Ted Cruz Praised As A GOP Jesus Christ At Iowa Fundraiser

[Common]

All I could do was laugh like hell when I read this, this jackass needs to be locked up in gitmo and theyre calling him JESUS and the rightwingers on this site and others called Obama the Messiah, talk about laughable twofacedness.
Hilarious

Ted Cruz (http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=%22Ted%20Cruz%22) is being praised as a Republican Jesus Christ willing to be crucified for the GOP’s ideology. In Iowa Friday at an annual Ronald Reagan fundraising dinner, Cruz, a Tea Party Republican freshman U.S. Senator from Texas, was hailed as a martyr willing to stand on principle rather than actually pass legislation or compromise.


http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/ted-cruz-praised-as-a-gop-jesus-christ-at-iowa-fundraiser/politics/2013/10/28/77516#.UnE6DuLXvyx

[Mr. Freeze]

He's either a martyr standing on principles or a closet globalist. Judge ye a tree by its fruits...

[Common]

Hes none of the above, hes a bought and paid for self aggandizing canadian without an original thought or idea who plays to a small constituency of narrow minded out of touch texans who have always suffered from illusions of grandeur and the belief what they think is what it is. I hope they secede and we can watch mexico take their oil from them

[Cigar]

God I hope he's the GOP Candidate :praying:

[Mr. Freeze]

I think he's a globalist pretending to be a libertarian. That is my prediction based on his time under the neoconservative Bush administration and his wife.

[junie]

:laugh:


“As an audience of 600 Republicans awaited the arrival of Sen. Ted Cruz Friday night at the Iowa Events Center, conservative Christian activist Steve Scheffler came to the podium to give thanks to God for the Tea Party savior — and plead for more principled conservative leaders like him willing to ‘be crucified for their belief system.’” writes (http://www.buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppins/how-washingtons-crucifixion-of-ted-cruz-made-him-a-tea-party) Buzzfeed’s McKay Coppins.


The ballroom full of amens that followed went a long way toward explaining why Cruz — fresh off a failed crusade to dismantle Obamacare that resulted in a 16-day government shutdown and a political disaster for his party — has been greeted with such adoration by Tea Party crowds in recent days.



In Cruz, conservatives have found something better than a champion for their cause or a defender of their values. They’ve found a martyr.



“Every time one of these guys attacks him, it’s good for him,” said one Iowa Republican operative. “He’s like a superhero. The more bullets that get shot at him, the bigger and stronger he gets.”



Of course, Cruz’s actions earlier that led to the GOP shutdown of the federal government cost American taxpayers $24 billion and hundreds of thousands of jobs. When it was over, accomplishing nothing except a huge drop in the Republican Party’s favorability ratings, Cruz declared victory.


http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/ted-cruz-praised-as-a-gop-jesus-christ-at-iowa-fundraiser/politics/2013/10/28/77516

[junie]

LOOK: Ted Cruz: Government Shutdown I Started Was About Fundraising (http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/ted-cruz-government-shutdown-i-started-was-all-about-fundraising/news/2013/10/16/76971)

[Ravi]

Jesus wept. Those teapees are extremely nutty.

[junie]

Jesus wept. Those teapees are extremely nutty.


lol and then some! ;)

[Mr. Freeze]

I'm certain this is all about as funny as unwed mothers and victims of drunk driving. I find that my spirit is lifted by making fun of others who put trust in individuals that deceive them. That's why I fill every thread making fun of Obama supporters.

Wait. No, I don't.

[jillian]

LOOK: Ted Cruz: Government Shutdown I Started Was About Fundraising (http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/ted-cruz-government-shutdown-i-started-was-all-about-fundraising/news/2013/10/16/76971)

from your link:


Ted Cruz (http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s="Ted Cruz") today gleefully admitted the federal government shutdown he started three weeks ago with his fake filibuster (http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/watch-ted-cruz-recite-dr-seuss-green-eggs-and-ham-on-the-senate-floor/politics/2013/09/25/75660) was really just a fundraising stunt. The freshman Tea Party Senator from Texas also admitted that the “efforts to defund Obamacare… began months ago.” Which is exactly what the New York Times reported (http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/house-gop-created-new-rule-to-prevent-anyone-but-eric-cantor-from-ending-government-shutdown/politics/2013/10/14/76825#.Ul7U3Rax7e4) — that the defunding campaign was a creation of former President Ronald Reagan’s scandal-plagued, anti-pornography crusading attorney general Edwin Meese (http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s="Edwin Meese"), and former Senator Jim DeMint (http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s="Jim DeMint")’s Heritage Foundation’s Heritage Action lobbyists.

i'm shocked. :rolleyes:

[Common]

from your link:



i'm shocked. :rolleyes:


Talk bout treason, a the clown prince croooze instigates and coerces a govt shutdown that costs the country and taxpayers BILLIONS for something he didnt care if he won or not, he hurt average working americans and admits it was only TO fundraise from his very few far right used toiletpaper supporters.
HOW PATRIOTIC IS THAT RIGHTWINGERS, the pos should be in gitmo in a group cell with algueda, he'd be singing the canadian or cuban national anthem denouncing those lowlife overall wearing texans and asking for stainless steel underooos for protection

[Codename Section]

I'm certain this is all about as funny as unwed mothers and victims of drunk driving. I find that my spirit is lifted by making fun of others who put trust in individuals that deceive them. That's why I fill every thread making fun of Obama supporters.

Wait. No, I don't.


Hopefully at their coven meeting tomorrow night they'll win a cruise as a door prize so we won't have to deal with them next week.

[Ravi]

I'm certain this is all about as funny as unwed mothers and victims of drunk driving. I find that my spirit is lifted by making fun of others who put trust in individuals that deceive them. That's why I fill every thread making fun of Obama supporters.

Wait. No, I don't.
I'm making fun of the idiotic teapees that claim Cruz is a martyr. That is on them. Cruz is a world class manipulative political whore.

