With the ballooning deficit, a clear result of the Republican Party’s single-minded fleecing of American taxpayers on behalf of its big-business overlords, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz had his most deceitful work ahead of him during Tuesday night’s debate against Democrat Beto O’Rourke. After making a big deal about all of the debates he wanted to have against Beto, Cruz has recently found himself a tad bit shy, and for good reason, as his track record, that of the political party he represents, and current economic and environmental conditions all speak poorly of him.
During one exchange, Cruz attempted to lie away about how the need to balance the budget, and Beto O’Rourke’s lack of experience in the Senate, would not bode well for the country. O’Rourke responded with a well-articulated explanation of his track record at the local level, and of how insanely hypocritical Cruz is in even daring to say the phrases “balanced budget” and “too much government spending,” after the robbery he and his fellow Republicans pulled off last year.
O’Rourke: Speaking of balancing budgets, only one of us has, with good friends in El Paso, started a small business, met that payroll every week, balanced the books, made sure that we delivered for our clients. Only one of us has served at the local government level, every single year balancing the budget, seeing each other not as Republicans and Democrats, but as council members entrusted with the fiduciary responsibility to deliver for the taxpayers of El Paso every single year. … And for Senator Cruz to say that this isn’t going to bust the budget at a time of $21 trillion in debt, when we’re on track to deficit spend to the tune of a trillion dollars a year, he voted to add $2 trillion, and those tax cuts disproportionately will flow to corporations who are already sitting on record piles of cash, and the already wealthy in a country that is riven with income inequality not seen since the last Gilded Age.
Why? In the days just before and just after that vote, Senator Cruz accepted $120,000 from the political action committees who represent the corporate interests that benefited from this tax cut. Why does he vote for this? Why does he vote for internet companies to sell your private browsing data to the highest bidder without your consent? Why does he not vote for universal background checks in a country that loses 30,000 people to gun violence every year? Follow the money. In each of these cases, if you look at the political action committee contributions to Senator Cruz, it helps to explain the reasons for his vote and how corrupted Congress has become. I do not take PAC money, not a dime.
This is why Beto O’Rourke is running for Senate and I am not. My response would have been to laugh for about 80 seconds of my 90-second reply, and then say something like “Ted, you’re such a lying sack of—.“ You can watch the considerably more mature O’Rourke drop a huge payload of truth bombs all over Ted Cruz’s lying face below.
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