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Obama’s road trip to Texas: make Ted Cruz-Republicans the face of Washington opposition

 

(DRM) Dream Action Coalition’s photo labels Sen. Ted Cruz as a “vendido” in “Gang of Hate”
by Dee Dee Garcia Blase on May. 08, 2013, under Legal Immigration Reform

The (DRM) Dream Action Coalition’s photo below labels Sen. Ted Cruz as a “vendido” in “Gang of Hate” with regard to legal immigration reform. The meaning of vendido is the brown equivalent of an Uncle Tom.

DRM writes:

Have you seen the amendments to the Immigration Reform bill added by Sen. Sessions, Cruz and Grassley?? In summary, they want no path to citizenship, SB-1070 nationally and more enforcement everywhere! Please help us convince Sen. Cornyn to not join the “Gang of Hate” and to be a champion for immigrant families in Texas.

While Republican Senator Marco Rubio from Florida shows leadership on legal immigration reform, we are seeing the Texas

The tail has been wagging the dog, but it will be time for the dog to wag the tail. Cruz had better do better than to offer Mexicans and undocumented Latinos table scraps.

Cuban-American Senator Ted Cruz still missing in action with regard to the Gang of 8 comprehensive immigration reform that will fix the clearly broken immigration system. Did you know that Texas shares64% of the southern border with Mexico yet there is no real leadership from Cruz?

Why isn’t Cuban-American Ted Cruz showing CIR leadership in his own State that is home to millions and millions of Mexican-Americans?!

Almost half of the Texas population is of Mexican descent, yet the Cuban-American Senator Ted Cruz doesn’t seem to care to support the Gang of 8 legal immigration fix.

Sen. Ted Cruz who is the son of a Cuban immigrant has family in the United States that have migrated to our Country and have benefited from privileged Cuban amnesty via the Cuban Adjustment Act. You will hear Cruz try to play your heart strings when he tells a (pretend sob story) on how his daddy came to the States with $100 bucks sown into his underwear.

According to FOX NEWS:

Cruz’s father Rafael is a pastor outside Dallas. He fought with Fidel Castro’s rebels in Cuba before Castro took power and eventually embraced communism, and the elder Cruz fled to the U.S. with nothing but $100 sowed into his underwear.

According to the inflation calculator, $100.00 back then is equivalent to $826.21 today. That is a whole helluva lot more money than the dying immigrant crossing the desert comes here with. Many immigrants crossing the desert die of dehydration.

 

She should probably stick to Arizona politics.

 

Ted Cruz Drives Liberals Around the Bend
By PETER ROFF
May 9, 2013

What is it about Republican Sen. Ted Cruz that seems to bother the Democrats so much?

Sure, he hit the ground running after being elected to the U.S. Senate from Texas, but does that really justify the level of abuse the members of the party of Jefferson and Jackson are heaping on him? Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, a member of the Clinton cabinet and, briefly, a candidate for president recently singled him out as being in-authentically Hispanic. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., described him earlier this week, in a left-handed sort of way, as the equivalent of a schoolyard bully. It's almost enough to make a person cringe with embarrassment.

The Democrats are supposed to be the party of tolerance and understanding. (Leaving aside that, well into the 21st century, they elected as the Senate's president pro tempore a former member and recruiter for the Ku Klux Klan or that another of their most revered colleagues once left the scene of a one car accident for which he was at fault in which his female passenger died, the dominant media culture has given them power to determine the acceptable and to decide what is over the line on questions of race, sex and ethnicity.) If Reid and Richardson's comments were made by a Republican about a Democrat, the fury would be endless. Instead, because Cruz is a Republican, they feel free to fling epithets at him with abandon in the hopes that they will get him to back down, knowing that no one that matters will call them on it

"Back down from what," you ask? From trying to change the way the Senate operates, apparently, which Reid runs like his personal fiefdom. By frequently blocking Republican senators from offering amendments to even the most trivial legislation, he has turned the world's greatest deliberative body into a legislative quagmire where almost nothing gets done and almost the only way for the Republican minority to get a point across is through a filibuster.

Cruz is trying to change that along with the other "young Turks" like Kentucky's Rand Paul, Utah's Mike Lee and Florida's Marco Rubio. Not content to squabble over the crumbs Reid leaves behind, they are actually trying to insert policy alternatives into the debate, at the same time drawing important distinctions on serious policy questions.

If conservatives are serious about enacting reforms that will change the direction of the country, they will encourage Cruz and the others and back them to the hilt. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., seems already to have absorbed this lesson and has partnered with them on key efforts enough times that it can be safely said that he has become a believer.

Those who have been around Washington long enough can remember how a group of young congressmen led by Newt Gingrich, Bob Walker and Vin Weber took on the task of radicalizing their GOP colleagues in the U.S. House, pushing them to take stands on important issues rather than pursue compromise from a position of weakness. They got them to go to the floor and take their case directly to the American people over the then innovative C-SPAN cable and satellite television network.

It took almost two decades, and a lot of elections in between for the distinctions Gingrich, Walker, Weber and others were making to take root with the electorate but, by 1994, the GOP shook off what was believed by many to be its permanent minority status and win control of Congress' lower chamber for the first time since Eisenhower. By delivering on the promises they made in the Contract with America, the Gingrich-led Republican armada became the first GOP majority in the House to be re-elected since Herbert Hoover. Cruz and company are doing the same thing in the U.S. Senate.

By standing up for principle, by refusing to follow blindly the dictates of Reid and company, Cruz, Paul, Lee and Rubio are giving the "old bulls" fits. Reid's arguments, when he's not reduced to name-calling, seem to focus on their activities running counter to "the way things are done" in the Senate. That your opposition is engaged in poor form is a weak counter-argument, more appropriate to a European parliamentary chamber than to the U.S. Congress. Given that it took the Senate under Reid four years to pass a budget and that, under his leadership, it has become a place where much-needed pro-growth legislation passed by the House goes to die, it's a good thing there are some people willing to shake things up.

It's funny how those that decry negative campaigning the loudest – in case you are wondering, that would be the liberals – always seem to be the first to resort to name-calling. The floor of the Senate is not a schoolyard, as Reid made clear, but Reid would do better to take the log out of his own eye before spending time pointing out the cinders in the eyes of others.

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Scathing article. I understand most of you have already drank the kool aid and have a thick pair of rose colored coke bottle glasses, but you really should open your eyes to what is going on.