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Hot Mic! Who Was Caught Mocking Ted Cruz During His Senate Constitution Remarks?

Mar. 14, 2013 2:57pm Becket Adams

Republican Senator Ted Cruz must have ruffled a few feathers Thursday morning when he questioned Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s “assault weapons” ban, because during his closing remarks before the Senate Judiciary Committee, someone could be heard on a hot mic mocking his speech — on two occasions.

“My fourth and final point is that the Constitution, in my opinion, should be the touchstone of everything we do,” said Sen. Cruz. “I would point out that every one of us takes an oath to defend the constitution.”

“Thank you for the lecture,” someone can be heard muttering under their breath [at about the 20 second mark]:

Later, while driving home his point, Sen. Cruz said this:

In my view, the Constitution is particularly important when the Bill of Rights is unpopular. That was the entire purpose of the Bill of Rights! When our rights are popular, we don’t need the Constitution.

“I’m tired of these condescending…” seemingly the same person can heard saying, trailing off [at about the 22 second mark]:

As of this writing, it’s unclear who was criticizing Cruz.

However, the voice does sound male and it appears likely it was a senator. Additionally, given a) Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy’s impatience with Sen. Cruz’ speech (the Democrat senator cuts off Cruz toward the end to remind him that he hasn’t been in the Senate for very long) and b) the fact that it’s not uncommon for the chairman’s microphone to be left on, it’s not unlikely Leahy could be the culprit.

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CtznRespondent
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:35pm
What’s the first thing the bad guy says to his abducted victim? “Stay quiet!” Why? Because that’s the only way the bad guy can get away with his crime.

So what if Cruz is brand new to the Senate. He’s got every right, heck, it’s his duty, to remind his fellow senators when they stray off the path set forth in the constitution.

Finally, who’s really being condescending when someone calls someone else condescending? For the love of free humanity, please please stay strong Senator Cruz no matter how many entitled feathers you ruffle.

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- S-O-B-E-R
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:55pm
  In my little microcosm world of politics, very local, this was the tactic used in 2010 with the election of a tea party candidate: mockery of his lack of experience, snickering, face making, out and out shouts of “You don’t know what you’re doing,” or “When you’re here as long as I have been blah blah blah…”
  It seems clear that they’re a little worried, I hope so. Hoping for no more politics as usual.
  
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- TSUNAMI_22
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:17pm
  @ S-O-B-E-R
  
  What they are hoping for is an effective disarmament of the American people before the manufactured Federal Reserve collapse of the economy.
  
  Yes, they are worried because they are effectively “all in” with their strategy.
  
  Personally, I think the current administration has severely underestimated the resolve of the American people willing to fight back.
  
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- S-O-B-E-R
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:41pm
  @TSUNAMI-22, good ol’ American resolve to fight back, from your mouth to God’s ears. I’m in.
  
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- TGayle
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:44pm
  Perhaps we need to remind Senator Leahy that, while “new” to the Senate, Senator Cruz was : Solicitor General of Texas 2003-2008; while a law partner, he was a U.S. Supreme and Nat’l. Appellate Court litigator; Director of the office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission; Assoc. Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. D.O.J.; Adjunct Prof. of Law at University of TX School of Law Austin 2004-2009 taught US Supreme Court litigation; law clerk to Wm. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States – perhaps Leahy and others should pay attention.
  
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- txannie
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:45pm
  @tsunami…I thoroughly agree with you, they have severly underestimated the resolve of the American people to remain the greatest nation ever created in the history of the world.
  
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- shoulda coulda woulda
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 5:03pm
  When you are talking about shredding the constitution and bill of rights you need to be reminded what it means. Remember Ted Cruz was Solicitor General for Texas and argued in front of the Supreme Court at least twice.
  The “you are new” comment screams for term limits. This guy isn’t fresh out of college or right off the farm.
  
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- S-O-B-E-R
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 5:11pm
  @TGAYLE, Good job. Thanks for the info. Keep on keeping on. Don’t grow weary or fainthearted.
  
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- Bluebonnet
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 5:35pm
  IF it was Leahy, I’m sure you enjoyed the lecture and if you weren’t always so Condescending to everyone else, perhaps you could learn from an intelligent and knowledgeable young Senator from Texas who in reality probably knows so much more than an old man who’s worn out and doesn’t seem to uphold our Constitution and Bill of Rights for the citizens of AMERICA.
  
