Thread: John McCain Lectures Tea Party Senator on How ‘Business’ Gets Done in Congress: ‘That

Politics John McCain Lectures Tea Party Senator on How ‘Business’ Gets Done in Congress: ‘That’s What We’ve Been Doing for a Couple Hundred Years’

May. 23, 2013 5:35pm Jason Howerton

Credit: AP

Speaking on Senate floor on Thursday, a fed-up Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) scolded Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) over his objection to initiating House-Senate budget negations unless a debt limit increase is taken off the table. It’s a stance shared by another Tea Party favorite, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).


McCain lectured Lee over such a proposal, saying it would “paralyze the process.”

“The senator from Utah keeps talking about back-room, closed-door deals,” McCain said, explaining how that’s how stuff gets done in Congress. “How do we reconcile legislation that is passed by one body and the other body? That’s what we’ve been doing for a couple hundred years.”
McCain said Lee isn’t proposing a different process of reconciling legislation between the House and the Senate. He went on to lecture Lee on the way business is done in Congress.


“Perhaps the senator from Utah doesn’t know about that,” McCain continued, “the fact that even if they did raise the debt limit, it could not become law because it doesn’t go to the president of the United States. So again, maybe the senator from Utah ought to learn a little bit more about how business has been done in the Congress of the United States.”



Watch the video via CSPAN/Mediaite below:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013...hundred-years/


(H/T: Meenal Vamburkar, Mediaite)

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Again McShame What has always been done for a couple 100 years...Cheating, Lying, and Stealing??
Well maybe things need to be changed. Something needs to “paralyze the so called process”!!

Thank you, Senator Mike Lee from Utah...

As a vet myself I once had respect for McCain no more he simply is lost in the fog of DC he has spent far too many hours in back rooms with Democrats, time to retire senator and allow someone who believes in the constitution and fighting radicals in your seat. Go home before you make a bigger fool of yourself.

<--- here is a picture of what corruption looks like in the Republican Party.

It can NO Longer be Tolerated

I said it before and I'll Say It Again

The other 48 States should Formally Rebuke Arizona and South Carolina for having elected this CRIMINAL ELITE

They both are Morally and Ethically Corrupt and not only diminish American Values but are a danger to World in General

McCain has a Stunted out look and World View; His Side Kick Lindsey of "Flakes r Us" is a Mental Midget

These 2 have done insurmountable damage to America; Endanger the WORLD while enriching themselves 100 Fold

Red States - You need to help retire these 2 self aggrandizing Carpetbaggers

Ted Cruz is …

by Steve Deace on May 23, 2013

Senator Ted Cruz made the press grab their chests in pain and conservative hearts go all a twitter all at the same time when he suggested he might be interested in running for president. Apparently, his revelation had a few wonks rush to do some fact-checking.

Foxnews.com reports that a 14-page report put out by the Congressional Research Office seems to answer the inevitable questions about Cruz’s eligibility due to the fact he was born in Canada. He is, in fact, eligible should he decide to run.

I don’t know that the report itself is really the news here, though. The fact Foxnews (and others) is reporting on it is really the story. Cruz, in five months, has people sitting up and taking notice.
This post was written by Jen Green for Steve Deace.

Tagged as: cruz 2016, is ted cruz eligible to run for president, jen green, steve deace, ted cruz

http://www.conservativeactionalerts....5/ted-cruz-is/

Originally Posted by AirborneSapper7

Ted Cruz is …

by Steve Deace on May 23, 2013

Senator Ted Cruz made the press grab their chests in pain and conservative hearts go all a twitter all at the same time when he suggested he might be interested in running for president. Apparently, his revelation had a few wonks rush to do some fact-checking.

Foxnews.com reports that a 14-page report put out by the Congressional Research Office seems to answer the inevitable questions about Cruz’s eligibility due to the fact he was born in Canada. He is, in fact, eligible should he decide to run.

I don’t know that the report itself is really the news here, though. The fact Foxnews (and others) is reporting on it is really the story. Cruz, in five months, has people sitting up and taking notice.
This post was written by Jen Green for Steve Deace.

