Texas delegates ‘disappointed’ in Ted Cruz

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Cruz RNC Convention Speech: All about Ted. Refuses to endorse Donald Trump

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2016 RNC convention, betrayal, loyalty pledge, Senator Ted Cruz

When Senator Ted Cruz stepped on to the stage at the 2016 Republican National Convention last night, it was to a rousing applause.

At the beginning of speech, Cruz in ten words, congratulated Donald Trump for winning the 2016 Republic Party presidential nomination.

“I congratulate Donald Trump on winning the nomination last night.”

Ten words which within seconds of uttering them were proven hollow as the Senator from Texas dispatching plenty of anti-Trump dog whistles never mentions Trump by name for the duration of his speech sending everything downhill from there unless, of course, you’re a NeverTrumper.

As the seconds rolled on, the message became clear that Cruz was taking the low road.

Mid-way through, the crowd began shouting, urging Cruz to endorse the Republican Party presidential nominee. Cruz who toward the end of his 2016 presidential run to become the nominee collaborated with the GOPe out of desperation to become the 2016 Republican Party nominee would do no such thing.

While some were thrilled, the expressions of many in the arena said it all and after nearly 20 plus minutes of anti-Trump dog whistles and setting himself up for the 2020 presidential campaign, Cruz proving himself a bitter loser, again doing the GOPe’s dirty work delivered the ultimate payback on live television with his refusal to endorse Trump.

The speech ended with Cruz being booed off the stage.

On the one hand, the snub by Cruz displeased not only Donald Trump, his family, supporters and many in the Republican Party who decided that it was time to move on but Republican Party donors.

On the other hand, the snub elated the establishment, i.e., Progressives of both parties, pundits and the mainstream media giving opposition plenty of ammunition to use at the DNC Convention next week.

Speaking of which, it was more than 13 minutes before Cruz mentioned Hillary Clinton’s name.

How ironic is it that Ted Cruz during the first 13 minutes who spoke of free speech, the Constitution, liberty, etc. would say, “People are fed up with politicians that don’t listen to them…” when Cruz just months ago exposed himself not being the Constitutionalist that he pretends to be. (Cruz has proven himself to be one of those politicians that he has often lambasted.)

It is at about 18:51 of the video that Cruz with a half-smile on his face drove the ball home.

“We deserve leaders to stand for principle to unite us all behind shared values to cast aside anger for love…”

Pot calling the kettle black?

“That is the standard that we should expect from everybody and to those listening, please don’t stay home in November…”

[shouts of “Trump, Trump, Trump” can be heard all around as the audience was losing its patience with the Senator from Texas.]

“If you love our country and love your children as much as I know that you do stand and speak and vote your conscience.

Vote for candidates up and down the ticket who YOU trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the Constitution…”

[A smack in the face to Trump supporters, Trump himself and New York.]

New York Republicans pissed and everyone having received the message shouted at Cruz, “Endorse Trump. Endorse Trump.”

[Full speech at bottom of post.]

Ted Cruz’s final words before walking offstage:

“We will defend freedom and be faithful to the Constitution. We will unite the party. We will unite the country.

It took Lyin’ Ted less than 20 minutes to fracture three days of party unity which the media and opposition will try to ride straight through the November elections.

As reported by Katie Pavlich of Townhall, the RNC had received, approved and dispatched the speech in advance. “Cruz didn’t change any of the text during delivery.”

Politico reports that Cruz informed Trump by phone earlier this week that no endorsement was forthcoming.

BREAKING: Sources with the RNC say @Tedcruz speech was ‘classless.’ Party officials expected him to congratulate @realDonaldTrump.

— Bill Hemmer (@BillHemmer) July 21, 2016

The look on the Trumps faces as they watched Cruz’s speech pic.twitter.com/0FoGaoM9Xp

— Jon Passantino (@passantino) July 21, 2016

@passantino @KatCapps yikes!!! pic.twitter.com/UY0GutG6r0

— marinmaven (@marinmaven) July 21, 2016

From @DanaBashCNN: Some people on donor suite level so angry at @tedcruz they called him disgrace to his face; one man had to be restrained…

— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) July 21, 2016

@Munchkinsnana @DayAlabaster @passantino @charlescwcooke @realDonaldTrump @tedcruz he is a proven liar, he made a pledge

— AndyUSA (@AndyBran) July 21, 2016

@GeoffRBennett @repMNM Booed off stage. @tedcruz is dead to me and I’ve voted for every republican since Reagan. lyin’ ted.

— Edward 2016 (@CavEdward2016) July 21, 2016

.@BillHemmer @realDonaldTrump Pathetic what Cruz did. Classless. Dog whistle to vote their conscience in Nov. @tedcruz wants Trump to lose.

— Lady Penquin (@Lady_Penquin) July 21, 2016

@BillHemmer @tedcruz @realDonaldTrump a speech they had hours in advance, approved and distributed?
Come on.

— A.P. Dillon – LL1885 (@LadyLiberty1885) July 21, 2016

@BillHemmer @tedcruz @realDonaldTrump “Party officials” still don’t get it? Good grief!