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- DIR
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 6:48pm
  There’s not much difference between Pat and Dianne. They’re both old, both senile, both full of crap and both old flaming douche bags not to mention both are treasonous.
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 7:46pm
  They were saying that seniority rules and Cruz must go through the pecking order. Feathers always get ruffeled when he new guy comes in and gives them the finger and refuses to bend over and drop them. His carrer is toast. You have to start at the bottom and kiss every old politicians A_ss that is stuck in your face.
  
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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 8:21pm
  DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO FORCE A CIVIL WAR LIKE THEY DID IN 1859. THEY BELIEVE THEY CAN DESTROY THE NATION AND THEN REBUILD IT INTO A MARXIST REPUBLIC LIKE NORTH KOREA.
  
  We must fight to prevent this. There are more of us than them.
  
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- armyofnibiru
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 8:36pm
  I hope cruz can keep resisting beanner ,he did promise to demoncrats he would change the tea party candidets into lefties.
  
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- yiska8
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 8:58pm
  “..you haven’t been here that long..”
  
  And some have been there WAY TOO LONG. Like a bad weed that just keeps growing and destroying the natural habitat. It’s time for the CONSERVATIVES to KEEP ROARING.
  
  FORWARD, Cruz.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 9:05pm
  “I’m tired of these condescending…” seemingly the same person can heard saying, trailing off [at about the 22 second mark]:
  
  Well, maybe if Dems weren’t such friggin Marxists and Communists, we wouldn’t be condescending to you… Just a thought, progs.
  
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- Newtowns-Third-Law
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 9:21pm
  I am starting to understand the debate rules hereabout. When AvengerK deletes my post, it automatically means I have bested him. I am OK with that.
  
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- justasurvivor
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:48pm
  You know – I just realized. The progressives are not just trying to disarm us of our firearms – they’re trying to disarm us of our strong, Constitutionalist representatives. May they lose in both endeavors. We need both to defend our rights.
  
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- randy1bella2
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 11:36pm
  Add your comments
  
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- mercenary4freedom
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:25am
  Anyone with a facebook page, hammer these guys if you want. These people are delerious. They are praising Swinestien for her little display this morning, saying she took him to the wood shed, etc, lol these are the useful idiots we are dealing with.
  
  https://www.facebook.com/#!/OccupyTheNRA
  
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- DarkJello
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:33am
  Do not cross Cruz, or we will get the 9″ nails for dem and repub alike.
  
  I am sick of the incompetence at best from Owebama on down.
  
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- fb274
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 1:43am
  My money on the mocking came from the diaper wearing stuart smiley aka Al Franken. He had a smug look of disgust on his face. Most likely jealous because his IQ is about 80-90 points lower than Senator Cruz’s.
  
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- Maji
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 1:56am
  Leaky Leahey!
  The senator that got thrown off the “secret intellegence committee”
  because he couldn’t keep a secret!!
  He kept telling everything he knew to try and seem relevant.
  
  What a dumb azz.
  
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- motherboard
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 2:26am
  @ TSUNAMI_22 – There are several factors in play here. Firstly, the order of things. The economy right now is all but crashed, and then there after, they want to come after guns, all the while folks who own them are either planning future hunting trips to feed their families, or learning how to do so.
  
  Secondly, I am not rich, so there is a chance you can tell me how horrible the rich are and how much it is their fault I am where I am, and maybe…just maybe, I will believe you because I don’t know, but…if I own a gun, I know beyond a shadow of a doubt the only individual that will ever find out is one meaning me harm, not innocent children or whatever.
  
  The truth is, our country is vastly stronger than was anticipated by these…people…By now, they had thought it would have already been done, but it is still hanging in there, and only because we still believe. The second conservatives stop caring, and throw in the towel, walk away form their jobs and business to live off of the land, free phones and all the rest of it go away.
  
