Filibuster!

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[mercury14]

The more I listen to Ted Cruz, the more I think super star. Reminds me of Reagan 64.

Except unelectable and not like Reagan at all.

 

[Killswitch]

The more I listen to Ted Cruz, the more I think super star. Reminds me of Reagan 64.

I turned on cspan for a few while back and Cruz was talking about tweets they have sent each other back and forth.

I lol'd

 

[Killswitch]

Except unelectable and not like Reagan at all.

Yeah but at least he's Mexican. I laugh every time they hang their hat on Rubio. No offense to Cubans. I'm dating one....but Mexicans don't like Cubans....lol
It's kinda sad they have to prop up a "token" and I dislike the terminology but thats all it is.

 

[MatthewVett]

Except unelectable and not like Reagan at all.

Now I think Cruz is an idiot as much as the next man, but it's unfair to call him unelectable after he got elected.

 

[RobDownSouth]

The more I listen to Ted Cruz, the more I think super star. Reminds me of Reagan 64.

Bigots often seek out their own.

 

[mercury14]

Now I think Cruz is an idiot as much as the next man, but it's unfair to call him unelectable after he got elected.

Unelectable for pres. America wont vote for a far-right candidate.

 

[phrodeau]

 

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[eyer]

Yeah but at least he's Mexican. I laugh every time they hang their hat on Rubio. No offense to Cubans. I'm dating one....but Mexicans don't like Cubans....lol
It's kinda sad they have to prop up a "token" and I dislike the terminology but thats all it is.

Too friggin' funny...

Cruz's dad is Cuban, his mom is American, and he was born in Canada...

...nice ignorantly bigoted bucket full of "Mexican" crap you got going there.

You can change your racist label...

...but you can't help but spew from the same racist bottle.

 

[Killswitch]

Too friggin' funny...

Cruz's dad is Cuban, his mom is American, and he was born in Canada...

...nice ignorantly bigoted bucket full of "Mexican" crap you got going there.

You can change your racist label...

...but you can't help but spew from the same racist bottle.

ReallY? Then I was wrong. If what you say is true of course.

I assumed he was Mexican because they couldn't be dumb enough to hang their Latino flag with another Cuban when Mexicans are their big concern and the majority of immigrants in question.


The point is your party can never seem to keep their eye on the ball.

My ignorance not withstanding....but I'm not asking to lead the free world either.


Cruz was born in Canada? Does he have a birth certificate?

lol

 

[Wrong Element]

The more I listen to Ted Cruz, the more I think super star. Reminds me of Reagan 64.

Guess it's too bad for y'all that according to the exact same argument the birthers have made against Obama, i.e. someone born outside the United States is not a "natural-born citizen" even if his mother is an American, Cruz is ineligible to serve as President. Too bad, so sad.

He'll have to remain as Texas's latest national embarrassment; I have no doubt the morons here will guarantee his McCarthyite ass a job as long as he wants one.

 

[eyer]

ReallY? Then I was wrong. If what you say is true of course.

Nah...

...what I posted isn't true at all.

Trust your ignorance...

...it's gotten you this far in life.

I assumed he was Mexican because they couldn't be dumb enough to hang their Latino flag with another Cuban when Mexicans are their big concern and the majority of immigrants in question.

A less "assum[ing]" person would most likely figure out that their theory was what's defunct, instead of furthering his theory to yet another "assum[ing]" level...

The point is your party can never seem to keep their eye on the ball.

There you go "assum[ing]" again...

...I take it when you spew "your party", you're referring to the Republican Party, right?

You need to inquire of the RP's Sergeant at Arms here on LIT - vetteman - about my status with his Party...

...last time he issued a verdict on that point, I recall being deemed both "a Leftist" and "an anarchist"; ie, I'm as Republican Party as you are a Sprint Cup driver.

But, don't fret too much about your irrelevant "The point is" deal...

