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RUSH: Brit Hume tweeted — I\u2019m paraphrasing — “Ted Cruz going on and on about all these fights that he\u2019s led. Well, that isn\u2019t any big deal. How about the fights that you\u2019ve won? The answer to that is none.” A Fox News commentator watching the debate Wednesday night and that\u2019s what he noted. <\/p>\n

So last night on Fox Special Report with Bret Baier, Ted Cruz was invited to appear. Ted Cruz showed up because Ted Cruz goes everywhere. Ted Cruz is not afraid to answer tough questions no matter who poses them. You have to hear this, folks. If you missed this show last night, you have to hear these sound bites. Bret Baier says, “You definitely have led fights against Obamacare, against immigration, against the EPA, but Obamacare is still around, immigration\u2019s still exactly the same.” In other words, he picked up Brit Hume\u2019s tweet <\/a>and he\u2019s basically saying, “Yeah, you\u2019ve led a lot of fights. You haven\u2019t won any of them. So what do you say about that?”<\/line><\/p>\n

<\/a>CRUZ: Must be very clear on immigration. I led the fight against Obama\u2019s amnesty, against the Gang of Eight bill which was championed by Barack Obama, by Chuck Schumer and Marco Rubio. And I led the fight standing side by side with Jeff Sessions, and we defeated it in Congress. Amnesty did not pass. So you want to talk about fights —<\/p>\n

BAIER: So a block is a legislative win.<\/p>\n

CRUZ: Blocking something that is bad, that is harmful, is good.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So blocking, you\u2019re counting that as a win? We all did, I mean, we have the minority, we don\u2019t have the majority, and we stopped the Gang of Eight bill. Ted Cruz led the fight against establishment. We would be living under amnesty right now if Cruz had not succeeded. But they said, “Well, that\u2019s not a win. I mean, you\u2019re calling blocking legislation a win?” Cruz said, “Blocking something that\u2019s bad, that is harmful, is good.” And he continued.<\/p>\n

CRUZ: Following the tragic shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, the Democrats came out with a massive raft of new gun control proposals. I led the opposition against it. I remember Chuck Schumer being on Sunday shows saying they were in the sweet spot, nothing could stop this. We defeated every one of those proposals on the floor of the Senate, defending the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And he had another example, Israel.<\/p>\n

CRUZ: I\u2019ll give you another example of standing and leading a fight and winning. If you\u2019ll recall, when Israel was facing rocket fire from Hamas and the Obama administration canceled all flights to Israel, and I publicly called them out and said, “Did the Obama administration just launch an economic boycott on Israel?” They haven\u2019t done this for Pakistan, for Yemen, even much of Ukraine, and this was just months after a passenger airliner had been shot down with a Russian Buk missile. Why did they put discriminatory efforts on Israel, within hours the State Department\u2019s being asked is this an economic boycott on Israel, the heat and light and pressure became so great that they lifted the flight ban within 36 hours.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So you haven\u2019t won anything. You\u2019ve led a bunch of fights but you haven\u2019t won anything, and he\u2019s able to recite, rat-tat-tat without a single stutter, without forgetting where he was and what he was saying three different occasions where he has stopped the left in its tracks, which is what Republicans were elected to do in 2011 and 2012, although they didn\u2019t win, and 2014. This is what they were elected to do was to go there and stop. Before you can reverse direction you have to stop the direction you are headed in, and Cruz has mounted the efforts. <\/p>\n

But I think it\u2019s noteworthy that an effort was made to cast aspersions on his efforts, when he\u2019s the only guy in the Senate, or one of the very few who is attempting to stop any of this agenda of the Democrat Party. There\u2019s one more bite. Bret Baier said, “You know what? The big thing about you that they all say is that you\u2019re divisive, Senator Cruz. You\u2019re just divisive and this is not the way things get done.” The question actually was: “A lot of people look at you, Senator, as a bit divisive when it comes to working with the other side.” This is Fox News. Please do not bombard them, folks, do not tell \u2019em I told you, whatever you do, it\u2019s not necessary. I\u2019m just making some observations here. I don\u2019t need my own crap sandwich with these people. It is what it is here. I\u2019m just stunned that you can\u2019t work with the other side, establishment on parade here? <\/line><\/p>\n

Anyway, Cruz had a great, great answer to this, and that\u2019s what I want to get to. “A lot of people look at you, Senator, as a bit divisive when it comes to working with the other side, and we see that in social media. We see it in people who characterize you up on Capitol Hill.”<\/p>\n

CRUZ: If you\u2019re going to stand against Washington, Washington will fight back. If you stand up against the Washington cartel, you get attacked by Democrats, you get attacked by the media, you get attacked by Republicans. So anyone who says I\u2019m never divisive, that means they\u2019ve never stood against Washington. That\u2019s how you are not divisive, is you don\u2019t actually take principled stands on anything. People look back at Reagan with rose-colored glasses now and remember sunny optimism. In 1976 Reagan primaried Gerald Ford. You want to tick off Republican leadership in Washington, come within an inch of beating the incumbent Republican president in a primary. Washington politicians loathed Reagan.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly right, but the point — I need to restate this, because it\u2019s just simple common sense. Senator Cruz, they say you\u2019re divisive. “Yeah, well, a whole lot of people disagree with what\u2019s going on here, and I\u2019m standing up against it. The only way not to be divisive would be to sacrifice everything I believe in agree with this stuff. Is that what we\u2019re here to do?” This is exactly what everybody thinks is wrong with compromise and working with the other side. That\u2019s the definition of not being divisive. Getting along. <\/p>\n