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- Mil Mom
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 3:28am
  @S-O-B-E-R
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:55pm
  
  In my little microcosm world of politics, very local, this was the tactic used in 2010 with the election of a tea party candidate: mockery of his lack of experience, snickering, face making, out and out shouts of “You don’t know what you’re doing,” or “When you’re here as long as I have been blah blah blah…”
  It seems clear that they’re a little worried, I hope so. Hoping for no more politics as usual.
  ***
  Sounds like classic Alynski to me. Maybe b o actually has done something to earn his pay since he got elected. He’s always been an Alynski teacher, maybe being elected potus just means a huge pay raise and perks and a larger more powerful classroom to teach it to.
  
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- desertspeaks
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 5:08am
  oath of office! An oath is indivisible, it cannot be in part true and in part false.
  It is my assertion that most, if not all of these senators are GUILTY of perjury of oath of office and conspiracy!!
  18 U.S.C. 1621 in any declaration, certificate, verification, or statement under penalty of perjury, willfully subscribes as true any material matter which he does not believe to be true; is guilty of perjury and shall, except as otherwise expressly provided by law, be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. This section is applicable whether the statement or subscription is made within or without the United States.
  The false statement statute, 18 U.S.C. 1001, is closely akin to the perjury statutes. It outlaws false
  statements in any matter within the jurisdiction of a federal agency or department, a kind of
  perjury with oath prohibition.
  A false declaration in the form established by 26 USC 1746 can result in federal perjury charges.
  
  MISPRISION. (1) a contempt against the sovereign, the government, or the courts of justice, including not only contempts of court, properly so called, but also all forms of seditious or disloyal conduct and leze-majesty;
  18 USC Sec. 241 CONSPIRACY AGAINST RIGHTS
  42 USC Sec. 1985 CONSPIRACY TO INTERFERE WITH CIVIL RIGHTS
  
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- softunderbelly
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 6:13am
  One of the big problems right now is that we don’t know whether it was a Rino or a Democrat
  saying these things. In his own way McCain was saying the same thing about Rand Paul after
  his filibuster. And of course, we all know what the general feelings are about gun control as far
  as the Dems are concerned.
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 6:42am
  Sober and 22,
  I got your six.
  
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- dbfox
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 8:06am
  The most obvious problem in the senate/politics is most have been there to long. How refreshing is it to Sen. Cruz, I would suggest longevity in politics is more the problem then the solution!
  
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- Bum thrower
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 8:42am
  Ruffle feathers!!! Pluck ‘em!!!!
  
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- tasher
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 8:42am
  The old guard likes to have a senior-freshman system. That is not the way it works. My guy who just went to the senate is equal to the progressive that has been there 30 years.
  
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- coachsmac
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 8:53am
  Agree 100%! Well said!! They are scared to death a new group of senators is gonna upset their sweet deal they have made for themselves!!
  
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- stage9
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 8:59am
  Cruz is new and yet he shows more sense than 9/10′s of the idiots in Washington.
  
  He hasn’t been there long enough to have become a useless moron!
  
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- Grey Eagle
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 9:40am
  Cruz was not sent to the Senate by the voters of Texas to sit down, shut up, or follow the edicts of the Democrats. He is a very smart lawyer who clerked for a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He also believes in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, unlike the left wing liberals in charge of the Senate.
  
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- Goodyz
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 9:49am
  Clinging to God and our guns!
  
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- Swalker
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 10:38am
  http://justrightofleft.blogspot.de/2013/03/the-jewish-agenda-churchill-was-right.html
  
  The wheel of time spins round and round.. Just saying.
  
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- txannie
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 11:04am
  @Turkey….About that pecking order you speak of and having to kiss feathered azzes on the way up to the vaulted position enjoyed by old timers in gov…I raise chickens, turkeys, all kinds of fowl and while the senior hens usually are at the top of the pecking order, it really all depends on how tough the new girl is when introduced to the flock. Quite often the younger will give way to the older, but if the younger is of a mind not to be bossed around and can prove how tough she is, she takes the place of the senior hen. In other words, it all depends of how much you want to be heard and how hard you are willing to fight for your cluck (voice in this case) to be heard.
  
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- Ollie123
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 11:22am
  just because he is a junior senator, I think he can run circles around the elite rhino’s and is refreshing to hear someone challenge their hypocricy
  
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- rambosharley
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 11:29am
  I hope Cruz, Paul, Lee, Johnson, Toomey all go back to their offices and toast themselves and each other for ******* those crusty OLD marxist butts off! I know I would! Proud to be a conservative!
  
