{"id":5798,"date":"2015-07-24T17:08:45","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T17:08:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-07-24T17:08:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T17:08:45","slug":"the_rare_eib_interview_senator_ted_cruz_on_why_he_called_his_leader_a_liar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/07\/24\/the_rare_eib_interview_senator_ted_cruz_on_why_he_called_his_leader_a_liar\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rare EIB Interview: Senator Ted Cruz on Why He Called His Leader a Liar"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I want to welcome back to the program, Senator Ted Cruz from Texas, and Republican presidential candidate. You did something today<\/a> I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve seen before. This was a direct hit on your Senate leadership over a number of things, Senator. What spawned this today, and look, rather than me describe it for people, just tell everybody what you did and why you did it.<\/p>\n

CRUZ: Well, Rush, it\u2019s great to be back with you. Today the Senate took up the Export-Import Bank, a classic example of cronyism and corporate welfare. The leader of Senate Republicans, Mitch McConnell, went to the floor and demonstrated that he had lied both to the American people and also to every Republican senator, including me. Back when we were having the fight over trade promotion authority, I asked Mitch McConnell directly if he had cut a deal to reauthorize this cronyism and corporate welfare in order to try to get the votes, and he looked at me, he looked at all 54 Republican senators, and he said flat-out, “There is no deal. There is no deal. There is no deal.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, this deal you\u2019re talking about, Senator, you\u2019re talking about the Asian — the Pacific trade deal the president wanted, and the Export-Import Bank\u2019s part of that, right?<\/p>\n

CRUZ: Exactly right. That\u2019s part of how Republican leadership got the votes for TPA is by promising to put taxpayers on the hook for hundreds of billions of dollars of loan guarantees that go primarily to a handful of giant corporations. And it\u2019s what I refer to as a Washington cartel. It\u2019s career politicians in both parties who get in bed with lobbyists and special interests. It\u2019s why we\u2019re bankrupting our kids and grandkids. And what\u2019s striking — I mean, Rush, people are so frustrated, \u2019cause we keep winning elections, and then our leaders don\u2019t do a darn thing they said they were going to do. So we were told in the House of Representatives things will be different. <\/line><\/p>\n

In 2010, the people rose up, we got a Republican majority. And they haven\u2019t done much of anything. Then we were told we just need a Republican majority in the Senate, retire Harry Reid. In 2014, millions of Americans stood up to do that. For six months we\u2019ve had a Republican majority. What have they done? They passed a trillion-dollar Cromnibus plan filled with corporate pork and corporate welfare. We funded Obamacare and President Obama\u2019s executive amnesty, and Republican leadership jammed through the confirmation of Loretta Lynch as attorney general. Every one of those is exactly the same as what Harry Reid would have done. And it\u2019s why people are frustrated. <\/p>\n

Why is it that Republican leadership, authorities as Harry Reid and the Democrats — and the answer is the lobbyists and special interests, the giant corporations that want Big Government and power. They give campaign contributions to both Republicans and Democrats. And today I called out the majority leader for looking 54 Republicans in the eye and telling a flat-out lie. It was a very unfortunate day for the Senate. It\u2019s not a good day when the majority leader is willing to lie to the members of the Senate.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I don\u2019t know. If I were you — well, you sound insulted. I mean, here, after all, the majority leader is telling you, “Hey, hey, hey, you know what, Export-Import not gonna happen, guaranteed not gonna happen, and, furthermore, we\u2019re gonna give you another repeal Obamacare vote.” By now everybody knows that\u2019s a joke, don\u2019t they?<\/p>\n

CRUZ: It\u2019s complete fiction. He wants a show vote on repealing Obamacare. Now, of course back in October 2013 when Mike Lee and I were leading the fight to defund Obamacare, then Mitch McConnell joined with Harry Reid in leading the fight to preserve Obamacare. So when it actually has teeth, leadership wasn\u2019t with us. But they do want an empty show vote. And, you know, Rush, as you know, a couple of weeks ago I came out with a new book, A Time for Truth<\/a>, and the entire point of the book is to tell the truth about what is happening behind closed doors, and, in particular, how career politicians in both parties are not telling the truth to the American people. And this was an example of that. And, unfortunately, it\u2019s why we see so many campaign conservatives that pretend to be conservative on the campaign trail but they don\u2019t govern according to what they promised us on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me ask you some questions that are born of my natural naivete. <\/p>\n

CRUZ: (laughing).<\/p>\n