Cruz 2016

[JOHN MATRIX]

Run a real conservative or lose. Period.

[Dos Equis]

With Eye on 2016, Ted Cruz Aims to Pull Senate to the Right

Thursday, 08 Jan 2015
By Jennifer G. Hickey

Mitch McConnell has pledged that "regular order" will be restored to the Senate under his leadership, but his biggest obstacle to achieving that goal may not be Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, but fellow Republicans, particularly Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.

With a potential run for the Republican nomination in 2016 in mind, Cruz has "a vested interest in pulling his colleagues to the right in a highly public manner, one that probably won’t be consistent with making deals with the White House," reports The Wall Street Journal.

Despite receiving criticism for his filibuster of a vote on Obamacare, which many thought was an ill-fated strategy, in December, Cruz objected to passing a $1.1 trillion catchall spending bill because it funded Obama's immigration executive orders. Again, his colleagues complained it was a strategy that failed to achieve conservatives' ends, according to The Huffington Post.

This week, Cruz made it clear that he intends to build his own base of support in the caucus for what he terms "a bold agenda," reports The Hill.

The Texas senator already has met with the incoming freshmen Republicans, some of whom he actively supported in their campaigns, to urge them to keep the promises they made to their constituents. The freshmen class currently comprises more than a fifth of the GOP's 54 seat majority.

"What I have encouraged every one of them to do is to urge all of us to honor our commitments. What I’ve urged every one of them to do is answer questions in January the same way you would have answered them in October on the campaign trail,” Cruz told The Hill.

McConnell also has met with the new members, delivering to them the same message he has stated publicly – Republicans must demonstrate they can lead.

“In every meeting, whether it’s with freshmen or others, McConnell’s message has been consistent. The only way we’re going to be relevant is by getting legislation to the president’s desk. That’s the best card we have,” a GOP senator told The Hill on background.

When asked whether he anticipated experiencing the same kind of opposition from members of the tea party and conservatives that faced Rep. John Boehner in his re-election as Speaker of the House, McConnell told The Lexington Herald-Leader: "I think we're going to be pretty unified over here."

McConnell said that Cruz's opposition to the cromnibus bill did result in some presidential nominations gaining approval, but added "it's a new year and a new majority, and I'm optimistic that we're going to have most everybody heading in the same direction on most of the issues that we care about."

Key to maintaining unity within the caucus could be McConnell's deputy John Cornyn, who happens to be a fellow Texan and serves with Cruz on the Senate Judiciary Committee, where they have worked together on contentious issues like immigration.

“We meet regularly, and obviously we both share the responsibility of representing Texas. There’s more collaboration and more communication than perhaps meets the eye," Cornyn said of his relations with Texas' junior senator in an interview with The Dallas Morning News.

The pair met on Wednesday and Cornyn said he pledged to Cruz that they would be "working closely together to try to have the kind of Senate the Founding Fathers envisioned.”

http://www.Newsmax.com/Politics/Ted-Cruz-Mitch-McConnell-Senate-Republicans/2015/01/08/id/617337/#ixzz3OGuFzBBk

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I like it.   

Cruz: Abolish the IRS
The Daily Caller
By Rachel Stoltzfoos
Published January 13, 2015

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz said Monday that Republicans should take advantage of their control of Congress to abolish the Internal Revenue Service.

“We need to pass fundamental tax reform making our tax code simpler, flatter, fairer,” he said Monday at Heritage Action’s 2015 conservative policy summit. ”And I’ll tell you, the single most important tax reform, we should abolish the IRS.”

“The last two years have fundamentally changed the dynamics of this debate [on the tax code],” he said. “As we have seen the weaponization of the IRS, as we have seen the Obama administration using the IRS in a partisan manner to punish it’s political enemies.”

“In my view there is a powerful populist instinct to take the 110,000 employees at the IRS, to padlock the building, and to put all 110,000 of them down on our southern border.”

Cruz quickly clarified that that remark was somewhat tongue in cheek, but joked that anyone who had traveled thousands of miles to cross the border and saw thousands of IRS agents in their way would definitely turn around and go home.

He acknowledged it’s not really possible to abolish the IRS or adopt a flat tax while Obama is in office, but said Republicans should take steps in that direction by doing whatever they can to simplify the tax code and make its burden lighter and reduce the power of Washington.

Republicans will get “walloped” in 2016 if they return to business as usual while controlling Congress, he said, and urged leadership to take on a bold agenda.

The election was not an embrace of a particular party but a rejection of the path the country is on, he said. “It was the voters saying, ‘the Obama economy, it ain’t working. We want something different. We want real leadership.’”