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- SamIamTwo
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:02pm
  These old entrenched liberals are like small condescending children.
  
  Run them and the media off the virtual cliff.
  
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- 4BlueStars
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 1:33pm
  Well, Leahy, if you know so much about the Constitution, why don’t you respect and obey it? P.O.S.
  
  Patrick Leahy could best serve his constituents by standing in front of a wall.
  
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- Renellin
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 3:12pm
  What’s all this about these senators claiming special privileges because they’ve been there forever??? Term limits!!!
  
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- rok707
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 3:59pm
  Since when does “I’m offended” become a rational response to a question?,unless you can claim some divine write to be above question. Which is typical of arrogant people like the liberals who have established among themselves to have entitlement to rule.
  
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- TheirMom
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 9:44pm
  Great example. I’ll give you another one. Why do women stay in abusive relationships? Among the several reasons, one strong reason is because she’s afraid to talk about it. As long as she stays silent, he’s protected. It’s even worse with MALE victims because they’re ashamed to talk about it!
  
  Silence protects the abuser, in the home or in the government.
  
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- YankeeDelta68
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 9:50pm
  fight for my rights im in also,seems its alright for these pecker heads to defend them selves but not us. Lets do it now!!!!
  
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- Jim in Houston
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 11:08am
  It matters not that Ted Cruz is a newly minted senator. He is orders of magnitude smarter and damned sure more patriotic than the socialist old fool Leahy.
  
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- storytellerFL
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 11:35am
  I have to agree with Desert Speaks, there is a matter of law to be considered. Our rights are not up for grabs by the politician with the biggest mouth or who thinks they have a majority. Our rights do not belong to the government or any social group, they belong to us individually, not collectively and they are not dependent upon popularity; nor are they subject to the designs of social engineering. Government is subordinate to the unalienable rights enumerated in our declaration, constitution, and bill of rights. Whether a politician or group are willing or not to recognize that our natural rights are granted by God is not relevant, our nation IS founded upon these principles. For those politicians who are engaged in making policy that seeks to undermine our rights or to empower their self or government to the ends of subordinating those rights, I remind you that you are subject to prosecution under the law for high treason against the people whom you were elected to serve. So by all means, please continue revealing your motivations and ambitions through legislative treason and we the people will reward your efforts with impeachment, prosecution, and imprisonment.
  
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- ACMESAGE
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 10:07am
  Amen. Courage, character and truth. Anymore of that and the left is in trouble.
  
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- cc0623
  Posted on March 25, 2013 at 4:06pm
  Amen!
  
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- RayOne
  Posted on March 26, 2013 at 7:29pm
  Stay Quiet
  
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redfish52
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:33pm
@NEVERMIND…please go to Huffpo with the other retards….we don’t do trolls here.

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moreteaplease
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:33pm
Worst part is you fools actually like this guy asking 3rd grade questions, shows the IQ of the right seems to match their representatives. .
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Which still put it head and shoulders above those on the left.

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jakartaman
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:31pm
Leahey is an out an out Commie
I even think he would admit it and say he was proud of it.
The constitution to this old arrogant elitist in nothing more than an old historical archive that should be ignored because he and his ilk are smarter than our founders.

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- rx4nv
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:18pm
  It takes all of 3 seconds to realize the hot mike is on the gentleman who is sitting in the upper right corner of the table and has the women leaning over him. You can hear their conversation in the first few seconds of the clip.
  
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- TheEDGE
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:35pm
  Cruz should where it as a badge of honor. If the pillow-biting left isn’t mocking you, it’s because you’re one of them. Mocking is like their gag reflex when confronted with anything remotely masculine.
  
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- skimmer57
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:27pm
  Cruz is one arrogant Canadian.
  
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TruthWFree
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:30pm
Go Ted. Show these morons the insanity of their illogical thoughts. We have allowed idiots like Feinstein, Franken, Frank, Pelosi and Obama to take the reins of government from us. We need more TED CRUZ’s!!!!

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- theaton
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:20pm
  “We have allowed ”
  It’s nice to see others understand that we are just as much to blame for the state we are in as is the enemy.
  
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- bravjim
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 5:20pm
  “Now, more than ever, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. IF that body be ignorant, reckless, or corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption; If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities from to represent them in the national legislature.”
  James Garfield 1877
  President of the United States.
  
