By Mark Esposito, Guest Blogger
Well, the guy who ushered in the recent government shutdown with a 21 hour filibuster sure gets it honest. Texas senator Ted Cruz, that darling of the Tea Baggers, is no longer the Harvard educated political mystery man who chides the administration at every turn and who rabble rouses what is loosely referred to as the Republican base. Seems he learned the techniques of fact-free demagoguery at daddy’s knee and not amid the ivy in Cambridge (or at Princeton as Elaine M reminds me). That’s right, the Right (as in far) Reverend Rafael Cruz has embarked on his own freewheeling magical mystery tour armed only with the credential that he sired that darling of the Rebel flag wavers. Cashing in on sonny boy’s status among some on the right, Rafael Cruz is now touring the country demanding Obama “go back to Kenya” and turning the Treaty of Tripoli* on its head claiming divine sanction in decreeing that the land of the free and home of the brave is also the exclusive dominion of the Christian. And if that isn’t a big enough stain on his vestments, the representative of the Savior commands all Tea Baggers to shinny on up to the latest polling place to vote Republican.
IRS are you listening?
Speaking to the faithful at a Republican rally in Hood County (no pun intended), Texas, the elder Cruz gave us a new spin on two centuries plus of previously settled American history. Ignoring the fact that most of the movers and shakers who founded the nation were deists (and not Christians as currently subscribed), Cruz said “the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution were signed on the knees of the framers” and were a “divine revelation from God, yet our president has the gall to tell us that this is not a Christian nation…The United States of America was formed to honor the word of God.” Amen brother, pass the plate.
Cruz the elder added this little historical revelation to his earlier intelligence blockbuster that President Obama is really an “outright Marxist” who “seeks to destroy all concept of God.” “Back to Kenya” he goes was our man of God’s solution to the crisis of faith facing the nation.
Perhaps sensing that daddy might be more useful in the attic behind a locked door or maybe as a guest at an institution where falling down or colliding with walls is never a worry, Senator Cruz dismissed the rantings. “He is a pastor. He is a man of deep integrity. And he made a joke.” Sonny didn’t disagree or distance himself from the remarks, however. Hardy Har Har.
Yep, those fire and brimstone guys are a laugh a minute. Lewis Black look out! Raffy Cruz is stealing your material. Here is the jokester at his best before an audience that seems more than happy to pay the two drink minimum from that Comedy Central of the right birtherreport.com.
I’m guessing the beverage is Jonestown Kool-ade:
Those Cruz’ are a riot.
For those who think that the Ivy League schooled Sen Ted Cruz may have educated himself out of this lunacy, I suggest that you ask too much genetic engineering from mere college professors.
Source: Huff Post
~Mark Esposito, Guest Blogger
* From the treaty ratified by the Senate and signed by President John Adams:
As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen ],—and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
Oh, I hit the button to soon.
But in the name of the Father, The Son, and the Holy Ghost, dad is a bit of the foo who itShays wears it.
I watched Ted Cruz on television the other night. He speaks the King’s English without the Texas Twang like Ricky boy Perry. He is against RomneyCare. Which is ObamaCare. So he is a RepubliCon of a different stripe than the Mittster. He is already a national figure so he does not have to make himself known like Obama did and Barry Goldwater did. So those of you who dismiss him as a Pee Party Pot kind of guy better go figure.
(Ted Cruz hails his father as a symbol of the “American dream” who came to the United States legally—though Rafael Cruz began his career in the oil industry in Canada, where Ted was born.)….
Cuba is just as far and foreign to most people born in the US as Kenya.
here’s my American dream ’cause I was born here…..
stop stealing
stop killing
stop lying
stop finger pointing
stop coming here if you can’t respect other peoples property and rights
stop using people cause you think you have to ‘get ahead’ you selfish ash*les
stop pretending to have American values if you cannot stop behaving the
way you had to behave before you came here
stop keeping other people from succeeding when they play fairly and you can’t quite bring yourself to do so….