“If we simply settle into business as usual in this town and keep growing and growing and growing the leviathan and keep shrinking and shrinking and shrinking that sphere of individual liberty, we will demoralize the men and women who came out in November,” he added.

He outlined an agenda that includes repealing and replacing Obamacare, securing the border, passing the Keystone XL pipeline, auditing the Federal Reserve and taking a hard line against ISIS and Iran.

“Let’s lead with a big, bold, positive agenda that says to the American people you had a referendum and you rejected the Obama agenda — there is a better way,” he said. “That’s our opportunity.”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/01/12/cruz-abolish-irs/?intcmp=latestnews

[JOHN MATRIX]

everything he said there is exactly right

[Dos Equis]

He is spot on again.

Ted Cruz: White House ‘Counterfeiting Immigration Documents’
February 18, 2015

Sen. Ted Cruz speaks to guests at the Iowa Freedom Summit on Jan. 24, 2015 in Des Moines, Iowa. (credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, believes that the Obama administration is “counterfeiting immigration documents” under the president’s immigration plan.

Speaking to Fox News following a federal judge’s decision to temporarily halt President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration, the potential Republican presidential contender said the commander in chief is ignoring federal law.

“One of the things it points out is the president has claimed, rather absurdly, that the basis of his authority is ‘prosecutorial discretion.’ That he’s simply choosing not to prosecute 4.5 million people here illegally,” Cruz told Fox News. “But what the district court concluded, quite rightly, is they’re doing far more than that. The administration is printing work authorizations. It is affirmatively acting in contravention of federal law. Basically, what its doing is counterfeiting immigration documents, because the work authorizations its printing are directly contrary to the text of federal law. It is dangerous when the president ignores federal law.”

U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen’s decision late Monday puts on hold Obama’s orders that could spare from deportation as many as 5 million people who are in the U.S. illegally.

In a memorandum accompanying his order, Hanen said the lawsuit should go forward and that the states would “suffer irreparable harm in this case” without a preliminary injunction.

“The genie would be impossible to put back into the bottle,” he wrote, adding that he agreed that legalizing the presence of millions of people is a “virtually irreversible” action.

Talking to reporters in the Oval Office, Obama said he disagreed with the ruling by Hanen that the administration had exceeded its authority. But he said that, for now, he must abide by it.

“We’re not going to disregard this federal court ruling,” Obama said, but he added that administration officials would continue to prepare to roll out the program. “I think the law is on our side and history is on our side,” he said.

Cruz called it a “major victory for the rule of law.”

“It’s interesting, (Obama) said the law is on his side. There’s at least one person who calls himself a legal scholar who disagrees, and his name is Barack Obama,” Cruz said. “Twenty-two times President Obama has admitted he doesn’t have the authority to issue unilateral amnesty. Twenty-two times he says the constitution doesn’t allow it. He said, ‘This is not a monarchy.’ That’s his quote. And then after the last election, he said never mind and issued it anyway.”
Obama’s directives would make more than 4 million immigrants in the United States illegally eligible for three-year deportation stays and work permits. Mostly those are people who have been in the country for more than five years and have children who are U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents. Applications for the first phase were to begin Wednesday, when as many as 300,000 immigrants brought illegally to the country as children could begin applying for an expansion of Obama’s 2012 program aimed at the younger immigrants known as Dreamers.

Hanen’s ruling late Monday night, in a case brought by 26 states led by Texas, said that Obama and his Homeland Security Department lacked the authority to take the actions they did.

“No statute gives the DHS the discretion it is trying to exercise here,” wrote Hanen, and he issued a stay blocking the actions from taking effect. His order was not a big surprise from a Republican-appointed judge who has showed a hard line on border issues.

The Obama administration could seek a stay of his order in addition to appealing to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday that the Justice Department was deciding its next move.

He said, “I’ve always expected that this is a matter that will ultimately be decided by a higher court — if not the Supreme Court then a federal court of appeals.”

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2015/02/18/ted-cruz-white-house-counterfeiting-immigration-documents/

[Dos Equis]

Get ready for Saul Alinsky's Rules.  We'll be hearing about some alleged crime, coverup, mistress, etc. 

TRANSCRIPT: Cruz announces presidential campaign
Published March 23, 2015
FoxNews.com

The following is a transcript of Sen. Ted Cruz' remarks at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., where he announced his presidential campaign.

SEN. TED CRUZ: "Thank you so much President Falwell.  God Bless Liberty University.  [cheers and applause]

I am thrilled to join you today at the largest Christian university in the world. [cheers and applause] Today, I want to talk with you about the promise of America.  Imagine your parents when they were children.  Imagine a little girl growing up in Wilmington, Delaware; during World War II - the daughter of an Irish and Italian Catholic family - working class.  Her uncle ran numbers in Wilmington.