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- toiletclogga
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 7:46am
  Don’t forget John McCain and Lindsay Graham. Nobody has held these guys accountable either. This is why I am no longer a Republican, but rather independent who leans very Conservative. Ted Cruz (a Texan) speaks for me, a Pennsylvanian.
  
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sharkee
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:30pm
LEAHY is showing his ignorant pushy liberal ways

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- Gonzo
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:05pm
  Could just as easily have been Lindsey Graham. You saw how he reacted to Rand Paul standing up for the Constitution.
  
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- chucksue351
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:12pm
  or mccain, the old guard has to keep the back of their crony senate friends no matter the party
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:43pm
  McCain’s not on that committee, I checked. He was my first suspect.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 8:10am
  That voice sounded so familiar to me. I say it was Leaky Leahy himself.
  
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- opar5
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 4:27pm
  Liberal? Thomas Jefferson was a social liberal, and he defined tyranny: “Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.” Do we not have a lot of that?
  Then there’s Tench Coxe: “Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American…[T]he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.” The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788
  Who are these arrogant, pampered morons presuming to redefine reality?
  
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welovetheUSA
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:29pm
We can always count on a liberal to be disrespectful, Our main worry besides the fact that these old guard politicians are destroying our country…When are the media and politicians going to warn the American people to get ready for this disaster looming around the bend, ….the world is looking at replacing of the US dollar as the world currency, a new unified currency is planned , IMF ..China..RUSSIA.. Arab nations..Brazil..Chile..South Africa..India and Australia have new currency agreements that do not include the US . This will be a complete disaster for America…as it was for the United Kingdom when they went through this down grade. Our dollar is about to be worth nothing…and all the democrats can do is spend..spend..spend and print fake money worth nothing now to the world. Why is it that the republicans have not taken over the news waves and news papers to warn the American people? Meetings are going on with world leaders without inviting the US…its coming and all these high stock prices will not save anyone from this disaster. The federal reserve and politicians have destroyed America.
This stock market is a joke, the printing of money to cover the banks and keep interest rates down is a joke..When the world turns away from American we will be in dire straights to say the least, we are a nation of consumers we import everything from china who holds our notes.
This should be the number one story across this nation..people are going to lose Everything. Not t

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- chips1
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:44pm
  The only reason for spending all this money is because the government intends for it to become worthless. Time to invest in food, guns, ammo, or metals. Something that can be bartered. When you look at your bank statement, don’t forget to subtract it from your total value.
  
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wilbstal
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:23pm
soon a lot of Liberals will get repealed

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Briggston
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:22pm
with no respect to Patrick Leahy. You older senators have been here for decades an only shown in that time period that you can royally screw things up. Crushing debt, Recession economic levels, market downturns largely from you failure to keep yourselves in line, Lies, distortion, lobbying corruption. If I had a resume like yours in the private sector I would be fired and most likely in jail. So don’t flaunt your so called seniority in front of me it only shows more brazenly how pathetic you are at your job.

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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:34pm
  This is exactly why we have to DUMP these career politicians..
  TERM LIMITS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! These F’N BOZO’s
  scoff at the Constitution, all these JERKS that have been
  in Congress over 20 years should forfeit their Pension and
  Benefits for the DAMAGE they have done to this Country.
  
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- TimPatriot
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:27pm
  Lets start by example….requiring OUR candidates to voluntarily hold themselves to self-imposed term limits. “I will serve no longer than two terms…and then return to the private sector”
  
  We need politicians who don’t want to be politicans. Ones that HATE politics. And look what the senate does to anyone serving more than two terms– lifers, driven by politics, reelection, power, and special interests that can help them get re-relected.
  
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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:52pm
  Brig, Good post, you nailed it…If I were a Politician elected
  before 2010 I think I would show a little humility, like you
  said, the damage they have caused in the last 12 years is
  totally insane..Pelosi and Reid have put Congress in the
  TOILET, BOTH have amassed immense FORTUNES..while
  serving the People..these two are the worst and they know
  how to cover each other’s AZZ’s..They Blame Bush for what
  they did during the 110th and 111th Congress..check LINK !!
  http://cnsnews.com/news/article/111th-congress-added-more-debt-first-100-congresses-combined-10429-person-us
  
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- PattiR
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:47pm
  In the private sector, the Old Guard would have been fired decades ago.
  
