Ted Cruz Unwittingly Helps Democrats

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This is the GOP Presidential hopeful.....you can't get any dumber than this guy. I'm sure in his mind he thought he was doing something spectacular for the Republican Party and would be greatly rewarded.....instead he has angered a few of his peers. And for what?


In a rare Saturday session, the United States Senate ended up passing the $1.1 Trillion spending package that will keep most of the Federal Government funded through the end of the Fiscal Year, but not before a late Friday night political manuver by Texas Senator Ted Cruz allowed Democrats to spend most of Saturday easily confirming nominations that Republicans had long been blocking:

The vote concluded a long day of brinkmanship, spurred by a legislative challenge to Mr. Obama’s executive action on immigration by Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, who helped force the Senate into a weekend session. By the end of the day, Mr. Cruz found himself isolated even from members of his own party.

“I don’t see what we’re achieving here,” Senator Jeff Flake, Republican of Arizona, said of Mr. Cruz’s strategy.

Speaking of symbolic standoffs, it was thanks largely to an effort by Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee to create a symbolic standoff on the immigration issue that Democrats were able to spend the better part of yesterday pushing through a whole host of nomination that had been bottle necked for months:

Senior Republicans say there’s a problem with Cruz’s strategy: The GOP lacks the votes to stop Obama on immigration now, the $1.1 trillion spending package was speeding to passage, and they won’t resort to shutting down the government to mount their objections. Plus, the weekend session could allow Obama to get even more of his nominees confirmed.

So while Cruz and Lee argue they’re taking a hard stand against Obama, the result might allow Democrats to end the year with more of their priorities advanced — and the two conservatives getting nothing.


Senate Passes Spending Bill As Ted Cruz Maneuver Helps Democrats Pass Nominations
 
He is a canadian. I disowned him as being a true conservative many moons ago...nothing more than an opportunist akin to Al Sharpton.
 
And one again, Calgary Cruz proves that even an idiot is good for something now and again.

:lol:


Actually, it goes a little deeper than this.

2 years ago, in the transition period between Pres. Obama's sucessful re-election and the inauguration, before congress went out of session, Harry Reid also had the floor alone for a number of hours and got through a number of nominations. In some ways, this tradition of "Kulanz" has been going on for a long time, so I find it good to see that the GOP has at least not sunk any farther into the muck and mire of gridlock. Rachel Maddow did a good segment showing Harry Reid standing alone and the well of the Senate, putting through one nomination after another. Experienced parliamentarians like Reid and Mitch McConnell know how this works.
 
From the politico link within the OP:

The fiasco has turned many of Cruz’s colleagues openly against him, a dynamic that might bolster his cred with the tea party wing of the party if he makes a run for the GOP’s presidential nomination in 2016, but could also leave him vulnerable to attacks that he’s more troublemaker than leader — able to shut down the government or stall votes but unable to advance a proactive agenda.

On Saturday, GOP senator after GOP senator teed off on Cruz, arguing that his strategy had blindsided the caucus, forced them to return to Washington and even strengthened Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s ability to exploit the Senate rules and push through 24 of Obama’s stalled nominees. Several senators had to abruptly change plans, including Ayotte, who had to race back to Washington and missed the ballet with her daughter, and Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, who had to cancel his official trip to Iraq and Turkey this weekend.

(Also on POLITICO: What the White House's fight with Nancy Pelosi tells us about the next two years)

On the floor, angry GOP senators pressed Cruz over whether he was fundraising off of his tactics, sources said, and Maine Sen. Susan Collins ripped him in a private conversation. Several Republicans were discussing whether to mount a protest vote against Cruz: Unite in opposition to his point-of-order challenging the constitutionality of the spending bill’s funding of Obama’s immigration move.

And 20 Republicans, including incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, ultimately opposed the Texas Republican. Cruz and Lee won the backing of 22 GOP senators total, including potential 2016 rivals Marco Rubio of Florida and Rand Paul of Kentucky.

The frustration was abundantly clear in the hallways of the Capitol. Asked if he thought the Cruz-Lee plan was effective, Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch said: “The answer is no.”

This means that just slightly less than half of the current GOP Senate Caucus backed Cruz. With him included, it was just slightly more than half. 23 / 45 = 51.11%

That is an excellent way to split a party.

Good going, Calgary Cruz!!!
 
Cruz is probably the most selfish and egotistical jackass to infest the Senate in a long time. And yes, that takes some doing given that most politicians are egotistical jackasses to begin with.