She grew up with dozens of cousins because her mom was the second youngest of 17 kids. She had a difficult father - a man who drank far too much; and frankly, didn't think women should be educated.  And yet this young girl, pretty and shy, was driven, was bright, was inquisitive and she became the first person in her family ever to go to college.

In 1956 my mom, Eleanor, graduated Fice University with a degree in math and became a pioneering computer programmer in the 1950s and 1960s.  [applause]

Imagine a teenage boy, not much younger than many of you here today. Growing up in Cuba [audience member cheers - laughter].  Jet black hair, skinny as a rail. [laughter] Involved in student council and yet Cuba was not at a peaceful time - the dictator Batista was corrupt. He was oppressive and this teenage boy joins a revolution.

He joins a revolution against Batista, he begins fighting with other teenagers to free Cuba from the dictators.  This boy at age 17 finds himself thrown in prison, finds himself tortured, beaten.  And then at age 18, he flees Cuba.  He comes to America.

Imagine for a second the hope that was in his heart as he road that ferry boat across Key West and got on a Greyhound bus to head to Austin, Texas - to begin working, washing dishes making 50 cents an hour.

Coming to the one land on earth that has welcomed so many millions.  When my Dad came to America in 1957, he could not have imagined what lay in store for him.  Imagine a young married couple living together in the 1970s.  Neither one of them has a personal relationship with Jesus. They had a little boy and they're both drinking far too much.

They're living a fast life.  When I was 3, my father decided to leave my mother and me.  We were living in Calgary at the time.  He got on a plane and flew back to Texas. And he decided he didn't want to be married anymore and he didn't want to be a father to his 3-year-old son.

And yet when he was in Houston, a friend, a colleague from the oil and gas business invited him to a Bible study; invited him to Clay Road Baptist Church - and there my father gave his life to Jesus Christ. [applause]  And God transformed his heart - and he drove to the airport, he bought a plane ticket and he flew back to be with my mother and me. [applause]

There are people who wonder if faith is real. I can tell you, in my family there is not a second of doubt - because were it not for the transformative love of Jesus Christ, I would have been saved and I would have been raised by a single mom without my father in the house.

Imagine another little girl living in Africa - in Kenya and Nigeria. [audience member cheers] This is a diverse crowd. [laughter] Playing with kids, they spoke Swahili - she spoke English.  Coming back to California [crowd cheers and laughter]. Where her parents who had been missionaries in Africa had raised her on the central coast.

She starts a small business when she is in grade school, baking bread.  She calls it Heidi's Bakery.  She and her brother compete baking bread. They bake thousands of loaves of bread and go to the local apple orchard where they sell the bread to people coming to pick apples.

She goes on to a career in business - excelling and rising to the highest pinnacles. And then, Heidi becomes my wife and my very best friend in the world. [applause]
Heidi becomes an incredible mom to our two precious little girls, Carline and Catheryn, the joys and loves of our life. [applause]

Imagine another teenage boy being raised in Houston hearing stories from his dad about prison and torture in Cuba, hearing stories about how fragile liberty is, beginning to study the United States Constitution, learning about the incredible protections we have in this country that protect the God-given liberty of every American.

Experience challenges at home, the mid 1980s oil prices cratered. And his parents business go bankrupt.  Heading off to school, over a thousand miles away from home in a place where he knew nobody.  Where he was alone and scared and his parents going through bankruptcy meant there was no financial support at home.

So at the age of 17, he went to get two jobs to help pay his way through school. He took over 100-thousand dollars in school loans.  Loans, I suspect a lot of y'all can relate to. [laughter] Loans that, I'll point out, I just paid off a few years ago. [cheers and applause and laughter]

These are who we are as Americans. And yet, for so many Americans, the promise of America seems more and more distant. What is the promise of America? The idea that, the revolutionary idea that this country was founded upon, which is that our rights, they don't come from man. They come from God Almighty. [applause]

And that the purpose of the constitution, as Thomas Jefferson put it, is to serve as chains to bind the mischief of government. [applause] The incredible opportunity of the American dream, what has enabled millions of people from all over the world to come to America with nothing and to achieve anything.

And then the American exceptionalism that has made this nation a clarion voice for freedom in the world, a shining city on a hill. That's the promise of America. That's what makes this  nation an indispensable nation. A unique nation in the history of the world.

And yet so many fear that that promise is today unattainable. So many fear it is slipping away from our hands. I want to talk to you this morning about reigniting the promise of America.

