Posted on 02/15/2013 12:58:46 PM PST by reaganaut1
WASHINGTON As the Senate edged toward a nasty filibuster vote on Chuck Hagels nomination to be defense secretary, Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, sat silent and satisfied in the corner of the chamber his voice robbed by laryngitis as he absorbed what he had wrought in his mere seven weeks of Senate service.
Mr. Hagel, a former senator from Mr. Cruzs own party, was about to be the victim of the first filibuster of a nominee to lead the Pentagon. The blockade was due in no small part to the very junior senators relentless pursuit of speeches, financial records or any other documents with Mr. Hagels name on them going back at least five years. Some Republicans praised the work of the brash newcomer, but others joined Democrats in saying that Mr. Cruz had gone too far.
Without naming names, Senator Barbara Boxer, Democrat of California, offered a biting label for the Texans accusatory crusade: McCarthyism.
It was really reminiscent of a different time and place, when you said, I have here in my pocket a speech you made on such and such a date, and, of course, nothing was in the pocket, she said, a reference to Senator Joseph R. McCarthys bloody pursuit of communists in the 1950s. It was reminiscent of some bad times.
In just two months, Mr. Cruz, 42, has made his presence felt in an institution where new arrivals are usually not heard from for months, if not years. Besides suggesting that Mr. Hagel might have received compensation from foreign enemies, he has tangled with the mayor of Chicago, sandbagged the Senates third-ranking Democrat on national television, voted against virtually everything before him
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It has been a Commie rag for a hundred years.
We need more bomb throwers.
Anyone on the right who gets the left’s panties in a knot has my wholehearted support and gratitude.
Thanks Senator Cruz, keep it up.
Keep it up Senator Cruz, because the ‘Eyes of TEXAS are upon you.’
Ted Cruz’s mother was a US citizen at the time of his birth.
Can't even really call it a "newspaper" anymore. It should be more aptly called a slander sheet.
So, searching for the truth and doing the right thing, is wrong? According to rats anyway.
Exchanging the truth for a lie.
“Joe McCarthy was right.”
Damn straight. McCarthy and Nixon were relentless commie hunters and they rooted out a bunch of them. There are way more of them infesting government today. Go get ‘em Cruz.
If your neighbors voted for Mr. Obama, the man the media created for the presidency, they too would gladly see you stripped of all you have earned.
If you have children in school, 90% of the teachers they spend their day with would gladly see you stripped of all you have earned and are educating them to feel the same way.
Um, Adolph was the publisher printing Walter Duranty's work...
The rot apparently started long before Pinch sped up the Slimes downward spiral.
Pity that the rest of the media decided not to learn from history and provide BHO the same cover that Ochs/Duranty provided Stalin.
But what is this silly lady saying! Was not McCarthy correct in his identification of communists? Has not history shown that McCarthy was correct? How bad were the times when McCarthy was right; Democrats sure get stuck in first gear!
I already liked Cruz, if he PO’s the NY Slimes I like him even more. Oh, and F YOU, Babs, you Commie Butch.
ahhh, yes, he’s my Senator!
My kind of extremism. Go Ted, that’s zactly what we hired you for.
You're quite right as I reflect upon it further. Even their touted coverage of RMS Titanic in 1912 has its share of factual errors and half-truths.
I suppose the last era of its integrity was when Henry Raymond (onetime RNC chair) still had the paper before its ruination by the Ochs-Dryfoos-Sulzberger clan.
Has McCain apologized for the “very junior senators” behavior yet?
If Fox News had called him a "Bomb-Throwing" anything, the DBM would be all over them excoriating them for making a terrorist reference.
But, since the NYT is the crown jewel of the Lying Left, it's ok!
Sure glad America has freedom of speech for everyone!!
/sarc
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