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“* From the treaty ratified by the Senate and signed by President John Adams:
As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion”
But Mark,
As we all know John Adams was a Communist and really had nothing to do with the founding of this country. Some say he was President, but that was so long ago…..who cares? What’s important now is that an anointed savior has arisen to lead America back to Eden. That his Father is a born Cuban and he is a born Canadian is merely meaningless. Where someone was born was only important when the Black man became President. Latino’s are only bad when they come from Mexico or Puerto Rico. Cuba Si, Hawaii No.
http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/ted-cruz-and-his-crazy-dad
http://www.alternet.org/speakeasy/brucewilson/ted-cruzs-father-suggested-his-son-anointed-bring-about-end-time-transfer
Here’s a novel thought for you;
will one of POTUS Obama’s daughters go the politico way?
I’ve found that the 2 party system means that the Puppet Masters (Andrew Kreig’s book being released soon) – are the one’s who party every time we vote.
Every once in a while the exceptional happens.
A man like GWB steals an election and is so terrible a POTUS (if you remember where his ratings were before the time) – that it took one of the largest catastrophic events of all time to maintain his stay. That permitted him to snow’lamb U.S. into murdering innocents.
Now the pardoned Karl Rove runs the GOPs rackets.
It is also my rude awakening to learn, the hard way, that the Laws of our nation are wonderful efforts of administrative civility; placed into a quantum flux state of affairs by the corruptive autocrats we’ve allowed to enter into our esteemed positions of trust.
Because – WE – You and I;
don’t do enough about it!
and People are dillusional!
seems like a certain psycotherapist commenter is a tad insane!
Juliet, I stand corrected then on your opposing corruption in the Dems.
But really? Racist? You call me a racist? OH THE IRONY LOL.
The race card is dead. Its time for the left to stop playing it.
Ted Cruz’s father wants to send Obama ‘back to Kenya’ and install son as ‘political savior’
By Travis Gettys
Thursday, October 31, 2013
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/31/ted-cruzs-father-and-his-allies-see-tea-party-senator-as-political-savior-whos-anointed-by-god/
Excerpt:
The elder Cruz, a pastor affiliated with the Purifying Fire ministry, regularly speaks to tea party and Republican groups on behalf of his son, who frequently talks about and campaigns alongside his father, who’s risen to prominence alongside his son.
Talk radio behemoth Rush Limbaugh has praised the elder Cruz, and former Sen. Jim DeMint, who now heads the conservative Heritage Foundation, brought him along to help campaign against funding the Affordable Care Act – which the younger Cruz attempted to do by tying its implementation to a federal budget resolution.
Rafael Cruz told an April gathering of tea party supporters in Hood County, Texas, that the “wicked,” including so-called Republicans In Name Only, were ruling the United States, and made his often-repeated claim that Obamacare would mandate suicide or stoppage of treatment for elderly patients.
Saying “social justice is a cancer,” the elder Cruz also claimed at the gathering that the federal government wanted to “take all of your money” and confiscate “our fortunes.”
Which is rather ironic, since Rafael Cruz has endorsed an evangelical belief known as the “end-time transfer of wealth” from the wicked to believers prior to the second coming of Christ.
The younger Cruz often cites his father’s influence on his own political philosophy, which includes exposing him to the Free Enterprise Education Center as a middle-schooler and encouraging him to participate in the Constitutional Corroborators group as a teen, and has touted his abilities as a skilled campaigner.
“My dad poured himself into my Senate race last year,” the younger Cruz told National Review Online. “In the early months, we didn’t have much of a campaign. One day, I couldn’t make an event, so he drove out to West Texas alone — no staffers, nothing — and he spoke on my behalf. A few hours later, I called and asked how it went. He said, ‘Even surrogates for the other candidates were asking for Cruz yard signs.’”
So while it may sound silly to those who deride Cruz to hear him described as a “superhero” who is willing to “be crucified for (who) belief system,” that’s how he’s seen in some quarters and promoted by his father.
October 30, 2013
Ted Cruz: The Mask of Sincerity
Posted by David Denby
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/10/ted-cruz-the-mask-of-sincerity.html
I’ve only voted for 2 duopoly presidential candidates in my lifetime, Carter in ’76 and Obama in ’08. So, I struck out lookin’ both times. That said, the last time I heard Dems mockingly saying, “Oh please, please nominate..” it was 1980 and the name was Ronald Reagan. Be careful what you wish for, it may come true.
mespo, Thanks. I have the last harvest of eggplant in my fridge.
Ted Cruz needs to be reminded that he is a Canadian. I love Canadians but they shouldn’t be president. Hey Ted where are your papers? Don’t you just love Tea Partiers. Its OK when its one of theirs.
