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I’ve missed doing these. I can’t explain why I stopped. That’s not public business. Sometimes you find something so perfect that it’s time for a guest star, and here we go! Tonight’s star is someone who really ought not aspire to things he isn’t suitable for. He can’t seem to figure it out. He is detested in Congress. He’s slimy in public … no, he’s just slimy. For the final piece of the night, many thanks to Raw Story:
A White House insider unloaded after a GOP presidential hopeful went after one of its own, according to a new report. The Daily Mail reported comments from an anonymous White House insider who responded to attacks by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) against Trump’s Iran deal. Cruz has criticized the Trump deal to end a war with Iran and open the Strait of Hormuz, telling reporters this month that “the president is receiving some very poor advice on this deal,” The Mail noted.
The criticism is seen as “an obvious attempt” to position himself for a future presidential run with a “non-interventionist” stance, according to The Mail, which also highlighted his failed bids against Trump.
Heh. Cancun Cruz thinks he has a legitimate shot at being a presidential candidate. He can’t even take care of his own state, let alone the country. He’s also not intelligent enough. But by trying to undercut Trump, Cruz is digging himself into a hole. Yes, Trump is a millstone around the country’s neck, but his word could give a potential Republican candidate a boost. On the other hand, it could hurt instead of help. It all depends on what Trump does in the upcoming months.
“Cruz has no shortage of ambition,” The Mail wrote, citing White House sources. “The Texas senator has long felt that Trump robbed him of the presidency in 2016 and that he could have easily beat the unpopular Democrat Hillary Clinton.” However, the White House insider responded to The Mail’s request for comment on Cruz’s criticism and the idea that he could be setting himself up for a 2028 presidential run. “Ted is an instrument of the donor class,” the White House insider told the Daily Mail. “A very unlikable instrument, who unbeknownst to him will never be president.”
Unlikable is an understatement. Can’t say that we’ve seen anything even remotely likable about Cruz, although the voters strangely keep re-electing him. Ick. I shall refrain from petty, personal comments about Cruz, except for the nickname that someone else gave him. Seriously, though, has he done anything worth mentioning? (Besides being ugly.)
The White House insider also shot down rumors that Vice President J.D. Vance had “gone rogue,” as The Mail put it. Another White House official summed up criticisms of the Iran war deal as part of “handwringing and bedwetting” from Republicans that has no effect on Vance’s alignment with Trump. “There is no pearl clutching in this White House,” the White House official told The Daily Mail. “Everyone, including the vice president, is following the president’s lead on the peace deal, and no amount of handwringing and bedwetting from Washington, D.C. Republican ‘panic-ans’ will change that.”
Republican panic-ans. Cute. Well, the Senate walked back the war powers bit, so Trump should be in a better mood. Cruz for President. Can’t see it. Nope. He’ll just have to continue to live with the disappointment. Aww.
It is now 3:44 am. See you “later today”!
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Cruz will face a VERY uphill battle in a presidential bid because of the circumstances of his birth. Remember, Drumpf and kkkrew are trying to eliminate birthright citizenship (even Markwayne Mullethead got himself into some hot water over a social media post–using the *official* DHS site–by congratulating the US Soccer team for a win when the apparent star of the match is on the US team BECAUSE of birthright citizenship) and Teddy was born in Canada while his dad was a CUBAN CITIZEN (albeit one who’d obtained political asylum while attending the University of Texas) at the time of Teddy’s birth. And by the time la familia Cruz finally returned to the US when Teddy was four, his dad had obtained CANADIAN citizenship (it’s worth noting that Teddy’s mother was a US citizen from Delaware–but, remember all the brouhaha over Obama’s citizenship status being questioned by GOPers because his father was a British subject from Kenya while his mother was a native-born US citizen but the GOPers argued that the FATHER’S citizenship status was the more important factor). Cruz’s father wouldn’t become a naturalized US citizen until 2005.
The same thing could apply to Marco Rubio since he’s also an “anchor baby” (born to parents who’d emigrated from Cuba but neither of whom was an American citizen at the time of Marco’s birth).
But, who wants to bet that no one in the GOP will be keen to bring up either man’s citizenship status in 2028? Rubio’s qualifications for running in 2016 were based ENTIRELY on his being a “natural-born American citizen” from that “birthright” citizenship established in the 14th Amendment but, it’ll be VERY interesting if SCOTUS decides to pull one of its right-wing stunts and tries to overturn a Constitutional amendment (bearing in mind that there is NO authorization in the Constitution to undo or override an amendment via a court ruling; per the Constitution–which even Thomas and Alito MUST follow if they want to maintain their facades of “original intent” Constitution subscribers–the ONLY way to change the Constitution is via the amendment process–SCOTUS can overturn pretty much any law it wants as being “unconstitutional” but a Constitutional amendment, by definition, IS constitutional and if right-wingers want to overturn birthright citizenship, they need to get 290 members of the House and 60 members of the Senate to send a new amendment to the states and get 38 of them to ratify it). But, if SCOTUS does pull this ILLEGAL AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL play, then Cruz and Rubio get to say “Bye, Bye, Bye” to their presidential bids. (Even if they manage to sway GOP primary voters and get the nomination, the Democrats have the perfect ammunition to take out the pair. And it would all be thanks to the right-wing members of SCOTUS.)
Cruz isn’t going to get anywhere. He doesn’t have what’s needed just in general. I did not know the personal information about him, which is very interesting.
I did know some of the info about Marco.
SCOTUS mostly disgusts me with a few exceptions. And I remember the hearings for Clarence. Wow, I feel old.