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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTed Cruz Makes Impassioned Plea For Repeal Of Federal Legislation That Does Not Exist
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is known for waging political battles even if the odds of success are slim. He famously launched a 21-hour filibuster in a failed, last-ditch effort to repeal Obamacare. But his latest crusade may be his biggest challenge yet: repealing a federal law that does not exist.
On Twitter, Cruz blasted the federal government role in education and called for the repeal of Common Core:
Ted Cruz ✔ @tedcruz
Federal govt has no business sticking its nose in education. We need to repeal every word of Common Core! #nhpolitics #MakeDCListen
7:53 PM - 15 Mar 2015[/div]
Can Cruz make DC listen? It will be particularly hard since Common Core is not, in fact, a federal law.
The Common Core State Standards Initiative, known as Common Core, was developed by the states with input from teachers, education experts and business leaders and has been voluntarily adopted by 43 states and the District Of Columbia. Notably, the federal government played no role in creating the standards, nor did it require that states adopt them.
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http://thinkprogress.org/education/2015/03/16/3633972/ted-cruz-makes-impassioned-plea-repeal-federal-legislation-not-exist/?
ananda
(28,866 posts)Somebody didn't do his homework.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)atreides1
(16,079 posts)But remember, he was elected by people who are even more idiotic then he is....and only breath because it's natural thing to do!
3catwoman3
(24,006 posts)...would die if they had to decide whether to breathe in first or out first, or who would never move anywhere if they had to decide to start walking with the left foot first or the right foot first.
rock
(13,218 posts)You know a SHIT house is not really a house.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Skidmore
(37,364 posts)Last edited Mon Mar 16, 2015, 05:50 PM - Edit history (1)
I have always tended to be unimpressed by the grads of ivy League schools. Give me a guy or woman who has actually done the work rather than run their mouth from the time they hit the top floor running. So many of these elite grads just lack so much.
AngryDem001
(684 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)MiniMe
(21,717 posts)Never forget that this loser was born in Canada to an American mother and a Cuban father.
George II
(67,782 posts)....to get around the "natural born" citizen requirement for President.
gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)... that as long as one parent is a citizen, then any child born outside the US is automatically a citizen. Cruz just gave up his Canadian citizenship. Funny that the dipshit "Birthers" always screeching about Obama's citizenship conveniently overlooked that little fact.
George II
(67,782 posts)liberal N proud
(60,336 posts)To be elected to office.
If you fail at all else, run for Senate.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)if not, can we buy 47 corks? Big ones?
A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)renate
(13,776 posts)Twice.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)Lex
(34,108 posts)This how they govern.
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)fear and division.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Stumbling from one disaster to another with their eyes closed, is more like constantly falling. The more they fall the more disasters they cause.
Clearly McCain wanted to start a war with Russia. Cotton wants to nuke Iran. They are either the worlds biggest dullards or criminally insane megalomaniacs. Blowing off the head to save the body never worked. You just have to wonder why they don't get it. Even someone without most of their faculties still wants to breath and eat and survive. McCain and Cotton appear to have all working bodyparts and brain matter.
Republicans are an enigma.
AZ Mike
(468 posts)....I recently heard that Iran had seized control of Tehran!
This is series!
Lex
(34,108 posts)The NERVE!
TeamPooka
(24,229 posts)Spazito
(50,365 posts)He's all yours now.
We still have Bieber, though.
TeamPooka
(24,229 posts)Spazito
(50,365 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)Meanwhile, he's just a wealth brat. Like the Koch brothers.
Spazito
(50,365 posts)you never know these days, lol.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)Sorry, I really like Canada and live only 25 miles from the St. Lawrence River. That's almost hollerin' distance.
Spazito
(50,365 posts)now he wants it back again, lol.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,370 posts)You can't give him up THAT easily.
I have nothing but affection for the Great White North, but that asshole is Canadian. Full stop.
Spazito
(50,365 posts)was about to man the barricades!
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)if we had him and you could take Cruz back.
Spazito
(50,365 posts)with Cruz, not a hope in hell.
No trade deal, lol.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)How about if we give you Cruz (full refund, ), Schwarzenegger, AND, let's see, we'll throw Eminem in as well. We'll take Bieber and Ellen Page. Or better yet, just Ellen Page. Bonus, you get to keep Bieber. Deal? Yeah?
