Today’s quotes – there are a number of them – come to us from Senator Ted Cruz (D-TX), via his latest podcast.
With an imaginary hat-tip to dailywire.com, which compiled them, here they are:
On our open borders:
“If you’re the next planner of 9/11, it’s obvious where you go, you go to Mexico. And you come right across. And Joe Biden, and the idiots in his administration, will fly you to wherever you want to go in this country, and you can carry out your terror attack. And sadly, every day that we have an open border under Joe Biden and the Democrats, the odds of another major attack in this country, a major terror attack go up systematically, they are exposing us. They are exposing vulnerabilities whether it is someone trying to hijack an airplane or whether it is a suicide bomber in a mall, or an amusement park, or a concert, or what have you.”
On the Biden administration considering using ankle bracelets to keep illegals contained in Texas:
“Look, this is utter and complete garbage. It is nakedly political. It is blatantly illegal. There is no other explanation for this. The reason they want to target Texas is because they hate Texas, because Texas is red. Listen, 7.2 million people have crossed illegally under Joe Biden, is he really proposing let’s keep all 7.2 million in Texas? We got 30 million Texans. Yeah, he wants to take us to 37 million Texans and have a quarter of the state be illegal and he wants to do that so that he doesn’t upset Democrats in blue states. This is, it is blatantly illegal. And it is it is illegality piled on illegality. Look, current federal law requires that he deport these people. He’s defying federal law.”
On New York Mayor Eric Adams blaming Texas Governor Greg Abbott for the the city’s immigration crisis:
“Newsflash, the border crisis was not caused by Governor Greg Abbott. You know who the border crisis was caused by? Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Chuck Schumer. Nancy Pelosi. You know, if Eric Adams doesn’t like this border crisis, he ought to pick up the phone and call someone who lives in Manhattan. His name is Charles Schumer. And Chuck Schumer has defended Joe Biden’s open borders every single day for the last two and a half years. He’s blocked every effort to secure the border. He’s blocked every effort to build the wall. He’s blocked every effort to deport illegal immigrants. He’s blocked every effort to reinstate the remain-in-Mexico policy. He’s blocked every effort to pass Kate’s law, which I introduced to lock up and have mandatory minimum sentences for violent criminals who repeatedly reenter this country. Eric Adams’ party created this problem, and they didn’t just create it in the past. They are creating it today. And they intend to create it tomorrow.”
On New Mexico Governor Michelle Lynn Lujan Grisham’s executive order banning legal gun owners from carrying open and concealed firearms in Albuquerque and environs – an order so anti-constitutional that even left wing personalities who support stricter gun laws – e.g. Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Parkland survivor/anti-gun activist David Hogg to name two – are speaking against it:
“Look, unfortunately, this is the consequence today. If you elect Democrats, they will come after your constitutional rights, it’s who they are. The one unifying factor of Democrats today is they are, I believe, a totalitarian party. They believe, they are statist, they believe in government control. And you look at what the governor of New Mexico has done here. It is utterly, blatantly, brazenly, unapologetically lawless.”
“The Second Amendment to the Constitution says the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, shall not be infringed. What she is saying is you have no right to keep and bear arms. You cannot bear arms. What is bearing arms? What the Supreme Court has said is the right of the people and that’s actually the phrase of the Second Amendment, the right of the people to keep and bear arms.”
I award Ted Cruz Quote(s) Of The Day honors for doing something most politicians would never do; speaking clearly, concisely and specifically to issues and stating his positions, whether you accept them or not, in unmistakably clear terms.
To say that this is a refreshing change from the verbal vomit we hear from members of both parties these days – far more from Democrats desperately trying to explain/rationalize/get past the catastrophic Biden administration’s performance, but both parties nonetheless – would be a gross understatement.
