by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | May 01, 2016
Ted Cruz
I really get why many people like Ted Cruz. They believe that he is a strict constitutionalist and that he will stand up to the establishment. He did after all take over the Senate floor for more than 21 hours to speak about the need to defund Obamacare, when other Republicans like John Cornyn voted to fully fund Obamacare with a cloture vote out of sight of their constituents. We all loved Ted for this bold move and we thought that we finally had someone to speak our voice, but what we didn’t fully appreciate is that other professional politicians saw this rightfully as grandstanding signifying nothing but self-serving promotional theater. As we dig deeper into Ted’s words vs his actions we discover that much of what Ted does is self-promotion, the facts and the constitution be damned.
Natural Born Citizen
First, it is abundantly clear to any strict interpretation of the constitution that Ted is not and cannot be a natural born citizen. Sure, you can point to this or that constitutional scholar or opinion maker who can make a reasoned argument that he is natural-born by their interpretation. I can point to just as many on the other side, but it is abundantly clear that Ted was born in Canada, not the USA and that his father was not a US Citizen. The crux seems to depend on your belief in the power of the legislature to confer natural-born status or the US Constitution, and of course if you want Ted to be president.
Supported giving Obama Fast Track Authority
Ted Cruz first supported Fast Track which would allow Obama (Globalist) to bypass the constitutional treaty approval requirement of 2/3rd senate vote. He even wrote an op-ed supporting this: “We strongly urge our colleagues in Congress to vote for trade-promotion authority,” Cruz stated, along with co-author Rep. Paul Ryan (Globalist), R-Wis., in a Wall Street Journal (Globalist) op-ed on April 21.
This Trade Promotion Authority, also called fast-track would allow this treaty now called an agreement to be negotiated in secret by Obama, dumped on the Senate floor with no time to read, debate or change, and passed with a simple up or down vote of only 51% to pass not the 2/3rds required by the US Constitution. This TPP treaty (masquerading as an agreement) BTW would end US Sovereignty and place this country and our constitution under the control of international corporations (Globalism). Next, Cruz does a 180 on this decision… “Cruz’s criticism of fast-track comes as a surprise, considering his public praise of the bill only two months prior.”
How could a constitutionalist like Ted ever even consider giving Obama this unconstitutional power in the first place, much less get in bed with a Globalist like Paul Ryan?
Voted to extend the Patriot Act
Where was Ted Cruz on the Audit the Fed vote? Answer: Missing in Action, nowhere to be found. However, Ted had no such problem when it came to reauthorizing the 100% Unconstitutional and and rights-destroying Patriot Act which is an anathema to anyone who values the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Deep ties to the Bush Crime Family
Neil Bush (Globalist), Jeb’s brother, joined Ted Cruz’s finance team on March 8th. Jeb Bush (Globalist) endorses Ted Cruz for Republican nomination March 22nd.
From the Daily Caller: “The Bush-Cruz connection is clear. Ted was George W.’s brain when he ran for president. A top policy adviser, Ted maneuvered for Solicitor General in Bush World but settled for a plum at the Federal Trade Commission. Ted’s a Bush man with deep ties to the political and financial establishment. Ted and wife Heidi brag about being the first “Bush marriage” – they met as Bush staffers. Cruz was an adviser on legal affairs while Heidi was an adviser on economic policy and eventually director for the Western Hemisphere on the National Security Council under Condoleezza Rice. Condi helped give us the phony war in Iraq. Heidi then went to the Bush U.S. Trade Representative as a top deputy to U.S. Trade Rep. Robert Zoellick, who wired Heidi’s membership in the Council on Foreign Relations and job at Goldman Sachs. The bailed-out bank then loaned Cruz $1 million secretly to finance his Senate race. Cruz would also borrow an undisclosed $1 million loan from Citicorp.”
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