As to his father’s status as a pastor, if he is getting a religious tax exemption it is time to stop it. Religious tax exemptions should be stopped for all religions now.
I think it is more appropriate that Cruz both father and son need to return to the countries of their birth, Cuba and Canada. Since Cruz may like to run for POTUS, the birthers do raise a legitimate question as to what natural born in the Constitution means. While I realize that court decisions have held that US citizenship can derive from the parents, it does raise an interesting question as to their eligibility to become President.
My understanding of the reason for that clause as to qualifications for POTUS is to prevent a person of dual citizenship or loyalty to be elected to that office. Cruz would clearly fall into that category, and as such would not be eligible for the office. Then one has to ask if the issue of citizenship can be separated from qualifications for an office. In Mexico, and other countries, there is a requirement that one must be physically born in that country to become President of that country. IN fact, in Mexico until recently they required that both parents have been born in Mexico itself. I do not think that is a reasonable requirement under our Constitution, but most countries do mandate physical birth in that country for all kinds of jobs. So while a Mexican may have been a citizen at birth, they cannot become President ever, and for most government jobs they must have been born in country.
Juliet N. 1, November 3, 2013 at 7:52 am
… It’s a guaranteed eight more years for us …
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But not for all of us.
The two party system (a.k.a. “duopoly” pronounced Doo Wop ooh lee) has been hacked, compromised, neutered, and spayed.
When the Democrats begin not to do what the Epigovernment wants, the Republicans will be brought back by their masters.
Democrats are doing what they are told, so Republican candidates who are bat-shit crazy to become president are given major funding –so the Democrats can continue to win elections against them on the national stage.
Bill Clinton, in his southern gentlemanly way, describes that election level.
He sees those running against the T-Party candidates as being “luckier than a dog with two dicks.”
Yet, the local levels Republicans have been controlling more and more state and local legislatures.
The Epigovernment engineers this, made easier by Citizens United, so that the civil government appears incapacitated by gridlock.
The military government can continue undaunted with their triage plan.
nick:
Here I’ll post it from the Food Channel:
Ingredients
1 large eggplant (1 1/2 pounds)
Good olive oil
4 ounces jarred roasted red peppers, chopped
1/2 cup large green olives, pitted and chopped
1 cup chopped yellow onion
1/8 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
1 tablespoon minced garlic (3 cloves)
3 tablespoons minced parsley
2 tablespoons pine nuts, toasted
2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
2 tablespoons drained capers
2 tablespoons tomato paste
1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
2 teaspoons kosher salt
1 1/2 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper
Toasted pita triangles, for serving
Directions
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Line a sheet pan with aluminum foil.
Place the whole eggplant on the pan, prick with a fork in several places, and rub with olive oil. Roast for 45 to 50 minutes, until the eggplant is very soft when pierced with a knife. Set aside to cool. Halve the eggplant, peel, and discard the skin. Place the eggplant, peppers, and olives in the bowl of a food processor fitted with the steel blade and pulse until coarsely chopped. Pour into a mixing bowl.
Meanwhile, heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil in a medium saute pan. Add the onion and red pepper flakes and cook over medium heat for 5 minutes, until the onion is lightly browned. Add the garlic, cook for 1 minute, and add to the eggplant mixture. Add the parsley, pine nuts, lemon juice, capers, tomato paste, vinegar, salt, and pepper and mix. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for a few hours to allow the flavors to develop. Taste for seasonings and serve at room temperature with toasted pita triangles.
You are what you are and you ain’t what you ain’t…… Signed bewildered….
DEAR ABBY
John Prine
Dear Abby, Dear Abby, my feet are too long
My hair’s fallin’ out and my rights are all
wrong
My friends they all tell me are no friends at
all
Won’t you write me a letter, won’t you give
me a call
Signed, Bewildered
Chorus:
Bewildered, Bewildered, you have no complaint
You are what you are and you ain’t what you
ain’t
So listen up buster and listen up good
Stop wishin’ for bad luck and knockin’ on
wood……
Great post mespo…. Glad to see you back in the stacks….
magginkat,
I pulled your comment out of moderation. The problem is the name of your personal web page, which incorporates one of the four words that will catch you in moderation every time. Since it does not show publicly in your comment, I released it, but you might want to keep that in mind for future reference.