[izzatzo]

No, hang being a legislator, Senator Ted Cruz is doing just fine as he is. Who needs another legislator in the democrat/RINO controlled Senate? What is needed is a good set of brakes, and Senator Ted is doing fine, he's a heavy duty set of brakes. Also, note the reference to McCarthy and how that name is commonly mentioned with reference to Senator Cruz in the progressives' efforts to discredit the Honorable Ted Cruz, Senator from the Great State of Texas.

[Third Person]

Legislate this, Evan McMurray.

[Gene Eric]

SIUYA, McMurray, your boy petulance isn’t Cruz.

[Rusty0604]

We have too much legislation as it is.

[Conspiracy Guy]

If Cruz is a petulant teenager. Obama is a petulant 5 year old.

[peyton randolph]

Conservative legislators should focus 100% of the time repealing legislation rather than passing new laws.

[Sooth2222]

I like him! I'd be happy to trade both of our 'rat Senators for just one Ted Cruz!

[golf lover]

That empty suit Secretary of State, John F’n Kerry was a MA Senator for 28 years. Can anyone send a list of all the legislation that he crafted during those years. Thank you.

[Impy]

The mini-McCarthy

Cruz should take that as a compliment.

[stanne]

Evan McMurry is the founding editor of the blog A Flea In The Fur Of The Beast, a contributing reviewer for Bookslut and the former political editor for Ology. He writes about politics, culture, law, literature, film, music and sports. He received his MFA from Texas State University-San Marcos.

[mylife]

punching out of his league with Diane Feinstein

LOL!!! How'd that work out for Di Fi Evan?

[antonico]

Funny, isn't it? The Left keeps telling the world how “out of touch”, “irrelevant”, “extreme” Conservatives are and that they no longer represent “main stream America”. Yet all of their most virulent attacks come against the very people they keep publicly bleating about their irrelevancy. If these people were so irrelevant then why are piece like this popping up everywhere?? Why are they STILL attacking Sarah Palin - AFTER 4 YEARS of being out of political office??

The very fact more and more of these pieces proves only one thing: they're losing. And they know it. The Rand Paul Filibuster. Ted Cruz's uncompromising defense of the 2nd Amendment. And they won. The small band of Jim DeMint’s Senate Conservatives are winning the day. Which is good news for us.

[stormhill]

spitting in the general direction the United Nations...

Noble work.

[mylife]

This guy Evan, is dreaming.
I watched the Senate gun control hearings.
Cruz perplexed and angered Fienstien.
He was professional and polite but he got to her, and she made Herself look like a fool.

[Always A Marine]

"In short, Ted Cruz needs to show that he can do more than vote nay; he needs to demonstrate that he can craft legislation he himself would vote for." -Evan McMurray

Evan McMurray couldn't be more wrong, and Ted Cruz should ignore his political enemy's insincere "advice." America is suffocating under an accumulated excess of laws, and more of the same is exactly what we don't need. The everyday role of the Senate is advice and consent, and it would suit me just fine if it never passed another bill. Today's legislative heroes are the ones who stand against all but the most necessary new laws. Viva Cruz!

[fatnotlazy]

I hope Sen. Cruz continues to hang tough. I've been so disappointed with pseudo conservatives like Toomey and Rubio. Those who are conservative soon get sucked into the usual Washington politics. Or they go “bi-partisan.” Bi-partisan is, in my view, collaboration with the enemy.

[glorgau]

He’s got them this worried and pissed off in just a few months.

5 1/2 years to go...

[AuntB]

They will do all they can to isolate and destroy Cruz and the VERY few conservatives left in the Senate who are decent enough to speak out, especially against this SHAMNESTY. Grover Norquist is already bragging that he has ‘marginalized’ Jeff Sessions.

Grover vs. ‘the Bitter Enders’(Grover trying to give Rubio political cover)

[snip] Grover Norquist is known as an anti-tax crusader, but in the coming weeks he will be just as much a pro-immigration crusader, combatting what he calls the “bitter enders” who oppose comprehensive immigration reform. Norquist says that he’s trying to counteract the effect of “a handful of radio talk-show hosts who talk loudly.” “The bitter-enders who are still responding to radio talk-show hosts from eight years ago haven’t noticed that the world has shifted from underneath them,” he says. “The people who need cover are the guys who are still voting like they were Pat Buchanan.”

[snip]”In an unlikely pairing, renowned anti-tax activist Grover Norquist stood alongside AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, the leader of the nation’s largest labor coalition. Senators from both parties yukked it up with jokes throughout the hour-long affair.

After the conference ended, Norquist predicted the Gang of Eight would succeed, arguing that opponents like Sessions and Vitter, who sunk the last immigration bill in 2007, have been marginalized. Restrictionists, Norquist said, are people who merely “think of themselves as conservatives...If you’re a Republican, you look at the business community wants it, the religious community wants it,” he told reporters. “Who is the opposition? [snip]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3006017/posts

[Vendome]

Sometimes we need em writing and sheperding legislation other times we need them as a stalwart standard bearer.

He’ll propose something in the fall...

[Pollster1]

Evan McMurray is implicitly assuming that we need more government and more laws, and all Cruz has to do is accept his belief that America's problem is too little government control over our lives. The fact is that Cruz is right - the problem is too many unjust, unconstitutional, expensive, and overly intrusive laws. His role so far is inspired by the Hippocratic Oath, "first, do no harm."

If Cruz can take the next step and repeal even a few of the more onerous federal gun laws, take a major bite out of ObamaCare, and cut federal spending, not the exorbitant growth rate of spending but the actual number of dollars wasted per year, then I will consider him a major success. That prudence, a few good laws combined with real cuts in government meddling and government spending, would put Cruz in the top 1% of Senators in the past hundred years, well above leftists such as DiFi, Teddy Kennedy, and Reid, who have authored huge numbers of new, expensive, and almost universally harmful laws.

[okie01]

...punching out of his league with Diane Feinstein...

Agreed. Cruz was the big leaguer; Feinstein the bush leaguer in that exchange.