Everybody Hates Ted? Cruz Doesn’t Care.

Commentary Magazine ^ | December 17, 2014 | Jonathan S. Tobin

[Colonel_Flagg]

Thus, “statements” such as Cruz’s demand that every senator put themselves on record as opposing the president’s extralegal executive orders on immigration came at too high a price since it would have meant the possibility of another damaging government shutdown.

Yes, it was so 'damaging' that Republicans won a landslide midterm election less than twelve months after the 'damage' took place. For once, Republicans were dragged kicking and screaming into being different from Barack Obama. And look where it got them. Into majorities that will NEVER be used for the purposes voters intended when they were elected.

[Colonel_Flagg]

They are claiming that Senate Dems wanted to go home but Cruz forcing them to stay gave Dem leadership the opportunity to confirm ~ 25 appointments before the next congress(Republican Senate), including judges and AG.

Which, of course, is utter BS. Does anyone think that Harry Reid would relinquish Democrat power in the United States Senate without first squeezing every ounce of blood out of the turnip? The nominees would have gotten votes regardless of anyone's precious weekend schedules.

[acad1228]

Are you kidding? Ted is awesome! Stranglehold is my favorite song that he does.

[dandiegirl]

Be glad you didn’t hear Lou Dobbs tonight. He declared his show to be “Cruz free zone” because of the fake idea that Cruz got those judges approved. I tried to email his show but the message I got back said it was overloaded or something. I thought I liked Dobbs, but his true colors came out tonight. Disgusting.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Harry Reid needs Ted Cruz to approve nominations? The Democrats are still the majority in the senate until January.

[jjsheridan5]

Seeing as Cruz is Hispanic — whenever a liberal denegrates Ted accuse them of racism.

Conservatives have taken the high road for far too long. This is exactly the kind of thing we should be doing. In fact, it is intellectually dishonest not to do this, since it is the Democrats (and the establishment Republicans) who have created the trap for blacks, and wish to do the same to hispanics, whereby hordes of blacks and hispanics vote for the hand that feeds them, persuaded that that same hand is not shoving them down. We fail to speak the truth, and do so out of the misguided notion that to speak the truth means that we are ethically as bereft as the left.

The left, and the establishment Republicans, are the real racists in this country. It is about time that conservatives start playing hardball. They hate Cruz for the same reason they hate people like Allen West: they do not want blacks or hispanics to be successful. They do not want them to think for themselves. They want their votes, and their occasional fits of civil unrest, and nothing more. They certainly don't want them to ever notice who it is that created the situation that keeps them in chains.

[Dr.Deth]

Most senators understand the shutdown Cruz helped engineer in 2013 was a bad mistake

Why?

Nobody answers that question. Nobody asks, either. Except, of course, Ted Cruz. He refuses to accept the "inside the Beltway" presumptions of their own indispensibility, and it make the apparatchiks heads just explode.

What collective empirical wisdom was handed from on high that says a population that considers the government as a huge obstacle in their life, also vehemently opposes shutting it down or scaling it back? I missed that memo.

[Personal Responsibility]

“Most senators understand the shutdown Cruz helped engineer in 2013 was a bad mistake and want no part of a repeat performance. “

Why is this true? How many votes did it cost the Republcians in 2014, an election in which they DEMOLISHED the dems?

I see this written as if it were true all the time. Outside the beltway and the offices of the NY Times, no one even remembers it.

[ogen hal]

Go Ted & Mike.

[ViLaLuz]

Honey badger don’t care.

[Nifster]

I stand with Ted

[reasonisfaith]

Ted Cruz all the way.

And you liberals stop your racist criticism of him.

[juggernaut]

Just watched him on Hannity. Can’t get enough. Keep it comin’ Senator Cruz!

[xzins]

I listened to Cruz last night with Bret Baier. Cruz said he did not apologize for his reason for keeping the Senate over the weekend. He said he apologized that they had to stay, as in “I’m sorry you had to stay and miss your plans, BUT there was an important constitutional point.”

He also pointed out that those nominees were slated for Monday anyway, and as of YESTERDAY the Senate still wasn’t in session. He had nothing to do with those nominees being passed. That was happening anyway.

So, this author is wrong right out the gate. Too bad he cannot research

[Moorings]

Everybody Hates Ted?

Hey liberals, that is just racist!

[Moorings]

They started with the talking point that Ted made these poor babies work on a Saturday. Then they realized that didn't sound too good to the public. So they moved on to "Ted made all the nominees get approved." This too is a lie.

[acapesket]

Reagan was hated mostly by GOP-e Rino Establishment types. I live in the bastion of Liberalism surrounded by Lunatics and I never hear a word against Ronnie ! Unless it is a drooling leftist brain damaged Moonbat.

[Steamburg]

This gives another meaning to “everybody”. The list of slime varieties who fit in that column is pretty long, but leftards provides a pretty good umbrella.

I really respect and like the dude.

[nurse-rn]

Watched Cavuto today. He had Nicole Nickpour on and she said that a millennial fundraiser from Texas was all out for CRUZ. There are many Cruz folks out there,possibly more than the Republican heads realize. Go CRUZ GO.

[stanne]

He does not care. Good. Why should he?

His job is to defend the constitution not the majority not the polls not the chamber of commerce and not the GOP and it’s touted non existent base.