Yet, the Republican senator says, Obama
“preached a false moral equivalence that every religion is equal.” The
president “didn’t even have the courage to praise Egyptian President el-Sisi
for recently calling out the radicals” who are perverting the Muslim faith,
Cruz said.
Cruz calls comments by Democrat Pat Caddell —
who was featured in a popular video interview in this Leader series last
week — lambasting the Republican leadership for estrangement from their
base “truthful.” He says it is an “act of heresy in Washington to tell this
truth.”
“The biggest divide in politics is between
career politicians in both parties in Washington and the American people,” the
senator says.
Cruz is most proud of his efforts to stop the
train wreck that is Obamacare. As he travels around the nation, he hears of
lost health care coverage, lost jobs, and rising premiums. Yet, he says “career
politicians in both parties are perfectly happy to let Obamacare remain a
permanent feature of our economy.” Cruz elevated the Obamacare debate, and
leadership still hasn’t thanked Cruz for waging the battle that galvanized a
nation, convincing enough voters last November that Republicans might really
fight to stop Obama’s transformation of the nation.
The Texan thinks the only way to change what
Pat Caddell is talking about is for the American people to rise up. From all he
can see from the inside, “Washington is not listening.”
Cruz tells the revealing insider story of the
2014 debt ceiling battle, where too many Republicans said one thing and then
did another, when it came to restraining out of control spending. Cruz said he
wasn’t surprised when President Obama audaciously demanded Congress raise the
government credit card limit without any spending reforms. But the House
approved it, with only 28 Republicans voting with 190 Democrats to
pass a clean debt ceiling per the President’s request, to the acclaim of Wall
Street and media elites.
Next the Senate had to pass H.R. 325. Just as
the Senate is now experiencing with the current battle over DHS spending that
contains a defunding of executive amnesty, to proceed to consider a bill takes
60 votes. But the 60 vote threshold can be altered if the Senate changed it by
unanimous consent. Senate Republican leaders, not objecting to more spending,
more debt, wanted to “kick the can down the road.” Cruz reports GOP leaders
asked all their senators to affirmatively consent to lower the threshold from
60 to 50 votes. The result? If we lowered it, Cruz says, it would “allow us to
vote no on the substance and tell our constituents that we opposed what we just
consented to allow happen.”
Cruz objected to the game, and says
“nothing has engendered more animosity and vitriol in Washington than that.”
It’s interesting to note that this Wall Street Journal
editorial wrongly predicted Cruz’s battle would result in the Democrats
retaining the majority in the fall 2014 elections, but no public apologies have
been issued to Cruz from the Journal editorial page.
The senator told Republican leaders, “I can’t
lie to the people who elected me.” The truth is “shining the light on the game
being played in D.C. is worse than insulting another” senator, he says.
Discussing President Obama’s State of the
Union address, he said he felt like he was “Alice in Wonderland.” The
“president described facts that have no bearing on reality.”
Despite the Washington environment, Cruz is
optimistic because his travels reveal “people are waking up across the
country.”
“2016 will be an election like 1980,” he says.
“We win by drawing a line in the sand. There is a better path for this country.
Back to the free market principles and constitutional liberties that have made
America the best country in the world.”
http://dailycaller.com/2015/02/15/cruz-obama-doesnt-have-the-courage-to-call-out-radical-islam/
http://www.teaparty.org/cruz-republican-leaders-completely-divorced-american-people-83665/
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