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Ted Cruz: 'We Need 100 More
Like Jesse Helms' In The Senate



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WASHINGTON -- Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Wednesday that the country would be better off if the Senate was full of people like Jesse Helms, the late senator who was ardently opposed to all kinds of civil rights measures and even tried to block the Senate from approving a federal holiday in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.

During remarks at a Heritage Foundation event dubbed the "Jesse Helms Lecture Series," Cruz told a story of Helms receiving a $5,000 political donation from actor John Wayne, who apparently later told Helms he liked him because "you're that guy saying all those crazy things" and that there needed to be 100 more of him.

"It's every bit as true now as it was then," Cruz said. "We need 100 more like Jesse Helms in the U.S. Senate."

Helms, the conservative North Carolina Republican who served in the Senate for 30 years, was known for his efforts to stop progressive polices relating to gay rights, abortion and race. He opposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which he referred to as "the single most dangerous piece of legislation ever introduced in the Congress." When the Senate acted in 1983 to create a federal holiday honoring King, Helms staged a 16-day filibuster to try to block it. He ultimately caved in exchange for action on a tobacco bill.
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^^ You know.... I think the voter ID laws perfectly illustrate the two main planks among those who identify themselves as Republican.

In this case...there are those who understand that these voter ID laws are simply a means of culling Democratic votes... thinning the herd so to speak. They are intellectually aware that the rhetoric on voting integrity etc is all meaningless nonsense and see this strictly from a strategic vantage point. Perhaps with the added bonus of sticking it to and disenfranchising people they generally kind of abhor in the first place.

Then you have the foot soldiers (ie non-thinkers) who really run with the rhetoric and believe it with the kind of fervor that is usually only inspired by religion. Facts and figures which easily prove the absurdity of this whole voter ID project will not sway these folks. They're a simple minded bunch ie. the Fox News crowd.

You can plug any issue in here and you'd see the two main planks at work.... holding this ridiculous party up. Fascinating stuff.

 

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