I love Canada, especially Ontario. Used to go up there fishing on my old BMW motorcycle. Saw "Phantom of the Opera" in Toronto at the Pantages Theater. Very nice country and simply wonderful, polite people. Well, except for Montreal...
Problem is, Canada is run by liberal idiots who do not appreciate the overwhelming influence of the economic juggernaut known as the USA. Their soy boy Prime Minister Trudeau and their equally incompetent trade minister Chrystia Freeland are about to ruin the Canadian economy by picking a fight with President Trump over tariffs.
Canada cannot win this fight. Canada will lose bigly.
The following is an informative video on what Trudeau and Co. have biten off. Professor Ian Lee makes the observation that Canada is a pee wee hockey player challenging a NHL professional. It will not end well for Canada.
Is it me or does Prof. Ian Lee remind you of actor Tom Wilkinson?
Is it true that Ted
Cruz refrained from criticizing Donald Trump after the firestorm over his
comments belittling John McCain’s war record to pick up some of The Donald’s
support should he drop out of the race for president?
In an interview with Bloomberg Politics Cruz said, "My view on John
McCain is explicit and unambiguous. He's an American hero and he's a friend. I'm not going to just take a stick to fellow
Republicans or for that matter to Democrats.
In my time in the Senate I haven't impugned the character of Republicans
or Democrats and I don't intend to start today."
In his March 23, 2015
presidential announcement speech, Cruz cited Ronald Reagan who popularized the
Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow
Republican.
On Friday, however,
the gloves came off. He accused Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of lying to his colleagues.
Cruz’s broadside of
McConnell came after he set up votes on the controversial issues of the repeal
of Obamacare and the reauthorization of the Export-Import bank. Though
McConnell has personally spoken against the Ex-Im Bank’s reauthorization,
Democrats said in June that he had agreed to schedule a vote on the bank in
order to get highly divisive trade legislation passed.
“I asked the majority
leader very directly: What was the deal that was just cut? The majority leader
was visibly angry with me that I would ask such a question, and the majority
leader looked at me and said, ‘There is no deal, there is no deal, there is no
deal.’ Like Saint Peter, he repeated it three times,” said Cruz.
The bank’s
reauthorization expired on May 31, 2015.
Ex-Im subsidizes innumerable export transactions with guaranteed loans
to make exports cheaper for American products.
In March, two months before the reauthorization expired, the bank’s
$100M cap had been reached.
Critics of the bank
call it “Boeing’s Bank” because of its interventions in financial assistance to
the aircraft manufacturer in selling planes to China, India and other nations
thus allowing U.S. trade policies to be set by market-distorting foreign
governments. The bank is only lightly constrained by the law that supposedly
leashes it.
As Sallie James of
the Cato
Institute notes, government favors flow to the politically connected. Favor-dispensing institutions such as the
Export-Import Bank are dispensing incentives for private interests to develop
lucrative political connections.
Are charges by Cruz
that McConnell is “running the Senate in much the same manner” as Harry Reid
did when he was Majority Leader true?
Hell yes.
“There is a profound
disappointment among the American people because we keep winning elections, and
then we keep getting leaders who don’t do anything they promised,” Cruz said.
“We’ve had a Republican majority in both houses of Congress now for about six
months…This Senate operates exactly the same, the same priorities.”
According to
published reports, McConnell was not on the floor of the Senate during Cruz’s “outburst”. When he learned about it McConnell
barred Cruz from discussions regarding the National Defense Authorization
Act in the Senate Armed Services Committee.
