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A Ted Cruz Missile Strikes Dianne Feinstein

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  March 14th, 2013 at 02:13 PM  | 

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If Ted Cruz keeps this up in the Senate, Democrats might try to impose gun control on his Cruz missile strikes. Earlier today at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on guns, Ted Cruz directly challenges Dianne Feinstein to answer how her gun bans are constitutional if the same language protecting the right to bear arms (“the right of the people”) is used for the First and Fourth Amendments, which presumably, nobody would try to limit in the same way. Of course, she had no answer, except to act like a pugnacious school child.

It’s probably not a good idea for Senator Feinstein to argue with the man who represented the states in the Heller case on the ramifications of the decision. Yet, this is someone who believes that its the job of a senator to legislate, irrespective of the constitutionality of the law.

Indeed it is a new day in the Senate with Ted Cruz. And there are an awful lot of Democrats that are not happy with the paradigm shift.

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  • MiamiDave

    Ted Cruz cares more about the United States than he does about being invited to the right “inside-the-beltway” parties and about being applauded by mainstream media newscasters; he is more interested in ensuring our enduring freedom than he is in making friends with the Statists on the Hill. That is downright TERRIFYING to Democrats, and to “centerist” Republicans, who have spent the last five decades turning the Senate into a place where conservatism goes to die. Keep at it, Senator! We’re behind you 100%!

  • rightlane1111

    Well..I agree with Cruz..and all the post. I wish we could gain seniority in the senate and get rid of that woodpecker Leahy also.

  • cbartlett

    I’ve been noticing that much of the lamestream media is only showing/playing Feinstein’s reply WITHOUT Cruz’s initial questions. Once again, low-information voters only see the emotional response with no context. They never get the extreme disconnect between the actual question and her NON-answer. Sigh.

  • mt32

    Maybe Feinstein does need to go back to sixth grade and study the word INFRINGED

  • grumpyKoz

    The arguments with the LEFT must always center around constitutionality. How is their position ratified by The Constitution.
    Forget ALL of the other ‘warm fuzzy’ arguments they try to present. Compassion, Fairness, Equality.
    EVERY argument MUST take this same tact. How Is Your Position Supported By The Constitution?
    Make them answer it, on the record.
    If they cannot present their position rationally, a vote must be taken to strike the bill.

  • sta46

    I’d like to know why Cruz and/or others have yet to ask someone like her( while on the record) just exactly why she and the other commies didn’t trot out all their gun-grab legislation after Aurora? Are those who died in Aurora less worthy of such histrionics? Oh wait… they were campaigning and were afraid if they outed themselves as gun-grabbers they wouldn’t get re-elected.

  • sudomakeme

    Senator Cruz is not my state’s senator but I have sent him on two separate occasions an email thanking him for not only representing Texas but the rest of us in the United States. I also have told him he does not stand alone and has support all around the country.

  • toothpick

    To paraphrase Chris Matthews…I am getting chills up my leg watching Ted Cruz slice and dice these blowhards in the Senate. This guy is for real.

  • Jack_Savage

    I thank God Almighty for this patriot. The reason McCain and Graham despise he and Rand so much is that Cruz and Rand are showing them to be the gutless lawmakers they really are.

    Also Patrick Leahy is a horse’s ass, and we should give Vermont to Canada.

  • fhg2fhg2

    Senator Cruz was a tad “tone deaf” in his attitude towards Senator Feinstein today . After all she was in City Hall when the Mayor and the Council member were murdered by a mentally ill colleague. He can make his points without being disrespectful.

  • gflyer3364qt

    Aren’t the House rules that any bill must include a clause that states which part of the Constitution grants them the right to pass a particular bill… that was 112th House rules, as far as I know they haven’t changed. I’m interested to see these clauses in the House gun control bills that have been introduced.

  • gflyer3364qt

    LMAO McCarthy’s assault weapons ban cites Article I, Section 8 as Constitutional authority. LMAO!!!

  • gflyer3364qt

    I’m interested to see where this goes. Harry’s allowing it to the floor maybe so all the red state Dems can be on record voting AGAINST it for 2014. It fails in the Senate. The Republicans and red state Dems can say they voted against it. The liberals can say they voted for and the House won’t be pressured to vote on a gun ban because it failed in the Senate, sparing the House Dems from having to go on record voting on a gun ban.

  • gflyer3364qt

    Yes, they still are. They’re citing Article I, Section 8 for crying out loud. No reference whatsoever to the 2nd Amendment.

  • Jack_Savage

    And what does that have to do with the question he asked? She made an argument totally on emotion and anecdote, and if that is what passes for constitutional scholarship for you and your leftist friends, then that is the main reason for the pitiful state of Democrat leadership.
    Try again, pal. The victim play isn’t working.