Well, who runs the place? As much as our Republican intellectuals like to think they\u2019re equal players, the Democrats run that town, the Democrats run Capitol Hill, the Democrats run the party circuit, the Democrats run the media, the Democrats run everything, and if you don\u2019t want to be divisive you have got to sign on with \u2019em. It is a badge of honor to be divisive. The Republican Party, by definition, should be divisive. The Republican Party, by definition, should be standing up against the Democrat Party and what Obama is doing. By definition, as an opposition party the Republican Party ought to be divisive. <\/line><\/p>\n

But you see what a dirty word it is. “Ohhh, we can\u2019t have divisive figures! Divisive figures, what do they do? They anger the independents! Yes! And then what happens? Why, the independents, why, they leave immediately. They\u2019re rock solid in the Republican camp for some reason, and then the Republicans disagree with what\u2019s going on in Washington, and the independents don\u2019t like it. And they cut tail and run over to the Democrats.” Is that how this works? “And you throw government shutdown in there? That\u2019s the… (laughing) I mean, that\u2019s a king-of-the-hill definition of divisive.<\/p>\n

You can cause heart attacks in the Republican establishment.<\/p>\n

I love to remind people: Mitt Romney got the vast majority of independents. You\u2019re probably tired of hearing me say this. It\u2019s broken record. There are facts galore to counter the supposed belief system that Republicans have developed inside the Beltway. Mitt Romney got 60% of the independents. It wasn\u2019t even close. It was wasn\u2019t even close, and he lost the election by millions of votes, but he did the right thing to get the independents. This is why I have said over and over, folks, that these things the Republicans think they have to do to win the presidency are really well-designed brilliantly executed Democrat tricks. <\/p>\n

Here you\u2019ve got the Republicans believing they can\u2019t win anything if they can\u2019t get the independents, and what that usually results in is a campaign aimed only at independents. And then they\u2019ve got them believing they can\u2019t get anywhere if they criticize Obama. “The independents don\u2019t like that, the moderates don\u2019t like that, the low-information voters don\u2019t like that! Nobody likes the Obama being criticized, don\u2019t like the president being criticized. You better not do it.” So they don\u2019t. Companion story: “Democrats…” This is TheHill.com:<\/p>\n

“Democrats Like What They Hear from Paul Ryan<\/a> — Democrats are welcoming Thursday\u2019s changing of the guard in the House, expressing optimism that newly elected Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WS) will have better luck managing the rambunctious chamber than his predecessor, Rep. John Boenher (R-OH). The Democrats say they\u2019re buoyed by Ryan\u2019s debut speech calling for more comity,” c-o-m-i-t-y — that means togetherness, “and cooperation, hoping the power shift will bring a new stability to the chamber and grease the skids for future legislative successes.”<\/line><\/p>\n

Can I translate? Do I even need to translate that? Okay, let me translate this. (laughing) TheHill.com: “Democrats say they are encouraged by Ryan\u2019s debut speech calling for more agreement with them, hoping that this power shift will bring new stability to the chamber grease the skids for future Democrat legislation to be signed by President Obama.” That\u2019s what they mean. But, see, we out here, we\u2019re supposed to react differently. “Wow, man, everybody loves Ryan! That is great. Democrats love Ryan, now we can get things down. Okay, cool. Now we\u2019re going places.”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the reaction they want us to have. <\/p>\n

“‘It was an aspirational speech,\u2019 said Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-NC), head of the Congressional Black Caucus. ‘He seemed to suggest that he wants to work in a bipartisan way, and I believe if he delivers on that commitment we\u2019re going to have a better Congress and a better America.'” Let me translate that for you: “G. K. Butterfield, Democrat, North Carolina, head of the Congressional Black Caucasians, yeah, Ryan seemed to suggest that he wants to help us pass our legislation. If he delivers on that, we\u2019re gonna have a much better Congress and a much better America, and we\u2019re not gonna be bothered by any Republicans \u2019cause their voters are gonna abandon \u2019em.”<\/p>\n

“Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) said she\u2019s hoping Ryan\u2019s allusion to the struggles of the working class will reignite the congressional debate over the minimum wage, childcare benefits and gender pay parity — issues Democrats have long promoted.” No, issues the Democrats invented and hold hostage. “Rep. Joseph Crowley (NY), who entered Congress with Ryan in 1999, was quick to hail the message. ‘It sounded an awful lot like a Democrat speaking,'” and he loved it!<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I\u2019m serious. Please do not send Bret Baier any e-mails, phone calls, faxes, tweets, whatever you do. It\u2019s not necessary. He\u2019s a good guy. He\u2019s a nice guy. I like him a lot, and he\u2019s just a journalist. He was asking Cruz questions. He\u2019s asking Cruz questions that the Republican establishment believes. They were hanging curveballs for Cruz. It was a good exchange. Do not get mad at Bret Baier. It\u2019s a great thing that those questions were asked, and the way they were asked, Cruz knocked \u2019em out of the park. Don\u2019t get on their case there about it, please. There\u2019s no anger here. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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