[nathanbforrest45]

More bullshit from the low information left wing socialist crowd. Its obvious they are frightened of Cruz otherwise they would just ignore him. Instead they attack him on superficial points. Never once do they address the issues he raises.

You know why they won't confront him on the issues? Because they know they can't, because they know they are morally bankrupt. Because they know by doing so they will tip their hand at their true agenda, complete and utter control by an all knowing government.

They really don't think much of human beings since they obviously believe we are all so stupid we can't even be trusted to come in out of the rain.

[Ravi]

More bullshit from the low information left wing socialist crowd. Its obvious they are frightened of Cruz otherwise they would just ignore him. Instead they attack him on superficial points. Never once do they address the issues he raises.

You know why they won't confront him on the issues? Because they know they can't, because they know they are morally bankrupt. Because they know by doing so they will tip their hand at their true agenda, complete and utter control by an all knowing government.

They really don't think much of human beings since they obviously believe we are all so stupid we can't even be trusted to come in out of the rain.

He frightens me almost as much as a Herman Cain/Sarah Palin ticket would frighten me. *shudder* What a laugh riot that would be.

[nathanbforrest45]

LOOK: Ted Cruz: Government Shutdown I Started Was About Fundraising (http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/ted-cruz-government-shutdown-i-started-was-all-about-fundraising/news/2013/10/16/76971)


Look
Obama admits Obamacare is a hoax

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZRYjNa1Ebk


Yeah yeah yeah. I know this has nothing to do with Obama or healtcare. But then again neither does the above link have anything specific about Cruz claiming it was all a hoax for fundraising.

[nathanbforrest45]

He frightens me almost as much as a Herman Cain/Sarah Palin ticket would frighten me. *shudder* What a laugh riot that would be.


And only a dumb ass would think that ticket would ever see the light of day. Any more pertinent predictions you want to make?

[nathanbforrest45]

And for someone you are not afraid of you certainly spend an enormous amount of time trying to marginalize him.

[Ravi]

And only a dumb ass would think that ticket would ever see the light of day. Any more pertinent predictions you want to make?
You seem angry.

[Chris]

God I hope he's the GOP Candidate :praying:

You must be disappointed your god and savior Obama can't run.

[nathanbforrest45]

You must be disappointed your god and savior Obama can't run.


That's all right his Goddess and savior Hillary will run and unfortunately probably win. The American people have become sheep and manifest a very strong lack of self confidence.

[nathanbforrest45]

You seem angry.


Angry?? No, disgusted with the number of people who are so willing to become serfs

[junie]

You seem angry.


lol of course the reality is that cruz has marginalized himself which is why 'only a dumb ass would think that ticket would ever see the light of day'.

[Ravi]

lol of course the reality is that cruz has marginalized himself which is why 'only a dumb ass would think that ticket would ever see the light of day'.
Not to mention that in real life, Palin was a vice-presidential candidate and Cain was a presidential candidate.

You really can't make up stuff about Republicans that is funnier than the simple truth about them.

[nathanbforrest45]

lol of course the reality is that cruz has marginalized himself which is why 'only a dumb ass would think that ticket would ever see the light of day'.


He has marginalized himself to the left but not necessarily to thinking Americans, which admittedly are becoming less and less on a daily basis.

Its been my experience that the candidate who would actually do the most good for America is the one the press is most likely to derail.

I have no hope for America, we will go the way of Roman and Greece, drowning in our own stupidity.

[nathanbforrest45]

Not to mention that in real life, Palin was a vice-presidential candidate and Cain was a presidential candidate.

You really can't make up stuff about Republicans that is funnier than the simple truth about them.

So, if someone runs who has no chance of winning that means what to you??????

[nathanbforrest45]

I am going to leave this forum.

I hate you people. You all disgust me and I find you extremely dangerous to the wellbeing of America

[Common]

I'm certain this is all about as funny as unwed mothers and victims of drunk driving. I find that my spirit is lifted by making fun of others who put trust in individuals that deceive them. That's why I fill every thread making fun of Obama supporters.

Wait. No, I don't.

Heh well if you did im sure you would do it without intentionally being insulting and demeaning and you would do it with class and make it entertaining and not INSTIGATING. Oh my you are never going to be VIP here never

[Common]

I am going to leave this forum.

I hate you people. You all disgust me and I find you extremely dangerous to the wellbeing of America

Why thank you :)

[Chris]

Jesus wept. Those teapees are extremely nutty.



Dude what said these things was not tea party. Didn't your read the OP or junie's magnificently highlighted paste?

[Common]

He has marginalized himself to the left but not necessarily to thinking Americans, which admittedly are becoming less and less on a daily basis.

Its been my experience that the candidate who would actually do the most good for America is the one the press is most likely to derail.

I have no hope for America, we will go the way of Roman and Greece, drowning in our own stupidity.

You cant be serious to think that the JESUS OF THE FAR RIGHT small contingency is anything but a waste of oxygen.
Hate to break this to you, cruz is viewed unfavorably by most of the country and its only going down

[junie]

Not to mention that in real life, Palin was a vice-presidential candidate and Cain was a presidential candidate.

You really can't make up stuff about Republicans that is funnier than the simple truth about them.


lol by his own admission nathantroll didn't come to this thread to respond to ted cruz' supposed heroic martyrdom. ..nope his mission is to attack 'disgusting' liberals!


"I find that my spirit is lifted by making fun of others who put trust in individuals that deceive them.

That's why I fill every thread making fun of Obama supporters."



Thank you. I do believe in letting my true feelings known and its a fact. I do find liberals disgusting and dangerous.

[Common]

lol of course the reality is that cruz has marginalized himself which is why 'only a dumb ass would think that ticket would ever see the light of day'.

Junie never underestimate the lack of cognitive deduction the very small dumbadim contingency has in this country

[Chris]

lol by his own admission nathantroll didn't come to this thread to respond to ted cruz' supposed heroic martyrdom. ..nope his mission is to attack 'disgusting' liberals!


