"Cruz&Palin Front&Center With Veterans"!

Leadership America Requires~

Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz and other conservative Republicans led a protest on Sunday which tore down barriers at a second world war memorial in Washington and confronted police outside the White House. Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee, accused President Barack Obama of using war veterans as pawns in the two-week-old federal government shutdown.

“We are here to honor our vets,” she told a crowd at the national mall, which has been fenced off since 1 October. “You look around though and you see these barricades and you have to ask yourself is this any way that a commander in chief would show his respect, his gratitude to our military. This is a matter of shutdown priorities.”


Obama could lift the barricades if he wished, she said, adding: “Our veterans should be above politics.”

Cruz, a Texas senator and fellow Tea Party darling, accused Obama of targeting the memorial: “He said, ‘If you open the memorial I will veto it’.”

Thousands of people, accompanied by tractors with blaring horns, converged on the plaza and sang “God bless America”. Later some tore down barriers and carried them to the White House, where they dumped them while chanting “shame on you” to police in riot gear.

The protest fuelled a febrile mood as congressional Democrats and Republicans sought an elusive compromise to end the government shutdown and avert an impending default on US debt.

Polls show most Americans blame Republicans for the crisis. Tea Party activists raised the stakes and forced more mainstream Republicans into a corner by linking the fiscal battle to a campaign to repeal the administration’s healthcare law.

Sunday’s protest attempted to shift blame for the memorial closures, one of the most politically sensitive, on to the White House. It came ahead of a big veterans’ rally scheduled for Tuesday, when thousands of former service members are expected in Washington to express concern that the shutdown will disrupt disability payments and other benefits.


“It could be, in worst-case scenario, a suicide spike. Emotional stability drops,” Ryan Lamke, a wounded veteran, told CNN. “I mean, we’re talking about a population of veterans that are not seeking out the mental health care they so desperately need.”

The political battle over memorials follows a separate row over “phony” arrival ceremonies, in which flag-draped coffins of dead military personnel were carried from planes and presented to relatives.

In fact the remains of those killed in Vietnam or the second world war had often arrived weeks or months earlier and been stored in a laboratory run by the Hawaii-based Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command agency. Many of the C-17 cargo planes were towed into position because they can no longer fly, fueling accusations that the ceremonies, which include bugles and bagpipes, were misleading theater.

In a statement to NBC, which broke the story last week, the Pentagon said the “arrival ceremonies” would henceforth be known as “honour ceremonies” to avoid confusion.

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Ted Cruz~5 More Reason's to Respect Him!

5 reasons Ted Cruz deserves our respect~

To start, something we can all agree on -- Ted Cruz tends to evoke passionate emotions.

The left hates him because, well, he's a human textbook in the art of annoying liberals. The right is more divided. Some conservatives dislike Cruz because they view him as an agitator for agitation's sake.


WICKHAM: Cruz gambit a one-act play?

Some conservatives dislike him because, well, they aren't him. But for many conservatives, Cruz is the ultimate politician; a conservative gunslinger -- no excuses, no prisoners, no retreat -- quite literally, the Lone Star State Ranger.

Yet, regardless of how we as individuals feel about Cruz's politics, for five reasons, he deserves our respect.

1) He's intelligent

As his liberal Harvard Law Professor, Alan Dershowitz, put it, "Cruz was off-the-charts brilliant."

While the Senator often takes flak for his statements in Congress, at speeches off the Hill, he tends to strike a slightly different figure. Passionate yes, but able to articulate the intricacies of his positions to a mix of audiences. If nothing else, we should celebrate the fact that a man who rose from humble beginnings is now at the intellectual forefront of shaping his party's future.

2) He puts causes above political gain

Soaring speeches, relentless campaigning, marathon filibusters ... No one can accuse Cruz of being a political crony. Let's face it; he doesn't seem desperate to win powerful friends. In fact, he's reveled in torching bridges as much as building them.

