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ALCSTUDIOS wrote:Ted Cruz is a blessing, for the first time in years I actually feel I can trust in a politician. I really believe he is in it for what's best for the USA and the state he represents.
I too was in that group that wasn't sure of what to believe. Ultimately, I also decided that Dewhurst was known quantity and I didn't really like what I knew, so I actively supported Cruz and donated to his primary and Senate election campaigns. I'll be honest, I still wasn't sure ofwhat we gotten, but now, count me as impressed. Standing up to Feinstein and getting attacked by the folks tha he has has made him pretty darn respectable in my book.Duck wrote:There was a lot mud slinging against him during that election and I didn't know what to believe. I sure am glad we voted him in.TexasCajun wrote:I was initially hesitant to support a relative unknown to fill our outgoing Senator's seat. But he seemed to be the lesser of 2 evils (an unknown with very little political experience vs Dewhurst: an entrenched politico who seems to have undergone a gradual shift in political philosophy away from the conservative values that I favor). I can honestly say that I'm very pleasantly surprised by Senator Cruz's first few months in office & I hope that he keeps it up. When the old-guard GOP rinos are getting their panties in a wad about what he's doint, I think he's on the RIGHT track. I only wish that John Cornyn's seat were up in the cycle after next instead of 2014 so that Ted Cruz would have a chance to establish more seniority. But since Cornyn has seemed to take notice, it's not all bad.
WHAT IS AHEAD
In the coming weeks, it is expected that legislation will come before the Senate on gun control, immigration, and the President's budget. Sen. Cruz has pledged to use any procedural means necessary to ensure Congress does not pass any laws infringing on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens. On immigration reform, Sen. Cruz believes there can be broad, bipartisan support for increasing resources to secure our border and streamline our legal immigration system, but any pathway to citizenship is inconsistent with rule of law and profoundly unfair to the millions of legal immigrants who have waited in line. And on the budget, it is critical that we get our nation's fiscal house in order, restore economic growth, and pass a responsible budget that doesn't continue to spend away our children's and grandchildren's futures.
I think we could do alot worse than Senator Cornyn and like others, take time now and again to congratulate or thank him and others to encourage him to support various measures.