— DefundDC (@Defund_DC) July 21, 2016

 

One final note, regardless of how one feels about Donald Trump, Senator Ted Cruz, Governor John Kasich, former Governor Jeb Bush RENEGED on the loyalty pledge….PERIOD. CREDIBILITY SHATTERED.

Cornyn, Cruz resolution condemning Dallas police shooting passes in U. S. Senate

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Back the Blue Act of 2016 (S.3184), federal crime, Senator John Cornyn, Senator Ted Cruz, Texas

In your face Black Lives Matter (and their master for that matter in the Oval Office), as the Cornyn/Cruz resolution was passed in the U. S. Senate Thursday which declares that “the type of crime committed against the Dallas police officers is an “affront to the rule of law and the promise of justice, domestic tranquility, common defense, and general welfare and the blessings of liberty secured by the Constitution of the United States.”

Dallas Morning News by Kate Leslie

…The resolution, which passed unanimously, enables the Senate to formally express support for law enforcement while condemning the ambush that left five officers dead and several more wounded. 

The legislation declares such a crime “an affront to the rule of law and the promise of justice, domestic tranquility, common defense, and general welfare and the blessings of liberty secured by the Constitution of the United States.”

“It is a small way, but an important way, we can honor those that we’ve lost, express sympathy to their families, and take a stand against violence and hatred targeting police officers,” Cornyn said in the Senate Thursday.

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Cornyn on the Senate floor discussing the need to pass such a legislation:

 

As expected, opinions vary on Blue Lives Matter, correction Back the Blue bills being proposed in several states across the United States.

 

Ayotte, Kelly [R-NH], Barrasso, John [R-WY], Boozman, John [R-AR], Portman, Robert “Rob” [R-OH], Tillis, Thom [R-NC], Blunt, Roy [R-MO], Heller, Dean [R-NV], and Vitter, David [R-LA] helped co-sponsored the resolution which passed in the U. S. Senate.

H/t Angry Patriot.

#BacktheBlue

How the politics of the next nomination will play out

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2016 Presidential Election, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Barack Obama, Hillary Clintion, Justice Antonin Scalia, Kamala Harris, Obama nominee, Senator Ted Cruz, Supreme Court of the United States, U S Senate

 

Barack Obama, Department of Labor, photo courtesy of Flickr

SCOTUS Blog by Tom Goldstein ( (Feb. 14, 2016, 5:47 PM))

This post substantially revises and supersedes my earlier one on how the political parties will likely approach the Scalia vacancy, in which I had concluded that Ninth Circuit Judge Paul Watford was the most likely nominee.  On reflection, I think that Attorney General Loretta Lynch is more likely.  I also think that the Republicans will eventually permit the nomination to proceed on the merits and reject it on party lines.

In thinking about how to respond to the vacancy on the Supreme Court, the administration has two priorities.  First, fill the Scalia seat by getting a nominee confirmed.  The stakes could not be higher:  the appointment could flip the Supreme Court’s ideological balance for decades.  Second, gain as much political benefit as possible and exact as heavy a political toll as possible on Republicans, particularly in the presidential election.  Precisely because of the seat’s importance, this is the rare time that a material number of voters may seriously think about the Court in deciding whether to vote at all and who to vote for.

Those priorities reinforce each other.  The Republican Senate leadership has staked out the position that no nomination by President Obama will move forward.  Because Republicans hold the Senate majority, they have the power to refuse to hold confirmation hearings before the Judiciary Committee and/or a floor vote on the nominee.  So, any effort to replace Scalia is dead on arrival unless the political dynamic in the country forces Republicans to change their minds and allow the nomination to proceed.

Not surprisingly, Republican priorities are the exact opposite.  Fundamental conservative legal victories over the past two decades hang directly in the balance.  To take just one example, Ted Cruz is exactly right to say that a more liberal replacement for Justice Scalia is very likely to overturn the Supreme Court’s recent recognition of a Second Amendment right to possess firearms or at least render it a nullity as a practical matter.  There are dozens of other examples.  Conversely, a Republican appointee would not only preserve those victories but continue the Court’s steady move to the right.

In addition, blocking President Obama’s nominee is good politics for important subsets of Republicans.  Most directly, the Supreme Court is a signal issue for the conservative Republican base in a way that it is not for core Democratic constituencies.  Since at least Richard Nixon, conservatives have effectively rallied against the Supreme Court as a liberal institution that is out of control.  We see that dynamic today in Republican candidates’ remarkable attempt to frame even Chief Justice Roberts as a failure, based on his votes to uphold the Affordable Care Act and the administration’s implementation of the Act.

Those competing priorities put the political parties in a deadly embrace from which neither will easily budge.  The administration feels a constitutional responsibility to press for the confirmation of a nominee and every political advantage in doing so.  Republicans cannot accede to that effort because their base will not permit it.

