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Ted Cruz Blasts Budget Deal, Warns Nation Nearing ‘Point of No Return’

Posted on Friday, December 20th, 2013 at 9:48 PM.
by: Betsy Ross



Via: News Max
By: David A. Patten

Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz is blasting the bipartisan budget deal that passed the Senate this week, saying the deal “went backwards” and would only worsen the nation’s spiraling debt.
The budget compromise that had been championed by GOP Rep. Paul Ryan in the House passed the Senate by a 63 to 36 vote.
Speaking in an exclusive Newsmax Magazine interview, Cruz said Friday: “It’s a sad statement that the easiest way to get bipartisan agreement in Washington is to increase spending, debt, and taxes.
“That’s why the American people are so frustrated with career politicians in Washington in both parties, because they’re not listening to the American people and they’re not working to solve the enormous fiscal and economic challenges that we’re facing,” he added.
The deal on the budget reduces the impact of the automatic sequester cuts by about $63 billion over two years. Its includes a controversial 1 percent cut in cost-of-living pension adjustments to some military retirees that Cruz opposes, and only cuts $23 billion from spending over the next decade.
Critics have pointed out the $23 billion over 10 years is only about 3 percent of the federal government’s $680 billion deficit for 2013 alone.
The U.S. national debt, which was roughly $10 trillion when President Obama took office, now stands at over $17 trillion. And Cruz warned time is running out to fix it.
“We have a brief window of time to turn things around,” he said. “We don’t have a long time.”
He added: “We are nearing the point of no return.”
Cruz described himself as “profoundly optimistic” that the nation will eventually get its balance sheet back in order – but not thanks to Washington.
“The answer’s going to have to come from the American people,” he said. “It’s not going to come from Washington. It’s got to come from millions and millions of Americans across this country standing up, and holding elected officials accountable, telling elected officials of both parties, ‘Stop doing what you’ve been doing over and over again, it’s not working.’”
Increasingly, Cruz is being mentioned among the top potential contenders for the 2016 GOP nomination. Perhaps due to the spotlight shined on him during the shutdown over Obamacare, Cruz’s name recognition has skyrocketed.
The freshman senator from Texas recently was named the third most influential figure in the world in a Rasmussen poll, behind only Pope Francis and President Obama.
The price for his meteoric rise: Cruz is sustaining more frequent political attacks by rivals. New York Republican Rep. Peter King, reportedly flirting with tossing his own hat in the ring for the 2016 nomination, recently described Cruz and fellow movement-conservative Rand Paul as “out of touch with the American people.”
Asked his reaction to that broadside, Cruz replied that King is “certainly entitled to his opinion.”
But he added: “Nobody should be surprised that the Washington establishment doesn’t want to change. No one should be surprised that the Washington establishment fights back.
“You don’t get a $17 trillion national debt without a whole lot of bipartisan cooperation, without a whole lot of Republicans going along to get along with Democrats and exploding the size, power, and spending of the federal government. And that’s why so many people across this country are rightly fed up with Washington.”
But Cruz says the sequester unfairly requires the military to bear a disproportionate burden.
“I think we owe it to the men and women in the military to stand with them, to support them,” he said. “One of the most disturbing aspects of this recent budget deal is that it cuts the retirements of our veterans, retroactively, and it doesn’t do the same thing for civilian employees.”

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Ted Cruz Named American Spectator’s ‘Man of the Year’

Posted on Friday, December 20th, 2013 at 9:39 PM.by: Betsy Ross



Via: News Max
By Courtney Coren

Sen. Ted Cruz has been named “Man of the Year” by The American Spectator , which describes the freshman tea party Republican one of the most important and effective senators in the country.
The conservative magazine compared Cruz to the first senator from Texas, Sam Houston, by using an excerpt from John F. Kennedy’s famous book, “Profiles in Courage.”
“Houston and his senatorial colleagues from different eras in American history were held up as examples of senators who persisted in spite of ‘the risks to their careers, the unpopularity of their courses, the defamation of their characters’ and ferocious attacks on ‘their reputations and principles,’” the Spectator said
“Nothing describes Ted Cruz better,” the magazine observed.
The Spectator listed some of Cruz’s accomplishments, calling them “extraordinary for a freshman senator.”
Most noteworthy, the publication pointed out, was that Cruz became the face of the movement to defund Obamacare when he led the effort to shut down the government in October as a way to deny funding for the new healthcare law.
They also gave the senator credit for leading in the Senate battle to deny passage of a bipartisan gun control measure that would have expanded background checks to all commercial guns in the country.
Cruz’s stance against a U.S. military attack on Syria in response to the use of chemical weapons in civil war there was also listed as extraordinary accomplishment, along with his outspoken opposition to the Senate “Gang of Eight” comprehensive immigration bill.
The Spectator also noted that recent polls showing waning support for Obamacare and the Democrats in contrast to growing support for Republicans “are nothing if not vindication for Cruz.”
The Texas Republican, The Spectator concluded is a living example of what Ronald Reagan meant when he said that if the Republican Party wanted to lead the country, it needed to be a party of “bold colors.”

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