Posted on 09/29/2015 10:47:42 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Labeling Cruz a conservative underestimates how dangerous he is. It's time we called out this Messianic crusader.
The people of Texas owe America an apology. They elected Ted Cruz to the United States Senate, and now the country is forced to endure his presence throughout the interminable election season. Cruz has worked diligently (and successfully) to become the least liked human being in Congress. Judging by last night, he’s hated most by his Republican colleagues, who, once again, blocked his inane efforts to shut down the government unless it defunded Planned Parenthood.
Both Republicans and Democrats passed a temporary spending measure that will keep the government afloat (a move supported by a majority of Americans) through mid-December. After the bill was passed by a vote of 77-19, Cruz theatrically sought a roll-call vote but he was promptly denied by his fellow Republicans, many of whom shouted “No!” at the Senator’s request.
Cruz, however, knows a conspiracy when he sees one, and he took to the Senate floor to dispense his bull$#*+ with characteristic flare. “I mentioned to you [his colleagues],” Cruz said, “that the votes were always cooked here.” “How is it,” he rhetorically asked, “that Speaker Boehner and Leader McConnell can promise that there will never ever be a shutdown? Because, I believe, Speaker Boehner has decided to cut a deal with Leader Nancy Pelosi.” In case the prospect of two legislators reaching a sane and popular compromise isn’t scary enough, Cruz clarified what’s really going on here: It turns out that Boehner knew he would lose his speakership if he didn’t cave to the insurgent wing of his party, so he went and made a devilish “deal to surrender and join with the Democrats.” Sounds legit, right?
The worst thing about Cruz isn’t his obnoxiousness or his undemocratic conservatism or his dreary affectations; it’s his self-promoting nihilism. What he’s doing, and how he’s doing it, feels unprecedented. Threatening to shut down the government or undermine the country’s credit rating in defense of campaign talking point is an act of legislative terror. Cruz represents the very worst of factionalist fervor. He has no regard for the constitution or the general will or the nation’s economy. He sees an opportunity to promote his brand and it doesn’t matter what the costs are, to his party or his country.
Cruz fancies himself a political martyr, the one Republican willing to fight for truth and transparency and conservative principles. He condemns his GOP colleagues as RINO cowards and pseudo-conservatives. But there’s nothing genuinely conservative about Cruz’s brinksmanship. He has no respect for Senatorial tradition or process or majority opinion. Again, he’s a nihilist and, perhaps worse, a fraud.
I say he’s a fraud because, as Burgess Everett recently wrote, he’s “pushing proposals that he knows McConnell and other Republicans will never back, like defunding Planned Parenthood in a spending bill, then criticizing McConnell for not taking up the plan ever as he uses the fight to bolster his presidential campaign as Washington’s consummate outsider.” And that’s really what this is about. The conservative base wants an “outsider” (whatever that means) and everything Cruz says and does is designed to win this constituency, as this report in Politico more or less confirms.
So it’s not about reducing abortions or affirming conservative values. If Cruz were serious about that, he’d pursue real goals in realistic ways. Instead, he stages one stunt after another knowing it won’t accomplish anything concrete, save for his own promotion. That’s not what a serious politician does. But Cruz isn’t serious, as John Boehner happily noted: He’s a “jackass” and a “false prophet.”
:: This self-promoting narcissist is a fraud and a nihilist ::
Funny..didn’t ^Salon^ promote the election of the same type of candidate in 2008 and 2012? What have we missed?
Salon = unmitigated Bullshit!!
They would still be questioning the Republican about it if they hadn’t run him out already
Wouldn’t you love to see how “generous” Sanders is with his own money?
If Salon is upset with Cruz he must be doing something right.
If we are lucky enough to get Cruz elected as President, the left will see just how correct they were to fear him.
If one of those Salon homos hates him, how bad could he be?
What does Salon know about Conservatives, anyway?
They only know the caricature they have created in their own heads, and have never shown the least interest as to whether conservative applies to them in any way.
But it is an object of great mirth for them to point at and laugh.
Forgive them, Lord, for they know not what they are doing.
Interesting how the “celebrate diversity” crowd is so uninterested in understanding & respecting actual diversity.
Salon doesn’t like Cruz?
Salon needs a hug.
I thought so. Salon. and here I thought it was Polutico or wash Compost.
Salon calling out Ted Cruz is like TASS calling out RWR.
Is “Sean Illing” the nome de plume for either Congressman Peter (Carnival Barker!) King or John (WackoBirD!!) McCain?
The comments at the link would be a hoot, if they weren’t such a sad indicator of the shape the Country is in.
They see the writing on the wall, with true conservative Constitutional politicians re-writing the game plane for another socialist/communist Utopian failure. It would be one more example of how their ideology just doesn't work. They will never wake up from their "Purple Haze" or in the case of X-Gen, "Feels Like Teen Spirit". Lucky for us, the Y-Gen is starting to ask relevant questions. A sign of hope, if only for myself.
The usual case of projection. We’ll see who’s really narcissistic and nihilistic when this phonied-up economy collapses from the weight of funny money.
Oh yeah...the haters are gonna hate...they are all lined up at the starting gate to get in their last bit of trivia written....like Boehner they see the their irrelevance is near
Preach it Cruz!
Salon... more critical of Ted Cruz than a pedophile
:: You got the ^eyebrows^ right ::
Plural?
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