"I find that my spirit is lifted by making fun of others who put trust in individuals that deceive them.

That's why I fill every thread making fun of Obama supporters."



What sort of response do you expect for a flame bait thread like this?

[Common]

Ya know guys I never participated in the insult the right threads, I stayed out of them and tried to just post stuff and to not try to make big waves for the forum or the mods.
I didnt know what the hell I was missing BOY IS IT FUN TO GET EVEN wow how cool is this.

To all dumbadim nutters: TAKE THE HIGH ROAD YO, BE THE BIGGER MAN OR PERSON and dont respond to ME in kind and just let me have my way with you, hubbahubba. looolollol Ive never had so much fun at anothers expense no wonder they did it everyday to me.

As Forrest Gump said a dumbadim is as a dumbadim does and Im going to start a charity BubbaDumbadim safe house for right wing morons Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[Ravi]

So, if someone runs who has no chance of winning that means what to you??????
He or she is a Republican.

[Ravi]

I am going to leave this forum.

I hate you people. You all disgust me and I find you extremely dangerous to the wellbeing of Americabye

[Chris]

Ya know guys I never participated in the insult the right threads, I stayed out of them and tried to just post stuff and to not try to make big waves for the forum or the mods.
I didnt know what the hell I was missing BOY IS IT FUN TO GET EVEN wow how cool is this.

To all dumbadim nutters: TAKE THE HIGH ROAD YO, BE THE BIGGER MAN OR PERSON and dont respond to ME in kind and just let me have my way with you, hubbahubba. looolollol Ive never had so much fun at anothers expense no wonder they did it everyday to me.

As Forrest Gump said a dumbadim is as a dumbadim does and Im going to start a charity BubbaDumbadim safe house for right wing morons Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee



A fine admission of flame baiting.

[junie]

In “Ted Cruz Admits Budget Standoff Was All About Fundraising (http://thinkprogress.org/default/2013/10/16/2791091/ted-cruz-admits-budget-standoff-fundraising/),” Think Progress notes that in the ”three week period following Cruz’s speech — even as GOP’s national approval ratings plummeted — conservatives frantically built their fundraising lists and campaign coffers. In the last quarter, Cruz’s political action committee raised in $797,000 (http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/10/ted-cruz-filibuter-paid/70582/), nearly twice what it pulled in the quarter prior, and Heritage Action — which has pressured conservatives to vote against any bill that does not undermine Obamcare — collected $330,000.”


...



Buoyed by this vision of himself as conservatism’s Great Hero, Cruz was in a boisterous and jokey mood. Here are eight of the craziest quips from his speech:

1. On Obama’s plot to kidnap him: “So this afternoon President Obama has invited the Senate Republicans to the White House. So after leaving here, I’m going to be going to the White House. I will make a request. if I’m never seen again, please send a search and rescue team. I very much hope by tomorrow morning I don’t wake up amidst the Syrian rebels.”
2. On the press: “The media wants America to give up and allow this country to keep sliding off the edge of the cliff.”
3. On the Constitution: “This is an administration that seems bound and determine to violate every single one of our bill of rights. I don’t know that they have yet violated the Third Amendment, but I expect them to start quartering soldiers in peoples’ homes soon.”
4. On the hecklers who interrupted his speech: “Is anybody left at OFA headquarters? I’m actually glad that the president’s whole political staff is here instead of actually doing mischief in the country
5. On hecklers, again: “It would seem that President Obama’s paid political operatives are out in force. The men and women in this room scare the living daylights out of them.”
6. On hecklers, a third time: “How scared is the President? What a statement of fear, what a statement of fear. Oh, they don’t want the truth to be heard. They definitely don’t want the truth to be heard.”
7. On the Cold War: “Our foreign policy is detente, which I’m pretty sure is French for surrender.”
8. On Vice President Biden: “You don’t need a punchline. You just say his name, people laugh.”


Tony Perkins, who leads the organization behind the Value Voters Summit, called Cruz (http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/11/politics/shutdown-perkins-values-voter/index.html) “a de facto leader of the Republican Party” who was “filling a vacuum” at the top of the party.


According to an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released Thursday night, 44 percent of Americans don’t know who Ted Cruz (http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/A_Politics/_Today_Stories_Teases/Oct_poll.pdf) is. Among Americans that do, twice as many (http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/10/20903624-nbcwsj-poll-shutdown-debate-damages-gop?lite) have unfavorable impressions of the Senator as have favorable ones.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/10/11/2770311/craziest-ted-cruz-said-today/

[junie]

While people can disagree on how one goes about creating a successful formula for being effective in a United States Senate filled with one hundred ego driven, elected officials with a wide variety of goals, agendas and intentions, there is one critical feature for success that is incontrovertible—nobody gets very far in the United States Senate without the support of their colleagues.

...

If a senator can’t bring others to sign on to his point of view in an effort to gain passage of the bills that such a senator believes to be important to state and country, that senator is inevitably consigned to the back-bench and, at best, a footnote to senate history.


Often, (but not always) success requires the ability to reach across the aisle to get something done. However, nobody elected to the United States Senate ever succeeds without the support and cooperation of their fellow party members—especially if one of those fellow party members whose affections have been alienated happens to be the Senate Majority or Minority Leader.


This being the unarguable reality, Senator Ted Cruz—who may, indeed, be succeeding in putting himself on the map in preparation for the 2016 presidential primary tests—has, just months after being elected by his fellow Texans, failed in truly dramatic fashion to fulfill his state’s hopes that he become a meaningful player in the U.S. Senate.


On Wednesday, in what is now being described as a “lynching” by his fellow Senate Republicans, Ted Cruz found out just how incredibly unpopular and disrespected he is by his peers.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2013/10/04/ted-cruzs-shameful-betrayal-of-texas/

[Codename Section]

lol by his own admission nathantroll didn't come to this thread to respond to ted cruz' supposed heroic martyrdom. ..nope his mission is to attack 'disgusting' liberals!