He gave no thought whatsoever to the consequences of his grandstanding. He just got it stuck in his head that he wanted to do something and damn the consequences. This exposes some serious character flaws. He is obviously not a team player and his judgement sucks, big time. This is not the first time he has done something like this so he doesn't learn from his mistakes either.

So for all Cruz handed the Dems some nominations on a plate, he actually shot himself in the foot at the same time. Self inflicted injuries like this are not going to be forgotten by the GOP establishment. Cruz now has no chance of being the 2016 candidate and the best he can hope for is to be the token TP'er on the ticket in my opinion. However I cannot see Jeb Bush, Christie, Kasich or Rand Paul picking Cruz for a running mate. Maybe someone like Scott Walker if he manages to knock off those other 4 in the primaries.
 
I've always thought Cruz would be the death of the TP but surprisingly enough, he's still standing just like one of his partners in crime, Palin.

What's it gonna take to bring these idiots down and out of government.
 
I've always thought Cruz would be the death of the TP but surprisingly enough, he's still standing just like one of his partners in crime, Palin.

What's it gonna take to bring these idiots down and out of government.

Time!

They are not going away until the electorate demographics change sufficiently to shrink their influence to a mere nuisance value. In about 20 years they will be ineffectual. Until then they will continue to be a strident voice of dissent, albeit stupid.
 
This is the GOP Presidential hopeful.....you can't get any dumber than this guy. I'm sure in his mind he thought he was doing something spectacular for the Republican Party and would be greatly rewarded.....instead he has angered a few of his peers. And for what?


In a rare Saturday session, the United States Senate ended up passing the $1.1 Trillion spending package that will keep most of the Federal Government funded through the end of the Fiscal Year, but not before a late Friday night political manuver by Texas Senator Ted Cruz allowed Democrats to spend most of Saturday easily confirming nominations that Republicans had long been blocking:

The vote concluded a long day of brinkmanship, spurred by a legislative challenge to Mr. Obama’s executive action on immigration by Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, who helped force the Senate into a weekend session. By the end of the day, Mr. Cruz found himself isolated even from members of his own party.

“I don’t see what we’re achieving here,” Senator Jeff Flake, Republican of Arizona, said of Mr. Cruz’s strategy.

Speaking of symbolic standoffs, it was thanks largely to an effort by Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee to create a symbolic standoff on the immigration issue that Democrats were able to spend the better part of yesterday pushing through a whole host of nomination that had been bottle necked for months:

Senior Republicans say there’s a problem with Cruz’s strategy: The GOP lacks the votes to stop Obama on immigration now, the $1.1 trillion spending package was speeding to passage, and they won’t resort to shutting down the government to mount their objections. Plus, the weekend session could allow Obama to get even more of his nominees confirmed.

So while Cruz and Lee argue they’re taking a hard stand against Obama, the result might allow Democrats to end the year with more of their priorities advanced — and the two conservatives getting nothing.


Senate Passes Spending Bill As Ted Cruz Maneuver Helps Democrats Pass Nominations

Maybe the US Chamber of Commerce put him up to it (because the USCOC is all for immigration reform, but Cruz needed political cover to cooperate)
 
And one again, Calgary Cruz proves that even an idiot is good for something now and again.

:lol:


Actually, it goes a little deeper than this.

2 years ago, in the transition period between Pres. Obama's sucessful re-election and the inauguration, before congress went out of session, Harry Reid also had the floor alone for a number of hours and got through a number of nominations. In some ways, this tradition of "Kulanz" has been going on for a long time, so I find it good to see that the GOP has at least not sunk any farther into the muck and mire of gridlock. Rachel Maddow did a good segment showing Harry Reid standing alone and the well of the Senate, putting through one nomination after another. Experienced parliamentarians like Reid and Mitch McConnell know how this works.

Those nominations were going through anyway. Just a stupid talking point for the haters to soak up and spew out. Ted Cruz has ten times the intellect of any of you morons, who marvel at the cronyism and these politicians who play the system and hand out their special deals. Quite pathetic actually.
 
Those nominations were going through anyway

Nope! They have to go through an "aging" process and there wasn't going to be enough time until Cruz reset the clock and forced the Senate to stay in session over the weekend adding an additional 48 hours. That means that 20 nominations were passed that otherwise would never have happened.

And yes, that was all Cruz's fault that Obama ended up with those 20 nominations. Especially the nomination of the Surgeon General who was opposed by the NRA. Cruz effectively kicked them in the virtual nuts when he allowed that nomination to get through.
 
