Posted on 02/18/2014 12:32:13 PM PST by jazusamo
Freshman Senator Ted Cruz says many things that need to be said and says them well. Moreover, some of these things are what many, if not most, Americans believe wholeheartedly. Yet we need to remember that the same was true of another freshman Senator, just a relatively few years ago, who parlayed his ability to say things that resonated with the voters into two terms in the White House. Who would disagree that if you want your doctor, you should be able to keep your doctor? Who would disagree with the idea of a more transparent administration in Washington, or a President of the United States being a uniter instead of a divider?
There are many things like this that freshman Senator Barack Obama said that the overwhelming majority of Americans — whether liberal or conservative — would agree with. The only problem is that what he has actually done as President has repeatedly turned out to be the direct opposite of what he said as a candidate.
Senator Ted Cruz has not yet reached the point where he can make policy, rather than just make political trouble. But there are already disquieting signs that he is looking out for Ted Cruz — even if that sets back the causes he claims to be serving.
Those causes are not being served when Senator Cruz undermines the election chances of the only political party that has any chance of undoing the disasters that Barack Obama has already inflicted on the nation — and forestalling new disasters that are visible on the horizon.
ObamaCare is not just an issue about money or even an issue about something as important as medical care. ObamaCare represents a quantum leap in the power of the federal government over the private lives of individual Americans.
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Americans know a true leader when they see one and you know what: I am seeing one in TED CRUZ! Republican leadership HAS FAILED - NOW IS THE TIME TO KICK OUT THE OLD PARTY LEADERS and install new stronger conservatives! I’m tired of BENDING over to kiss the liberal asses of Washington elistists!
I rarely disagre with Mr. Sowell, however this is one case where he is wrong.
Agreed. He’s criticizing principle. Cruz realizes that staggering debt and Obamacare are in reality existential crises.
The Republican senators who have lied to their constituents to get elected are the ones who are splitting the GOP. Does the great Dr. Sowell think that it is only b/c of Cruz that we oppose “clean” debt ceiling increases or pork barrel budget deals? NO, he is standing up for us? There is nothing noble about going along with evil to get along. What benefit to anyone would it be if more nominally GOP senators like McCains and Specters are elected? Bob
SoCon, Sowell is talking about splitting “the opposition” in general to Obama and communist dictatorship. He certainly has a valid point there, do you think it will be good in the next elections to have two candidates opposing each democrat, or to have the opposition fighting among themselves so that democrats win?
I’m not a big time Romney supporter but I sure as hell wish he had won. Further, I am a Tea Party supporter and everything I have written is defending the Tea Party against the GOP and even against Thomas Sowell. I was shocked to see this article by Sowell.
I am also a big time Ted Cruz supporter.
Et tu, Mr. Sowell?
My apologies if I mis-represented you.
I have no sympathy for Myth Romney supporters, none.
ping to me
Sowell is dead wrong on this one.
I think the Cruz issue is a sideshow compared to Sowell warning that the USA is being transformed into a tyranny similar to Nazi Germany. That thermonuclear warning should be the headline or title.
Excellent post and excellent graphic.
"ObamaCare is not just an issue about money or even an issue about something as important as medical care. ObamaCare represents a quantum leap in the power of the federal government over the private lives of individual Americans."
Dr Sowell is correct so often that I find myself trying to see how this latest assertion regarding the Cruz effect is correct, though perhaps nuanced.
I worked under the CETA program for three years in high school and I worked pretty hard, too, picking up trash, clearing brush, and other menial jobs.
In the case of Cruz, you have accomplishments on record that you simply didn’t have for Obama.
First, he was the Solicitor General of the nation’s second largest state, Texas, for 5 YEARS.
Second, he was also a deputy US attorney general.
Third, he was law clerk for Chief Justice William Rehnquist.
He was an honor graduate of both Princeton University and Harvard Law School where he was founding editor of the Hispanic Harvard Law Review.
He has served on the Federal Trade Commission, and has time in private practice, during which time he was counsel for a case involving future Speaker of the House John Boehner..
For ALL of the above he has a paper trail and record attesting to his credentials, unlike some politicians with whom we are familiar.
Sowell is probably thinks Cruz is too young. I wish he’d just say that. Cruz is 43-44, so he’d be 46-47 if he won the presidency.
John Kennedy was 43.
I stand (sit!) with Cruz!!!
Hold your ground! Hold your ground!
Sons of Patriots, of these United States, my brothers,
I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me.
A day may come when the courage of men fails,
when we forsake our friends
and break all bonds of fellowship,
but it is not this day.
An hour of wolves and shattered shields,
when the age of men comes crashing down,
but it is not this day!
This day we fight!!
By all that you hold dear on this good Earth,
I bid you stand, Men of the West!!!
"In the German elections of 1932, the Nazi party received 37 percent of the vote. They became part of a democratically elected coalition government, in which Hitler became chancellor. Only step by step did the Nazis dismantle democratic freedoms and turn the country into a complete dictatorship.
"The political majority could have united to stop Hitler from becoming a dictator. But they did not unite. They fought each other over their differences. Some figured that they would take over after the Nazis were discredited and defeated.
"Many who plotted this clever strategy died in Nazi concentration camps. Unfortunately, so did millions of others. What such clever strategies overlook is that there can be a point of no return. We may be close to that point of no return, not only with ObamaCare, but also with the larger erosion of personal freedom, of which ObamaCare is just the most visible part."
For most of Bush’s presidency he had a GOP House AND Senate yet he wasted it by not pushing for more conservative legislation. Instead he expanded Medicare, one of the biggest money pits in the budget.
bttt
Thank you so much.
Credit goes to Breibart’s folks, but I think the writer spoke for all of us.
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