Two hundred and forty years ago on this very day, a 38 year old lawyer named Patrick Henry stood up just 100 miles from here in Richmond, VA and said "give me liberty or give me death."  [applause]

I want to ask each of you to imagine, imagine millions of courageous conservatives all across America rising up together to say in unison "we demand our liberty." [applause]

Today, roughly half of born again Christians aren't voting. They're staying home. Imagine instead millions of people of faith all across American coming out to the polls and voting our values. [applause]  Today, millions of young people are worried about the future, worried about what the future will hold. Imagine millions of young people coming together and standing together saying "we will stand for liberty." [applause]

Think just how different the world would be. Imagine instead of economic stagnation, booming economic growth. Instead of small businesses going out of business in record numbers, imagine small businesses growing and prospering. Imagine young people coming out of school with 4-5-6 job offers. [applause]

Imagine innovation thriving on the internet as government regulators and tax collectors are kept at bay and more and more opportunity is created. [applause] Imagine America finally becoming energy self-sufficient as millions and millions of high paying jobs are created. [applause]

Five years ago today, the President signed Obamacare into law. [boos and laughter] Within hours, Liberty University went to court filing a lawsuit to stop that failed law. [applause]
Instead of a joblessness, instead of the millions forced into part time work, instead of the millions who lost their health insurance, lost their doctors, have faced skyrocketing health insurance premiums. Imagine in 2017 a new President signing legislation repealing every word of Obamacare. [applause]

Imagine healthcare reform that keeps government out of the way between you and your doctor that makes health insurance personal and portable and affordable. [applause]

Instead of a tax code that crushes innovation that imposes burdens on families struggling to make ends meat. Imagine a simple flat tax. [applause] that lets every American to fill his or her taxes on a postcard. [applause] Imagine abolishing the IRS. [applause]

Instead of a lawlessness and the President's unconstitutional amnesty, imagine a President that finally, finally, finally secures the borders. [applause] and imagine a legal immigration system that welcomes and celebrates those who come to achieve the American dream. [applause]

Instead of a federal government that wages an assault on our religious liberty. That goes after Hobby Lobby, that goes after the little sisters of the poor, that goes after Liberty University. Imagine a federal government that stands for the first amendment rights of every American. [applause]

Instead of a federal government that works to undermine our values, imagine a federal government that works to defend the sanctity of human life. [applause] And to uphold the sacrament of marriage. [applause]

Instead of a government that works to undermine our second amendment rights, that seeks to ban our ammunition. [applause] Imagine a federal government that protects the right to keep and bear arms of all law abiding Americans. [applause]

Instead of a government that seizes your emails and your cell phones, imagine a federal government that protected the privacy rights of every American. [applause] Instead of a federal government that seeks to dictate school curriculum through common core [ applause] imagine repealing every word of common core. [applause]

Imagine embracing school choices the civil rights issue of the next generation. [applause] But every single child, regardless of race, regardless of ethnicity, regardless of wealth or zip code, every child in America has a right to a quality education. [applause]

And that's true from all of the above. Whether it is a public schools or charter schools or private schools or Christian schools or Parochial schools or home schools, every child [applause]

Instead of a President who boycotts Prime Minister Netanyahu, imagine a President who stands unapologetically with the nation of Islam. [applause and cheers]

Instead of a President who seeks to go to the United Nations to end run Congress and the American people. Imagine a President who says I will honor the constitution and under no circumstances will Iran be allowed to acquire a nuclear weapon. [applause]

Imagine a President who says we will stand up and defeat radical Islamic terrorism. [applause] And we will call it by its name. [applause]

We will defend the United States of America. [applause] Now all of these seem difficult. Indeed to some they may seem unimaginable. And yet, if you look at the history of our country, imagine it's 1775 and you and I were sitting there in Richmond listening to Patrick Henry say "give me liberty or give me death." Imagine it's 1776 and we were watching the 54 signers of the Declaration of Independence stand together and pledge their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to igniting the promise of America.

Imagine it was 1777 and we were watching General Washington as he lost battle after battle after battle in the freezing cold as his soldiers with no shoes were dying fighting for freedom against the most powerful army in the world. That too seemed unimaginable.

Imagine it's 1933 and we were listening to Franklin Delano Roosevelt tell American at a time of crushing depression, at a time of a gathering storm abroad that we have nothing to fear but fear itself. Imagine it's 1979 and you and I were listening to Ronald Reagan [applause] And he was telling us that we would cut the top marginal tax rate from 70% all the way down to 28%. That we would go from crushing stagnation to booming economic growth to millions being lifted out of poverty to prosperity and abundance. That the very day he was sworn in, our hostages who were languishing in Iran would be released and that within a decade, we would win the Cold War.