This is the GOP Presidential hopeful.....you can't get any dumber than this guy. I'm sure in his mind he thought he was doing something spectacular for the Republican Party and would be greatly rewarded.....instead he has angered a few of his peers. And for what?
:eusa_wall:

Cruz attended high school at Faith West Academy in Katy, Texas,[32] and later graduated from Second Baptist High School in Houston as valedictorian in 1988.[17] During high school, Cruz participated in a Houston-based group called the Free Market Education Foundation where Cruz learned about free-market economic philosophers such as Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Frédéric Bastiat and Ludwig von Mises.[26] The program was run by Rolland Storey and Cruz entered the program at the age of 13.[24]

Cruz graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy[33] from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1992.[6][5] While at Princeton, he competed for the American Whig-Cliosophic Society's Debate Panel and won the top speaker award at both the 1992 U.S. National Debating Championship and the 1992 North American Debating Championship.[34] In 1992, he was named U.S. National Speaker of the Year and Team of the Year (with his debate partner, David Panton).[34] Cruz was also a semi-finalist at the 1995 World Universities Debating Championship, making him Princeton’s highest-ranked debater at the championship.[35][36] Princeton's debate team later named their annual novice championship after Cruz.[35]

Cruz's senior thesis on the separation of powers, titled "Clipping the Wings of Angels," draws its inspiration from a passage attributed to President James Madison: "If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary." Cruz argued that the drafters of the Constitution intended to protect the rights of their constituents, and the last two items in the Bill of Rights offered an explicit stop against an all-powerful state. Cruz wrote: "They simply do so from different directions. The Tenth stops new powers, and the Ninth fortifies all other rights, or non-powers."[31][37]

After graduating from Princeton, Cruz attended Harvard Law School, graduating magna cum laude in 1995 with a Juris Doctor degree.[6][38] While at Harvard Law, Cruz was a primary editor of the Harvard Law Review, and executive editor of theHarvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and a founding editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review.[5] Referring to Cruz's time as a student at Harvard Law, Professor Alan Dershowitz said, "Cruz was off-the-charts brillian
t." At Harvard Law, Cruz was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics.[44]
 
Those nominations were going through anyway

Nope! They have to go through an "aging" process and there wasn't going to be enough time until Cruz reset the clock and forced the Senate to stay in session over the weekend adding an additional 48 hours. That means that 20 nominations were passed that otherwise would never have happened.
I'm sure youve been spoon fed
 
This is the GOP Presidential hopeful.....you can't get any dumber than this guy. I'm sure in his mind he thought he was doing something spectacular for the Republican Party and would be greatly rewarded.....instead he has angered a few of his peers. And for what?
:eusa_wall:

Cruz attended high school at Faith West Academy in Katy, Texas,[32] and later graduated from Second Baptist High School in Houston as valedictorian in 1988.[17] During high school, Cruz participated in a Houston-based group called the Free Market Education Foundation where Cruz learned about free-market economic philosophers such as Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Frédéric Bastiat and Ludwig von Mises.[26] The program was run by Rolland Storey and Cruz entered the program at the age of 13.[24]

Cruz graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy[33] from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1992.[6][5] While at Princeton, he competed for the American Whig-Cliosophic Society's Debate Panel and won the top speaker award at both the 1992 U.S. National Debating Championship and the 1992 North American Debating Championship.[34] In 1992, he was named U.S. National Speaker of the Year and Team of the Year (with his debate partner, David Panton).[34] Cruz was also a semi-finalist at the 1995 World Universities Debating Championship, making him Princeton’s highest-ranked debater at the championship.[35][36] Princeton's debate team later named their annual novice championship after Cruz.[35]

Cruz's senior thesis on the separation of powers, titled "Clipping the Wings of Angels," draws its inspiration from a passage attributed to President James Madison: "If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary." Cruz argued that the drafters of the Constitution intended to protect the rights of their constituents, and the last two items in the Bill of Rights offered an explicit stop against an all-powerful state. Cruz wrote: "They simply do so from different directions. The Tenth stops new powers, and the Ninth fortifies all other rights, or non-powers."[31][37]

After graduating from Princeton, Cruz attended Harvard Law School, graduating magna cum laude in 1995 with a Juris Doctor degree.[6][38] While at Harvard Law, Cruz was a primary editor of the Harvard Law Review, and executive editor of theHarvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and a founding editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review.[5] Referring to Cruz's time as a student at Harvard Law, Professor Alan Dershowitz said, "Cruz was off-the-charts brillian
t." At Harvard Law, Cruz was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics.[44]


Ted Cruz s file PolitiFact Texas

66% of what Cruz says is false!
 
