We have plenty of ‘process’ guys. Their names are McConnell. Boehner, et al.
Reagan wasn’t a technocrat. He had a vision and principles and he delegated.
We aren’t looking for an engineer. We want an architect.
/johnny
When the inevitable crash comes, everyone will know that Sen. Cruz was right and should have been heeded, just as even the idiot in the White House has now adopted Sen. Cruz’s call of last September to delay the ObamaCare disaster.
The GOPe does not have enough millionaires who are fixated on taxes to win elections.
Whether this is true or not, it does appear that way to me also, which is why I think WI Governor Walker is Presidential material.
The GOPe continues its assault on the one man in Washington who actually appears to know how to advance a conservative revolution and MOST IMPORTANTLY is actually walking the walk. His actions are responsible for many RINOs being forced to expose themselves and his actions just might KILL AMNESTY this critical year.
I disagree completely with this editorial. What Cruz is doing is essential, in that he is confronting the Republican leadership, and “holding their feet to the fire”, to force them to either support conservatism or support leftism.
And when nobody did this, they *invariably* horse traded with leftists, giving them what *they* wanted, but giving conservatives *nothing*.
EVEN WHEN THEY WERE IN THE MAJORITY WITH A REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT.
So enough of their foolishness. Cruz has backed them into the corner, so they no longer have excuses for their duplicity. And they are going to be punished for it at the polls.
Even their deep pockets Chamber of Commerce buddies, while they can pour money into their campaigns, they cannot buy voters who know they are rotten, and doing un-American things. Not just betraying conservatives, but betraying their country.
And for what? So that internationalist corporations can make billions at the expense of America and Americans? So that internationalist corporations can import “half-illegal” workers who will work at minimum wage with no other benefits, UNLESS those benefits are paid for by the taxpayers, like with Obamacare?
Conservatives are righteously outraged at such behavior. And only because of the actions of Senator Cruz and a few others, is the smog the RINO scoundrels cower behind being wafted away, and they are being seen in their nakedness.
With each and every election now, more and more of the RINOs are being culled from the herd and bitterly sent out to pasture, where far too often the openly embrace leftism, something they supported for years while pretending to be conservatives.
All too soon, enough of these louts will be deposed that people like Senator Cruz will take control of the party, and start to reverse more than a hundred years of progressive perfidy and failure.
Funny. I didn’t see plan from Hunter either. C’mon, Derek. Let’s hear it.
An expenditure of energy to change the current control of the treacherously tyrannical despot dingy harry Reid is a waste.
There is no need to attempt positive change. Better to outline and raise the issues than to waste time failing to actually make the change.
The day for the power to shift and the change to be real is coming.
Cruz is acting on principle, indeed. The more he makes stands the more he differentiates himself from the rest, both Dem and Repub. It is when the Repubs approach and take the majority that this differentiation will (should) be profound. He is setting himself up as the de facto leader.
Whatta IDIOT!
We have to root out the RINOs—and they are good at camouflage.
This helps us identify those we MUST GET RID OF!
Otherwise, its “amnesty” and the country is done for.
LMAO. Gee, it's CRUZ who doesn't realize this?!?! Is this guy kidding? We have been led by gutless wonders who do nothing but concede on the promise of "future discussions about XYZ." But gee, Mr. Hunter, tell me again how it's CRUZ (and by extension, of course you mean conservatives) are too stupid to realize Dems don't negotiate.
Senators and Reps. really can’t do much.....except talk and try to throw up roadblocks......he’s doing as good as he can possibly do.
Interesting article, but not entirely fair.
Cruz seems to be good at communicating his thoughts and principles, something that a whole lot on the right are not good at. Sure, digging into archaic policies and bills from the past won’t win many outsiders over, but I think it’s unfair for the author to criticize Cruz when it seems obvious he knew who his audience was and that’s who he was speaking to. Secondly, the “then what” of the shutdown was to get people to sit up and take notice of what was happening/about to happen. I think he was immensely successful there. Forcing a cloture vote on this latest spending bill? Great move. Now senators are on the record and can’t hide behind procedure.
I’m not sure what the author is wanting Cruz to do. Come out with a 10-point plan? A new Contract With America? That may not be his best use. He’s good at shining a light in the dark spots. Not everyone is meant to be the visionary of the future.
An excellent point.
Why not just leave everything alone ?
Why not just stop legislating for a couple of years ?
Why not go on vacation for six months ?
Why reform Anything that, if operated by operators that knew how to operate, WOULD operate, if not perfectly, very well ?
We pretty much have all the laws, rules and regulations we need to operate as a strong and sovereign nation ... WHY are people obsessed with gunking that all up ?
Well, where is the McConnell/Boehner plan for opposing Obama’s policies? That plan, as best I can tell, is to wait until they have a Senate majority, which may be never, & go along to get along in the House.
What's the point of having another party if one kowtows to the other? IIRC, the Rats have been very effective when in the minority. Rats vote in lockstep with their leadership.
Pubs have a clear majority in the House. They control the Federal purse. They control House committees that could be doing some serious investigation of Obama & Co., yet they act as lapdogs of the Senate.
Could it be the poor House leadership? Imagine Ted Cruz as Speaker of the House. Things would be different, very different, IMO.
This writer, in spite of droning on for 1,400+ words, manages to either miss or ignore the utter castration and/or prostitution of the vast majority in Congress claiming to be from 'the right'.
The appeal of Cruz is that he has so far managed to maintain some testicular integrity, and more than anything we need 200 more like him.
A critical mass of voters will NOT line up behind an outfit that, while purporting to represent the opposition, march lockstep into every battle with white flags proudly waving.
We need unapologetic warriors, not appeasing whiners.
No offense Derek. I assume since you've made it to the Townhall pages, you've mostly got your act together. But the above sentence you wrote pretty much tells me you have twangs of RINOism peppered with tired old RINO dogma about what the impact of intense conservative discontent fueling some politicians' actions as being futile.
Frankly, I'd describe Cruz's Senatorial future representing Texas as a pretty long-term job unless your buddies in Democrat and RINO-ville have him killed or photoshopped in bed with a sheep, little boy or a dead hooker.
As for the rest of your article, I stopped right here.