"I find that my spirit is lifted by making fun of others who put trust in individuals that deceive them.

That's why I fill every thread making fun of Obama supporters."

You're clueless. Mr. Freeze said that and he was referring to you and your evil twin Ravi.

The two of you are just mean spirited, ugly people.

And if you are not, then you ought to reconsider how you want to portray yourselves to others because I'm picturing a bunch of gorgons and harpies behind the screen.

[Mister D]

You're clueless. @Mr. Freeze (http://thepoliticalforums.com/member.php?u=892) said that and he was referring to you and your evil twin Ravi.

The two of you are just mean spirited, ugly people.

And if you are not, then you ought to reconsider how you want to portray yourselves to others because I'm picturing a bunch of gorgons and harpies behind the screen.

Quoted for truth

[Ravi]

You're clueless. @Mr. Freeze (http://thepoliticalforums.com/member.php?u=892) said that and he was referring to you and your evil twin Ravi.

The two of you are just mean spirited, ugly people.

And if you are not, then you ought to reconsider how you want to portray yourselves to others because I'm picturing a bunch of gorgons and harpies behind the screen.

Aren't you sweet.

[junie]

well that's awful nice of you to say, obviously you are not mean-spirited at all. :laughing4:

[Ravi]

lol by his own admission nathantroll didn't come to this thread to respond to ted cruz' supposed heroic martyrdom. ..nope his mission is to attack 'disgusting' liberals!


"I find that my spirit is lifted by making fun of others who put trust in individuals that deceive them.

That's why I fill every thread making fun of Obama supporters."

You wouldn't expect someone from the junior chrissie contingent to make a cutting remark at a rightwinger, would you? Oh no, they only say things like that to people on the left or people they perceive to be on the left.

[Ravi]

well that's awful nice of you to say, obviously you are not mean-spirited at all. :laughing4:
He's a bit sensitive I've discovered.

[junie]

Aren't you sweet.


mean spirited people tend to project their mean spirit onto others...but whatchagonnadoo? :laugh:

[Codename Section]

Aren't you sweet.

I'm not, but neither are you. Own it.

[Ravi]

mean spirited people tend to project their mean spirit onto others...but whatchagonnadoo? :laugh:

I don't get it, really. I get that they don't like me (not sure what they have against you) because I make fun of Republicans, tea partiers, and libertarians. Yet each and every one of them has personally attacked me and I have never personally attacked any of them.

Things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?

[Codename Section]

mean spirited people tend to project their mean spirit onto others...but whatchagonnadoo? :laugh:

Sorry if the truth hurts but there's not a single person on here that's not named Ravi or Jillian that doesn't secretly or openly agree.

You guys are mean. Either do something about it or accept what happens when you encounter people who aren't too chickenshit or bound by politeness to not say something.

[Codename Section]

I don't get it, really. I get that they don't like me (not sure what they have against you) because I make fun of Republicans, tea partiers, and libertarians. Yet each and every one of them has personally attacked me and I have never personally attacked any of them.

Things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?

Is it an attack to tell you that you're being mean? Maybe it's a kindness so you can see how you are viewed by others and quit being that way.

[junie]

I don't get it, really. I get that they don't like me (not sure what they have against you) because I make fun of Republicans, tea partiers, and libertarians. Yet each and every one of them has personally attacked me and I have never personally attacked any of them.

Things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?



lol maybe he is really ted cruz and his feelings are hurt? :dontknow:

[Codename Section]

lol maybe he is really ted cruz and his feelings are hurt? :dontknow:

You guys are so witty that I'm surprised that some teenager hasn't tried to get you to start your own Youtube show.

[junie]

You guys are so witty that I'm surprised that some teenager hasn't tried to get you to start your own Youtube show.


so what do you think of ted cruz? would you vote for him for president?

[Chris]

You wouldn't expect someone from the junior chrissie contingent to make a cutting remark at a rightwinger, would you? Oh no, they only say things like that to people on the left or people they perceive to be on the left.


Only to partisan hacks and political gadflies.

[Codename Section]

so what do you think of ted cruz? would you vote for him for president?

I think he's a phoney and no I wouldn't vote for him for president.

[Chris]

You guys are so witty that I'm surprised that some teenager hasn't tried to get you to start your own Youtube show.



Speaking of youtupe pages, Uncle Si recently discovered youtube...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFeawsSWZXI

[junie]

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has become something of a piñata for two groups of congressional Republicans: Those who eagerly support his exhortation (http://theweek.com/article/index/249869/is-ted-cruz-throwing-the-gop-under-the-bus) to strip all funding for ObamaCare, and those who think risking a government shutdown (http://theweek.com/article/index/249809/a-government-shutdown-is-a-high-stakes-game-the-gop-cant-win) over an ill-fated ObamaCare-defunding measure is daft politics.
It's pretty obvious why the second group would be annoyed with Cruz, who has been goading the House GOP to go all-in on the defunding plan for months, including through Cruz-branded TV ads (watch below (http://news.yahoo.com/10-best-insults-republicans-hurled-ted-cruz-week-065500602.html#bottom)). The first group is miffed because, when the House agreed (http://theweek.com/article/index/249869/is-ted-cruz-throwing-the-gop-under-the-bus) to go along with Cruz's high-stakes defund-or-bust plan this week, Cruz issued this statement (http://www.lee.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=33efba8e-1ae9-4333-b443-12f077b43ccc):



Today's announcement that the House will vote to defund Obamacare is terrific news.... We commend House leadership and House Republicans for listening to the people and for taking decisive action to stop Obamacare, the biggest job-killer in America. Harry Reid will no doubt try to strip the defund language from the continuing resolution, and right now he likely has the votes to do so. At that point, House Republicans must stand firm, hold their ground, and continue to listen to the American people. [Cruz (http://www.lee.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=33efba8e-1ae9-4333-b443-12f077b43ccc)]



This was seen by House Republicans, rightly or wrongly, as Cruz conceding that his own plan — get the GOP-led House to include defunding ObamaCare in the must-pass federal spending bill, then fight like hell to get the Senate on board, propelled by a "tsunami" of grassroots outrage — is doomed, and probably always was. They didn't appreciate the pep talk/kiss-off, and they let him know it, through social and news media.


http://news.yahoo.com/10-best-insults-republicans-hurled-ted-cruz-week-065500602.html

[oceanloverOH]

This thread has turned ugly with personal insults. Please cease that behavior; thank you.

