Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Ted Cruz confronted with reality on Fox News, of all places


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/24/1347162/-Ted-Cruz-confronted-with-reality-on-Fox-News-of-all-nbsp-places?detail=email

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) (C) departs the Senate floor after a late-night vote rejected budget legislation from the Republican-controlled House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, September 30, 2013. The U.S. government was on the edg
Sen. Ted Cruz wants Senate Republicans to block almost every one of President Obama's nominations in retaliation for him immigration executive order. He said so in an op-ed in Politico: "If the president announces executive amnesty, the new Senate majority leader who takes over in January should announce that the 114th Congress will not confirm a single nominee—executive or judicial—outside of vital national security positions, so long as the illegal amnesty persists." There's a bit of a problem there, though, as "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace pointed out. Blocking every nomination means keeping Attorney General Eric Holder in place.
"Are you saying that the Senate should refuse to confirm Loretta Lynch, the president's new nominee for attorney general, and thereby leave Eric Holder, who you don't like very much, in that position even longer?" asked Wallace.
Cruz largely avoided Wallace's question, simply saying that Republicans "should use the constitutional checks and balances we have to rein in the executive."
Wallace, however, persisted, and asked the question again. This time, Cruz still did not state directly that the Senate should block Lynch, but implied as much by saying that only positions of "vital national security" should get to the floor for a vote.
"In my view, the majority leader should decline to bring to the floor of the Senate any nomination other than vital national security positions," the senator said. "Now, that is a serious and major step."
this is not the ramblings of a republican wannabe 2016 winner these are the statements and wolf tickets by a grade school playground kid who wants to take his marbles and go home because he can't get his way.  does this really sound like a party or candidate you want in the big chair the playground mentality is as ugly as he wears it for a presumed adult, whats next "I know you are but what am I"?

"go away little boy, let the door hit you where the dog should have bit you", Marlena Shaw