...just do a mercury14 and create a new point and insist it's what you meant all along; that seems to fly fine with the ignorant and biased.

Cruz was born in Canada? Does he have a birth certificate?

lol

In a general way, in my view, Cruz's birth situation - as far as citizenship goes - is similar to Obama's...

...but Obama's dad was just here studying, while Cruz's dad was a legal immigrant.

I am a radical liberal...

...and I endorse the radical liberal stance that to be eligible for President of the United States of America, a candidate's parents both must be American citizens at the time of her/his birth.

That stance disqualifies Obama...

...as it does Cruz - his father didn't become a US citizen until much later after he was born.

The same stance also disqualifies Rubio...

...for neither of his parents were US citizens when he was born.

Alas...

...the Republican Party thinks I am too radical with that stance, as no doubt you do, too, in re: to Obama.

So, see there...

...you and the Republican Party have much more in common than I do with either you or them.

Congratulations...

...all you guys gotta do now is decide who's the bottom first.

 

[Busybody]

yes, he is a MORON and IDIOT

Cruz earned his Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University and his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School. He was an editor of the Harvard Law Review, an executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, and a founding editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review.[12] While at Princeton, he competed for the American Whig-Cliosophic Society's Debate Panel as one of North America's top-ranked parliamentary debaters, winning the top speaker award at both the 1992 U.S. National Debating Championship and the 1992 North American Debating Championship.[13] In 1992, he was named Speaker of the Year and Team of the Year (with his debate partner, David Panton) by the American Parliamentary Debate Association.[13] In 1991 he and his partner came in second to Austan Goolsbee and partner David Gray. Cruz was also a semi-finalist at the 1995 World Universities Debating Championship.[14]

We get it

ALL R's are MORONS and IDIOTS

and a thug that CANT put 3 words together without a TP, is the smartest person EVAH!

We get it

 

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[Busybody]

Guess it's too bad for y'all that according to the exact same argument the birthers have made against Obama, i.e. someone born outside the United States is not a "natural-born citizen" even if his mother is an American, Cruz is ineligible to serve as President. Too bad, so sad.

He'll have to remain as Texas's latest national embarrassment; I have no doubt the morons here will guarantee his McCarthyite ass a job as long as he wants one.

if Cruz was born on Uranus

he would still be MORE OF AN AMERCIAN then is WhoSane Obama

 

[JackLuis]

I don't agree with Rand Paul about a lot of things, but he should be applauded for "actually' filibustering instead of filing a paper and then holding a press conference, on his way to play golf.

He and his dad have some principles, which is more than can be said about 90+% of Congress.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Ahh, I didn't realize that. He can still remind me of a fledgling Reagan however.

Reagan got in on the rising-end of the long arc of American movement-conservative ascendancy. Ted Cruz is getting in on the falling-end. You know, like Tony Soprano.

 

[Liar]

I don't agree with Rand Paul about a lot of things, but he should be applauded for "actually' filibustering instead of filing a paper and then holding a press conference, on his way to play golf.

He and his dad have some principles, which is more than can be said about 90+% of Congress.

This.

Every time from now on that a senator starts talking about "requiring 60 votes" which is the new weasel-speech for the bastardization of the filibuster, Rand Paul or Bernie Sanders should have legal authority to bitch-slap them.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Native-Texan Michael Lind writes in Salon:

Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 10:52 AM EST

Ted Cruz: Texas’ newest McCarthyite

We have a long tradition of red-baiting in the Lone Star State, from Martin Dies to Joe McCarthy to our new senator

By Michael Lind

Periodically we patriotic Texans are reminded why the late Molly Ivins said: “I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.” In the recent Republican presidential primary campaign, the entire nation, to our embarrassment, learned what we already knew about the Lone Star State’s longest-serving governor. As if that weren’t mortifying enough, the first Latino Senator sent by Texas to the U.S. Senate, where Sam Houston and Lyndon Johnson once served, has turned out to be not only a Tea Party crank but also an old-fashioned red-baiter.

