare.

The Senate chose not to vote to authorize that money to be spent, because it did not include money for ObamaCare. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says that he wants a "clean" bill from the House of Representatives, and some in the media keep repeating the word "clean" like a mantra. But what is unclean about not giving Harry Reid everything he wants?

If Senator Reid and President Obama refuse to accept the money required to run the government, because it leaves out the money they want to run ObamaCare, that is their right. But that is also their responsibility.

You cannot blame other people for not giving you everything you want. And it is a fraud to blame them when you refuse to use the money they did vote, even when it is ample to pay for everything else in the government.

When Barack Obama keeps claiming that it is some new outrage for those who control the money to try to change government policy by granting or withholding money, that is simply a bald-faced lie. You can check the history of other examples of "legislation by appropriation" as it used to be called.

Whether legislation by appropriation is a good idea or a bad idea is a matter of opinion. But whether it is both legal and not unprecedented is a matter of fact.

Perhaps the biggest of the big lies is that the government will not be able to pay what it owes on the national debt, creating a danger of default. Tax money keeps coming into the Treasury during the shutdown, and it vastly exceeds the interest that has to be paid on the national debt.

Even if the debt ceiling is not lifted, that only means that government is not allowed to run up new debt. But that does not mean that it is unable to pay the interest on existing debt.

None of this is rocket science. But unless the Republicans get their side of the story out — and articulation has never been their strong suit — the lies will win. More important, the whole country will lose.

Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is Thomas Sowell | Home. To find out more about Thomas Sowell and read features by other Creators Syndicate columnists and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at Creators.

COPYRIGHT 2013 CREATORS.COM

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Mertex, you don't DARE read this. It will prove you to be NOT ONLY ignorant, but also disingenuous.

Better you just keep posting falsely, and in ignorance.

Just one more difference between you extremists and regular folks.

Regular folks LIKE it when you educate them to something that helps them see things clearly.

You, you are just desperate to win.

At any cost.

That's what happens when you get yo ass beat down all the time.

 

[Mojo2]

The following are the revelations of an uninformed low information tool: "The dems are the ones that absolutely refused to negotiate when republicans offered to fund the government except for Obamacare. Congress showed it's contempt for the American people by closing national parks the we paid for long ago; instructing Park Services to "make it hurt," remember? "

It is hard to sell far right reactionary revision when we all lived through it.

Maybe the far right forget we were all here when it happened.

Yup.

You were here with blinders on and your heads in the sand, and misinformed by the Liberal Media.

As usual.

Which means you are no more likely to get this right as you are of ever getting anything right.

Less than 50%.

I'll suggest you read the Sowell piece in my previous post.

 

[Mertex]

Mojo2 and his folks need to get on the Christie train or be left at the station and prevented from helping to govern America.

Until Ted is legally or statistically eliminated from contention I am riding the Cruz train.

Ted will be a President for ALL the people, including Christie's voters.

Good for you....tell all your friends and spread the word, "Ted is the Man"!

 

[JakeStarkey]

The following are the revelations of an uninformed low information tool: "The dems are the ones that absolutely refused to negotiate when republicans offered to fund the government except for Obamacare. Congress showed it's contempt for the American people by closing national parks the we paid for long ago; instructing Park Services to "make it hurt," remember? "

It is hard to sell far right reactionary revision when we all lived through it.

Maybe the far right forget[we were all here when it happened

Yup.

You were here with blinders on and your heads in the sand, and misinformed by the Liberal Media.

As usual.

Which means you are no more likely to get this right as you are of ever getting anything right.

Less than 50%.

I'll suggest you read the Sowell piece in my previous post.

Typical reactionary propaganda, the which does not stop the contextual fact of what happens does not agree with your view point.

 

[Derideo_Te]

Mojo2 and his folks need to get on the Christie train or be left at the station and prevented from helping to govern America.

Until Ted is legally or statistically eliminated from contention I am riding the Cruz train.

Ted will be a President for ALL the people, including Christie's voters.

In the unfortunate event that Cruz is appointed he will be doing it only for himself and no one else!