In all of this, it is impossible to overstate the importance of Ted Cruz, who will make the appointment a central issue in the campaign and who will drive enormous pressure against proceeding with any nomination.  That pressure is likely to be too great for the Republican Senate leadership to overcome, even if it concludes that it would be better politics to do so….

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SOURCE:  Tom Goldstein, How the politics of the next nomination will play out, SCOTUSblog (Feb. 14, 2016, 5:47 PM), http://www.scotusblog.com/2016/02/how-the-politics-of-the-next-nomination-will-pay-out/ (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 US)

Sen. Jeff Sessions: “Cruz Stood With Me” on Rubio-Schumer Gang of 8 Bill

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American Jobs First Act of 2015, Gang of Eight, H-1b visa program, Illegal Immigration, Sen. Marco Rubio, Senator Jeff Sessions, Senator Mike Lee, Senator Ted Cruz

Senators Jeff Session and Mike Lee vouched for 2016 Republican Party presidential primary candidate, Senator Ted Cruz regarding where Cruz stood during the Gang of Eight immigration bill saga which doesn’t look so well for Marco Rubio caught in the act of engaging in revisionist history, correction: misrepresenting the facts or for lack of a better word, lying.

Published on Dec 17, 2015 by Steve Robinson

The senior Senator from Alabama clears the air after Rubio and Cruz’s immigration records come up in 5th GOP debate.

 

Senator Mike Lee also vouched for Ted Cruz.

H/t The Right Scoop

As reported by Breitbart News last week, Senators Sessions and Cruz introduce the American Jobs First Act of 2015.

The legislation is an attempt to reform the H-1b visa program, which has been abused by large companies such as Walt Disney who earlier this year pink slipped more than two hundred employees but forced them to train their foreign replacements before leaving.

Breitbart News

First, it requires companies that use H-1B workers to pay such visa holders “either what an American worker who did identical or similar work made two years prior to the recruiting effort, or $110,000,” whichever is higher. What that does is it takes the incentive to pay foreigners less than Americans away from corporations, thereby ending the ability for the program to be abused in that regard.

Second, the bill requires that within 730 days—two years—of “an employee strike, an employer lockout, layoffs, furloughs, or other types of involuntary employee terminations other than for-cause dismissals,” a company cannot bring aboard any H-1B labor. That means it wouldn’t be able to replace Americans with foreigners….

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Report: George W. Bush Says Ted Cruz ‘Hijacked’ the GOP, Would Be ‘Formidable’ Competition to Jeb

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Because the last name Bush could prove a liability and distraction to Jeb Bush’s presidential candidacy, brother George W. Bush declared last spring that he would stay out of the fray surrounding the 2016 elections, i.e., until this past weekend when the former president criticized 2016 Republican Party presidential candidates Ted Cruz and Donald Trump before a room full of donors.

While one might expect that Donald Trump with his never ending attacks on Jeb Bush, the latest pouncing of which is that 911 occurred on GWB’s watch that Trump would be number one on GWB’s hit list (if GWB had a hit list. Instead, GWB sees Senator Ted Cruz as the bigger threat to brother Jeb’s path to the White House.

Breitbart by Katie McHugh

Former Republican president George W. Bush told donors that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is his brother Jeb Bush’s most ‘formidable’ opponent in the GOP primary, according to Politico.

Politico spoke to half a dozen donors at an Oct. 18 event in Denver. The attendees reported that Bush said “I just don’t like the guy.”

Bush also slammed Cruz’s alliance with runaway frontrunner Donald Trump, who has repeatedly mocked Jeb as ‘pathetic’ and ‘low energy.’

‘Bush said he found it ‘opportunistic’ that Cruz was sucking up to Trump and just expecting all of his support to come to him in the end,’ a donor told Politico….

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According to GWB, Cruz’ is a formidable opponent due to his popularity in Texas and across the South.

Bush who is cruising for donors on behalf of brother, Jeb shares views with the Progressive Republican leadership that Cruz has hijacked the Republican Party.

I guess it doesn’t help that according to polls, Jeb Bush’s hopes for the White House continues to diminish by the day as Trump’s and Ben Carson’s increases.

Bush has gone from second place last July in the polls to now ranking in fifth place.

Donald Trump cementing his spot on top is polling at 25 percent and Carson at 22 percent while Bush remains at 8 percent.

As with Trump, as the mainstream media steps up its attacks on Carson, Carson rises in the polls.

According to Breitbart, Senator Ted Cruz nearly doubled his support in September. “He is behind Rubio with 9 percent of the vote, just ahead of Bush. Carly Fiorina, who received a big boost in August, dropped a bit in September. Still, she is essentially tied with Bush with 7 percent support….”

 

LINKS:
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/george-w-bush-stay-out-jeb-bush-way-117349
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/jeb-bush-george-bush-donors-ted-cruz-214933#ixzz3p4L6HgRC
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2015/10/19/report-george-w-bush-says-ted-cruz-hijacked-the-gop-admits-he-would-be-formidable-competition-to-jeb/
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/10/19/poll-trump-increases-lead-bush-fades/