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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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AmericaMustBeFree
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:53pm
American, we must sand with these brave new men, who are not afraid to speak their minds and tell us the truth.. the old guard hates it. I stand with Rand Paul and those like him.. Rubio caved.. and has been caving for awhile, just by his voting. He stands with Rand and then votes for Hagel?? Sorry, Rubio.. you can’t have it both ways! You have been scratched off my list. I would like to see and hear more from Mike Lee, Jason Chaffetz.. Orrin Hatch is a traitor.. and anyone else, who will stand by the constitution and the oath they took. Is it treason to take that oath and then do the opposite?? If not, it needs to be! God help the good men and women in Washington.. which I can count on one hand!

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ckhenson
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:52pm
It’s not that Sen. Cruz hasn’t been there long enough, the fact is Leahy has been there way to long. The Senate and the House both need term limits.

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- GuruMeditation
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 5:08pm
  WAY too many of them have been there too long. It’s time to fully open the drain and watch them circle in with pleasure!
  
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- jettson
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 9:50am
  GuruMeditation We may need some draino to clear the drain. AMERICA Don’t GIVE UP YOUR GUNS.
  
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TGayle
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:50pm
Do you HAVE Google? Have you looked the man up and seen his background? Department of Justice, Law professor, U.S.Supreme Court litigator, clerk to Wm. Rehnquist, Chief Justice, Solicitor General of Texas, Fed. Trade Commission…….

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FaithfulFriend
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:46pm
This always happens when Leahy’s drunk (as usual) and as been snorting mccain.

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Selftrack
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:40pm
Mr “Leaky”, It seems to me that you should be reminded that perhaps you have been there TOO long! A primer on the Constitution that you have sworn to uphold is a good thing from time to time. Especially when you are trying to take rights away from law abiding citizens in order to punish law breakers who don’t respect the laws in the first place.

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Old Ogre
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:39pm
“Good, stupidy should be mocked.”

I agree, but its spelled stupidity… Do us a favor and change your name to “No Mind”…

If you agree with socialists like Leahy, and his companion in crime the admitted Vermont socialist Bernie Sanders that could only get elected by lying and saying he is an independent then you deserve what you get.
Why don’t you go and read in the charters of freedom where it CLEARLY states that it is the RIGHT and DUTY of all AMERICAN CITIZENS to rise up and overthrow an overbearing government that seeks to fundamentally change the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. You must have missed the classes in school that taught that the people are the MASTERS and the government is the SERVANT of the PEOPLE. (That is basic law for you).
Don’t worry about the “GOP” I have a feeling it is going to go through its “second childhood” real soon here, and revert back to what it was meant to be, if not it will go the way of the Dodo bird. Patriotic Americans are fed up with little fools like you who have no idea of what you are doing. Just by the sound of you I bet you drool all over that little Tory Piers Morgan, perhaps you should hop a boat back to England with him?

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- jettson
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 9:56am
  Old Ogre Thats the way give him hell. You said it best. A hard rain is going to fall
  
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IKW
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:36pm
Ted Cruz may not be a long-time member of the Senate, but TEXAS sure as hell has been and anyone insulting Cruz because of his lack of tenure is really smacking Texans in the face saying, “sit down and shut up, you FNG”!

Perhaps some Texans need to get together and head to Washington to demonstrate to Ms. Feinstein what tenure really looks like…by the way, if anyone from Texas goes please stop by Illinois and pick me up, I can’t do squat there accept serve as a forward operating position when Chicago decides to go it alone…I’ll need the help keeping them contained. ;-)

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Canada_Goose
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:35pm
Perhaps it was one of his fellow Republicans

A Republican pal says Feinstein didn’t hit Ted Cruz where she should have …
Unfortunately, in the heat of the battle, Dianne Feinstein didn’t make the key rebuttal to Cruz’s lame questions.

NONE of the Bill of Rights’ protections are absolute. NONE of the Bill of Rights’ protections are UNLIMITED. The First Amendment to free speech has all sorts of limits (slander, libel, “fire in a crowded theater”), yet Cruz claims that they are. The Fourth Amendment protection against search and seizure isn’t absolute either. He’s a simpleton. Unfortunately, DiFi got swept up in the emotion of the moment and failed to make this simple, true, and devastating response to Cruz.

