Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is writing a letter to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), urging him to consider Armed Services Committee hearings on Second Amendment Rights on military bases after McCain mocked the Texas senator for claiming that the two had already spoken about the issue, according to CNN.
“Senator Cruz has been discussing this issue for a long time and he looks forward to continuing to raise it in the Senate Armed Services Committee where he serves with Chairman McCain,” Cruz spokeswoman Amanda Carpenter told CNN.
During an event in New Hampshire over the weekend, Cruz said that he had been “pressing” McCain, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, to hold hearings on whether soldiers should be able to carry concealed personal weapons on military bases.
But on Monday night, McCain said he hadn’t heard from Cruz about the issue.
“I was fascinated to hear that, since I haven’t heard a thing about it from him, nor has my staff heard from his staff,” McCain said, launching into speculation on how Cruz communicated with McCain about the issue.
“Maybe it was through some medium that I’m not familiar with. Maybe bouncing it off the ozone layer for all I know. But there’s a lot of holes in the ozone layer, so maybe it wasn’t the ozone layer,” McCain joked. “Maybe it was through hand telegraph? Maybe through sign language? I don’t know.”
On Tuesday morning, Cruz admitted that he did not speak directly with McCain about holding hearings.
“I will acknowledge, I may have misspoken in New Hampshire when I said that I had been pressing John McCain, and what I had been pressing is the Armed Services Committee. And John McCain is the new chairman of it,” Cruz said on Fox News.
After the brief tiff, McCain called Cruz a “friend” on Tuesday.
Ted Cruz is a friend and valued member of the Senate Armed Services Committee
— John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) April 21, 2015
He’s about a brazen mother fucker ain’t he?
What little analysis I’ve read of the “guns on base” issue seems to lean towards the military being generally opposed to everyone and anyone carrying loaded weapons on military base grounds. With the exception of designated, identified and empowered security persons the tradition (if not the law and regulations?) seems to be it’s not a practice the military welcomes. Anyone out there versed in this area of military law and tradition?
I haven’t read much more than the basics about this, and it seems base commanders have some discretion in how they handle it, but the officials in what Cruz is pleased to call “Obama’s Pentagon” do seem to oppose the idea of having just anyone walk around with concealed personal weapons. They’re such naive gun-hating patchouli-smelling pacifists that they think it might actually increase, not reduce, the danger of shootings on the bases. What’s more, a law backed by the NRA and written by the esteemed senator Inhofe from Oklahoma effectively limits their ability to try to prevent suicides among troubled service personnel. If you needed one more reason to despise the NRA, there you go.
DRAFT.
That’s the operative word for Cruz…
He should have been drafted and deployed (preferably 11 Bravo) in the most bullet-ridden combat theatre imaginable.
(Pick the War)
The only thing wrong with this is that Cruz’ incompetence, insanity and cowardice would kill most everyone alongside of him. At least that is the impression I got from my Dad who was in Normandy on D Plus One.
The issue should be - If you can straight out lie about petty stuff like this, that you spoke to McCain when you did not, what would you not lie about, Cruz ?
And why draft a letter to McCain instead of just walking down the hall, or taking an elevator a few flights up to go and talk to him.
If this is a window into Prez Cruz, we are in deep crap.