Thanks 2ndDivisionVet (but no thanks).
Dana Milbank Milbank In Drag
Posted on 04/20/2013 1:51:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Is there nobody who can tell Ted Cruz to shut up?
The young senator from Texas has been on the job for about 100 days, but he has already turned the Senate’s ancient seniority system upside down and is dominating his senior Republican colleagues. He’s speaking for them on immigration, guns and any other topic that tickles his fancy; Republican leaders are seething at being outshone yet are terrified of challenging him.
Consider his news conference this week to promote the Republican alternative to gun control. With Cruz on the stage in the Senate TV studio: the bill’s primary author, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, a 32-year Senate veteran and longtime chairman or ranking member of the finance and judiciary committees; Lindsey Graham of South Carolina (10 years in the Senate and eight in the House); and Dan Coats of Indiana (12 years in the Senate and eight in the House).
But Cruz took over the lectern and refused to relinquish it. He spoke 2,924 words for the cameras, more than Grassley (904), Graham (1,376) and Coats (360) — combined. Factoring in his dramatic pauses to convey sincerity and deep thought, Cruz’s dominance was even more lopsided. The others shifted uncomfortably and looked awkwardly around the room. At one point, Graham requested a chance to speak. “Can I?” he asked Cruz.
Cruz is 42, the same age Joe McCarthy was when he amassed power in the Senate with his allegations of communist infiltration....
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So far, so good—
It was never an impediment when both of the parents were American, despite the protestations of the FR Hair-Shirt-Club.
Milbank's obviously a racist.
If Cruz had said no, he'd have a wonderful opportunity to become a national hero.
It would be one of the few times I would find myself on the same side with them, since it would be one of the few times they would be right, should that actually happen.
With so many eligible people available, why choose someone who isn't eligible, unless you wanted to cause problems, to divide and to conquer?
Think of the good a Constitutionally aware Senate majority leader could do for America and how different that would be from how it is now.
That is why people put his name in the POTUS hat: to split the party and to take him out before he gets into a position where he could do amazing work for the nation, and for the world who depends upon a strong, Constitutional US.
I don't have a contrary agenda, so I guess it's easier for me to understand what was written, as it was written and the reasoning why. Moreover, the more I study it, the more convinced I am.
These last few decades, especially the last one, have shown me that The Republic is gone, the Constitution is just a piece of paper and that we are under new management, but are comfortable not acknowledging that fact now, but soon we will have to.
Doing a quick inventory of what makes a sovereign nation, I see that we have lost our borders, can't control our elections, have lost our currency and are watching our treasure being looted. Our media, most of the government and half of the "opposition" party are under the control of one political party and they have let absolute power do what absolute power does best, all sung in the key of the Chicago way.
So, hey, y'all just do whatever you want to. Nothing matters and what it if did? Our forefathers might have won the war and saved the world, but we've lost the country.
I stand with Senator Cruz.
ROTFLOL Well put!
Unsaid but you are correct that evolution is an ongoing process. We no longer ride a horse to deliver the postal pieces, take weeks or months to travel the country/oceans, visit outer space, replace worn out hearts, etc. Globalization is upon us whether we like it or not.
Things change and we have to adapt as best we can. I don’t have an agenda either and prefer your position but things are what they are and will be changing until the end of time.
One of these days someone when they want to confuse an issue or have a purpose will argue that phrases such as ‘mother earth’, ‘father time’, etc. have no meaning as to gender. Such it has been with an explicit part of the Constitution which specifys in one place only ‘natural born citizen’. As for me in my take of the Constitution this is a unique and specific part of the Constitution. As much as I admire Cruz for his politics to date I will not vote to take one nibble away from the historical background.
if you want to annex western canada, I could maybe get the albertan lads to agree, but we’d want carry rights, self defense rights, and property rights, and basically un-restrained freedom, under natural law. Otherwise that would be a long bloody war heh, they call us Texas of the north for no reason :P
JFK was more conservative than alot of today’s Republicans and almost all Democrats..
I love his passion but I wouldn’t want that particular label attached to him. Too many negative connotations. No offense.....
I voted for him hoping he would do exactly what he’s doing.
Too late. He’s already a hero to many conservatives (like me!!!) who now feel they hav a real advocate in office, and who is proud of his Tea Party affiliation.
Me too! :)
Yep, we dodged a bullet on that election. Dewhurst is KBH with pants.
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