And tear the Berlin Wall to the ground. Would've seemed unimaginable and yet with the Grace of God, that's exactly what happened. [applause] From the dawn of this country and every stage America has enjoyed, God's providential blessing. Over and over again when we faced impossible odds, the American people rose to the challenge.   

You know compared to that, repealing Obamacare and abolishing the IRS ain't all that tough. The power of the American people when we rise up and stand for liberty knows no bounds. (applause) If you're ready to join a grassroots army across this nation, coming together and standing for liberty, I'm going to ask you to break a rule here today and to take out your cell phones and to text the word CONSTITUTION to the number 33733. You can also text IMAGINE, we're versatile.

Once again, text CONSTITUTION to 33733. God's blessing has been on America from the very beginning of this nation and I believe God isn't done with America yet. [Applause] I believe in you. I believe in the power of millions of courageous conservatives rising up to reignite the promise of America, and that is why, today, I am announcing that

I am running for President of the United States . [Applause and cheering]

It is a time for truth. It is a time for liberty. It is a time to reclaim the Constitution of the United States [Applause]. I am honored to stand with each and every one of you, courageous conservatives, as we come together to reclaim the promise of America, to reclaim the mandate, the hope and the opportune for our children and our children's' children. We stand together for liberty.

This is our fight. The answer will not come from Washington. It will come only from the men and women across this country, from men and women, from people of faith, from lovers of liberty, from people who respect the Constitution. It will only come as it has come from every other time of challenge in this country, when the American people stand together and say we will get back to the principles that have made this country great. We will get back and restore that shining city on a hill - that is the United States of America.

Thank you and God Bless You."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/03/23/transcript-cruz-announces-presidential-campaign/

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12 Reasons Ted Cruz Is a Strong GOP 2016 Candidate
Monday, 23 Mar 2015
By Jim Meyers

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz announced on Monday that he is running for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, making him the first major candidate to officially toss his hat in the ring.

While the election is still a long way off, there are several compelling reasons why Cruz should be considered a strong GOP presidential candidate for 2016.

1.   He is off to an early start. Cruz is expected to start his campaign immediately rather than launch an exploratory committee as many potential candidates often do.

2.   He has strong Tea Party support. Amy Kremer, former head of the Tea Party Express, told The Associated Press that the Republican pool of candidates "will take a quantum leap forward" with Cruz's announcement, adding that it "will excite the base in a way we haven't seen in years."

3.   He has been one of the party's most outspoken opponents of Obamacare. In September 2013 he spoke for more than 21 hours on the Senate floor in an attempt to defund the Affordable Care Act.

4.   He has also taken a strong stand on immigration. In December, he defied GOP leaders to force a vote on opposing President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration, although the strategy ultimately failed.

5.   He is seen as more independent than other potential GOP candidates, as shown by his defiance of party leaders on immigration. That could be appealing to the many voters who are frustrated by Washington's partisan politics.

6. He's also firmly in the mainstream of Republican voters on nearly every issue, unlike some fellow candidates. Jeb Bush supports legalization for undocumented immigrants — which many Republican activists oppose — and Rand Paul supported Obama's move to normalize relations with Cuba.

7.   Cruz is a strong campaigner. He scored one of the biggest upsets in the 2012 election when he defeated David Dewhurst in the Texas GOP primary. Dewhurst, who was Gov. Rick Perry's lieutenant governor, spent more than $20 million of his own money but could not overcome the Cruz campaign.

8.   Cruz could appeal to Hispanic voters more than most other GOP candidates. His father was born in Cuba, and Cruz is the first Hispanic U.S. Senator from Texas.

9.   Past elections confirm Cruz's contention that the GOP needs a strong conservative to win the general election. "If we run another candidate in the mold of a Bob Dole or a John McCain or Mitt Romney, we will end up with the same result, which is millions of people will stay home on Election Day," Cruz said in a 2014 CNBC interview.

10.   Cruz could even reach across party lines to appeal to disillusioned voters. "People are looking for something new and something different," Saul Anuzis, former chairman of the Michigan Republican Party, told The Wall Street Journal.

11.   Cruz has a strong legal background. He earned his law degree at Harvard University and clerked for Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist.

12. His wife would be a major asset in the campaign. Heidi Cruz worked on George W. Bush's 2000 presidential campaign, served at the National Security Council under Condoleezza Rice and at the Treasury Department, and most recently was a managing director for Goldman Sachs in Houston. She has taken an unpaid leave to help her husband's campaign.

http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/ted-cruz-strong-gop-candidate/2015/03/23/id/631946/#ixzz3VFD6q8qi

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Get ready for Saul Alinsky's Rules.  We'll be hearing about some alleged crime, coverup, mistress, etc. 