According to Jane Mayer in the New Yorker, Senator Ted Cruz claims that when he studied at Harvard Law in the early 1990s, there were “twelve” communists on the faculty who “believed in the overthrow of the U.S. Government.” Cruz has justly been compared to Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy, who exploited the red scare of the early Cold War to go after liberals, until he finally went too far and accused the U.S. army of being a hotbed of pro-Soviet subversion.

But let’s not give Wisconsin all the credit for irresponsible, demagogic red-baiting. Before there was McCarthy, there was Dies (rhymes with “lies”).

Martin Dies (1900-1972) was a conservative Democratic representative from Texas who chaired the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), originally named “the Dies Committee,” in the late 1930s and early 1940s. (Senator Joseph McCarthy later served as Chairman of the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, not HUAC). While there were a small number of real communists and Soviet spies in the U.S. government, including high-ranking Roosevelt aides Alger Hiss and Dexter White, Dies, like McCarthy and Cruz, was less interested in catching Soviet agents than in smearing the reputations of liberals and civil rights activists. The same tactic is used today, quite lucratively, by the likes of Dinesh D’Souza and Jonah Goldberg, author of “Liberal Fascism,” and their cynical publishers. (Liberal fascism, liberal communism, whatever).

In 1946, after HUAC decided not to investigate the Ku Klux Klan, one of its members, the Mississippi segregationist John E. Rankin, explained: “After all, the KKK is an old American institution.” Among the targets that HUAC did go after were the Federal Theater Project and Hollywood. In 1938, Dies and his committee listed a number of actors who had expressed support for a communist-owned French newspaper, including a ten-year-old child star—Shirley Temple.

Of Dies the historian Sean P. Cunningham writes in Cowboy Conservatism: Texas and the Rise of the Modern Right: “He pioneered many of the red-baiting techniques later perfected by Joseph McCarthy [and now Ted Cruz—ML], including the practice of making public accusations without evidentiary support…”

(Full disclosure: this particular kerfuffle hits close to home. Not only did I co-teach a course at Harvard Law School once with Roberto Unger, a brilliant, and non-Marxist, thinker who was one of the principals of the Critical Legal Studies movement at the law school, a few years after Ted Cruz graduated, but I also counted among my childhood friends and neighbors in Austin, Texas, grand-children of Martin Dies, with whom I spent many pleasant summer hours in the swimming pool and on the trampoline, without being red-baited once.)

While Martin Dies in Washington was saving capitalism from Shirley Temple, back in Texas claims that the University of Texas was full of Marxists led to the expulsion of its liberal president, Homer Rainey. In 1944, after the Supreme Court ruled that a white-only Texas primary law was unconstitutional, the right wing of the Texas Democratic Party, the Texas Regulars, called in their platform for the “restoration of the supremacy of the white race” and “state rights which have been destroyed by the Communist-controlled New Deal.” When Joe McCarthy succeeded Martin Dies as the leading red-baiter on Capitol Hill, he got so much love from Lone Star conservatives that he was called “the third Senator from Texas.” Now, in Ted Cruz, Texas, which sent the first great red-baiting demagogue to the U.S. House of Representatives, finally has a Tailgunner Joe of its own in the U.S. Senate.

False charges of communism in American politics have always been motivated by more than a desire to smear progressive economic reforms, avant-garde art and campaigns for equal rights for nonwhite Americans. There was (and is) a psychological factor at work. Scholarship has not been kind to the once-fashionable thesis of the liberal historian Richard Hofstadter and others that the radical right that crystallized in the 1950s was a response to working-class “status anxiety.”

