Ted Cruz Makes Impassioned Plea For Repeal Of Federal Legislation That Does Not Exist

[DonViejo]

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is known for waging political battles even if the odds of success are slim. He famously launched a 21-hour filibuster in a failed, last-ditch effort to repeal Obamacare. But his latest crusade may be his biggest challenge yet: repealing a federal law that does not exist.

On Twitter, Cruz blasted the federal government role in education and called for the repeal of Common Core:

Ted Cruz ✔ @tedcruz

Federal govt has no business sticking its nose in education. We need to repeal every word of Common Core! #nhpolitics #MakeDCListen

7:53 PM - 15 Mar 2015[/div]

Can Cruz “make DC listen”? It will be particularly hard since Common Core is not, in fact, a federal law.

The Common Core State Standards Initiative, known as Common Core, was developed by the states — with input from teachers, education experts and business leaders — and has been voluntarily adopted by 43 states and the District Of Columbia. Notably, “the federal government played no role in creating the standards, nor did it require that states adopt them.”

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[ananda]

1. Interesting.

Somebody didn't do his homework.

[BlueJazz]

2. And this idiot is a Senator ?

[atreides1]

7. Yes he is

But remember, he was elected by people who are even more idiotic then he is....and only breath because it's natural thing to do!

[3catwoman3]

38. I have met any number of people who...

...would die if they had to decide whether to breathe in first or out first, or who would never move anywhere if they had to decide to start walking with the left foot first or the right foot first.

[rock]

9. A Republican Senator

You know a SHIT house is not really a house.

[KamaAina]

11. And a Princeton and Harvard Law grad, no less

[Skidmore]

12. And Cotton is a Harvard grad too.

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I have always tended to be unimpressed by the grads of ivy League schools. Give me a guy or woman who has actually done the work rather than run their mouth from the time they hit the top floor running. So many of these elite grads just lack so much.

[AngryDem001]

29. That's because these morons spent all their time getting wasted.

[7962]

30. Amen to that!

[MiniMe]

23. And a Canadian

Never forget that this loser was born in Canada to an American mother and a Cuban father.

[George II]

33. I point that out every chance I get. I still don't understand how he claims to be able....

....to get around the "natural born" citizen requirement for President.

[gregcrawford]

42. I believe the law states...

... that as long as one parent is a citizen, then any child born outside the US is automatically a citizen. Cruz just gave up his Canadian citizenship. Funny that the dipshit "Birthers" always screeching about Obama's citizenship conveniently overlooked that little fact.

[George II]

49. The big difference betweeen the two is that Obama was born in the US, Cruz wasn't.

[liberal N proud]

28. Between Cruz and Cottonball it is very clear that one does not need intelligence

To be elected to office.

If you fail at all else, run for Senate.

[guillaumeb]

3. can we buy 47 pair of Rick Perry smart glasses for the GOP senators?

if not, can we buy 47 corks? Big ones?

[A Simple Game]

35. Maybe we should make that 94 large corks just to eliminate all of the options. n/t

[renate]

61. I laughed

Twice.

[kestrel91316]

4. Sarah Palin's long-lost twin brother.

[Lex]

5. So so misinformed.

This how they govern.

[Skidmore]

15. They govern through lying and cheating and sowing

fear and division.

[Rex]

58. Technically they have not governed. I don't know since when.

Stumbling from one disaster to another with their eyes closed, is more like constantly falling. The more they fall the more disasters they cause.

Clearly McCain wanted to start a war with Russia. Cotton wants to nuke Iran. They are either the worlds biggest dullards or criminally insane megalomaniacs. Blowing off the head to save the body never worked. You just have to wonder why they don't get it. Even someone without most of their faculties still wants to breath and eat and survive. McCain and Cotton appear to have all working bodyparts and brain matter.

Republicans are an enigma.

[AZ Mike]

6. In other news....

....I recently heard that Iran had seized control of Tehran!

This is series!

[Lex]

14. LOL. I heard about this too.

The NERVE!

[TeamPooka]

8. Canadians don't understand U.S. law. nt

[Spazito]

19. Nope, he's not Canadian thank heavens...

He's all yours now.

We still have Bieber, though.

[TeamPooka]

20. The solution of Solomon says we have to split him and share.

[Spazito]

22. LOL! n/t

[Xipe Totec]

25. I'd be happy if he just split. nt

[Jack Rabbit]

32. When Bieber wins a seat in Parliament, we'll send our condolances.

Meanwhile, he's just a wealth brat. Like the Koch brothers.

[Spazito]

37. Well, seeing as idiots were elected last election in Canada, neocon idiots...

you never know these days, lol.

[awoke_in_2003]

62. I'll take Bieber over the Koch brother any day. nt

[A Simple Game]

36. You can denounce your birth place but you can never deny it!

Sorry, I really like Canada and live only 25 miles from the St. Lawrence River. That's almost hollerin' distance.

[Spazito]

39. Yep, you can 'give it back', Conrad Black, the criminal, did...

now he wants it back again, lol.

[A HERETIC I AM]

40. OOOOH.....NO!

You can't give him up THAT easily.

I have nothing but affection for the Great White North, but that asshole is Canadian. Full stop.

[Spazito]

41. LOL, good thing I scrolled down...

was about to man the barricades!

[Jamastiene]

44. As much as I can't stand Bieber, it would be better

if we had him and you could take Cruz back.

[Spazito]

48. With Bieber, there's still a chance he will change his ways and grow up...

with Cruz, not a hope in hell.

No trade deal, lol.

