◼ Senator Ted Cruz at #CPAC2014
In introducing Cruz, the president and publisher of Regnery Publishing said this:◼ Conservative firebrand Ted Cruz launches political convention with crowd-pleasing demand to abolish the IRS - DAVID MARTOSKO, U.S. POLITICAL EDITOR/DAILY MAIL
“If you’ve attended CPAC in the past, you know that the speakers you’ll hear from will shock, delight, amaze, inform, incense and inspire you. So what better way to start off this conference than with a man who has provoked every one of those emotions in just his first year in Washington: Senator Ted Cruz.”
Ted Cruz, the rock-ribbed conservative Texas senator who figures to be a factor in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, told thousands of conservatives Thursday morning that the IRS should go the way of the dodo.◼ At CPAC, Ted Cruz praises Ron Paul and Ronald Reagan - Charlie Spiering/Washington Examiner @charlesspiering
'We need to abolish the IRS,' he said, calling instead for a flat income tax rate and a user-friendly tax return that can be filed on a postcard.
That verbal gauntlet, thrown as much at a near-century of tax collection as at the Obama administration, was Cruz's biggest applause line.
'By virtue of your being here today,' he jokingly cautioned the nation's largest annual gathering of politically conservative activists, 'tomorrow each and every one of you is going to be audited by the IRS.'
◼ Cruz lays out sweeping conservative vision to kick off CPAC 2014 - Washington Times
Sen. Ted Cruz called for the abolition of the IRS and the repeal of Obamacare in a rousing speech to kick off the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference Thursday. Follow us for all your #CPAC2014 updates!
◼ Examiner live coverage of CPAC 2014 - Washington Examiner
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◼ Video: Standing for ovation for Christie at CPAC - Allahpundit/HotAir
◼ Standing Ovation for Chris Christie from CPAC Crowd - Eliana Johnson/National Review
◼ CPAC 2014: Focus On The Big Three Things - Hugh Hewitt/Townhall
Conservatives are gathering from across the country in D.C., and they are doing so in the shadow of an international crisis that will bring seriousness to the speeches they hear and the conversations they have.
For many years now CPAC has been an orgy of finger-pointing as various groups within the conservative movement nod at each other as the root cause of the rise of Barack Obama, never fully grasping that the president's rise was an almost inevitable byproduct of a national withdrawal from the hard realities of a post 9/11 world.