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hauschild
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:16pm
Classic leftist tactic of resorting to name-calling when they fail to make an argument.

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- GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 7:33pm
  And mostly, bullying him because he’s the rookie there, and not part of “their club”.
  
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JimCDew
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:16pm
If they could, the libs would repeal the 2nd Amendment. It is worth noting that amendments that get repealed have to do with restricting rights while those that expand rights are not repealed. I only bring this up because if a gay rights amendment passes it will not be repealed.

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justiceday
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:12pm
They are wasting so much time talking they aren’t paying attention to what Obama is already doing regarding gun laws! Stop talking take action and save the Constitution!
These guys aren’t going to do it they don’t even protect us http://www.theusmarinesrape.com/FaceBook.html

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Marc Conder
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:10pm
Senator Cruz was elected to represent me, and my fellow conservatives. While Senator Leahy may be the current chairman, he certainly does not represent the number of people Senator Cruz represents. Perhaps we also need term limits on committee chairs, and more, let the bigger states control the chairs in the senate, we, the people need representing there, in the corporations house.

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WhatReally
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:09pm
I wish more “public servants” did their job and defended the constitution! Go Mr. Cruz!

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banjarmon
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:07pm
Make congress live up to it’s OATH of Office and to the Constitution!!

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- Gonzo
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:11pm
  How?
  
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- TSUNAMI_22
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:28pm
  @ Gonzo
  
  How?
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  By making an example out of them and thus setting the new precedent. It starts with one.
  
  Our founders would have done something by now.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:46pm
  I don’t disagree, but I don’t think Republicans in Congress have the balls for it.
  
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- TSUNAMI_22
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:19pm
  @ Gonzo
  
  I don’t disagree, but I don’t think Republicans in Congress have the balls for it.
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  That’s because you make the assumption that the precedent will be set by republicans.
  
  The precedent will be set by the patriots….POSSIBLY with the HELP of republicans.
  
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- theaton
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:29pm
  If Congress will not hold Congrss accountable to their oath, it is our responsiblitity. If we are to lazy to do our duty, there is nobody else to depend on. If we are to dependent on getting our check from the government to do anything they we are just screwed. We either need to do something or STFU!
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:48pm
  The only Senators I can hold accountable are the two from my state. How do I hold Senators that I can’t vote against accountable? If I was Trump, I could fund the opposition candidate, but I’m not. I could write letters, which I have, but get form letters in return.
  
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- henryKnox
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 8:25pm
  Constitution; We don’t need no stinkin’ Constitution. (says Pelosi).
  
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- YOURSENSEI
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 1:08am
  This is what you must know:
  
  Cruz will be out of the Senate by Christmas. I’ve already seen to it.
  
  It is so.
  
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- moreoilplease
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 7:51am
  cincie
  
  Run your fingers through the rings of an onion and you will be rested.
  For you I grant nine wishes that never come true and four that leave a bitter taste in your mouth.
  Sit quietly but yell only nouns in alphabetical order.
  Write your most inner thoughts with an invisible pen and publish.
  Strap bricks to your feet to feel the weight of a brick strapped to your feet inside shoes.
  Cancel your subscription to Nine Lives Magazine.
  Master the art of humming.
  Memorize the words, “Liz lives for hearing aids and the letter W”. Find Liz and ask for directions.
  Wonder, no ponder who thought of the letter “W” for 61 hours 46 minutes and 19 seconds.
  Go on a celery only diet.
  Live life like a two part question.
  For now and forever speak without using adjectives.
  Drink nothing that wasn’t already there.
  
  Master all these things and sixteen that are unknowable and you will become a sensitive.
  
  This is what I know that you must stow in your know-er.
  
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- crackerone
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 5:54pm
  @more oil
  
  Thanks for the laugh!
  
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Watcher1952
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:07pm
Did anyone notice the smirk on Al Franken’s face……Leahy cuts Mr. Cruz off and was interjecting thing addressed to Feinstein,,,,,,,bunch of arrogant piss heads……It is good to see someone with a set of Ka-honnies and speak up…. LOCK & LOAD America

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- MDECKER
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:20pm
  Franken wasn’t smirking, that’s the same dumb look he was born with. I would venture to guess that Ted Cruz is the only one on that committee that has even read the Constitution.
  
