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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
Posted on 07/28/2015 8:40:14 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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.
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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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To: All
I didn’t know that the WaPo published satire. They trying to take over from The Onion?
To: SoConPubbie
They’re just starting to realize Trump is the show monkey and Cruz is the strongman.
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posted on
07/28/2015 9:01:52 PM PDT
by
Thorliveshere
(Minnesota Survivor)
To: SoConPubbie; INVAR; dp0622; left that other site; GregoTX; SgtHooper; Whenifhow; Loud Mime; ...
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posted on
07/28/2015 9:02:51 PM PDT
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: SoConPubbie
Miltbank sounds like he’s having a “flashback” to the 60s.
To: Thorliveshere
Do you realize how much that sounds like the Palestinian language when talking about Jews?
Good grief.
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posted on
07/28/2015 9:04:12 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Now remember honey, if you can't remember your name, just tell the police JEB. John Ellis "Jeb" Bush)
To: SoConPubbie
To Leftists such as the fragile Dana-boy, the story is more about the audacity of someone calling out a liar than it is about a political leader lying publicly. Simple to understand, really: Truth is not a value to the Left.
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posted on
07/28/2015 9:07:07 PM PDT
by
glennaro
To: SoConPubbie
"...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..." But enough about McCain.
To the GOPe watch out for the Ted Offensive, you are not collateral damage, you are the target.
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posted on
07/28/2015 9:09:53 PM PDT
by
DaveyB
(Live free or die!)
To: TurboZamboni
“Judge a man by the quality of his enemies.”
In this case, it’s Pajama Boy Milbank.
CRUZ or lose in 2016!
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posted on
07/28/2015 9:13:09 PM PDT
by
elcid1970
("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
To: SoConPubbie
How exactly does a newly-minted, still-wet-behind-the-ears, junior upstart Senator “bully” some crusty, ancient, entrenched, Establishment wimps who only know how to push around conservatives, like the newly-minted, still-wet-behind-the-ears, junior upstart Senator from Texas but who fold like lawn chairs when against DemocRATs, junior or senior?
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posted on
07/28/2015 9:14:47 PM PDT
by
Sister_T
(Atttaaaaccckkkkkk Waaaattttcccchhhhh! https://youtu.be/-XYKRokgX00)
To: SoConPubbie
Republicans may think they’re standing up to TED CRUZ, but CRUZ has already won the battle for standing for what is right. John Quincy Adams must be smiling down on him.
“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.” - John Quincy Adams
To: SoConPubbie
This writer has it dead wrong. I see all the tools of a cult. Intimidation is obvious.
Pretty evil attempts to make Ted Cruz feel isolated and unlinked.
This is not grade school, but these are games right out of the grade school playbook.
There was a poll on here earlier which showed Ted Cruz with 97% support for nailing McConnell on lying. The more they persecute him, the greater his support base, and the more hate-posts on their Facebook pages. Which obviously means nothing to them....
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posted on
07/28/2015 9:31:30 PM PDT
by
MarMema
(Run Ted Run)
To: All
Cruz is the best candidate IMO.
Trump is a nice Summer distraction for many, but at the end of the day voters will come to their senses.
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posted on
07/28/2015 9:36:22 PM PDT
by
Rodney Dangerfield
(I stopped drinking the Trump Kool-Aid July 25th and will support Ted Cruz for POTUS)
To: stars & stripes forever
I’m going to borrow that quote.
Thx!
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posted on
07/28/2015 9:36:22 PM PDT
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: MarMema
There was a poll on here earlier which showed Ted Cruz with 97% support for nailing McConnell on lying. And it has now been independently verified that it was a lie.
A press release by Lindsey Graham, of all people, confirmed the fact at the time the deal was made.
"There is no deal. There is no deal. There is no deal." counts as three fibs.
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posted on
07/28/2015 9:37:35 PM PDT
by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
To: okie01
What makes you say “of all people”?
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posted on
07/28/2015 9:51:29 PM PDT
by
MarMema
(Run Ted Run)
To: SoConPubbie
How is he going to get them to work with him as President? They won’t. They will ignore him as they do Obama. It would be interesting to see Cruz function as President and if it wasn’t crucial for our country, I’d want to see it because it will be quite a balancing act for Cruz to work with those that are against him in our party.
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posted on
07/28/2015 10:01:13 PM PDT
by
napscoordinator
(Walker for President 2016. The only candidate with actual real RESULTS!!!!! The rest...talkers!)
To: SoConPubbie
Oh brother! If anyone is NOT a bully, it is Ted.
Zero is a bully with his pen and his words, but he says them oh so eerily calmly, with an overdose of smugness thrown in. That doesn’t change the rudeness of his words and actions.
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posted on
07/28/2015 10:03:41 PM PDT
by
The Ghost of FReepers Past
(Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
To: SoConPubbie
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, con“you would find other voices joining that of the junior senator, but I hear no one.” Cornhole needs to pull his head out of his arse and listen to the voices of the people back home in Texas. He is a RINO and for lack of a strong opponent and without some democratic cross-over voters would have been primaried out last time. Now that he is elected and safely back in Washington, he doesn't have time to listen to any Texans with conservative viewpoints. Cornyn is a butt-kisser and does whatever the Washington establishment tells him to do. He should be working with Cruz, not against him.
Meanwhile Cruz is doing what we elected and sent him to Washington to do. He is representing the conservative viewpoints of the Texas majority that elected him. Cruz is rocking the boat and making waves and we are loving it. Cruz is a real leader, not the go along, get along, one party politician. He and others like him are called "political terrorists", full of hate and racism or whatever, for being conservatives.
The natives (Washington liberals) are becoming restless as they see Hillary's hopes fading into the sunset. They have no Trumps or Cruzs. In the meantime, they must destroy anyone who would lead the opposition and challenge the status quo. All that, while they seek to find someone within their ranks who has any leadership ability at all.
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posted on
07/28/2015 10:36:53 PM PDT
by
Texicanus
(Texas, it's like a whole 'nother country.)
To: SoConPubbie
Senators need to get over themselves. They are elected to represent us. Not to pretend that their party’s leaders are “distinguished colleagues” who are telling the truth.
To: SoConPubbie
Ted Cruz bullied Republicans for years.
That's too funny. What does he have to show for it? Nothing.
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posted on
07/28/2015 11:34:39 PM PDT
by
lewislynn
( Hillary = Obama in a pantsuit)
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