Cruz has Perry-like moment when saying which agencies he'd eliminate

[Attorney in Texas]

Source: USA Today

MILWAUKEE — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz had a moment that evoked memories of Rick Perry’s notorious “oops” gaffe four years earlier during Tuesday’s debate.

Cruz said he would cut $500 billion in federal spending by eliminating five departments: the IRS, Energy, Commerce, Housing and Urban Development and Commerce.

That’s right: two Commerce Departments.

During the 2012 GOP nomination race, Rick Perry said he would cut three departments, but could only remember two during a presidential debate. It was an actual “oops” moment that spelled the beginning of the end of Perry’s campaign.


Read more: http://onpolitics.usatoday.com/2015/11/10/ted-cruz-commerce-department-perry/

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Oops...

[GP6971]

1. I guess he can't count

Back to school for him!!!

[tzar paul]

13. it's the heat in texas

IT FRIES DA BRAIN, I TELLS YA!

[DFW]

16. Actually, it's our water

So much pollution seeps in to our drinking water due to fracking that it affects people's ability to think rationally (note that I have been living in Germany for years now). It can't be a coincidence that two Texas Republicans in a row have made exactly the same stupid error in two consecutive election seasons.

[DhhD]

38. It is called session and doing away with the Constitution so a ruler can sit atop the Seven Hills.

[onehandle]

2. How many Commerce Departments does Canada have, anyway? nt

[drray23]

3. so why do the republicans even bother running for president?

If their goals are to eliminate pretty much every agency, what would they want to even be president ?
If they hate the government that much, they should not be campaigning to run it.

[VanillaRhapsody]

27. To prove govt doesn't work...

[cilla4progress]

4. That was pretty funny

Caught that

[tomm2thumbs]

5. that and Rubio saying 'Parent' was most important role, then saying 'President' was

whoooooops!

[Gothmog]

6. Carnival Cruz kept his cool and did not utter an Opps

Carnival Cruz bluffed his way through

[Jim Lane]

7. That's an amazing slip in light of the history.

Perry's gaffe got so much attention -- you'd think any candidate proposing to eliminate departments would practice the sound bite incessantly, and maybe borrow a Sharpie from Sarah Palin to put a crib sheet on his palm.

[DhhD]

39. Lightening does strikes twice in the same place. Sign to the speaking of tongue.

http://biblehub.com/job/36-32.htm
Job 36:32
32"He covers His hands with the lightning, And commands it to strike the mark.

[Yupster]

43. Just list things

Don't say how many things you're going to list.

Everyone knows you are likely to forget one when you remember a list.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

8. And yet Mark Halprin sucked his dick as "the class of the debators, along with Rubio"

Doesn't say much.

[tom_kelly]

14. Oof! n/t

[yellowcanine]

9. Maybe he plans to eliminate Commerce, start it back up, and eliminate it again.

[Volaris]

22. Yep it's that

Cause thats just how HARD that OG Mutherfucker IS.

[VanillaRhapsody]

28. Commerce is like a vampire....

You have to put a stake through its heart!

[yellowcanine]

10. Republicans should just quit the department elimination talk.

It never ends well.

[Cha]

18. LOL

[Scootaloo]

11. That whole thing was a hurricane of gibberish

[davidpdx]

12. Ted's toast

He really needs to be taken out of the running anyway. The guy is so far right on his policies that he won't win a single state.

[BumRushDaShow]

15. The IRS is not a "department"

But if he intends on getting rid of the Department of Treasury that the IRS is under, then good luck with that one!

[Cha]

19. They know so little and talk so much.

[BumRushDaShow]

20. Ain't that the truth!

[Cha]

21. The repub platform..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027333912

Lol BRDS!

[BumRushDaShow]

26. Love it!

[47of74]

35. Exactly

[VanillaRhapsody]

29. Unlike our Clinton . .they don't listen!

[NonMetro]

32. Well, his dad did say Ted was anointed by God to be our leader and...

turn the treasures over to the priests. So, I guess we wouldn't have anything left to keep in the treasury, anyway!

Ted never has denied this, either!

[cstanleytech]

17. Oh no IRS? Someone better tell the military to prepare for a massive cutback then.

[msrizzo]

23. And who's going to administer all their new tax plans?

I know it would probably only take a handful of people since they are going to make government SO SMALL. But somebody still has to collect all these new taxes from the poor people. The rich will of course pay their fair (and smaller share) without any help or enforcement from the government.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

47. Yes, someone has got to oversee tax collection. If not the IRS, then who?

I'm reminded of a libertarian who said that the Federal Reserve should be abolished. To which I responded, "And be replaced by who?" It turned out that he did not know what a central bank does, and seemed to think that interest rates would set themselves, that commercial banks would be just fine in controlling the money supply and so on. I have believed for years that ignorance of history, economics and the real world in general is necessary for libertarians, and this man gave evidence of the correctness of this belief.

