Ted Cruz [R-TX] was born in Canada and a Canadian citizen.
Rep. Louie Gohlmert [R-TX] has been called America's Dumbest Congressman.
and much else.....to WAR WAGE.
The Iran Agreement is an INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT.
Ted Cruz calls on grassroots to help him nuke the Iran deal
Sen. Ted Cruz (second from right), seen here on July 28, 2015 in his Capitol Hill office, was joined by (L-R) Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin, and Reps. Louie Gohmert, R-Tyler, and Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., to rally Americans to oppose the Iran nuclear agreement and encourage their representatives to do the same. (Sylvan Lane/Staff Photo)
WASHINGTON–Sen. Ted Cruz has tried writing bills, offering amendments and even changing the rules of the Senate to kill the Iran nuclear deal.
He’s appeared at rallies outside the White House, denounced the deal on a slew of media outlets and even challenged President Barack Obama–or in his stead, Secretary of State John Kerry–to a public debate.
And nothing has worked.
Now Cruz, a 2016 presidential candidate, is trying to “energize and activate the grassroots” to form a tidal wave of opposition to the deal while Congress in is recess.
The members are in the beginning of a 60-day review period before they vote whether to approve the deal when they return. Most of Cruz’s Republican colleagues, including Sen. John Cornyn, are critical of the agreement and its negotiators. They’ll likely vote no, but said they’ll review the deal with due diligence.
Many Democrats favor the deal, but supporters still need to shore up a veto-proof majority as members with large Jewish constituencies–some Jewish themselves–weigh which way they’ll vote in the midst of a lobbying blitz.
Cruz has taken several steps to undermine the deal even before it was announced, but appears to have run out of legislative options to kill it before the six-week August recess.
Instead, Cruz said Tuesday, he’ll do everything he can to rally millions of Americans to call on their congressmen to oppose the deal when the vote comes. He hosted a strategy meeting with conservative allies and activists, about 15 of which joined him afterward for a press conference in his Capitol Hill office.
“The only hope that a sufficient number of Democrats are willing to stand up to the Obama White House…is if millions of Americans across this country light up the phones,” said Cruz “Every Democratic member can choose whether he or she will value the safety and security of the United States…or whether he or she will value partisan loyalty to the Obama White House.”
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Tyler, said the vote would be the most important any member of Congress takes.
“I hope that would have enough people on the other side of the aisle…to step up for America,” said Gohmert, who in May endorsed Cruz’s presidential campaign.
Beyond Congress, Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin said her organization was first concerned with constitutional issues of whether the deal should be considered a treaty, but now also worries about the national security ramifications of the deal.
Cruz has consistently called the deal a catastrophe of appeasement, guaranteed to let Iran develop nuclear weapons and funnel millions of dollars in economic sanctions relief to terror groups. His accusation that the Obama Administration would become the leading “financier of radical Islamic terrorism” drew a shot from the president, who said Monday Cruz’s rhetoric would be “ridiculous if it weren’t so sad.”
Cruz has also used to deal to sketch out his foreign policy if he were elected president. He’s offered a bill that he said “demonstrated how a strong commander in chief would deal with Iran” and often compares President Ronald Reagan’s succession of Jimmy Carter to his own attempt to succeed Obama.
Specifically, Cruz’s bill would have shut down all of Iran’s centrifuges and its intercontinental ballistic missile program, forced the surrender of all enriched uranium and barred Iran from funding terrorist groups–all while reimposing stronger economic sanctions.
Cruz has also criticized Obama for failing to free four Americans imprisoned in Iran and refusing to make that a condition of a nuclear arms deal.
“We have seen a weak and ineffective president–Jimmy Carter–unable to stand up to Iran and, like Barack Obama, leave American hostages languishing in an Iranian hellhole,” said Cruz. “When you’re a credible commander-in-chief, your enemies understand there are consequences.”
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