Sounds like TRUMP opened up his Alinsky Tactics Manual today and broke out the disproven BIRTHER card on Day 1 of Cruz candidacy. 

If Cruz has a mistress, we'll hear about it.  But of all the GOP possibles, he and Santorum seem like the most squeaky-clean of the bunch.  Walker was ready to incite violence to stop a peacful protest.  Bush did 2 decades of favors.  Christie shut down bridges and let an old lady die in an ambulance stuck in traffic.

Cruz?  I'm betting he's clean as a whistle.  Now, if 14 women accuse him of something, I won't be one of those idiots who won't admit it even after he does lol.  But I'd have to bet he will stay clean - they have to attack him on policy, not secret babies ala Edwards.

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Walker was ready to incite violence to stop a peacful protest.  Bush did 2 decades of favors.  Christie shut down bridges and let an old lady die in an ambulance stuck in traffic.

pathological liar
noun
1.
a person who tells lies frequently, with no rational motive for doing so.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pathological+liar

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pathological liar
noun
1.
a person who tells lies frequently, with no rational motive for doing so.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pathological+liar

LOL  It's an awesome day for 2016 GOP chances and you are nonstop 240 hating.

Dude, just smile and enjoy the moment.  Cruz is officially in the race. 

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pathological liar
noun
1.
a person who tells lies frequently, with no rational motive for doing so.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pathological+liar

What the F are you talking about?

Walker phone call with fake Koch caller... look it up... he admitted he considered adding violent protesters to the peaceful prtests, but tnought he'd get caught lol.   That's real.  And IMO, that means his closets will be way way messier than a Cruz, for example.

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LOL  It's an awesome day for 2016 GOP chances and you are nonstop 240 hating.

Dude, just smile and enjoy the moment.  Cruz is officially in the race. 

 

[Dos Equis]

What the F are you talking about?

Walker phone call with fake Koch caller... look it up... he admitted he considered adding violent protesters to the peaceful prtests, but tnought he'd get caught lol.   That's real.  And IMO, that means his closets will be way way messier than a Cruz, for example.

Compulsive Liar

A compulsive liar is defined as someone who lies out of habit. Lying is their normal and covert yet reflexive way of responding to questions. Compulsive liars bend the truth about everything, large and small. For a compulsive liar, telling the truth is very awkward and uncomfortable while lying feels right. Compulsive lying is usually thought to develop in early childhood, due to being placed in an environment where lying was necessary. A compulsive liar may also have difficulties with poor self esteem. For the most part, compulsive liars are not overly manipulative and cunning, rather they simply lie out of habit

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=compulsive+liar

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Beach, don't you remember the call?   Prankster pretended to be Koch Brother, and Walker took his call...

The call, from Ian Murphy, editor of the Buffalo Beast, an alternative publication in Buffalo, N.Y., occurred on Feb. 22, 2011. Murphy, posing as Koch, asked Walker if he would be "planting some troublemakers" in the peaceful crowds that were protesting his anti-union legislation in Madison.

Walker replied that his office had "thought about that," in a comment that the Madison police chief later called "very unsettling and troubling."

You can listen to the full call here, or anywhere else online.  Walker's own words
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/11/scott-walker-book_n_4254943.html

Walker admitted he thought about it.   Seriously, you should read about it, as it actually happened.  I like walker, but prefer cruz.   Too many skeletons in closet possibly, if he'll casually admit he considered endangering lives for political means.

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Beach, don't you remember the call?   Prankster pretended to be Koch Brother, and Walker took his call...

The call, from Ian Murphy, editor of the Buffalo Beast, an alternative publication in Buffalo, N.Y., occurred on Feb. 22, 2011. Murphy, posing as Koch, asked Walker if he would be "planting some troublemakers" in the peaceful crowds that were protesting his anti-union legislation in Madison.

Walker replied that his office had "thought about that," in a comment that the Madison police chief later called "very unsettling and troubling."

You can listen to the full call here, or anywhere else online.  Walker's own words
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/11/scott-walker-book_n_4254943.html

Walker admitted he thought about it.   Seriously, you should read about it, as it actually happened.  I like walker, but prefer cruz.   Too many skeletons in closet possibly, if he'll casually admit he considered endangering lives for political means.

I've been calling you a pathological liar, but the definition of compulsive liar sounds more appropriate.  It's like part of your DNA.   

