{"id":13575,"date":"2013-01-07T19:45:39","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T19:45:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-01-07T19:45:39","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T19:45:39","slug":"ted_cruz_is_terrific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/01\/07\/ted_cruz_is_terrific\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz is Terrific"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Ted Cruz, the new senator from Texas, folks, this guy\u2019s terrific. Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, we\u2019ve got a bright future on the conservative side of the Republican Party with these two guys, and I\u2019ve got four sound bites from Ted Cruz that I want you to hear. He knocks it out of the park. He was on Fox News Sunday, and he just knocks it out of the park here on anything that\u2019s asked of him. He is fearless. He doesn\u2019t make excuses. He\u2019s not defensive in any way at all. It\u2019s a pleasure to hear. And when you her Ted Cruz, you wonder, why aren\u2019t there more? It\u2019s not that he\u2019s not good enough, he is. It just makes you realize what was at one time, what could be. Here\u2019s the first question from John Roberts, who was filling in yesterday for Chris Wallace. “How are you gonna vote on Chuck Hagel?”<\/p>\n

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CRUZ: If Hagel is nominated, it is very difficult to imagine a circumstance in which I could support his confirmation. It\u2019s interesting, the president seems bound and determined to proceed down this path despite the fact that Hagel\u2019s record is very, very troubling on the nation of Israel. He has not been a friend to Israel, and in my view, the United States should stand unshakably but I with the nation of Israel.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, well, I gotta tell you, Obama picks people like him. I always had to laugh in the first term. You got these weirdo members of the administration, like Van Jones, some out and out communist, and people said, “How did this guy get past… how did Obama end up with him?” Obama knows him. Obama wanted him. Obama is an authoritarian figure. There\u2019s nobody, either in the cabinet or a czar, who is not personally acceptable and really loved and adored by Obama. The idea that extreme leftists somehow get past Obama, I\u2019ve always been amused by that. The next question: “Senator, are you willing to risk default on our debt by taking the debt ceiling battle right to the limit?”<\/p>\n

CRUZ: No, and let me be very clear about this. I do not support default on the debt. We should never default on the debt. And the only players in Washington who are threatening default on the debt, are President Barack Obama and Harry Reid. Whatever happens with the debt ceiling, we will always pay our debt. We will never default on the debt, and the reason the president isn\u2019t doing that is he\u2019s trying to scare people. He is trying to raise this specter of a financial apocalypse.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly. Keep people on edge, always on the edge or the verge of chaos. Always in the midst of an emergency, crisis emergency, have to do something this minute. We don\u2019t have time to think about it. And what we have to do is exactly what Obama wants done. Next question. “Is there any new gun control that you would accept?”<\/p>\n

CRUZ: The reason we\u2019re discussing this is because of the tragedy in Newtown. And every parent — my wife and I, we\u2019ve got two little girls, age four and age two — every parent was horrified at what happened there. To see 20 children, six adults senselessly murdered, it takes your breath away. But within minutes we saw politicians run out and try to exploit this tragedy, try to push their political agenda of gun control. I do not support their gun control agenda for two reasons. Number one, it\u2019s unconstitutional —<\/p>\n

ROBERTS: But is there any that you would accept?<\/p>\n

CRUZ: I don\u2019t think the proposals being discussed now make sense. Senator Diane Feinstein\u2019s bill would create a national gun registry. I don\u2019t think the federal government has any business having a list of law-abiding citizens who choose to exercise their right to keep and bear arms.<\/p>\n