Posted on 12/16/2014 5:49:00 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The symmetry was irresistible. Last weekend, as Ted Cruz almost blew up the budget deal over immigration and Elizabeth Warren almost blew it up over banking regulations, pundits seized upon an analogy. Both senators are articulate, ideological, media-savvy, beloved by party activists, and problematic for party leaders. Thus, Warren is the Cruz of the left.
Bad analogy, argues Vox’s Matthew Yglesias, noting that it’s Cruz and the GOP that want “to use government funding as leverage to undo policy measures Democrats enacted in the 111th Congress.” Warren just doesn’t “want to pay the ransom.” The Washington Post’s Sean Sullivan is dubious too, noting that Mitch McConnell and John Boehner dislike Cruz a lot more than Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi dislike Warren.
But there’s another, more fundamental, difference. Cruz deepens America’s red-blue divide. Warren could scramble it.
Think about Cruz’s highest-profile crusades: against Obamacare, against Obama’s executive action on immigration, against raising the debt ceiling, against gun control. They all exhilarated conservative activists and repelled their liberal counterparts....
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Actually, she is more like the Ru Paul of the left.
Anything that grows Big Government is MUCH BETTER, so Warren is nothing like that meanie, Ted Cruz. I hate Yankee writers.
“Last weekend, as Ted Cruz almost blew up the budget deal over immigration...”
REALLY????
So asking for a vote on the Constitutionality of the President’s executive order on immigration, threatened to blow up a budget deal?
Can these guys walk and chew gum at the same time?
Love the headline, so true
Elizabeth Warren seems more like a Maxine Waters of Democrat whites to me.
I’m sure Bohner and McConnell will vote for her.
The Atlantic accelerates to the intellectual bottom...
More like the Ma Barker of the Left.
Fauxcahontas puts the RAT in DemocRAT.
Sometimes the left telegraphs its strategy.
Like when journ-0-list Stephanopolus signaled the “war on women” meme in the early 2012 Republican debate.
This article does the same thing. By the time the journ-0-lists are done, Squaw Warren will be a beloved grandmother fighting for middle class “equity” against Wall Street and the evil banks. Pair her with a black VP to bring out the entitlement army votes and you have a combination capable of winning.
Ill take that bet and raise ya five!...Granny REALLY has a problem answering any specific questions......Rhetoric she has down pat...spout the party line....but ask her a direct question she has to think about...shes dead in the water...
Check out some of her you-tube vids..here's a start
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqyUKD4V7SE Cruz would eat her for lunch in any real debate...
Fauxcahontas is nuttier than a Snickers bar, which makes her more like ron paul.
Nobody of the left can be “(figure of the right) of the left”.
I see her as more of a Howard Dean in drag, which is close to the same thing, I suppose.
I’m not sure which would be more painful...a SOU speech from Hillary or Squaw Warren.
At least Wacky Howie was fun to watch. Squaw Warren is just painful.
Incredible, isn't it? "Ted almost prevented the train from going over the cliff. Thank God he was stopped in time."
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