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Panic.  lol

10 Reactions to Ted Cruz Announcing He's Running for President
BY NAPP NAZWORTH , CHRISTIAN POST REPORTER
March 23, 2015

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, confirms his candidacy for the 2016 U.S. presidential election race during a speech at Liberty College in Lynchburg, Virginia, March 23, 2015. Cruz, a conservative firebrand who frequently clashes with leaders of his Republican Party, became the first major figure from either party to jump into the 2016 U.S. presidential election race on Monday when he announced his candidacy earlier in the day on Twitter.

Here are 10 reactions to U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz's, R-Texas, Monday announcement at Liberty University that he is running for president.

These comments are from journalists and pundits from across the partisan and ideological spectrum and are in no particular order.

1. Jerry Brown, governor of California

Cruz's position on climate change make him unfit, not just to be president, but to run for office.

"That man betokens such a level of ignorance and a direct falsification of the existing scientific data. It's shocking and I think that man has rendered himself absolutely unfit to be running for office."

2. David McCabe, The Hill

Cruz spoke without a teleprompter.

"But Cruz does have a background in speaking off the cuff. As a lawyer, he has argued before the Supreme Court, where justices frequently push litigators away from their prepared text with questions and critiques. Cruz was also on the debate team while at Princeton University."

3. Chris Cillizza, The Washington Post

Cruz channeled Barack Obama.

"Ted Cruz doesn't get compared to President Obama all that often. But the senator's speech carried heavy echoes of the rhetoric and positioning that the current occupant of the White House used in the early days of his own national ambitions."

4. Timothy P. Carney, Washington Examiner

Cruz is running against corporate welfare.

"Cruz building a campaign partly around this reminds us that he's aiming squarely at the Tea Party. More broadly, it reminds us that these days being the "conservative" candidate means doing battle, at times with the Chamber of Commerce and the business lobby. As other candidates jump officially into the race, they're going to need to show some bona fides on battling corporate welfare too."

5. The Economist

Cruz was the first to announce his candidacy for president in 2016. Declaring early usually does not go well.

"Ominously for Mr Cruz, the first Republican to declare has not gone on to win the nomination since at least 1952."

6. Ben Domenech, The Federalist

Cruz can win the nomination.

"The Acela corridor mindset about Ted Cruz is basically: 'he has no path,' 'why is he doing this,' or 'he's a disruptive pain in the butt and should shut up and go away.' Allow me to quote one of the emails I received last night on this topic: 'he's a disruptive pain in the butt and should shut up and go away.' Yes, I understand that Cruz's approach to politics and speechmaking rubs some people the wrong way, but there is actually a counterintuitive case to be made that he has a clearer path to the nomination than his critics might like."

7. Domenico Montanaro, National Public Radio

Is Canadian-born Cruz eligible for the presidency?

"The U.S. Constitution says presidential candidates have to be 'natural-born citizens.' But the Supreme Court has never weighed in with a definition, leaving it open to interpretation."

8. Harry Enten, FiveThirtyEight.com

Cruz is too disliked and too extreme to win the nomination.

"Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's newly minted presidential campaign is the media equivalent of a juicy rib-eye that robbers use to distract a guard dog during a heist. He'll get a ton of media attention, and he'll get to spread his message — which may be all that Cruz is after — but Cruz almost certainly has no shot of winning the nomination, according to every indicator that predicts success in presidential primaries."

9. Jordan Weissmann, Slate

Cruz has a weird obsession with abolishing the IRS.

"In any event, the conservative id now has an official candidate, which means some of his pet policy ideas will get a little more attention. My personal favorite, which he mentioned during his speech today, is Cruz's oft-repeated conviction that we should eliminate the Internal Revenue Service — or, as he now likes to half-jokingly put it these days, "abolish the IRS, take all 125,000 IRS agents and put them on our southern border." Cruz says this would be his second priority, after repealing Obamacare (of course). And it's kind of fun to contemplate. The U.S.-Mexico border is 1,954 miles long. Assuming we rotated those 125,000 newly reassigned agents on three separate eight-hour shifts (gotta guard the border 24/7, after all), we could install one agent roughly every 250 feet. That's less than a football field, people. We could basically handle border security like the world's largest game of Red Rover. Weekends would be a little more porous, but that's what overtime pay is for."

10. Montel Williams, radio and television personality

Cruz is again compared to President Barack Obama.

"Because the last time we elected 1st term Senator the result was just swell."

http://www.christianpost.com/news/10-reactions-to-ted-cruz-announcing-hes-running-for-president-136198/

[Dos Equis]

Desperation.

MSNBC Apologizes for Comment: Nothing Says ‘Let’s Go Kill Some Muslims’ Like Country Music
by Andrew Kirell
March 25th, 2015

After a guest made a disparaging comment about country music, MSNBC host Ari Melber apologized on-air Wednesday afternoon and informed his audience that the network does not condone such remarks.

