Carville: 'Ted Cruz Is the Most Talented, Fearless Republican Politician I’ve Seen in 30 Years'

I don't think he is going to run in 2016. I think he will go two terms until he may run. No one is going to oust him for his Senate seat. I prefer he stay in the Senate and eventually become a Supreme Court Justice.

 

I disagree but respect your opinion.

 

I don't know when to expect it. It could be after several terms. He has a history of practicing law and he served as a clerk for Rehnquist. He also argued many cases in the Supreme Court as well as preparing nearly fifty briefs, I do believe. But as an appointed position, I think he would be a good selection.

 

Sen. Ted Cruz: 'I don’t trust Republicans'
By Ramsey Cox

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Wednesday that he doesn’t trust members of his own party to negotiate a budget conference report.

Cruz's remark came after Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said he thought it was “bizarre” that a member of his own party was objecting to forming a conference committee with the House to work out a budget.

McCain said the objections suggested Senate Republicans didn’t trust House Republicans to hold the party line in negotiations.

“Isn’t it a little bizarre, this whole exercise?” McCain said after Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) objected to going to conference. “What we’re saying is that we don’t trust our colleagues on the other side of the Capitol.”

Cruz responded that he doesn't trust Republicans.

“The senior senator of Arizona urged senators to trust House Republicans ... and frankly, I don’t trust Republicans,” Cruz said. “It’s the leaders of both parties that got us in this mess. ... A lot of Republicans were complicit in this spending spree.”

McCain said a “small minority of the minority” was blocking progress on the budget and a return to regular order.

But Rubio and Cruz argued that Democrats are trying to use budget reconciliation rules as a back-door way to raise the debt ceiling with just 51 votes, essentially giving "Democrats a blank check." The federal government is expected to reach the debt ceiling this fall.

Senate Democrats have asked to go to conference on the budgets 10 times, and Republicans have objected to each request.


Read more: http://thehill.com/video/senate/301329-cruz-i-dont-trust-republicans#ixzz2U4Ex5hUs

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I appreciate his honesty. When it comes to this nations debt situation and spending habits, he is absolutely correct, both sides are to fault.

 

He also said he doesn't trust Democrats. Good job reporting on the news.

 

^^^^^
Amen!

 

Cruz to McCain: ‘There may be more wacko birds in the Senate’ than you think
May 23, 2013

Freshman Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, suggested to Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., that he no longer represents the majority of Senate Republicans on the issue of increasing the debt ceiling — and he offered a bet to prove it.

“There may be more ‘wacko birds’ in the Senate than is suspected,” Cruz said on the Senate floor, recalling the name that McCain once applied to Cruz and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., after their talking filibuster against President Obama’s drone policy.

To test the hypothesis, Cruz suggested that McCain circulate a letter to the GOP conference stating that Republicans support allowing Senate Democrats to raise the debt limit with a simple majority.

“I believe he will find that his representation to this body, that it is only a minority of Republicans that oppose, that is not accurate,” Cruz said.

The Texas lawmaker offered McCain a bet: If McCain gets a majority of the GOP conference to sign such a letter, “I will offer here and now to go to a home game of my Houston Astros wearing an Arizona Diamondbacks hat,” Cruz said. “But I stand in complete comfort that I will not find myself in that situation because I don’t believe it’s a right that a majority of Republicans in this body have given up the fight on spending.”

McCain attacked Cruz’s position two days ago. “For four years, four years, we complained about the fact that the majority leader … would refuse to bring a budget to the floor of the United States Senate,” McCain said on the floor. “What [do] we on my side of the aisle keep doing? We don’t want a budget unless — unless — we put requirements on the conferees that are absolutely out of line and unprecedented.”

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, explained why he, Cruz and Paul oppose going to conference unless Senate Democrats promise they won’t use the conference as a vehicle to raise the debt ceiling.

“We want a very simple assurance that any conference report that results from this conference will not be used to raise the debt limit,” Lee said on Tuesday. “We want some assurances that this important decision will be made under the regular order of the Senate — that the normal rules of the Senate will apply to this, that this won’t be negotiated behind closed doors in a backroom deal.”

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I'm glad he is not backing down to McCain.

 

It wouldn't matter because the Demos have the votes and Repubs don't. No way 5 demos go against Obamacare.

Also this is about doing it in the dark not out in the light. They want this to be done in conference and not debated on the floor.

If the Demos really wanted to be bipartisan they would go for 60 votes, that way at least 5 repugs would have to say yes.