And one again, Calgary Cruz proves that even an idiot is good for something now and again.

:lol:


Actually, it goes a little deeper than this.

2 years ago, in the transition period between Pres. Obama's sucessful re-election and the inauguration, before congress went out of session, Harry Reid also had the floor alone for a number of hours and got through a number of nominations. In some ways, this tradition of "Kulanz" has been going on for a long time, so I find it good to see that the GOP has at least not sunk any farther into the muck and mire of gridlock. Rachel Maddow did a good segment showing Harry Reid standing alone and the well of the Senate, putting through one nomination after another. Experienced parliamentarians like Reid and Mitch McConnell know how this works.

Those nominations were going through anyway. Just a stupid talking point for the haters to soak up and spew out. Ted Cruz has ten times the intellect of any of you morons, who marvel at the cronyism and these politicians who play the system and hand out their special deals. Quite pathetic actually.


Yes, I made that point of yours in my posting.

Here, let me repeat part of what I wrote, since reading for comprehension is obviously not your strong suit:

2 years ago, in the transition period between Pres. Obama's sucessful re-election and the inauguration, before congress went out of session, Harry Reid also had the floor alone for a number of hours and got through a number of nominations. In some ways, this tradition of "Kulanz" has been going on for a long time, so I find it good to see that the GOP has at least not sunk any farther into the muck and mire of gridlock.


Comprehension and discernment are YOUR friends, Jroc.
 
It got the far left ideologies nominated.
Lets see how well the people like the new Surgeon General with the radical idea that guns are a public health issue on par with heart disease.
 
It got the far left ideologies nominated.
Lets see how well the people like the new Surgeon General with the radical idea that guns are a public health issue on par with heart disease.


Do you mean "ideologues" instead of "ideologies"?

Actually, most of the nominees who got through are pretty middle of the road. You do realize this, right?
 
This is the GOP Presidential hopeful.....you can't get any dumber than this guy. I'm sure in his mind he thought he was doing something spectacular for the Republican Party and would be greatly rewarded.....instead he has angered a few of his peers. And for what?
:eusa_wall:

Cruz attended high school at Faith West Academy in Katy, Texas,[32] and later graduated from Second Baptist High School in Houston as valedictorian in 1988.[17] During high school, Cruz participated in a Houston-based group called the Free Market Education Foundation where Cruz learned about free-market economic philosophers such as Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Frédéric Bastiat and Ludwig von Mises.[26] The program was run by Rolland Storey and Cruz entered the program at the age of 13.[24]

Cruz graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy[33] from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1992.[6][5] While at Princeton, he competed for the American Whig-Cliosophic Society's Debate Panel and won the top speaker award at both the 1992 U.S. National Debating Championship and the 1992 North American Debating Championship.[34] In 1992, he was named U.S. National Speaker of the Year and Team of the Year (with his debate partner, David Panton).[34] Cruz was also a semi-finalist at the 1995 World Universities Debating Championship, making him Princeton’s highest-ranked debater at the championship.[35][36] Princeton's debate team later named their annual novice championship after Cruz.[35]

Cruz's senior thesis on the separation of powers, titled "Clipping the Wings of Angels," draws its inspiration from a passage attributed to President James Madison: "If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary." Cruz argued that the drafters of the Constitution intended to protect the rights of their constituents, and the last two items in the Bill of Rights offered an explicit stop against an all-powerful state. Cruz wrote: "They simply do so from different directions. The Tenth stops new powers, and the Ninth fortifies all other rights, or non-powers."[31][37]

After graduating from Princeton, Cruz attended Harvard Law School, graduating magna cum laude in 1995 with a Juris Doctor degree.[6][38] While at Harvard Law, Cruz was a primary editor of the Harvard Law Review, and executive editor of theHarvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and a founding editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review.[5] Referring to Cruz's time as a student at Harvard Law, Professor Alan Dershowitz said, "Cruz was off-the-charts brillian
t." At Harvard Law, Cruz was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics.[44]


Ted Cruz s file PolitiFact Texas

66% of what Cruz says is false!
This is good, I don't like Cruz anyway. Rubio's the better Republican, by far.
 

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