Cruz's relentless passion speaks to something. We might disagree with some (or all) of his opinions, –but we should respect Cruz's commitment. By the authority of Texas voters, Cruz has been sent to Washington for a reason. He's fulfilling it. Though he's controversial at home as well as in DC, so far, the defining judges of Cruz's 'service', Texan voters, remain more favorable in their opinion of him than they are negative. Of course, this may change, but until it does, Cruz can point to a continuing base of popular legitimacy. We should respect that.

3) He's amusing

No one can accuse the Senator of being boring. His speeches are loaded with humor. And impressively for a politician, Cruz's jokes include references to both modern social trends and cultural Americana. This isn't silly, it's crucially important. Regrettably, many Americans are far more interested in the Kardashians than they are in their own government. That's not healthy for our democracy.

Yet, Cruz is helping to change this dynamic -– he's making politics more accessible and more engaging. When he sends syrup to Jon Stewart, he's connecting with young Americans. When he compares ObamaCare to Dr. Seuss, he's introducing levity to a DC dominated debate. Certainly, he's differentiating himself from the callous, mindless oratory of Republicans like Todd Akin or Richard Mourdock.

4) He's a political turbine

When it comes to Ted Cruz, you never know what you're going to get. That makes his politics interesting. In turn, Cruz drags people out of disinterest and into the discussion. These days, Cruz is probably better at stirring up the liberal base than the president. For the well-being of our country, this catalytic quality is priceless. The main problem with contemporary American politics isn't Cruz style intransigence. Instead, it's the fact that many Americans ignore politics in general. They care enough to complain, but not enough to demand change. Cruz changes that equation. He's a grenade against apathy.

5) He's done nothing wrong

Listening to some commentators, you'd think that Cruz is an American Guy Fawkes. He isn't. Rather, the senator is doing what most ambitious politician do – he's applying the system to his own advantage.

It's true, few of his actions could be regarded as bi-partisan in nature. But political service is about more than deference to common authority (as President Obama recently found out with his Syria authorization request in Congress). In the end, Cruz will be considered just as much for what he has prevented, as for what he has established. His is undoubtedly a risky proposition – 2016 Republican primary voters may come to regard Cruz harshly if the GOP loses key seats in the 2014 midterm elections. But Cruz's record shouldn't be written for a few more years.

Ultimately, the people of Texas will decide whether or not he deserves a second term. The American people will decide whether he gets the keys to another house.

In our system of government, Ted Cruz owes deference to two things alone – his oath and his office. Yes, many of us would prefer a more consensus oriented politician. Nevertheless, he's an elected representative of America's second most populous state. We don't have to like him, we don't have to vote for him, but paying heed to his pivotal role in our national political life, Ted Cruz deserves our respect.

Tom Rogan is a contributor to The Guardian, The National Review Online, and The Week.

Ted Cruz! De-Obamanizing of America!

Ted Cruz: Leading the De-Obamaization of America!:
LINK~http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/58222#When:17:33:16Z

"Ted Cruz Furious about Syrian Attack by Obama"!

"Ted Cruz Stands with Americans AGAINST Obamas Attack of Innocent Syrians!

The voice of sanity on Capitol Hill. "Ted Cruz: U.S. not 'Al Qaeda’s air force,’" by Tal Kopan for Politico, September 4: (thanks to Jihadwatch)

Sen. Ted Cruz called President Barack Obama’s efforts to authorize military intervention in Syria a public relations move, saying the U.S. military shouldn’t be “Al Qaeda’s air force.”
The Texas Republican said Tuesday on TheBlaze that while he’s glad the president listened to calls from him and others to bring the issue to Congress, America shouldn’t get involved and risk helping terrorists in the rebel forces.

“We certainly don’t have a dog in the fight,” Cruz said, calling it a civil war in Syria. “We should be focused on defending the United States of America. That’s why young men and women sign up to join the military, not to, as you know, serve as Al Qaeda’s air force.”

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) told reporters that Cruz sounded “totally uninformed” in his comments and that there is “overwhelming” evidence that the Free Syrian Army is still the dominant opposition force on the battlefield, not terrorists. McCain met with the army’s leader, Gen. Salim Idriss, in June.