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- Exidor
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:23pm
  Yep. I saw the little twerp smirk. Boy, Cruz makes them wiggle doesn’t he? lol
  
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- Max Power 1
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:18pm
  I’d like to punch that smirk right off that smarmy little puke’s face. Hey leaky Leahy, come say that to me, you punk. I’ll condescend my boot right up your azz. Hey Feinstein, keep talkin’, you’re just moving yourself up on the target list you dried up old hag.
  
  molon labe
  
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- high school drop out
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 8:44pm
  I was watching today during Ted Cruzes speech..I,m pretty sure it was that miserable bastard Franken who commented….He’s just as good a senator as he was a comedian…and he was NEVER funny nor sucessful..The truly sad part is he thinks he’s highly intelligent…well he has the “High” part right anyway
  
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FrankieBaby
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:06pm
Well its evident the smart ash that made the comment “Thank you for the lecture” was in need of a refresher evidently! Because these id iot democrat communists are stomping all over it!

The point he made about the constitution being its most important when the majority is trying to IGNORE IT was the the entire reason we have the bill of rights!

And that “Public Opinion” MEANS NOTHING when it comes to the U.S. constitution!

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Steelhead
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:05pm
Cruz is a one trick pony – a real flash in the pan

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- Cavallo
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:15pm
  Interesting cliches, rusthead.
  
  Except Cruz’s flash in the pan, ignited the powder and shot that condescending fascist b!%@# right between the eyes.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:14pm
  That’s one more trick than your boy Obama has.
  
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- Just_Us2
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:21pm
  If the pony shoots you in the head…it only needs one trick.
  
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- txbren
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 5:18pm
  You are wishing on a star. Oh yes Cruz is there til we decide we don’t want him there anymore. And YOU can’t do a damned thing about it. GO TED CRUZ. We need to replace them all with people like Cruz.
  
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edcoil
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:04pm
Congress, both the house and the senate has spent the last generation failing the American people, passing laws against them, giving their treasure away and not representing the vast majority of the people for their own personal gain.

The “greatest generation” save Europe and lost America because they failed to continue the fight for freedom – somehow, it just became too hard.

Too hard became too much and too much became the problem of future generations of Americans that will have to do too much and work too hard to fix it.

We are, unlike our parents generation – not afraid of the work.

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Gonzo
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:04pm
No McCain, but Lindsey Graham is on the committee. He’s just as likely as any of the Dems to say that.

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101stIraqVet
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:03pm
“the Democrat senator cuts off Cruz toward the end to remind him that he hasn’t been in the Senate for very long”

He needs to be fired for that remark.

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- TEARS FOR AMERICA
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:50pm
  There was never any intention for congress to be full-time residents of D.C., and now that they are entrenched and screwing over freedom and taxpayers, they think they are gods…Ted Cruz, keep up the ruffling of feathers…let’s make ‘em squirm.
  
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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:03pm
I’m sure the Holy Ghost said, “Your Welcome”, it was a pleasure to haunt your conscience today?

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thibx
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:01pm
hang in there ted don’t let these idiots get to you, we need people like you who, has and uses their brain.

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FlagWavingPatriot
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:01pm
The bastards NEED lecturing! Keep on keeping on, Ted!

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- bharris0
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:16pm
  They need more than lecturing. They need the fear of God put into them.
  
  They need to think things through, like what is going to happen to them if they start a civil war.
  
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- Max jones
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 10:56am
  BAHRISO…..Of all the comments, your’s comes in first.
  
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Gonzo
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:00pm
Is McCain on that committee? Just as many RINOS feel the same as the Dems when it comes to the Constitution.

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- Ben__Franklin
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:55pm
  You know Mizz Fienstien right Newtown, The same woman with a CCW permit. The same woman who believes its OK for her to have personal protection using other people with “Assault Weapons” that have detachable magazines holding more than 10 rounds. Yes, that woman who thinks whats good for the little people she can be exempt from. Ever heard of the term useful idiot?
  
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- Ollie123
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 11:32am
  no I don’t think McCain is on the committee, but i am sure he needs to be committed! He has outgrown his usefulness and is a stumbling block for true conservitism
  
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