[lanlady]

24. No Dept of Energy, eh?

DOE supervises our nuclear arsenal. Did Cruz propose privatizing that function? That would end well.

[csziggy]

25. At least he's not planning to eliminate the Department of Redundancy Department!

Credits to Firesign Theatre.

[TexasBushwhacker]

30. Well let me see what I can pull outta my ass

Seriously, if he's the tea party bad ass he thinks he is, the Department of Commerce would be the last department to get rid of. I wonder if he confused it with the Department of Labor.

The sane thing goes for getting rid of the Department of Energy. I would expect him to say he'd get rid of the EPA.

BTW

Dept of Commerce budget is $9Billion

Department of Energy - $30Billion

HUD - $32Billion

IRS - $11Billion

Add them all together (counting commerce twice - LOL) equals less than $100 Billion. GOP, the party for the math challenged.

[niyad]

31. isn't it funny that the military is the one agency that is never mentioned when these

clowns talk about budget and agency cuts?

[merrily]

33. Why don't they learn? And Cruz is supposedly the genius in the pack, too.

[shadowmayor]

34. The Stars at Night

Maybe he was drinkin' from Perry's maple syrup jug? Cue the Harvard educated, super debater trope in . 3 . 2 . 1 . Sweet baby Jeebus we breed 'em stoopid in Texas. Joffrey the boy king is proving once again that he's not fit to wear the crown. What a pant load!

[47of74]

36. I'm surprised Ted can get through doors...

....what with his super inflated head.

[Vinca]

37. I don't understand the obsession with getting rid of the IRS.

Taxes will be collected even if Republicans manage to transform the whole system into a flat tax. Who do they think is going to do the job if the IRS is gone?

[DhhD]

41. Take a look in the Holy Bible to see how Charismatics will set up taxing and it collection.

New Testament too. Christ threw the money changers out of the Synagogue. Charismatics do not believe in the Second Coming of Christ so they go about setting up and recreating David's Kingdom, with themselves in charge. They believe that the Holy Spirit gives them the gift of Speaking in Tongues, which usually announces that a prophet will make a prophecy, like the one above removing parts of our government.

Side note: Carson seems to be having memories from his belief in Speaking in Tongues, and then prophesying from them.

IMO, we have dangers persons trying to convert the Constitutional United State into a Theocracy. Evangelicals believe that when Christ makes his second return, Christ will unite Faith and Law or as we call it, Church and State.

Hope I did not blow anyone away here. Sorry if this is offensive; Cruz and his other Dominionist pals in our government need to get over to Israel where they can practice digging up David's Kingdom under the Dome on the Rock, in Jerusalem.

[Vinca]

44. I think the fundies on the right believe Carson IS the second coming.

[tabasco]

40. "Duhhhhh....I'd liminate the entarr fedrul gubmint duhhhhh, duhhhh."

That line will work a lot better for you, Ted.

[lonestarnot]

42. Twice smitten with that fucking department of commerce.

Fuckwit.

[Kennah]

45. That's a pretty fucking good Commerce Department.

I don't know if it's worth closing twice, but it's pretty fucking good.

[NurseJackie]

46. Can he actually do that???

Can any president just simply wave a magic wand and declare an agency to be dissolved? Is it as simple as the old lady in the Geico commercial who gets annoyed at being corrected and says "I unfriend you"?

[Waitsman]

48. WHY?

Even though the right wing media is still telling the people that America has the highest corporate rate in the world @ %35 to make them believe the claims that it is why they have moved our jobs off shore. The truth is that the average tax paid, after the many loopholes created for them , is %19. With many of our largest paying no tax at all. The effect of this is that they now only make up %7 of our budget instead of the %20 they paid during the many years of our countries growth and prosperity. Cut off the tax havens that let them keep trillions of dollars free of tax, and they won't have any excuse for continuing to cut benefits to the masses, or fail to fix the many problems with out infrastructure.

[Mc Mike]

49. Wonder what the 5th eliminated dept. actually would be.

Probably Education. Not snark, though it probably sounds that way.

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

50. Hello Folks The Donald here :

He really wants to hitch a ride. I have always thought of him as a dumb banana,the truth is he wouldn't mind at all playing second banana. If you really want to know how low he can go,stay tuned the crazy gates have opened.

By the way, I never pick up hitch hikers !