“This is based on this assumption that they’re all extremists,” McCain said. “That’s just false, totally false. That’s someone that’s totally uninformed.”

Instead of being focused on securing chemical weapons in Syria, Cruz said, the president is too focused on “international norms” and his own public image.

“It appears what the president is pressing for is essentially protecting his public relations because he drew a red line, and, essentially, the bluff was called,” Cruz said.

Cruz said of nine major groups of rebels fighting in Syria, at least seven had ties to Al Qaeda, and a strategy from Obama that would arm those groups “makes no sense whatsoever.”

“I’ll give you one of the simplest principles of foreign policy that we ought to be following: Don’t give weapons to people who hate you. Don’t give weapons to people who want to kill you,” Cruz said.

"Ted Cruz Heckled by a Dem in Dallas"~No problem!

Ted Cruz Gets Heckled by Democrats that Snuck in the Back Way! Handles it beautifully! No Frowns and Fingers abound like Obama!
Youtube LINK~ http://youtu.be/DXwxqIvEqZ8

Ted Cruz~"Let The Vetting Begin"~He has NOTHING To Hide! Change Already!

"Who Is"~Ted Cruz?

"The Next Potential Leader of The United States of America"?

                 

"Let The Vetting Begin"

~Americas Not Screwing Up Again~

                       
                        "Official Portrait"

Named: Rafael Edward "Ted" Cruz (ZERO Aliases)
Birth Certificate: Public Access to All Americans (No Wait)
Born: December 22, 1970 
Parents: Honorable Lives, Honorable Americans.
Career: The  Junior United States Senator for the  GREAT "State of Texas" since 2013. 
He is a Member of the Republican Party and was Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 to May 2008, after being Appointed by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott.
He was the First Hispanic Solicitor General in Texas. 
He's The Youngest Solicitor General in the United States, and the Solicitor General with the Longest Tenure in Texas history.
He was the first Hispanic Elected U.S. Senator from Texas.
Mr.Cruz was a Partner at the Law Firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, where he led the Firm’s U.S. Supreme Court and National Appellate Litigation Practice.
He previously served as the Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the United States Department of Justice, and as Domestic Policy Advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign.
 In addition, Mr.Cruz was an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, where he taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation, from 2004 to 2009.
Mr.Cruz was the Republican Nominee for the Senate Seat which was vacated by fellow Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison.
On July 31, 2012, He Defeated Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst in the Republican Primary Runoff, 57%–to-43%.
Mr.Cruz Defeated the Democrat, former state Representative Paul Sadler, in the General Election held on November 6, 2012.
He Prevailed with 56%-to–41% over Sadler.
Mr.Cruz is endorsed by the Tea Party ~Taxed Enough Already Party as well as The Republican Liberty Caucus.
On November 14, 2012, Mr.Cruz was Appointed Vice-Chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
 Just look at this Mans Credentials! You just read more about Him and His accomplishments than what was ever known in 2008 about Barack Hussein Obama.
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~You can have Discussions with Senator Cruz~ TWITTER @SenTedCruz

How To Contact The Senator~ ( No He's Not On Vacation!)

*Washington Office
 185 Dirksen Senate Office Building
 Washington, DC 20510
 Phone: (202) 224-5922

*Austin Office
 300 E. 8th., Suite #961
 Austin, TX 78701
 Phone: (512) 916-5834

*Dallas Office
10440 N Central Expressway, Suite #1160
Dallas, TX 75231
Phone: (214) 361-3500

*Houston Office
1919 Smith St., Suite #800
Houston, TX 77002
Phone: (713) 653-3456

*San Antonio Office
3133 General Hudnell Dr., Suite #120
San Antonio, TX 78226
Phone: (210) 340-2885

*Tyler Office
305 S. Broadway, Suite #501
Tyler, TX 75702
Phone: (903) 593-5130

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News From Around The Web of Senator Cruz

Sen. Ted Cruz says Obama 'Just granted all of Congress an Exception' to Obamacare!

