Ted Cruz bullied Republicans for years. Now they’re standing up to him. [Ha! Ha! Ha!]

Washington Post ^ | July 28 at 4:50 PM | Dana Milbank

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Who’s afraid of big, bad Ted Cruz?

Not Lamar Alexander. The Tennessee Republican went on the Senate floor to accuse his fellow Republican of proposing actions that would “render ourselves lawless” and cause “chaos.” Alexander reminded the Texan that the Senate “requires restraint and goodwill.”

Dana Milbank writes about political theater in the nation’s capital. He joined the Post as a political reporter in 2000. View Archive

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Not John Cornyn. The senior senator from Texas said that Cruz’s prescription would be a “terrible mistake” and that if his fellow Texas Republican were making a valid point, “you would find other voices joining that of the junior senator, but I hear no one.”

And certainly not Orrin Hatch. The Utah Republican and Senate president pro tempore said on the Senate floor, in remarks prompted by Cruz, that “squabbling and sanctimony” won’t be tolerated.

“The Senate floor has too often become a forum for partisan messaging,” the veteran legislator inveighed. “It has been misused as a tool to advance personal ambitions, a venue to promote political campaigns and even a vehicle to enhance fundraising efforts” — all of which Cruz has done. “Most egregiously, Mr. President, the Senate floor has even become a place where senators have singled out colleagues by name to attack them in personal terms.”

Finally, Senate Republicans are standing up to the bully who terrorized them the past two and a half years — and they’re finding out he isn’t so tough, after all. After Cruz on the Senate floor Friday called his fellow Republican, Senate Majority Leader Mitch

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"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

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[Louis Foxwell]

Ah! The rats are squealing with fear. Their dignity is assaulted. Poor babies.

[txrefugee]

For years? He was elected two years ago. Milbank is a fool..

[2ndDivisionVet]

Is there a bigger pussy (other than Linda) in the Beltway than Dana?

[WENDLE]

It is now open warfare. Figure out which side you are on and get prepared.

[PROCON]

Oh Ted, you big bully.....sheesh...

Heh-heh, it's fun watching him get under their skins.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Maybe his supreme court wins “terrorized” them?

[clearcarbon]

"Ted Cruz bullied Republicans for years. "

Years?

[doorgunner69]

Is that metrosexual the bed wetting Milbank? All this time I though Dana was a female the way it wailed and cryed.......

[TurboZamboni]

“In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” - George Orwell

I guess Cruz is a revolutionary.

[Shadow44]

Honestly I think anymore these articles are just templates that said “journalists” fill in the appropriate blanks.

[dfwgator]

"YOU BRUTE! YOU BRUTE! YOU VICIOUS BRUTE!"

[bray]

A boy named Sue.

Pray America is waking

[Steely Tom]

Whenever a liberal gets caught with no way to explain away obvious but very inconvenient facts, the pull this “lets invert the cause-effect relationship and see if no one will notice” ploy.

[justa-hairyape]

The good ole boy network has never had to deal with a real maverick before.

[Spruce]

Flak is starting to get heavy...

[Islander2]

[Is there a bigger pussy (other than Linda) in the Beltway than Dana?]

No, I think Diana is the largest snatch in the crotch of the beltway.

[DoughtyOne]

Not making a comment about Cruz, but I wish there had been a hell of a lot more bullying, for real.

This is just silly, Cruz calling McGoner on his treachery and Lindsey Graham admitting McGoner did lie.

Too rich!!!