Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 189
Navigating the Nonsense
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) did his best to Hillary Clinton to President Obama as he offered sharp criticism of the “Obama-Clinton” foreign policy, the New York Times reports.
Said Cruz: “The failures of the Obama-Clinton foreign policy are manifest. It’s almost as if the whole world is on fire right now.”
“Republican presidential prospects like Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio have tapped the tech industry’s fat wallets and mined its big-data expertise — but these 2016 hopefuls couldn’t be further from Silicon Valley when it comes to policy,” Politico reports.
“A series of major divides — from the fate of net neutrality to the future of surveillance reform — still splits this trio of prominent pols from Internet giants in the country’s tech heartland, which helped catapult President Obama to well-funded victories in 2008 and 2012.”
“I don’t think I’m all that conservative.”
— Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), quoted by the New York Observer.
“When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end to that unbridled audacity of yours, swaggering about as it does now?”
— Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), quoted by The Hill, comparing President Obama to a figure who sought to violently overthrow the Roman republic.
[speech_bubble type=”std” subtype=”a” icon=”pwdome.jpg” name=””]Cruz takes the lead in the contest for most dramatic way to call President Obama a tyrannical dictator. [/speech_bubble]
“He is defiant and angry at the American people. If he acts by executive diktat, President Obama will not be acting as a president, he will be acting as a monarch.”
— Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), writing in Politico, on President Obama’s plan to use his executive authority to address immigration.
“Vincent Harris, Ted Cruz’s top digital operative, is leaving the Texas senator’s team to work for Sen. Rand Paul’s political operation, as the jostling for staff ramps up ahead of the 2016 GOP presidential primary contest,” CNN reports.
“Politics may be stressful, but that doesn’t mean anyone in politics loses weight accidentally. When they begin looking trim in better-cut suits, then you know something’s afoot. Ted Cruz is looking trim these days,” Politico notes.
“And while he has kept a relatively low profile during this year’s elections, his new look, along with his numerous trips to early-voting states like Iowa and South Carolina, means it’s safe to conclude that he’s seriously considering a run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. If so, he’ll have a long road ahead to build the type of national organization and national stature necessary for a presidential run. But he’ll be in a better position to do so than his critics might think.”
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) “is still ready to use any means necessary to repeal Obamacare,” Politico reports.
“But even his fellow conservatives aren’t all jumping on board – a sign that the Republican repeal or bust movement is struggling while Obamacare continues to enroll millions of people with health insurance.”
Wonk Wire: Obamacare premiums, on average, are actually falling in major cities
“Net Neutrality” is Obamacare for the Internet; the Internet should not operate at the speed of government.
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) November 10, 2014
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire -- which for more than two decades has been one of the nation's most influential political news sites.
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