~Ted Cruz on Saturday, August 10th, 2013 in a speech to the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa~

Sen. Ted Cruz wants Congress to refuse to fund Obamacare. The law’s such a mess, says the Texas Republican, that the president let lawmakers themselves off the hook.

"Look, the wheels are coming off this," he told the audience at the conservative Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa, on Aug. 10, 2013. "The Teamsters are abandoning it. President Obama just granted all of Congress an exception. And he did it because Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats who passed this thing came begging and said, ‘Please, please, please let us out of Obamacare.’ This thing ain't working."

The audience let out a long "Boooo" at the mention of President Barack Obama’s action on behalf of Congress.

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"Senator Cruz on Obamacare De-funding"

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has been among the most vocal Republican Senators in pushing the latest strategy to Defund Obamacare.

“Now is the best time,” Cruz said in an email interview with The Daily Caller.

Using this strategy, which is also favored by Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee and Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, lawmakers would refuse to vote for a continuing resolution to keep funding the federal government unless President Obama’s healthcare law is defunded as part of the Legislation.

Under current law, the government is funded until Sept. 30, meaning a continuing resolution needs to be passed to keep the government from shutting down.

But inside the Republican Party, many lawmakers object to the strategy, saying it gives false hope because it simply won’t work. Without having control of the Senate or the presidency, such legislation would be impossible to pass.

The Daily Caller attempted to have a high-profile Republican on both sides of the debate answer four of the same questions about the strategy. While Cruz agreed to answer questions, no Republican that TheDC contacted on the other side of the issue would agree to do the same.

Through spokespeople, Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan and former White House aide Karl Rove all declined to participate. All have spoken out against the strategy.

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Here are the four questions posed to Cruz by The Daily Caller:

What precisely is your strategy to defund Obamacare and what’s your best argument for employing this method?

Cruz: Now is the best time: There is bipartisan agreement that Obamacare isn’t working. It’s killing jobs, causing more and more Americans to be driven into part-time employment, causing employers to drop health insurance and dramatically increasing health insurance premiums. Even the unions — President Obama’s most reliable allies — are jumping ship.

The Constitution gives Congress the power of the purse, the most important check we have on an overreaching executive. Now is the best chance we have to exercise this power in order to defund Obamacare. It can be done as part of passing the Continuing Resolution (CR) — a piece of legislation that funds the government and must be renewed by September 30th.

The Continuing Resolution gives us real leverage to defund Obamacare. Fighting this fight won’t be easy, but it’s now or never. President Obama’s strategy is simple: on January 1, the subsidies kick in. President Obama wants to get as many Americans addicted to the subsidies because he knows that in modern times, no major entitlement has ever been implemented and then unwound. That’s why the administration announced that it won’t enforce eligibility requirements–essentially encouraging fraud and “liar loans”–because that way the most people possible will get addicted to the sugar.

To stop that from happening, the House should pass a new Continuing Resolution to fund the entire federal government except Obamacare. The House should include a rider in that bill that explicitly prohibits any federal dollars – discretionary and  mandatory – from being spent on it. Republicans control the House, and have already voted some 40 times to repeal Obamacare, so if we stand together, we can do this.

Then the bill comes to the Senate. Republicans need just 41 votes to prevent Democrats from passing legislation that funds Obamacare – 45 Republicans in the Senate have already voted to repeal Obamacare, so if we stand together, we can do this also.

At that point, we simply have to continue to stand together and not blink. If Republicans are truly against Obamacare, they will not vote to fund it.

While the ultimate goal is to repeal the law in its entirety, defunding is a crucial step so we can stop the law from being implemented before Americans get hooked on the subsidies. We cannot just wait for Republicans to take back the Senate to repeal the law. We owe it to Americans to prevent as much of it from being implemented as possible right now.

If we hold 41 Republicans in the Senate or 218 Republicans in the House, we can win the fight because no Continuing Resolution can pass without our support.

And, for any Republicans who disagree, the following question is revealing: what is your alternative? All the various suggestions (delaying the individual mandate, removing the IRS from Obamacare) are fine and good — but none of them can happen before January 1. The House can have a symbolic vote on all of them, but Harry Reid will kill every one.