Tagged as: cruz 2016, is ted cruz eligible to run for president, jen green, steve deace, ted cruz

http://www.conservativeactionalerts....5/ted-cruz-is/

GET THIS STRAIGHT In order to run for the presidency you need to be born to two US born parents....not one!!!!


So you want to be president? Forget the nerves of steel, the charisma, the skeleton-free closet, the fund-raising network, the thick skin and the legions of loyal folks who agree with your stance on all the issues. Just to get into the game, you have to ask: How old are you and where were you born?

• Only native-born U.S. citizens (or those born abroad, but only to parents who were both citizens of the U.S.) may be president of the United States, though from time to time that requirement is called into question, most recently after Arnold Schwarzenegger, born in Austria, was elected governor of California, in 2003. The Constitution originally provided a small loophole to this provision: One needn't have been born in the United States but had to be a citizen at the time the Constitution was adopted. But, since that occurred in 1789, that ship has sailed.
• One must also be at least 35 years of age to be president. John F. Kennedy was the youngest person to be elected president; he was 43 years old when he was inaugurated in 1961. There is no maximum age limit set forth in the Constitution. Ronald Reagan was the oldest president; at the end of his term in 1988, he was nearly 77.
• Finally, one must live in the United States for at least 14 years to be president, in addition to being a natural-born citizen. The Constitution is vague on this point. For example, it does not make clear whether those 14 years need to be consecutive or what the precise definition of residency is. So far, however, this requirement has not been challenged.

These are the only explicit criteria in the Constitution.
Phaedra Trethan is a freelance writer and a former copy editor for The Philadelphia Inquirer ne


http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/thepresidentandcabinet/a/presrequire.htm

The question from here is two-pronged: (1) Is the Canadian-born Cruz actually eligible to run for president? And (2) What would his campaign look like?

So He is not eligible to run for the Presidency or Vice Presidency, he is Canadian born of one US parent lets not start this again.....


Can Ted Cruz run for president? And should he?

By Aaron Blake, Published: May 2, 2013 at 10:28 amE-mail the writer

This item originally posted on March 20. We are resurfacing it this week, given the renewed buzz around the prospect of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) running for president. Friends of the senator recently told National Review that Cruz has been listening to supporters and discussing a possible campaign with associates.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), more than any other new senator, has made a splash over the last two months.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. (AP)

And some in the conservative movement are already talking him up as a potential 2016 presidential candidate.
“It is an undercurrent and growing,” said Texas GOP consultant Bill Miller. “Most observers believe he is moving very fast toward a much higher visibility. The presidential buzz has begun in earnest.”
Jeff Judson, a major tea party figure in the Lone Star State and a Cruz booster, said the movement is totally organic and not emanating from Cruz or his staff.
“Yes, there is a buzz about Cruz running for president, but a different kind of buzz than with other prior candidates,” Judson said. “He has serious gravitas — more than all the 2012 Republican presidential candidates combined.”
The question from here is two-pronged: (1) Is the Canadian-born Cruz actually eligible to run for president? And (2) What would his campaign look like?
1. Cruz’s eligibility
Cruz, like a couple of presidential candidates before him, faces a potential hurdle to running for president in that it’s not 100 percent clear that he’s a “natural-born citizen,” as the 14th Amendment requires presidents to be.
Cruz’s mother was a U.S. citizen when he was born, and current U.S. law extends citizenship to anyone born to a U.S. citizen, regardless of where the birth takes place. The question is whether citizenship is the same thing as being a “natural-born citizen.”
Legal scholars generally agree that Cruz meets that requirement, and Cruz’s office agrees. But it also remains somewhat untested in the courts.
While no president-elect has formally tested the “natural-born citizen” requirement, several have run for president with that question hanging over their candidacies.
Democrats in 1967 suggested that George Romney would not be eligible to serve as president, because he was born to U.S. citizens in Mexico. But a New York Law Journal piece at the time argued forcefully that he would be, and that seemed to put the issue to rest. (Romney’s primary campaign wound up imploding.)
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the GOP’s nominee in 2008, was born in the Panama Canal Zone to U.S. citizens. After he secured the party’s nomination, the Senate in 2008 passed a resolution stating that McCain was indeed a natural-born citizen.
In fact, this debate dates back to President Chester A. Arthur and the original so-called “birther” controversy. While Arthur is listed as being born in Vermont, some argued that he was born in Canada and thus ineligible to be president.
The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service has even weighed in on the issue, writing in November 2011 that people born to U.S. citizens in foreign countries “most likely” qualify as natural-born citizens.



