During a Sunday interview on ABC’s “This Week,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said that with Republicans controlling the executive and legislative branches in 2017, lawmakers must “deliver.”
“We’ve got a lot of work to do. This election was a mandate for change,” he told ABC’s Martha Raddatz. “Republicans have been given the opportunity, we’ve been given control of the White House, of every executive branch, and both houses of Congress. We can’t blow it. We have got to deliver.”
Raddatz noted to Cruz that Trump has signaled he may not fulfill certain campaign promises like fully repealing Obamacare and pulling out of the Paris climate agreement. She asked Cruz if Trump’s change in tone concerned him.
Cruz said that he will work with Trump before warning Republicans that they must bring change.
“If we’re given the White House and both houses of Congress and we don’t deliver, I think there will be pitchforks and torches in the streets,” he said. “And I think quite rightly. I think people are so fed up with Washington. This election was a mandate with change, and the most catastrophic thing Republicans could do is go back to business as usual.”
Mr. Cruz, one needs a significant majority to claim a mandate – not a minority!
I am now convinced that mandate means something else in republicanese. Does anyone have a republican to english dictionary?
Even with Trump on the scene, Ted Cruz still has the most punchable face in DC.
The only promise that most people care about is the return of those manufacturing jobs that Trump said he’d bring back. They don’t want you to touch the ACA, Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid. The problem is that the government can’t do a single thing to force those jobs back into the US or to roll back to before automation made them fire most of the people the once had working for them. What it can do is ease regulations and taxes on small businesses and entrepreneurs while making sure that large businesses face taxes they have to pay and reasonable regulations. Oh, and we have to have a legitimate definition of small vs. large business. Maybe the cut off should be something like 30 emploees or something.
He looks like an evil Bob Hope