From the Daily Caller:
Since arriving on the scene in Congress just a few months ago, junior Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has been outspoken in public appearances and hearings on issues including Obama’s cabinet confirmations, the Benghazi attacks. He recently had a dust-up before the Senate Judiciary Committee with his colleague, California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
That recent brawl has drawn the ire of MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough. On his Friday program, Scarborough chastised Cruz and accused the Harvard Law graduate of being “willfully ignorant” on matters regarding the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
“Did Ted Cruz not go to law school?” Scarborough said. “Did they teach Ted Cruz to read what the Supreme Court said especially in the landmark — the landmark — decision regarding Second Amendment rights? Over 200 years was written in 2008. And I’m just wondering, why would he use his seat on the Judiciary Committee, if he went to Harvard, to put forward a willfully ignorant statement about this bill violating the Second Amendment, because it does not. And Ted Cruz knows it does not. So who is he playing for? Is he playing for people who can’t read or are illiterate?”
“I don’t understand,” Scarborough continued. “You know, there are a lot of people out there who support Ted Cruz’s position that will say, ‘this is not a violation of the Second Amendment,’ but however have real concerns because you take this first step, the next thing you know they’re going to try to overturn Heller, they’re going to take my shotguns.
“They’re going to try to get my hunting rifle. I don’t mean to go on and on here, but I am so shocked that he would continue to use his seat in the Judiciary Committee to just mislead millions of Americans and put forward a willfully ignorant position on what the Constitution says and what it does not say.”
Scarborough continued to use the 2008 D.C. v. Heller case as proof Cruz was out of bounds in his criticism of Feinstein’s gun control proposals and advised him to “read the damn case law.”
“[I]f Ted Cruz wants to say the Second Amendment — I believe the Second Amendment should protect people’s rights to have assault weapons or semi-automatic weapons, or whatever linguistic game, whatever semantic game they want to play at the NRA, whatever Bushmasters are — if he wants to say I personally believe the Second Amendment should protect these rights and is absolute and contains all these things that Justice [Antonin] Scalia and Justice [Clarence] Thomas and Justice [Anthony] Kennedy and Justice [Samuel] Alito, and you know conservative justices — if he wants to say it, that’s fine,” Scarborough said. “I’ve got no problem with that and I know people who believe that should be contained within Heller and the Second Amendment. It’s just not.”
Right. Because we all know that the dicta in Heller expressly said that Congress — or rather, a few people in Congress — can pick firearms that are commonly owned by law-abiding citizens and outlaw them on the basis of their cosmetic attributes, having first conflated them with weapons of a type they are not.
Similarly, the 2nd Amendment clearly meant that of course the government can infringe on basic rights, so long as those basic rights caused Dianne Feinstein to shit her granny panties.
And besides, what would Cruz know about Heller, anyway?
(h/t sdfderr)
the stupid hangs thick in the air in proggtardia
Are you calling Joe Scarborough fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme…
Apparently MSNBC’s hiring requirements in kids an inability to be embarrassed by saying stupid shit.
Sen. Cruz yesterday, in the hearing, addressing Heller v. District of Columbia and the “limits” it proposes.
Over on Ace “blog of the year” of Spades they are furiously masturb…um…ruminating on the topic whether conservative is a bad word now and if new branding is called for.
In the comments:
“14 Well I must say it does have the judgmental, sanctimonious,stick up the ass vibe to it.
We need a better label.
Posted by: NeoKong at March 14, 2013 05:49 PM (JWLwG)”
Sure. A new label. Then you can run THAT ONE into the ground too by being endlessly “pragmatic”, submissive to your opponents, and insulting to your base. Good thinking. If you label a chipped reeking bowl of the same old shit ‘peaches’ it will draw in the peach loving crowd.
Until they look in the bowl or sniff the air.
Give peach a chance.
Are we seriously taking Second Amendment advice from a guy who openly says “whatever Bushmasters are?”
It says “shall not be infringed,” you simpering excuse for a hair-product model. It doesn’t say “except for things that Congress and MSNBC find scary.”
I am only a bushjourneyman myself. And barely that.
BushMaster could be the name of a pron novel.
Don’t pretend you didn’t think that already.
Well, to be fair, Scarborough is about as Republican as say Bloomberg was when he first became mayor.
I could put a (D) after my name but I’d still be the Outlaw, and constitutionalist that I am. I wouldn’t last long at any party meetings but that’s a different story.
I know that a party can’t demand or extract oaths and vows for the supposed members to maintain certain positions and views but it sure would be nice to say that if they publicly disavow certain things then they can no longer claim membership in the party.
It’s like performing a pagan ritual on a daily basis but claiming to be a Catholic all the while.
It’s false advertising and someone should call him out on his so called “Republicanism”.
But that won’t happen cause if you get in the faces of these liberal douchebags on tv, they won’t invite you back again. And sadly that’s the only way to have a chance at reaching people you normally couldn’t.
I thought Cruz was directly on point with his question. DiFi cannot take it because she is not very bright.
Are we seriously taking Second Amendment advice from a guy who openly says “whatever Bushmasters are?”
A-fucking-men
Maybe he thought it was a new beer from Budweiser.
Or the Beastmaster’s little brother.
That’s more like it, Mike.
“Anything I don’t understand should be illegal!”
Well… that was always the liberal understanding of what it means to be Conservative, so way to earn that paycheck, Joe.
Ted Cruz shits bigger than Joe Scarborough. He is the real deal.
The unattractive ever phloem caked voice of Neil Cavuto carries lungers bigger and more intelligent than Joe Scarborough.
Scarborough must have mistaken Cruz for some intern he could bash around. Bad mistake Scarborough.
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Scarborough has never been known for his wicked smahts.
Wait. Is that Rachel Maddow’s hand coming out of Scarborough’s ass?
What a fetid heap of unctuous anal effluvium from the MSNBC RINO sockpuppet.
Of course the only one being dishonest is Scarborough. I wonder if he will live long enough to spend that 30 pieces he gets from the liberal fascist Sanhedrin.