[Jamastiene]

53. Dammit!

How about if we give you Cruz (full refund, ), Schwarzenegger, AND, let's see, we'll throw Eminem in as well. We'll take Bieber and Ellen Page. Or better yet, just Ellen Page. Bonus, you get to keep Bieber. Deal? Yeah?

[Spazito]

55. Cruz AND Swartzy, are you crazy???

Deal breaker right there, we'll keep Beiber (had to google Ellen Page, I'm old, lol) and Page and even keep Celine Dion, you keep Cruz and Swartzy and we will give you Stephen Harper, free gratis even! I think it's fair for sure!

[Aerows]

50. I'm pretty certain based upon

Cruz and Cotton that US Senators don't understand US Law.

[Spazito]

56. It appears they don't even know the basics of the US Constitution...

never mind any laws based on it, it is mind blowing.

[tanyev]

10. This is the same jeenyus who doesn't understand the core message of Green Eggs and Ham.

[sheshe2]

16. Good point, tanyev.

He's

[Baitball Blogger]

13. He's in the car, but no one's sitting in the driver's seat.

Seriously, don't these people have some fact-checker somewhere to make sure they don't continually make a total ass of themselves? Because, at this rate, even the teapartiers are going to start wondering if they took a hard right into Crayville.

[erronis]

24. This may be the point - to make himself look like a dumb-ass teabagger.

[Fred Sanders]

26. Playing to the teabagger minority in Iowa and N.H., hoping to be Chosen, to be showered with Godly ad cash

by secret billionaires and millionaires and corporations both domestic and foreign.

[arcane1]

27. As a "Cruz Stands up to DC" PR stunt, it was probably a smashing success to his brainless supporters

It's a classic example of Colbert's "Feeling at you vs talking to you"

[Jamastiene]

45. That's the thing with Republicans.

The people who are pro-Republican don't know any better and refuse to learn. So, no matter how much of an ass any Republican makes of themselves, their followers will still vote for them again....and threaten anyone who criticizes them on top of that. They don't know the difference like the rest of us. So, they just dig in their heels.

[B Calm]

17. Is this guy stupid?

Never mind. .

[sheshe2]

18. Image from your link Don.

Look at his eyes, there is nothing there. He's in the dead zone. No heart, no soul, nothing pure hate to make the rest our lives a living hell.

[misterhighwasted]

51. Haa that dumb look says it all.

There's nothing There.
E M P T Y

[sheshe2]

52. Yup....

Empty.

[Major Hogwash]

57. He looks like Pat Buchanan's love child.

If Pat Buchanan ever had one, Cruz would be it.
That is if Pat Buchanan ever mated with an elephant!
I mean, look at that nose on Cruz!
That thing looks like a trunk for sure.
He makes Jimmy Durante look average by comparison!

[herding cats]

21. He doesn't care if it's true. All that matters is if those he's addressing don't know it's not.

That's standard operating procedure for the Republicans. Lie. When corrected on your lie, claim the party doing so is a lying liberal trying to stifle the truth. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Before long no one will bother even correcting you, and you've won.

[Jamastiene]

46. That is exactly what they have been doing for ages now...

and getting away with it too.

[herding cats]

54. Yeah, and they're winning. Again.

I realize that's not a popular sentiment, and I'm not trying to be reactionary. It's just we're still half stuck (or more) in wars in southwestern Asia, and the GOP are already currently in full propaganda mode for the war with Iran. If you think the past decade plus was bad, the period after we bomb Iran will make this look like the "good old days" older than myself people reminisce about.

I've been a bit dramatic recently I've been told. Which may well be true. However, some of the same people saying this to me are the very ones who told me I was wrong about Bush intending to invade Iran after 9/11. So take it all as you choose.

[KT2000]

31. more hysteria before the horse -

and oh yea - Tehran is almost under the control of Iran!!!!

These guys are idiots but I know some people who will regurgitate these "talking points of idiocy" breathless and afraid - and I should be afraid too -

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

34. MORON ALERT!! An especially MORANIC MORAN!!!

[marym625]

43. I want to watch him write a bill and call a vote to repeal this

Nonexistent law. Should be fun.

Better yet, he should write a letter! Yeah!

[knitter4democracy]

47. Actually, he's not that far off.

The Common Core isn't law, no, but Race to the Top, which forced states to implement the Common Core in a competition for more federal dollars is. In some cases, only two people in a state signed the paperwork to implement the CCSS (as we in education call it), and it wasn't exactly voluntarily. Michigan, for example, jumped through all the hoops and implemented the CCSS only to not get an extra dime from the feds.

The federal government actually did play a role in creating the standards (mostly through funding, but they were at the table and behind the scenes pushing it on the states before the standards were even done being written), and it required states to adopt them in order to get RTTT funding. Just because they put things on their website doesn't mean they're telling the truth.

Madfloridian here and Diane Ravitch have good resources on what this fiasco actually is, who funded it, and who's behind it all.

[Bossy Monkey]

59. Damn he's effective! He's already gotten it repealed!:P n/t

[The Animator]

60. Conversely, Cruz has shown full throated support for

Not only the Mutant Registration Act, but also the measure granting emergency powers to Chancellor Palpatine. Both pieces of legislation have been decried as a massive government overreach and clear violation of civil liberties, however since the laws disproportionately affects minorities like mutants and non-humanoid sentient species, Cruz's normally libertarian constituency have remained conspicuously silent on the issue....

[malthaussen]

63. Well, there you go.

All Mr Cruz had to do was speak out, and the problem was solved immediately! This is the kind of decisive leadership we need in the White House!

Aw, darn. Bossy Monkey beat me to it.

-- Mal

[Cha]

64. They make a bumpersticker like this for nothin'..