Ted Cruz Sums Up Joe Biden's Presidency in Perfect 3 Words
https://www.westernjournal.com/ted-cruz-...western-journal
By C. Douglas Golden
Published March 10, 2021 at 7:43am


Ask a conservative to picture a radical Democrat and you’ll come up with a range of characters.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez types. Bernie Sanders-style socialists. Campus leftists. Unreconstructed 1960s Students for a Democratic Society types.

But what if it were just a boring guy with hair plugs, a penchant for forgetting people’s names and a seat behind the presidential desk?

A[...]

On China, Cruz noted two key nominees with questionable records on Beijing: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo.

In Thomas-Greenfield’s case, Cruz voted against her confirmation[...]

In the case of Raimondo, Cruz told Breitbart he was worried she wouldn’t commit to keeping the Chinese communications firm Huawei — “basically an espionage agency” that “masquerades as a telecom company,” he said — on the U.S. Entity List, which would maintain certain restrictions on the tech giant.

“Nominee after nominee in the Biden administration has really questionable records on China, and this seems to be part of a pattern, a very deliberate decision to pivot back towards China and to embrace the Chinese Communist government,” Cruz said.

Then there was Xavier Becerra[...]

“He’s nominated as the head of HHS someone who’s not a medical doctor, someone who has no health care experience whatsoever, someone who has no scientific background whatsoever, someone who has no experience with pharmaceuticals, no experiences with virology, no experiences with logistics.

“We’re in the middle of the largest vaccine deployment in American history, and Becerra doesn’t know a thing about logistics and actually moving hundreds of millions of vaccines across the country. He’s a trial lawyer. He has zero experience. If any Republican had nominated as secretary of HHS someone with no medical experience and no scientific experience, they’d have been laughed out of the room. It’s absurd.

“Why did Biden nominate him?” Cruz asked, rhetorically. “Because Becerra is a leftist, partisan radical. As far as I can tell, his only experience on health care is suing the Little Sisters of the Poor,” the Catholic religious order that defied Obamacare statutes on providing birth control and other reproductive services that contravened its faith.

[...]

The fact he was even nominated, however, evidenced to Cruz that the Biden administration’s priorities on health care are not based around battling the COVID-19 pandemic.-- excerpt, rest at link above --