Posted on 02/15/2013 6:32:33 PM PST by reaganaut1
WHEN a Vesuvius like John McCain tells you that you belch too much smoke and spew too much fire, you know you’ve got a problem.
And Ted Cruz, a Republican freshman in the Senate who has been front and center in his party’s effort to squash Chuck Hagel’s nomination as secretary of defense, has a problem. He’s an ornery, swaggering piece of work. Just six weeks since his arrival on Capitol Hill, he’s already known for his naysaying, his nit-picking and his itch to upbraid lawmakers who are vastly senior to him, who have sacrificed more than he has and who deserve a measure of respect, or at least an iota of courtesy. Courtesy isn’t Cruz’s métier. Grandstanding and browbeating are.
He sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee, and during its final meeting on Tuesday about Hagel’s nomination, he made such nefarious and hectoring insinuations about Hagel’s possible corruption by foreign influences that McCain, who’d gleefully raked Hagel over the coals himself, more or less told Cruz to cool it. It was an unforgettable moment, and one that Republicans shouldn’t soon forget, because Cruz, 42, isn’t simply the latest overeager beaver to start gnawing his way through the halls of Congress. He’s a prime illustration of what plagues the Republican Party and holds it back.
A fascinating illustration, too. On the surface, he should be part of the solution: young, Latino, with a hardscrabble family story including his father’s imprisonment in Cuba and escape to the United States. But Republicans who look to him and see any kind of savior overlook much of what drags the party down, which isn’t merely or even principally the genealogy of their candidates. It’s the intransigent social conservatism, the whiff of meanness and the showy eruptions.
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“his nit-picking and his itch to upbraid lawmakers who are vastly senior to him”
More like vastly senile. What an unashamed hit piece. Cruz is great, a real patriot. McCain may have served, but now he’s serving his country up. We need more like Cruz, and all across this nation, we’re prepping more for 2014. I hope Graham is wearing depends on election night. He should then loan them to McLame for his next primary. That RINO won’t get so lucky again.
You are mistaking TED CRUZ for Marco Rubio.
To be honest, Rubio isn’t in the same class as Cruz.
Time will prove me right on this, I have no doubts.
he certainly is
Graham knows that we are coming for him in 2014.
We will take him down just like we took down Lugar.
We do not disagree as I see it. :-)
I went to his FB page and told him if the NY times and Sen Boxer don’t like you, then you must be doing things right. So keep up the good work.
I’m glad I voted for him twice. Very pleased with him. Dewhurst would have been another McCain.
Ted Cruz is the man everyone thinks Rubio is
I believe!
So we have someone who used to dine out a lot and who is gay passing judgement on the GOP. Once again, The Slimes puts it’s “Best Foot ( or more likely some other part of it’s anaomy(forward.”
“Growing up in public school history classes, we were led to believe that McCarthy was this idiot Senator with no manners. As an adult, I have to believe that McCarthy was actually a damn good senator. Am I off the mark?”
The Venona papers were a collection of Russian telexes back to Mother Russia. They were released in the early ‘90’s due to expiration of security classification. They demonstrated that McCarthy was right in virtually everything he said; Democrats be damned!
So...we see them starting to attack and isolate Cruz. Time for us to fight back FOR him. Send hims letters of praise. Let’s make it an avalanche of positive mail. I think I will actually write him a letter...on paper..and send it via mail. We must not let them destroy him. He will need for us to have his back.
So glad I voted for Ted Cruz, I don’t think he will listen to McCains crap. Go Ted Go.
Well said ,so glad I voted for him.
Well said ,so glad I voted for him.
Well said ,so glad I voted for him.
Well said ,so glad I voted for him.
Well said ,so glad I voted for him.
Well said ,so glad I voted for him.
I like that pic almost as much as the one of Dick Cheney giving _resdient Skeet the ‘stink eye’ at Zero’s first inaguration...
Pelosi says he represents McCarthyism.
Sounds like just what we need. If he continues on this way he’s liable to become president.
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