http://editors.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2013/03/i_thought_she_made_a_good_point.php?ref=fpblg
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KingArthur
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:35pm
Why is congress even waiting time on this? Even if assault weapons were banned tomorrow there would still be millions of them legally everywhere. Even if you could make all guns magically disappear you couldn’t make some twisted individuals desire to hurt people go away, and there is more than one way to die. Ways much more efficient than a gun. Picture this… Your standing in Grand Central Station, you look up to check your train and see something else… What would you rather see A) A fire ball and shrapnel from a bomb? B) A train bouncing down the platform? C) People just falling to the ground convulsing with blood oozing from all of everyone’s orifices? Or D) Some spaz with a gun? Our so called leaders are offering US a false illusion of safety in exchange for our very real rights. This isn’t about safety and security; its about power and control. I see the folly and the trickery, deceit, and subversion coming from Washington. I will not peacefully ground arms to a tyrannical government. I don’t need Feinstein’s, Obama’s, or any politicians permission to exercise rights that don’t come from them…

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noslave
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:33pm
since american soldiers wont kill americans ,may even join them in eliminateing the communists in govt they must first disarm the public then use drones to protect theire worthless azzes from harm??

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All Pro
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:29pm
Considering the number of grammatical and spelling errors in your post, I don’t think you made it to 3rd grade.

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Rodney
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:28pm
Get em TED!!!!!

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truemedia
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:24pm
the ones who are condescending is the Senators who penned this infringement on my GUN RIGHTS

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- kenboy
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:33pm
  Exactly! What part of “shall not be infringed” don’t they understand? Stomping on the 2A will not be tolerated this time around. Tyrannical bastards!
  
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BarackInsaneNobama
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:23pm
Cruz is new to the Senate, so who else was only a Senator for 4 years ill give ya a hint, he his black, thinks the ‘people’ are dumb, and he rules a hFREE country under socialistic and communist values!! Ad as far as how long you hhave been in the henate only matters if you dont take the Bill Of Rights and Constitution as primary Law of the Land

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kenboy
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:21pm
Senator Cruz “schooled” the dems. That got so agitated they muttered into the mic (probably Leahy), raised their voices and pounded the table (DiFi) and sat stupefied (Durban, Franken). What a bunch of losers. You go Ted Cruz!!!!

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jimmymac1
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:19pm
@nomind!
As soon as the US is declared a war zone and we start wiping out those that have invaded I will agree with you. Until then we all have the rights of a citizen even when I don’t like it. People caught on a battle field are treated differently that is the law no one person ever gets to decide, when that happens that individual needs to be eliminated.

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Lotus503
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:18pm
I think that both new and current Senators & Congressmen should be required to take a test on the Constitution & the Bill of Rights and their proper interpretations according to their framers, and pass it with a 90% before they can be sworn in and seated.

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LTC911
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:17pm
What an idiot. If you were half as smart as you think you are, you would be ten times smarter than you really are. Go back to school and learn how to spell you marxist moron!

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turbo
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:15pm
Feinstein “When you have been here as long as I have…”
Cruz breaking in “That is not asset Senator, it’s a liability that is quite evident in your remarks”

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beekeeper
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:13pm
Ted Cruz asked very reasonable questions, and he set them up, not so much for Ms. Feinstein, but for the folks at home watching him (both at the present and in the future).

Ms. Feinstein’s response, that ‘we pass laws and the Supreme Court rules on their legality, their Constitutionality’ is simply staggering – it would seem she feels she has no reason to ponder the Constitutionality of any laws she votes on, since that’s the responsibility of the Supreme Court.

The Second Amendment is very clear:

“…the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”

Is Ms. Feinstein proposing that by limiting what citizens can buy she is not impinging their rights?

Can the Government limit when, how, and who may get an abortion, or is that ‘impinging their rights”?

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Sharon Rose
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:11pm
Stand strong Senator Kruz, we stand with you. The he!! with the libs.

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spirited
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:07pm
“lecture” and “tired of these condescending”

;^>Yes……, every time the audacious one speaks; that goes for the wife too.

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edie1945
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:06pm
Keep standing tall Senator Cruz AN ARMED PERSON IS A CITIZEN,,,,AN UNARMED PERSON IS A SUBJECT. Americans: Which side do you choose?

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rgcalton
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:00pm
Senator Durbin’s comments about the Bill of Rights not being absolute is telling. I realize that the Supreme Court and Congress have been trying to shred the Bill of Rights and the Constitution since Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, but the founders intenended the Bill of Rights to be a mandate for the freedom of “We the People.”

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stumpygrim
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:59pm
These cowards are afraid of Cruz, as well as Paul, and they should be. It is likely these two will be the new leaders of a new party,and the commies on both sides of the isle need to be afraid, very afraid.

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- spirited
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:13pm
  An old fashioned square dance
  just before
  –hopefully,
  wagons circling.
  
  >Go Mr. Cruz; ride ‘em cowboy
  
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