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Home Front: Politix

Ted Cruz imposes hold on Biden nominees

2023-09-23

[IsraelTimes] Republican Senator Ted Cruz;
...US Senator from Texas. Republican contender for president in 2016, his stiff and abrasive manner earned him the title most hated man in the Senate. After a close win over Beto O'Rourke, who tried to out-Lastino him, he grew a beard and let his biting wit shine through. Cruz's comments have been known to leave life-threatening wounds at better than forty feet...
is making do on a threat to block the confirmation of US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
Joe <q>The Big Guy</q> Biden

...46th president of the U.S. SOld, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... or is that an act?...
’s nominees over the latter’s Middle East policy.

To be fair, it’s a terrible policy, along with all the other Biden administration policies.

"Sen. Cruz has been clear that it was becoming impossible to advance the Biden administration’s Middle East nominees because they kept lying about their policies to Congress and the American people," Cruz’s spokesperson says in a statement to Jewish Insider.

Cruz accuses the Biden administration of reaching a "sealed secret nuclear deal with Iran," ~~without providing proof~~ and of taking "steps to rescind United States recognition of Israel’s illusory sovereignty over the Golan Heights" — a reference to a United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
agreement to extend the mandate of its peacekeeping force in Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
, which referred to the Golan Heights’s Shebaa Farms as "occupied territory."

The administration says it opposed this language, and that the Trump decision to recognize the Golan Heights as sovereign Israeli territory remains in place.

The Cruz spokesperson nonetheless says the senator "has imposed holds on Biden administration nominees who are linked to these decisions until they clarify their roles and policies."

The statement doesn’t specify which nominees would be impacted, but Cruz has previously indicated that he will place a hold on Biden’s nominee to be the next ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, once his confirmation process advances.

Posted by:trailing wife

#10 I’ve had to Spam Cop myself once or twice as well, when I realized a moment too late that I really, really ought not have said something so inappropriate.

Posted by: trailing wife 2023-09-23 22:53

#9 "Self-censored"

Yes, and he is not alone.

Posted by: Besoeker 2023-09-23 22:00

#8 probably self-censored. I have

Posted by: Frank G 2023-09-23 19:20

#7 Skidmark doesn't post stupid...

Posted by: Glenmore 2023-09-23 19:01

Posted by: Skidmark 2023-09-23 11:12

#5 ^ The geo reference in the article is nonsense:

which referred to the Golan Heights’s Shebaa Farms as "occupied territory."

Posted by: Frank G 2023-09-23 10:42

#4 Did you guys have strokes? Wtf are y'all talking about?

Posted by: Chris 2023-09-23 10:35

#3 Shebaa Farms is at the base of Mount Hermon … To the south is the Banias River and to the north is Lebanon. The Golan is way the Hell and gone from there.

Posted by: Jerens Black9355 2023-09-23 06:12

#2 Why am I thinking: Dutch boy, finger, dike?

Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-09-23 03:55

#1 Texas Senator Ted Cruz's real name is Rafael Edward Cruz, the son of Rafael Bienvenido Cruz y Díaz. His father was beaten in Cuba by the Batista regime. Ted's aunt was tortured in Cuba by the Castro regime.

Posted by: Jeremiah Jomosing7109 2023-09-23 01:18

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