“The weight of more recent federal cases, as well as the majority of scholarship on the subject, also indicates that the term ‘natural born citizen’ would most likely include, as well as native born citizens, those born abroad to U.S. citizen-parents, at least one of whom had previously resided in the United States, or those born abroad to one U.S. citizen parent who, prior to the birth, had met the requirements of federal law for physical presence in the country,” wrote Jack Maskell.
2. Where Cruz fits
So let’s assume Cruz can become president. The question is will he?
Cruz’s office won’t rule out the possibility. Spokeswoman Catherine Frazier said Cruz “remains fully focused on his role representing Texans in the U.S. Senate” but didn’t directly address whether he would rule out a 2016 run.
Cruz has clearly been angling for a high profile.
The senator built a national following even before he joined the Senate, having been a cause celebre for the conservative and tea party movements in his 2012 runoff campaign against Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst — the well-funded establishment favorite.
More recently, he was one of the first senators to join the 13-hour filibuster of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) against President Obama’s drone program, and he made waves during a sharp exchange with Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) while the Senate Judiciary Committee was debating gun legislation last week.
His outspoken conservatism earned him the keynote speaking slot at last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference, and his speech about how conservatives were winning the debates in Washington was a hit with attendees.
Come 2015, Cruz will have been in the Senate just as long as President Obama was when he announced his presidential campaign. So it would hardly be unprecedented for Cruz to run.
His eligibility and newcomer status aside, though, there is plenty to suggest that Cruz won’t run in 2016. The two main things that make Cruz attractive as a candidate are his strongly conservative record and his potential to appeal to Hispanics as a Cuban-American Republican. But the potential 2016 field already has more-established senators who check those boxes.
Rand Paul, who is very much on the same page with Cruz ideologically, is clearly ramping up for a potential presidential bid. And Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), another Cuban-American GOP senator, is seen as the early front-runner for the GOP nomination.
If both of those senators wind up running in 2016, Cruz may have a hard time carving out his niche in the presidential field. And indeed, it seems unlikely that Cruz would run against his close ally Paul.
At the same time, Cruz is also the guy who could check both of those boxes at once. And if either Paul or Rubio stay out of the race — or if both decide not to run — it wouldn’t be surprising to see a formal push for Cruz to get in. That may not come from the GOP establishment, which is wary of the outspoken Cruz, but it would be a push nonetheless.
Still, some think it’s too early for the new senator.
“He’s more viable than folks might think because there was such a national effort to elect him,” said one Texas GOP consultant, granted anonymity to offer a candid assessment. “But even so, no one who is serious is talking about a Cruz presidential in ’16.”
A more likely option for Cruz is to become the new Jim DeMint of the Senate. DeMint, who had no presidential ambitions, carved out a niche by pushing for more conservative Republican candidates, all the while antagonizing the GOP establishment.
With DeMint now heading the conservative Heritage Foundation, there is a void in the Senate that Cruz seems like a natural fit to fill.
There’s still a lot of time between now and 2016, though, and we would expect there to be plenty of speculation about Cruz running for president between now and then.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...for-president/


This is from the WH page:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/our-government/executive-branch#vicepresident

The Constitution lists only three qualifications for the Presidency — the President must be 35 years of age, be a natural born citizen, and must have lived in the United States for at least 14 years. And though millions of Americans vote in a presidential election every four years, the President is not, in fact, directly elected by the people. Instead, on the first Tuesday in November of every fourth year, the people elect the members of the Electoral College. Apportioned by population to the 50 states — one for each member of their congressional delegation (with the District of Columbia receiving 3 votes) — these Electors then cast the votes for President. There are currently 538 electors in the Electoral College.

Natural-born-citizen clause is here, it is in article 2 of the US Constitution:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natura...citizen_clause



And finally here is the Constitution of the United States:

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/cha...stitution.html