During a Now w/ Alex Wagner conversation about GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz‘s statement that he became a country music fan directly after 9/11, guest Jamilah Lemieux opened up the conversation with this remark: “Nothing says ‘Let’s go kill some Muslims’ like country music, fresh from Lynchburg, Virginia. Someone who obviously does not want to be a polarizing candidate, he wants to bring people together, I mean — really? That’s absurd.”

While co-panelists Joan Walsh and Michael Steele could be heard laughing at Lemieux’s remark, guest-host Melber responded: “Well, I mean there’s plenty of country music that doesn’t have that message, right?”

A few segments later, Melber appeared on-air with an apology: “We have a programming note. A few minutes ago on this show, a guest made a comment about country music. That comment was not appropriate, and we want to be clear this network does not condone it.”

Watch the original remark and the subsequent apology below, via MSNBC:

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/msnbc-apologizes-for-comment-nothing-says-let’s-go-kill-some-muslims-like-country-music/

[James]

Desperation.

MSNBC Apologizes for Comment: Nothing Says ‘Let’s Go Kill Some Muslims’ Like Country Music
by Andrew Kirell
March 25th, 2015

After a guest made a disparaging comment about country music, MSNBC host Ari Melber apologized on-air Wednesday afternoon and informed his audience that the network does not condone such remarks.

During a Now w/ Alex Wagner conversation about GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz‘s statement that he became a country music fan directly after 9/11, guest Jamilah Lemieux opened up the conversation with this remark: “Nothing says ‘Let’s go kill some Muslims’ like country music, fresh from Lynchburg, Virginia. Someone who obviously does not want to be a polarizing candidate, he wants to bring people together, I mean — really? That’s absurd.”

While co-panelists Joan Walsh and Michael Steele could be heard laughing at Lemieux’s remark, guest-host Melber responded: “Well, I mean there’s plenty of country music that doesn’t have that message, right?”

A few segments later, Melber appeared on-air with an apology: “We have a programming note. A few minutes ago on this show, a guest made a comment about country music. That comment was not appropriate, and we want to be clear this network does not condone it.”

Watch the original remark and the subsequent apology below, via MSNBC:

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/msnbc-apologizes-for-comment-nothing-says-let’s-go-kill-some-muslims-like-country-music/

Does anyone besides 240 still watch MSNBC ?

[Dos Equis]

Does anyone besides 240 still watch MSNBC ?

blacken? 

[James]

blacken? 

Does MSNBC have a live stream on Obamaphones? if so then yes...

[blacken700]

blacken? 

Does MSNBC have a live stream on Obamaphones? if so then yes...

are you two dating? not that there's anything wrong with that just curious

[240 is Back]

lol you guys know when i'm watching msnbc, because i'm starting threads about it.
you guys know when i'm listening to rush or preferably, hannity, because i'm starting threads about it.

you guys know when i'm constipated or annoyed at arnold classic ratings, because I start threads on it.

Today, I can tell ya I'm disgusted that my local hero shep fox was relegated to the 3pm hour on FOX when his talent is definitely on par with the fairy telling Oreillys of the world.  Yes, the FDNY statements on the NY fire are relevant, but Shep is a great mind who should be doing more than just reading teleprompters.  He's not the creative narrative mind of oreilly, shep sticks to facts, but i like him anyway.

[Dos Equis]

Compliments of James.  Check out the second clip in the link.  Long, but gives you a good insight on his intelligence, composure, and position on some issues. 

I think he would kick the crap out of Hillary in a debate. 

Night and day composure compared to President Obama too.  Obama would have been a sarcastic little kid if he endured the same stupid "gotcha" questions for about the first ten minutes. 

http://therightscoop.com/ted-cruz-schools-journalist-on-climate-change/

[240 is Back]

Handled it well.

I think every president SHOULD be subjected to the "gotcha" questions.   

Any prez that doesn't have the guts to face a "tough" challenger like Katie Couric surely lacks what it takes to deal with the Putins of the world.

Any politician that dodges a network is a sniveling punk, it's fair to say.   If anything, conservvative candidates should WELCOME the chance to go on msnbc and outwit the contessa brewers of the world, and win some libs to their cause.

[James]

Compliments of James.  Check out the second clip in the link.  Long, but gives you a good insight on his intelligence, composure, and position on some issues. 

I think he would kick the crap out of Hillary in a debate. 

Night and day composure compared to President Obama too.  Obama would have been a sarcastic little kid if he endured the same stupid "gotcha" questions for about the first ten minutes. 

http://therightscoop.com/ted-cruz-schools-journalist-on-climate-change/

Agree 100%