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applegrove

(118,696 posts) Fri Aug 1, 2014, 12:14 PM Aug 2014

"Ted Cruz bucks the establishment, again"

Ted Cruz bucks the establishment, again

By Jeremy Diamond, CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/31/politics/ted-cruz-establishment-challenge/index.html?hpt=hp_bn3

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Cruz, a tea party star who may have presidential ambitions, met with House allies on Wednesday night in is office where pizza was served. His office wasn't saying much about it.

But others who were there said he pushed them hard for a provision that would bar the Obama administration from expanding a policy that prevents deportation of immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children.

He urged them to oppose the emergency border bill backed by Speaker John Boehner and his lieutenants unless it defunded that policy. Cruz likens it to amnesty even though it does not convey legal status.

California GOP Rep. Devin Nunes said Cruz's intervention was "not helpful."

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"Ted Cruz bucks the establishment, again" (Original Post) applegrove Aug 2014 OP

Fucking CNN still stroking the egos of the fucking fascists....CNN, point guard for creeping fascism Fred Sanders Aug 2014 #1

I don't see it as stroking the ego so much as reminding people Cruz is applegrove Aug 2014 #2

Then they should write the truth of his extremist father and the extremist son that worships the Fred Sanders Aug 2014 #3

Cruz is building a power base in the tea party Gothmog Aug 2014 #4

Right. And I think it is important that the voters in the US see that. See the split. See applegrove Aug 2014 #5

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

1. Fucking CNN still stroking the egos of the fucking fascists....CNN, point guard for creeping fascism

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Aug 1, 2014, 12:16 PM

Aug 2014

and guardians of the fascist clowns.

Bucking the establishment, conservative firebrand, terms all designed to cover for the mans' clear madness and lust for power and attention, a psychopath propped up by the lovers of psychopaths.

applegrove

(118,696 posts)

2. I don't see it as stroking the ego so much as reminding people Cruz is

Reply to Fred Sanders (Reply #1)

Fri Aug 1, 2014, 12:18 PM

Aug 2014

out there and holding pizza parties as he crashes any semblance of governance on the right. I was thrilled to see MSM writing about Cruz.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

3. Then they should write the truth of his extremist father and the extremist son that worships the

Reply to applegrove (Reply #2)

Fri Aug 1, 2014, 12:20 PM

Aug 2014

father. Seems if they use religion to guide policy then the religious convictions should be detailed as more than fair game......it never is...it is studiously avoided.

Gothmog

(145,321 posts)

4. Cruz is building a power base in the tea party

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Aug 1, 2014, 12:48 PM

Aug 2014

Carnival Cruz does not care about anyone but Carnival Cruz. Carnival Cruz is hastening the split between the tea party and the mainstream GOP

applegrove

(118,696 posts)

5. Right. And I think it is important that the voters in the US see that. See the split. See

Reply to Gothmog (Reply #4)

Fri Aug 1, 2014, 12:52 PM

Aug 2014

the astroturf that created the tea party. See the opportunists who take advantage of low information voters. I see it talked about a lot by pundits and columnists but not so much in regular news.

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