[Dangermouse]

So Cruz is the latest GOP Messiah! He's got the name for it!

[junie]

"Some people came here to govern and make things better for their constituents. Ted Cruz came here to throw bombs and fundraise off of attacks on fellow Republicans. He's a joke, plain and simple."
— Senior House GOP aide (Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/18/ted-cruz-obamacare-house-republicans_n_3950901.html?utm_hp_ref=politics))


"It is disappointing to see that Wendy Davis (http://theweek.com/article/index/246101/wendy-davis-confounding-filibuster-of-a-texas-abortion-bill) has more balls than Ted Cruz."
— Senior GOP leadership aide (CNN (http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/09/18/house-republicans-question-cruzs-obamacare-defunding-fervor/))


"Cruz officially jumped the shark this week"
— GOP operative allied with House leadership (Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/19/ted-cruz-shutdown-house-republicans_n_3954461.html?utm_hp_ref=politics))


"For weeks, House Republicans have said the prospects of passing a defund bill in the Senate are grim, and Senators Lee, Cruz, and Rubio have responded by saying nothing is impossible if we fight hard enough. Now they are getting exactly what they asked for, and they issue a press release conceding defeat and refusing to join the fight they demanded in every TV appearance. It's time they put their money where their mouths are, and do something other than talk."
— House GOP leadership aide (National Review (http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/358902/whats-plan-senate-jonathan-strong))


"Cruz keeps raising conservatives' hopes, and then, when we give him what he wants, he doesn't have a plan to follow through.... He's an amateur."
— GOP aide (National Review (http://www.nationalreview.com/article/359007/ted-cruz-punches-back-robert-costa))


"Cruz is the leader of a secret cabal of leftists that are seeking control of the conservative movement.... Their aim is to force the party to take on suicidal missions to destroy the movement from within."
— Senior House Republican leadership source (Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/19/ted-cruz-shutdown-house-republicans_n_3954461.html?utm_hp_ref=politics))


"Nancy Pelosi is more well-liked around here."
— GOP aide (National Review (http://www.nationalreview.com/article/359007/ted-cruz-punches-back-robert-costa))




...notice that all of those barbs come from Republicans who refused to comment on record.
http://news.yahoo.com/10-best-insults-republicans-hurled-ted-cruz-week-065500602.html

[Chris]

"Nancy Pelosi is more well-liked around here."
— GOP aide (National Review)


Got to love that one. lololol

[Codename Section]

This thread has turned ugly with personal insults. Please cease that behavior; thank you.
oceanloverOH

Feel free to infact me, but I'm not apologizing.

I don't see it as an insult to tell people who are calling Tea Party members "Teapees" that they are being mean. I didn't call them assholes. I didn't call them names. I said the truth which is that they are mean, indicating behavior.

[junie]

Hopefully at their coven meeting tomorrow night they'll win a cruise as a door prize so we won't have to deal with them next week.



not 'mean' at all! :laughing4:

[oceanloverOH]

oceanloverOH

Feel free to infact me, but I'm not apologizing.

I don't see it as an insult to tell people who are calling Tea Party members "Teapees" that they are being mean. I didn't call them assholes. I didn't call them names. I said the truth which is that they are mean, indicating behavior.

I'm not infracting anybody at this point, as long as the mudslinging has stopped. And it has. Thank you, all.

[Codename Section]

not 'mean' at all! :laughing4:

What prompted it?

[junie]

"Some people came here to govern and make things better for their constituents. Ted Cruz came here to throw bombs and fundraise off of attacks on fellow Republicans. He's a joke, plain and simple."
— Senior House GOP aide (Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/18/ted-cruz-obamacare-house-republicans_n_3950901.html?utm_hp_ref=politics))


"It is disappointing to see that Wendy Davis (http://theweek.com/article/index/246101/wendy-davis-confounding-filibuster-of-a-texas-abortion-bill) has more balls than Ted Cruz."
— Senior GOP leadership aide (CNN (http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/09/18/house-republicans-question-cruzs-obamacare-defunding-fervor/))


"Cruz officially jumped the shark this week"
— GOP operative allied with House leadership (Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/19/ted-cruz-shutdown-house-republicans_n_3954461.html?utm_hp_ref=politics))


"For weeks, House Republicans have said the prospects of passing a defund bill in the Senate are grim, and Senators Lee, Cruz, and Rubio have responded by saying nothing is impossible if we fight hard enough. Now they are getting exactly what they asked for, and they issue a press release conceding defeat and refusing to join the fight they demanded in every TV appearance. It's time they put their money where their mouths are, and do something other than talk."
— House GOP leadership aide (National Review (http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/358902/whats-plan-senate-jonathan-strong))


"Cruz keeps raising conservatives' hopes, and then, when we give him what he wants, he doesn't have a plan to follow through.... He's an amateur."
— GOP aide (National Review (http://www.nationalreview.com/article/359007/ted-cruz-punches-back-robert-costa))


"Cruz is the leader of a secret cabal of leftists that are seeking control of the conservative movement.... Their aim is to force the party to take on suicidal missions to destroy the movement from within."
— Senior House Republican leadership source (Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/19/ted-cruz-shutdown-house-republicans_n_3954461.html?utm_hp_ref=politics))


"Nancy Pelosi is more well-liked around here."
— GOP aide (National Review (http://www.nationalreview.com/article/359007/ted-cruz-punches-back-robert-costa))




...notice that all of those barbs come from Republicans who refused to comment on record.
http://news.yahoo.com/10-best-insults-republicans-hurled-ted-cruz-week-065500602.html




And in the House, Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) calls (http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/09/19/rep-king-on-defund-plan-custer-kamikaze/) Cruz's defund-ObamaCare plan a "fraud against the American people," and against House Republicans.