Spazito
(50,365 posts)Deal breaker right there, we'll keep Beiber (had to google Ellen Page, I'm old, lol) and Page and even keep Celine Dion, you keep Cruz and Swartzy and we will give you Stephen Harper, free gratis even! I think it's fair for sure!
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Cruz and Cotton that US Senators don't understand US Law.
Spazito
(50,365 posts)never mind any laws based on it, it is mind blowing.
tanyev
(42,566 posts)sheshe2
(83,790 posts)He's
Baitball Blogger
(46,735 posts)Seriously, don't these people have some fact-checker somewhere to make sure they don't continually make a total ass of themselves? Because, at this rate, even the teapartiers are going to start wondering if they took a hard right into Crayville.
erronis
(15,302 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)by secret billionaires and millionaires and corporations both domestic and foreign.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)It's a classic example of Colbert's "Feeling at you vs talking to you"
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)The people who are pro-Republican don't know any better and refuse to learn. So, no matter how much of an ass any Republican makes of themselves, their followers will still vote for them again....and threaten anyone who criticizes them on top of that. They don't know the difference like the rest of us. So, they just dig in their heels.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)Never mind. .
sheshe2
(83,790 posts)Look at his eyes, there is nothing there. He's in the dead zone. No heart, no soul, nothing pure hate to make the rest our lives a living hell.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)There's nothing There.
E M P T Y
sheshe2
(83,790 posts)Empty.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)If Pat Buchanan ever had one, Cruz would be it.
That is if Pat Buchanan ever mated with an elephant!
I mean, look at that nose on Cruz!
That thing looks like a trunk for sure.
He makes Jimmy Durante look average by comparison!
herding cats
(19,565 posts)That's standard operating procedure for the Republicans. Lie. When corrected on your lie, claim the party doing so is a lying liberal trying to stifle the truth. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Before long no one will bother even correcting you, and you've won.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)and getting away with it too.
herding cats
(19,565 posts)I realize that's not a popular sentiment, and I'm not trying to be reactionary. It's just we're still half stuck (or more) in wars in southwestern Asia, and the GOP are already currently in full propaganda mode for the war with Iran. If you think the past decade plus was bad, the period after we bomb Iran will make this look like the "good old days" older than myself people reminisce about.
I've been a bit dramatic recently I've been told. Which may well be true. However, some of the same people saying this to me are the very ones who told me I was wrong about Bush intending to invade Iran after 9/11. So take it all as you choose.
KT2000
(20,583 posts)and oh yea - Tehran is almost under the control of Iran!!!!
These guys are idiots but I know some people who will regurgitate these "talking points of idiocy" breathless and afraid - and I should be afraid too -
Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)Nonexistent law. Should be fun.
Better yet, he should write a letter! Yeah!
knitter4democracy
(14,350 posts)The Common Core isn't law, no, but Race to the Top, which forced states to implement the Common Core in a competition for more federal dollars is. In some cases, only two people in a state signed the paperwork to implement the CCSS (as we in education call it), and it wasn't exactly voluntarily. Michigan, for example, jumped through all the hoops and implemented the CCSS only to not get an extra dime from the feds.
The federal government actually did play a role in creating the standards (mostly through funding, but they were at the table and behind the scenes pushing it on the states before the standards were even done being written), and it required states to adopt them in order to get RTTT funding. Just because they put things on their website doesn't mean they're telling the truth.
Madfloridian here and Diane Ravitch have good resources on what this fiasco actually is, who funded it, and who's behind it all.
Bossy Monkey
(15,863 posts)The Animator
(1,138 posts)Not only the Mutant Registration Act, but also the measure granting emergency powers to Chancellor Palpatine. Both pieces of legislation have been decried as a massive government overreach and clear violation of civil liberties, however since the laws disproportionately affects minorities like mutants and non-humanoid sentient species, Cruz's normally libertarian constituency have remained conspicuously silent on the issue....
malthaussen
(17,204 posts)All Mr Cruz had to do was speak out, and the problem was solved immediately! This is the kind of decisive leadership we need in the White House!
Aw, darn. Bossy Monkey beat me to it.
-- Mal