  • gunnyg2002

    Milk and Mosconi were two of the most corrupt vermin ever to slide out from under a rock. No sympathy here. Furthermore Diane Feinswine IS the enemy and a traitor and should be threated thusly and her scandal (MILCON) was glossed over by a Dem Senate. Cruz was dead on.

  • Bill S

    GMAFB. She doesn’t deserve squat. Cruz is doing exactly what he needs to … no deference to the left-wing Democrites. To hell with Feinstein. He wasn’t hard enough on her.

  • NRPax

    1. Appeal to Authority (I saw dead bodies from gunshot wounds!)

    2. Appeal to Emotion (WON’T YOU THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!?)

    3. Non sequitur (Should people be able to buy bazookas!?)

    4. Absolutely no clue what an assault weapon really is.

    5. She has a CCW from a State where it’s notoriously difficult to get one.

    6. Oh, and she absolutely ignored the question.

    Cruz was more than respectful. Feinstein was anything but.

  • joshinca

    I thought he was overly deferential to the old hag.

  • checkmate2012

    Cha-ching for Cruz yet again. Feinstein et al should note, don’t mess with Texas or our Cruz missile, for he ain’t stopping now.
    .
    When she started spewing her, “I’ve been here over 20 years and have studied the Constitution myself”, all I could think of she’s been then 20 years too long and she did admit that she thought she was reasonably educated. Hmm, it’s not hard to understand the Bill of Rights and thank goodness she studied the Constitution upon that which she swore to enter office. D’s can’t answer simple questions without giving away their ideololgy that the elite rule and to hell with the Constitution, as she said, “different tests apply on different amendments”. Thus her idea is that Congress should make laws based on their bias, not on the basis of absolute rights.
    .
    However, Dicky Durbin was perhaps more insulting to Cruz when he said, “the Senator knows, having attended law school and professes to have some experience in the Constitution.” Professes? Cruz has argued more cases and WON than these two losers can dream about arguing a case at the Supreme Court.
    .
    I’m so proud to have voted for Cruz, who won against all odds. Thank you Senator!

  • ww2nd95

    Ted Cruz made his point and Feinstein looked caught off guard and didn’t have a very good response. You don’t need to worry about Feinstein. She’s been in the Senate for 20 years, I’m sure she’s been in plenty of scuffles. Honestly, I like seeing Cruz spice things up a little bit. And I don’t necessary think he disrespected her anyhow. He was direct and curt with her, and had a point to make. She’s the one that had the “Look here Jr..” response.

    Honestly, I would like to see more of that in the Senate. Let both sides stake their claims and go at it. More discussion is better. And I would really like them to bring back the talking filibuster, and have it be used as it’s supposed to.

  • checkmate2012

    Truthfully, someone should ask Feinstein if the ranch and land owners on the border can protect themselves with just 10 rounds against the drug cartels and human mules that cross their land. DHS has aided and abetted the thugs and tied the arms of the CBP and ICE to do their job. Putting up signs that say stay out as it may be dangerous due to illegals would be a prime reason to own multiple guns with multiple rounds.

  • checkmate2012

    If you subsribe to a “living Constitution” then Feinstein and Durbin are spot on and seem to be your cup of tea. Cruz defended the Bill of Rights and she had no answer except she happened to study the Constitution and then plea that she was reasonalby educated. I surmise that she’s an idiot and Cruz proved that in a matter of minutes.

  • gazill

    Reid doesn’t want it passed either (IMO). If he did, he would not put it up until he had the votes. I think if it passed, he would have a rough go of things in Nevada. And by putting this up, he gives the purple state Senators up for reelection a feather in their cap (voting no on gun control).

  • checkmate2012

    Lol! But they’re all “my friend from xyz” aka bless their heart.

  • checkmate2012

    As Mark Levin stated about a month ago, put it up for a vote and get it over with and move on. I’m all for a vote and let the chips fall and then people that vote for it can be voted out. Let’s demand a vote without amendments.

  • capeconservative

    Texans can be very proud of their new senator…a man who challenged the Texas Republican ‘establishment’ choice. I hope and pray that he is the first of many! More members of Congress with STRONG conservative values they are willing to stand up for REGARDLESS of whether the pansy leadership agrees are exactly what America needs now! What a disappointment #41 was for Baystaters…a man who said he’d be the 41st vote against Obamacare but after a day or two or three in Washington, began voting just like his predecessor. Be PROUD Texans, be VERY PROUD!

    Again I urge everyone to check out the Senate Conservatives Fund, started by Jim DeMint. By contributing to Ted Cruz via this fund, I, too, can be proud of this CROWN JEWEL in the Senate…and by golly, I AM!

  • cowdoc

    This paragraph should be excerpted and read to every Dem senator and congressman to remind them of oath and responsibility that they undertake.