[Mister D]

Sorry if the truth hurts but there's not a single person on here that's not named Ravi or Jillian that doesn't secretly or openly agree.

You guys are mean. Either do something about it or accept what happens when you encounter people who aren't too chickenshit or bound by politeness to not say something.

Well, they're pretty corny too so I'm not sure if mean is the term I'd use to describe them.

[jillian]

Talk bout treason, a the clown prince croooze instigates and coerces a govt shutdown that costs the country and taxpayers BILLIONS for something he didnt care if he won or not, he hurt average working americans and admits it was only TO fundraise from his very few far right used toiletpaper supporters.
HOW PATRIOTIC IS THAT RIGHTWINGERS, the pos should be in gitmo in a group cell with algueda, he'd be singing the canadian or cuban national anthem denouncing those lowlife overall wearing texans and asking for stainless steel underooos for protection

There is certainly something to the question of whether intentionally undermining the credit-worthiness of thebUS is a violation of law.

[patrickt]

And one of the Democrat operatives on MSNBC, Chris Mathews, said, ""Is Ted Cruz the Republican Freddy Krueger?" Wow! Jesus Christ or Freddy Krueger.

That's quite a range. But, I think a more interesting question would be is Chris Mathews the new Democrat John Wayne Gacy?

[exotix]

A total trip ... the teabaggers' new messiah is a Canadian-born socialist who never worked a day in his life except as a Bush neocon campaign worker ... who he and his entire family has sucked-off one govt teat after the other ... and where troofers allege that the Canadian birth-certificate is forged and Cruz was actually born in Cuba to a communist who fought alongside Castro ... and who fled to Canada under threat of a Castro-purge because he couldn't flee to Miami on some kind of Mariel boatlift because now he had to fear for his life from Castro-communist persecuted Cubans ...

Jus'nutha example why they call it the right-wing asylum ... LOL.

[BB-35]

How did he go from a 'martyr' to a 'GOP jesus christ'?

Honestly,why are you lily livers so scared of the tea party?

You DO know it's different from the republican party.....

Don't you?

[patrickt]

A total trip ... the teabaggers' new messiah is a Canadian-born socialist who never worked a day in his life except as a Bush neocon campaign worker ... who he and his entire family has sucked-off one govt teat after the other ... and where troofers allege that the Canadian birth-certificate is forged and Cruz was actually born in Cuba to a communist who fought alongside Castro ... and who fled to Canada under threat of a Castro-purge because he couldn't flee to Miami on some kind of Mariel boatlift because now he had to fear for his life from Castro-communist persecuted Cubans ...

Jus'nutha example why they call it the right-wing asylum ... LOL.

You should feel comfortable since we have a communist who was born of a Kenyan and a U.S. citizen, was tutored to be black and a communist, never worked a day in his life, attended a racist Marxist church for 20 years and never once heard the minister say anything hateful about America.

Yes, Exotix, sounds like your kind of guy, doesn't he?

[exotix]

How did he go from a 'martyr' to a 'GOP jesus christ'?

Honestly,why are you lily livers so scared of the tea party?

You DO know it's different from the republican party.....

Don't you?
You have a point .. can I get the list of those republicans who didn't vote with the tea party in shutting down the govt and going into default ?

You don't need to strain yourself since there weren't any.

[Chris]

A total trip ... the teabaggers' new messiah is a Canadian-born socialist who never worked a day in his life except as a Bush neocon campaign worker ... who he and his entire family has sucked-off one govt teat after the other ... and where troofers allege that the Canadian birth-certificate is forged and Cruz was actually born in Cuba to a communist who fought alongside Castro ... and who fled to Canada under threat of a Castro-purge because he couldn't flee to Miami on some kind of Mariel boatlift because now he had to fear for his life from Castro-communist persecuted Cubans ...

Jus'nutha example why they call it the right-wing asylum ... LOL.

http://snag.gy/GYE8M.jpg

[exotix]

You should feel comfortable since we have a communist who was born of a Kenyan and a U.S. citizen, was tutored to be black and a communist, never worked a day in his life, attended a racist Marxist church for 20 years and never once heard the minister say anything hateful about America.

Yes, Exotix, sounds like your kind of guy, doesn't he?
If you want to get a socialist/communist/national socialist facist kenyan muslim terrorist negro with a bone through his nose out of office ... simply worship a cuban-communist pee wee herman and nominate 'em for 2016 ... I mean, who else ya got ?

LOL

[BB-35]

A total trip ... the teabaggers' new messiah is a Canadian-born socialist who never worked a day in his life except as a Bush neocon campaign worker ... who he and his entire family has sucked-off one govt teat after the other ... and where troofers allege that the Canadian birth-certificate is forged and Cruz was actually born in Cuba to a communist who fought alongside Castro ... and who fled to Canada under threat of a Castro-purge because he couldn't flee to Miami on some kind of Mariel boatlift because now he had to fear for his life from Castro-communist persecuted Cubans ...

Jus'nutha example why they call it the right-wing asylum ... LOL.

You REALLY need to take another look at cruz' bio,so you don't come off sounding like a dumbass when you claim he 'never worked a day in his life except as a Bush campaign worker'

[jillian]

You REALLY need to take another look at cruz' bio,so you don't come off sounding like a dumbass when you claim he 'never worked a day in his life except as a Bush campaign worker'

he did have a federal clerkship and work for at least one law firm.

cruz worked. the guy is a manipulative creep, but he was a smart one, which is how he has so easily played people who don't know any better.

