Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) announced Monday evening that he will renounce his Canadian citizenship, less than 24 hours after a newspaper pointed out that the Canadian-born senator likely maintains dual citizenship. “Now the Dallas Morning News says that I may technically have dual citizenship,” Cruz said in a statement. “Assuming that is true, then sure, I will renounce any Canadian citizenship. Nothing against Canada, but I’m an American by birth and as a U.S. senator; I believe I should be only an American.”I guess this puts Cruz in a similar position as Michele Bachmann, who renounced her Swiss citizenship last year—and once again, we are the losers, because we keep on getting stuck with lunatics who say things like this:
Asked about the possibility of impeaching President Obama, Ted Cruz did not rule it out. In a question and answer session following a speech he gave at a Montgomery County GOP dinner last night, an audience member asked Cruz, “Why don’t we impeach him [Obama]?”
“It’s a good question,” Cruz responded, “and I’ll tell you the simplest answer: To successfully impeach a president you need the votes in the U.S. Senate.”A nice question from the GOP base, eh? A real American (or just somebody who's devoted to democracy), would have answered that question thusly: "We don't impeach people for no reason because if we did, that would undermine our democracy. It's just not the American way."
And he's not the only one.
Democracy is one of the core American ideals. Obviously Ted Cruz is not a real American. And neither are his buddies in the Republican party.
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