Which is why being hated by Republicans doesn’t make him liked by Democrats. His roommate said that only 1% of his dislike was politics and 99% was personal, and if they had agreed on politics totally the roommate would still hate Cruz 99%.
I think I read that Boehner gave him the finger.
There are two ways to be extreme or moderate: there’s ideolgical and partisan. John McCain is an ideological hardcore conservative, but a partisan moderate. He genuinely seems to like his Democratic colleagues and is happy to craft bipartisan legislation with them. He probably has more enemies in his own caucus than among Democrats, and this was true even before the Tea Party. Rubio isn’t quite as partisanly moderate as McCain, but has shown a willingness to reach across the aisle.
It’s also possible to be ideologically moderate and an extreme partisan. Harry Reid was never a particularly liberal Democrat, but he ascended to majority leader in party due to the fact that the guy really, really hates Republicans and everything they stand for. Howard Dean has also come off as more liberal than he actually is due to his rather harsh dislike of Republicans. On the GOP side, Chris Christie is pretty moderate but relishes going to the mat against the opposition.
Ted Cruz of course is a hard right conservative who doesn’t get along with anyone.
Indeed, does not get along with others even with other Republicans as commented by Eli Rabbet, one of the funnies bloggers that posts about the issue of climate change.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), is also the chairman of the Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness, :rolleyes::smack::rolleyes::smack:
One has to remember that other Republican senators put him there.
The hearing was titled “Data or Dogma? Promoting Open Inquiry in the Debate over the Magnitude of Human Impact on Earth’s Climate”
BTW this is Titley:
http://www.timesunion.com/tuplus-local/article/Navy-climate-change-expert-sees-opponents-6401711.php
Against him Cruz and other Republicans invited 4 or so fake sceptics and contrarians. But as the hearing showed Cruz and the contrarians are sounding way out of the league of the Admiral.
And as the Rabbet points out, Cruz and the Republicans are incompetents regarding who they invite to their denial fests.
[Video showing a guy from Greenpeace putting Happer on notice before the hearing that they knew his gig was up.]
I wonder if he was put under oath.
Can someone please explain (again) how a guy born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada can run for POTUS?
Sure!
[QUOTE=Our Good Friend the US Constituion]
No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
[/QUOTE]
natural born Citizen? Check! (Note that there is nothing about birthplace, only birth status)
35+ years old? Check!
14+ years in the US? Check!
Further, from here:
For persons born between December 24, 1952 and November 14, 1986, a person is a U.S. citizen if all of the following are true:[10]
The person’s parents were married at the time of birth
One of the person’s parents was a U.S. citizen when the person was born
The citizen parent lived at least ten years in the United States before the child’s birth;
A minimum of 5 of these 10 years in the United States were after the citizen parent’s 14th birthday.
He is a natural born American citizen (he was born a citizen).
That legitimately goes in the SLIoTD thread.
To be fair, I don’t think Grayson is entirely serious in that interview:
These are considerably nontrivial to prove. However, they are probably considerably harder to disprove. If Cruz is currently a citizen and has not been naturalized, it logically follows that he was a natural-born citizen, and whether he can prove that his mother met the requirements is irrelevant. Seeing as he’s a member of the Senate, I don’t think anyone questions whether he’s currently a citizen, so the only remaining question is whether he was naturalized.
So in order to prove Cruz is not a natural-born citizen in order to sustain such a lawsuit, you would have to either definitively prove that his mother did not meet those requirements (which I’m going to assume is impossible as we don’t have time machines and her activities that generated a historic record show she was at least in the United States for some things that would imply long-term residence) or be able to produce documentation that he was naturalized.
I had to prove something similar in order to obtain recognition of my Canadian citizenship under the rules operating at the time. Establishing birth in wedlock was easy, but the rest was reasonably difficult. I don’t think I had to prove that my mother had been in Canada for X years following age Y, because that would have been basically impossible in the days when you didn’t need a passport to enter and leave the country. These days it would be easier to prove.
He’s so unwilling to compromise with Democrats that even the Republicans get frustrated with him… This is no a recipe for making fans among the Democrats.
Actually, it makes me feel better about the Republican establishment.
Maybe not but I certainly enjoyed this comment:
He’s even unwilling to compromise with Republicans.
I just read an article from yahoo news about the possibility that Cruz might surprise us by being able to move somewhat to the left and moderate his positions in a general election.
If you are a Democrat or liberal, does this concern you? If you are a Republican or conservative, does this give you hope that Cruz might be electable in a general election?
At this point it does seem to me that Cruz has the highest likelihood from the Republican field to win the nomination. This is why I’m starting to wonder if Democrats should start taking the possibility of a Cruz nomination seriously.
And do what? OK, right now, I’ll start taking it seriously. What’s different, then?
We start to check Canada’s immigration laws.
Well, I for one would welcome Ted Cruz as the Republican candidate.
No chance he even gets close to winning, but the excuses and the derptastic claims would be most entertaining.