[BB-35]

In “Ted Cruz Admits Budget Standoff Was All About Fundraising (http://thinkprogress.org/default/2013/10/16/2791091/ted-cruz-admits-budget-standoff-fundraising/),” Think Progress notes that in the ”three week period following Cruz’s speech — even as GOP’s national approval ratings plummeted — conservatives frantically built their fundraising lists and campaign coffers. In the last quarter, Cruz’s political action committee raised in $797,000 (http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/10/ted-cruz-filibuter-paid/70582/), nearly twice what it pulled in the quarter prior, and Heritage Action — which has pressured conservatives to vote against any bill that does not undermine Obamcare — collected $330,000.”


...



Buoyed by this vision of himself as conservatism’s Great Hero, Cruz was in a boisterous and jokey mood. Here are eight of the craziest quips from his speech:

1. On Obama’s plot to kidnap him: “So this afternoon President Obama has invited the Senate Republicans to the White House. So after leaving here, I’m going to be going to the White House. I will make a request. if I’m never seen again, please send a search and rescue team. I very much hope by tomorrow morning I don’t wake up amidst the Syrian rebels.”
2. On the press: “The media wants America to give up and allow this country to keep sliding off the edge of the cliff.”
3. On the Constitution: “This is an administration that seems bound and determine to violate every single one of our bill of rights. I don’t know that they have yet violated the Third Amendment, but I expect them to start quartering soldiers in peoples’ homes soon.”
4. On the hecklers who interrupted his speech: “Is anybody left at OFA headquarters? I’m actually glad that the president’s whole political staff is here instead of actually doing mischief in the country
5. On hecklers, again: “It would seem that President Obama’s paid political operatives are out in force. The men and women in this room scare the living daylights out of them.”
6. On hecklers, a third time: “How scared is the President? What a statement of fear, what a statement of fear. Oh, they don’t want the truth to be heard. They definitely don’t want the truth to be heard.”
7. On the Cold War: “Our foreign policy is detente, which I’m pretty sure is French for surrender.”
8. On Vice President Biden: “You don’t need a punchline. You just say his name, people laugh.”


Tony Perkins, who leads the organization behind the Value Voters Summit, called Cruz (http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/11/politics/shutdown-perkins-values-voter/index.html) “a de facto leader of the Republican Party” who was “filling a vacuum” at the top of the party.


According to an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released Thursday night, 44 percent of Americans don’t know who Ted Cruz (http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/A_Politics/_Today_Stories_Teases/Oct_poll.pdf) is. Among Americans that do, twice as many (http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/10/20903624-nbcwsj-poll-shutdown-debate-damages-gop?lite) have unfavorable impressions of the Senator as have favorable ones.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/10/11/2770311/craziest-ted-cruz-said-today/


You really need to give those bats a good home....

[Mr. Freeze]

he did have a federal clerkship and work for at least one law firm.

cruz worked. the guy is a manipulative creep, but he was a smart one, which is how he has so easily played people who don't know any better.

As did Obama if we are to be unbiased. If you put the speeches of Senator Obama up against President Obama and blacked out the names you would think they were two different people.

I am critical of both men openly. I trust no one who Goldman Sachs likes.

[BB-35]

You have a point .. can I get the list of those republicans who didn't vote with the tea party in shutting down the govt and going into default ?

You don't need to strain yourself since there weren't any.

Point to any republican who voted with the tea party,and the republicans did NOT shut down the government,nor did we go into default,

[BB-35]

he did have a federal clerkship and work for at least one law firm.

cruz worked. the guy is a manipulative creep, but he was a smart one, which is how he has so easily played people who don't know any better.

You have NO reason to label cruz a 'manipulative creep',nor is he 'playing anyone'

[Ravi]

You have NO reason to label cruz a 'manipulative creep',nor is he 'playing anyone'Sure she has a reason to label him as such. It is fact.

[BB-35]

Sure she has a reason to label him as such. It is fact.

And your proof?

Admit it,it's just your opinion

[Chris]

And your proof?

Admit it,it's just your opinion

It's a fact it's her opinion.

[junie]

Also Wednesday, Texas’ senior senator, John Cornyn – the party’s deputy Senate leader — denounced the Senate Conservatives Fund and another tea party group, FreedomWorks, as “a destructive element” that weaken Republicans. The comments drew fierce rebuttals.

“When we are divided, our Democratic colleagues seem to prevail,” he said.

The SCF announced Tuesday that it will spend $330,000 on ads attacking McConnell for cutting a deal with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to end the 16-day shutdown without stripping funds for the new health care law.

...

Cruz appeared in an SCF ad campaign over the summer calling for defunding of Obamacare as part of any budget deal. The group has issued scathing attacks against more than two dozen Republican senators who refused to back the tactic.

A number of GOP senators confronted Cruz and Lee at a private lunch on Oct. 2 over their work with the Senate Conservatives Fund.

Cruz refused to distance himself at that point.

Cornyn and McConnell met with major GOP donors this weekend at a gathering in Sea Island, Ga.

“There was quite a bit of discussion about the Senate Conservatives Fund and FreedomWorks and other organizations which divide Republicans,” use that division to raise money, and then use those funds to defeat Republicans, Cornyn said.

“They are benefiting from donor confusion about exactly who they are and what their goals are,” Cornyn said.

http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2013/10/cruz-quells-gop-annoyance-as-cornyn-snipes-with-tea-party-groups.html/

[junie]

It’s instructive to remember that when the Tea Party first began to gather steam, the name referred to a “party” in the celebration sense – the Boston Tea Party, specifically: an event of planned chaos, a protest that masqueraded as an Indian attack. Over time, the name has lost its punny puckishness much as the movement has steadily shifted from a proudly anarchical – even populist – response and rebellion within the GOP to a smoothly functioning alternative to it.