The only way to force passage is to condition the CR on defunding Obamacare.  Otherwise, the so-called alternatives don’t stop the subsidies on January 1; and, if it’s correct that, once implemented, it will never be unwound (and no Republican has effectively refuted that premise), then not fighting on the CR is effectively saying we surrender and will allow Obamacare to become a permanent feature of our economy, hurting jobs and growth in perpetuity.

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"Senator Cruz ALREADY Vetted on Birth Eligibility to Be President"!
~He PASSED with Flying Red White and Blue Colors~
LINK HERE>Thank You BLAZE!

"From Senator Cruz"

In 2012, Ted Cruz was elected as the 34th U.S. Senator from Texas.  A passionate fighter for limited government, economic growth, and the Constitution, Ted won a decisive victory in both the Republican primary and the general election, despite having never before been elected to office.

Propelled by tens of thousands of grassroots activists across Texas, Ted’s election has been described by the Washington Post as “the biggest upset of 2012 . . . a true grassroots victory against very long odds.”

National Review has described Ted as “a great Reaganite hope,” columnist George Will has described him as “as good as it gets,” and the National Federation of Independent Business characterized his election as “critical to the small-business owners in [Texas, and], also to protecting free enterprise across America,”

Ted’s calling to public service is inspired largely by his first-hand observation of the pursuit of freedom and opportunity in America.  Ted’s mother was born in Delaware to an Irish and Italian working-class family; she became the first in her family to go to college, graduated from Rice University with a degree in mathematics, and became a pioneering computer programmer in the 1950s.

Ted’s father was born in Cuba, fought in the revolution, and was imprisoned and tortured.  He fled to Texas in 1957, penniless and not speaking a word of English.  He washed dishes for 50 cents an hour, paid his way through the University of Texas, and started a small business in the oil and gas industry.  Today, Ted’s father is a pastor in Dallas.

In the Senate, Ted serves on the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation; the Committee on Armed Services; the Committee on the Judiciary; the Special Committee on Aging; and the Committee on Rules and Administration.

Before being elected, Ted received national acclaim as the Solicitor General of Texas, the State's chief lawyer before the U.S. Supreme Court.  Serving under Attorney General Greg Abbott, Ted was the nation’s youngest Solicitor General, the longest serving Solicitor General in Texas, and the first Hispanic Solicitor General of Texas.

In private practice in Houston, Ted spent five years as a partner at one of the nation’s largest law firms, where he led the firm’s U.S. Supreme Court and national Appellate Litigation practice.

Ted has authored more than 80 U.S. Supreme Court briefs and argued 43 oral arguments, including nine before the U.S. Supreme Court.  During Ted’s service as Solicitor General, Texas achieved an unprecedented series of landmark national victories, including successfully defending:

U.S. sovereignty against the UN and the World Court in Medellin v. Texas;
The Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms;
The constitutionality of the Texas Ten Commandments monument;
The constitutionality of the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance;
The constitutionality of the Texas Sexually Violent Predator Civil Commitment law; and
The Texas congressional redistricting plan.
The National Law Journal has called Ted “a key voice” to whom “the [U.S. Supreme Court] Justices listen.”  Ted has been named by American Lawyer magazine as one of the 50 Best Litigators under 45 in America, by the National Law Journal as one of the 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America, and by Texas Lawyer as one of the 25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century.

From 2004-09, he taught U.S. Supreme Court Litigation as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law.

Prior to becoming Solicitor General, he served as the Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, as Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as Domestic Policy Advisor on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign.

Ted graduated with honors from Princeton University and with high honors from Harvard Law School.  He served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist on the U.S. Supreme Court.  He was the first Hispanic ever to clerk for the Chief Justice of the United States.

Ted and his wife Heidi live in his hometown of Houston, Texas, with their two young daughters Caroline and Catherine.
Press Release of Senator Cruz
NEWSLETTER: The News with Sen. Cruz - August 13, 2013
Contact: press@cruz.senate.gov / (202) 228-7561