What might be called the ethnoregional theory is more compelling. The poet and historian Peter Viereck, who was driven out of the nascent postwar conservative movement early in the 1950s, observed how many of the most ardent anticommunists came from groups outside of America’s Protestant Northeastern/Midwestern mainstream. Northern Catholics (including McCarthy) and white Southerners (including Dies), the two “out” groups that had traditionally made up the Jacksonian alliance against Northern Protestants, were over-represented on the anticommunist right. Back during the Red Scare, Viereck joked that before long there would be black and Jewish McCarthyites—what better way to prove that you were a “true American” than to denounce as “un-American” the very old-stock, Eastern establishment figures who often looked down on Irish-Americans or Southerners? Viereck, who died a few years ago, would not have been surprised by the appearance of a Latino McCarthyite in the U.S. Senate. He would have seen it as a natural corollary of ethnic assimilation.

The best response to the right’s red-baiting and “liberal fascist” brown-baiting is laughter. Which brings to mind a joke an old stalwart of the anti-communist left once told me (in a secret cell at Harvard Law School….just kidding!)

Back in the 1920s, a group of communists in New York organized a demonstration. Immediately members of the anti-communist left showed up to put on a counter-demonstration. The police showed up and began beating up and arresting everybody on both sides. One protestor exclaimed, “Why are you arresting me? I’m an anticommunist!” The cop replied: “I don’t care what kind of communist you are!”

 

[dan_c00000]

yes, he is a MORON and IDIOT

Cruz earned his Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University and his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School. He was an editor of the Harvard Law Review, an executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, and a founding editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review.[12] While at Princeton, he competed for the American Whig-Cliosophic Society's Debate Panel as one of North America's top-ranked parliamentary debaters, winning the top speaker award at both the 1992 U.S. National Debating Championship and the 1992 North American Debating Championship.[13] In 1992, he was named Speaker of the Year and Team of the Year (with his debate partner, David Panton) by the American Parliamentary Debate Association.[13] In 1991 he and his partner came in second to Austan Goolsbee and partner David Gray. Cruz was also a semi-finalist at the 1995 World Universities Debating Championship.[14]

We get it

ALL R's are MORONS and IDIOTS

and a thug that CANT put 3 words together without a TP, is the smartest person EVAH!

We get it

You can copy and paste from wikipedia good job!

I would say that despite his academic achievements Cruz is a moron because he thinks fellow republican Chuck Hagle is taking money from North Korea. And he obviously has no proof because you know it didn't happen.

So you can pick. Ted Cruz is a liar or a moron.

(To make this easier the correct answer is: he's both.)

 

[Wrong Element]

This.

Every time from now on that a senator starts talking about "requiring 60 votes" which is the new weasel-speech for the bastardization of the filibuster, Rand Paul or Bernie Sanders should have legal authority to bitch-slap them.

I don't even have much of a problem with Paul asking general questions about the drone policy, given that Congress hadn't shown much interest in it before now, under either of the last two administrations. A day's delay in Senate business isn't going to hurt anybody.

But to the extent he's aligning himself with the paranoid, black helicopter, Obama-wants-to-kill-the-American-people crowd, it's not good for him, the Tea Party, or the GOP.

 

[Liar]

I don't even have much of a problem with Paul asking general questions about the drone policy, given that Congress hadn't shown much interest in it before now, under either of the last two administrations. A day's delay in Senate business isn't going to hurt anybody.

But to the extent he's aligning himself with the paranoid, black helicopter, Obama-wants-to-kill-the-American-people crowd, it's not good for him, the Tea Party, or the GOP.

As far as I'm concerned, he can wax poetic about lizard people, read out loud from 50 Shades Of Grey or rage about the cancellation of Firefly for 24 hours straight if he wants to, as long as he has the sack to take to the podium, stand up and own it.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Bitch better not rage about the cancellation of Firefly if he doesn't invite me. I support his right to complain but some shit you just don't do without me.

I do find it funny though that after 13 hours of running his mouth Holder sends Rand two fucking sentences and he's suddenly cool. I'd consider it a personal slight if you didn't at least bullshit for a full paragraph.

 

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