The government shutdown (http://www.theguardian.com/world/us-government-shutdown-2013)proved that attempts by the GOP establishment to co-opt the Tea Party as a source of energy just created a network of political sleeper agents (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/17/us-government-open-shutdown-republicans-democrats). With its own mechanism for drafting (and supporting) candidates, its own agenda, and its own media eco-system, the Tea Party is a third party by almost any criteria but ballot affiliation – and leadership.

The absence of any official organizational structure might be one reason the Tea Party has remained so lively despite a terrible national reputation and negligible policy achievements. When something goes wrong, those identified with the failure fade for a time and the attention of Tea Party-identified voters shifts smoothly to someone else. There’s also no demand for positive policy victories or signature legislation: no one has to win a debate, just spoil the outcome.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/25/ted-cruz-isnt-the-only-tea-party-nut-theres-plenty-more-of-them/

[Chris]

Great pasties, junie!!

[Captain Obvious]

Great pasties, junie!!

4436

[Captain Obvious]

Here's another one - Common, the OP is banned from this thread.

There should be a special award granted to those who manage to get banned from their own threads.

[Chris]

4436

Bu-bu-but I meant...yikes!

[Ravi]

It’s instructive to remember that when the Tea Party first began to gather steam, the name referred to a “party” in the celebration sense – the Boston Tea Party, specifically: an event of planned chaos, a protest that masqueraded as an Indian attack. Over time, the name has lost its punny puckishness much as the movement has steadily shifted from a proudly anarchical – even populist – response and rebellion within the GOP to a smoothly functioning alternative to it.

The government shutdown (http://www.theguardian.com/world/us-government-shutdown-2013)proved that attempts by the GOP establishment to co-opt the Tea Party as a source of energy just created a network of political sleeper agents (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/17/us-government-open-shutdown-republicans-democrats). With its own mechanism for drafting (and supporting) candidates, its own agenda, and its own media eco-system, the Tea Party is a third party by almost any criteria but ballot affiliation – and leadership.

The absence of any official organizational structure might be one reason the Tea Party has remained so lively despite a terrible national reputation and negligible policy achievements. When something goes wrong, those identified with the failure fade for a time and the attention of Tea Party-identified voters shifts smoothly to someone else. There’s also no demand for positive policy victories or signature legislation: no one has to win a debate, just spoil the outcome.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/25/ted-cruz-isnt-the-only-tea-party-nut-theres-plenty-more-of-them/

They were co-opted by the rightwingnutters almost immediately.

[GrassrootsConservative]

Here's another one - Common, the OP is banned from this thread.

There should be a special award granted to those who manage to get banned from their own threads.
Captain Obvious we can make an award for it.

"COMMONly known to shit in his own sandwiches before he eats them"

[junie]

...the Senate's presiding officer, Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, had to remind these two Republican colleagues that "senators are to refer to each other in the third person and not by name." This quaint rule is to keep the disagreements from getting personal. As the late Sen. Robert Byrd once put it (http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Feature_Homepage_ByrdOrientation.htm): "It is difficult to project the image of a statesmanlike, intelligent, public servant, attempting to inform the public and examine issues, if one is behaving and speaking in a manner more appropriate to a pool room brawl than to United States Senate debate." In keeping with that sense of civility--in which members refer to each other as "my good friend" when they mean "that craven charlatan"--I will characterize my reporting on the views of many of Cruz's Republican colleagues in a similarly circuitous manner: Their affection for him this week became so qualified as to be indistinguishable from hatred. They don't keep Senate records about this kind of thing, but it's likely that no senator has created as many enemies in his party in as short a time as the junior senator from Texas. Sen. Cruz hasn't been content to stop there.

...

Why do Cruz's colleagues hate him? Based on interviews with several Republican senators and the staff of several more, let me count the ways (in no particular order):

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57605161/why-senate-republicans-hate-ted-cruz/

[junie]

Ted Cruz gives fiery victory speech after nearly destroying the Republican party
Ted Cruz is the most dangerous man in Washington… to GOP chances of winning back the Senate in 2014 and the White House in 2016.

For Democrats, Ted Cruz is the goose that keeps laying golden eggs over and over and over.


http://americablog.com/2013/10/ted-cruz-gives-fiery-victory-speech-nearly-destroying-republican-party-video.html

[Captain Obvious]

All this attention is going to cause Cruz to obtain a chair position of importance somewhere.

It's how shit like this happens.

[exotix]

I see a Palin / Cruz ticket in 2016 ... makes no difference which is Prez or Vice Prez ... LOL.

[Cigar]

All this attention is going to cause Cruz to obtain a chair position of importance somewhere.

It's how shit like this happens.

Well ... I hear the Chair is still vacant :grin:

http://blogs.democratandchronicle.com/editorial/files/2012/08/eastwood-clint-chair.jpg

[bladimz]

Ted Cruz-The Reincarnation Of Joe McCarthy?

For a politician seeking power at any cost, there are few tricks in the handbook more effective than the employment of innuendo, false implication and guilt by association—tricks that were once perfected to devastating effect by Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator who rose to extraordinary power through his mastery of these dark arts as he led the United States down the path to one of its darkest hours...

...Newly minted Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) would do well to learn the lessons of these predecessors as he embarks on his own public career, one he has apparently chosen to build using the dark political arts of innuendo and smear.

...Senator Cruz has elected to follow the darkest of all political paths in his quest for advancement. And while it is truly a shame and a waste of a very capable man, it is not something that can be allowed by any American, no matter what one’s political preferences.

The sooner the supporters of Senator Cruz recognize the profound difference between opposing a political appointment or opponent and smearing such an individual through lies and innuendo, in the tradition of Joseph McCarthy, the sooner we can put the breaks on Senator Cruz and his misguided desire to repeat the serious and harmful errors in our past.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2013/02/18/ted-cruz-the-reincarnation-of-joe-mccarthy/
This coming from Forbes Magazine; a fairly conservative publication. Where McCarthy's demon was communism and communists, Cruz's is Obama, his administration and his policies.