(Via Washington Free Beacon) Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) is seeking to fine the State Department for illegally withholding the release of a key report on Iranian human rights abuses that was supposed to be released earlier this year, but was withheld, according to sources, in order to appease Iran as negotiations over its nuclear program approach a June 30 deadline.

The Obama administration was legally obligated to release a full report outlining the state of Iranian human rights by Feb. 25 but has so far declined to do so.

Cruz and other senators petitioned the State Department in May to comply with federal law compelling the report’s public release. (more…)

Speechless.
Unbelievable must watch, and keep for future reference, video of a progressive “journalist”:

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It is interesting that a conglomerate of Ted Cruz Political Action Committees are reporting to have collected $31 million in the first two weeks. However, these reports should be tempered against the backdrop that reports from inside the Jeb Bush team assembly have reportedly told their own donors to hold off on writing any more mega-checks because the coffers were gathering too much money. The Bush insiders were leaking that Jeb’s collections were exceeding $100 million per week.

(Via Breitbart) Super PACs backing Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for president of the United States are taking in a “record haul” that is “eye-popping,” Bloomberg’s Mark Halperin writes.

“Ted Cruz’s presidential effort is getting into the shock-and-awe fundraising business,” Halperin wrote.

An associate of the Texas senator, a recently announced presidential candidate, tells Bloomberg that a cluster of affiliated super-political action committees was formed only this week, and among them they are expected to have $31 million in the bank by Friday.

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The reluctance of Continetti to give the label of “establishment” candidate to Jeb Bush is a strategy. A strategy not of Continetti’s construction, but more of Jeb’s team.

This is one of the central nuances we find annoyingly not outlined. Jeb is the “establishment” BIG GOP pick – however, Team Jeb also recognize that such an openly discussed self-evident truth is also a barrier to their victory plan.

Team Jeb’s path is brutally obvious to those willing to accept it. It is not far away from the Romney path, and therefore considered a successful strategy in the GOP primary. (more…)

If you have followed politics in the past 8 to 10 years you know the Decepticon GOP strategy to anoint their chosen candidate is essentially a simple one.

If you really drill it down to the lowest common denominator it entails: • Raise more money, • attack the opposition to deplete their resources, and • coast to the finish line of the primary race.

The GOP “raise more money” aspect is not from the electorate, they have Wall Street and the CoC. The CoC strategists, in coordination with the GOP Decepticons, organize the financial methodology – it is a complex spending program, but essentially based on advancement of a specific goal.

On the ground the primary strategy is simple. Do the minimum required to get out of Iowa unscathed; place a top 3 finish in New Hampshire; make a decent showing in South Carolina then light the spending fuse in Florida (expensive advertising markets).

That four state strategy costs around $100,000,000.00 (around a hundred million). A first or second place showing in Florida is all that’s needed to destroy any opposition to the professional (GOP) political class. (more…)

It’s the progressives #1 Obamacare claim – if you want to repeal it, you are throwing 16 million people off healthcare plans. So when the CBS team tries the question, Ted Cruz gives them an accurate retort. Well done.

…”Well, you know, those numbers don’t tell the whole picture. For one thing, the bulk of those numbers are coming from expanded Medicaid. And Medicaid is a program where a lot of the people on Medicaid are not getting health care. Medicaid is a system that is already overburdened and more and more people are just getting waiting lists and not actually getting health care. Beyond that — remember, six million people had their health insurance canceled because of Obamacare. You’re not doing someone a favor if you cancel the health insurance they like and then force them to buy new health insurance at higher premiums that covers less”….

Now is the hour of our disconfranchment; we all much rise up our voichez and be a herd. Disconnect patch.

Ted Cruz announced his intentions last night via twitter:

I'm running for President and I hope to earn your support! pic.twitter.com/0UTqaIoytP

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 23, 2015

Today he gave a resounding speech at Liberty University (more…)

Ted Cruz has quite a bit going for him, and he can make Palin-like splodey heads of the liberal antagonists just with the rise of his chin. There is also a generally solid argument to make that Cruz has shown a willingness to fight the Decepticon class within the GOP, although in order to avoid being completely marginalized by the Alinsky machine he has moderated his anti-establishment positions. This should be interesting….

TEXAS – Sen. Ted Cruz plans to announce Monday that he will run for president of the United States, according to his senior advisers, accelerating his already rapid three-year rise from a tea party insurgent in Texas into a divisive political force in Washington.

Cruz, scheduled to speak Monday at a convocation ceremony at Liberty University in Virginia, will not form an exploratory committee but rather launch a presidential bid outright, said advisers with direct knowledge of his plans, who spoke on condition of anonymity because an official announcement had not been made yet. They say he is done exploring and is now ready to become the first Republican presidential candidate. (more…)