The only ones who “blame” Cruz for the shutdown are the liberal media.
As far as I am concerned they could keep it shut down permanently!
LOL. A little better than yesterday’s, but he’s still worried about Senator Cruz.
At least today he placed the blame on the very weak Boehner and the unprincipled GOP-e.
OK, who are you and what have you done with Thomas Sowell?
Now we have no principles? Is this the latest meme from the left? I don’t think they’ll get away with that one.
Whoever you are, you’d better stop trying.
It is true that in this 2nd article, Sowell takes the establishment GOP to task a little bit. But it is also true that he again labels Cruz as self serving.
Apparently, Sowell has it in for Cruz. Part I warned of Obama's Hitler trajectory, but that provided the backdrop for an attack on Cruz.
Sowell must think that the GOP-E will not take the nation in a big government direction. If so, he is wrong. They might as well be liberals, and many of them already are.
Instead of attacking those Republicans, who do not have the guts or sense to understand that some of their financial backers are off on an irrational or cowardly tangent, we should focus on those who mislead the weak-spirited among us.
This avoids the one valid point that Dr. Sowell comes back to.
Put another way: Could we be any worse off if the $300,000,000, the less than principled Karl Rove raised in 2012, had simply remained in the donors' pockets? Any worse off?
William Flax
Sowell must have read all the comments and posts about his first part yesterday and decided to try and backtrack a bit.
Not in all cases. Some are so willing to give a reach across to the Democrats that it might be better to let the Dems have the seat for six years and then get it back. I'm looking at your McCain and Graham. Fortunately in Graham's case I think we'll still keep the seat if he can be knocked out in the primary or runoff.
If the GOP senate leaders liked Cruz, I would probably like Cruz less.
If there is a Republican win in November, Cruz's clear identification and articulation of principles underlying our Constitution, and the "spirit of 1776" which he displayed in putting them out there, will be a major cause of that victory!
Make no mistake, the droll, unimaginative, compromising spirit of the "old order" among Republicans in both the House and Senate will not convince Americans, especially young Americans, that the Republican Party will do anything different than what it has been doing.
We now need men of courage, not "politicians," but statesmen who love liberty and will speak out on its behalf, so that future generations may look back and see that in the Year 2014, someone stood up to protect the Constitution, not their own and their Party's popularity!
One signer of the Declaration of Independence spoke eloquently about his observations of his fellow signers of that remarkable document of freedom.
| Ellery joined the Whig party, and became active in politics. He had inherited some money from his father, and he took this opportunity to study law. His name appears as a member of the General Assembly in the year of the Stamp Act repeal. He is now a leading member of the Sons of Liberty in Newport. The year is 1766. He has been a widower with six children for two years. On June 28, 1767, he marries for the second time. His second wife is a distant cousin, Abigail Carey, with whom he has ten children. | ||||||||||||
When the delegates to the Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia in March 1776, Samuel Ward, Ellery's old friend, died of smallpox. Ellery was the choice to succeed him. As the signers gathered to affix their signatures to the Declaration, it was said that Ellery stood where he could watch their expressions. Of the 56 signers, nine died of wounds or hardships during the war, five were captured, brutally treated and imprisoned, several lost wives and sons, one lost his thirteen children, two wives were brutally treated, and twelve had their homes burned. William Ellery's property was burned while the British occupied Newport. He did, however, return after the war, and apparently recovered financially. He lived nearly 93 years, dying on February 15, 1820. He was interred in the Coggeshall Cemetery at the corner of Victoria and Coggeshall Avenue in Newport. Later, he was given a tomb in the Common Burying Ground on Farewell Street. |
Ellery is quoted elsewhere concerning the bravery he observed on the face of every single man who signed that revolutionary document, knowing that each might die for the action he was taking on behalf of liberty.
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There is simply no way to tell if a politician is self-serving or trying to serve a noble purpose. Having been burned by many before, I’d lean toward self serving.
However, I really don’t care what motivates a politician so long as they are attempting to support the kind of government I desire.
So, it is irrelevant whether Cruz is self-serving.
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Failed premise right there.
Cruz IS justified in a big way. The current state of affairs and recent events completely withstanding demonstrate the absolute failure, nay, non existence, of any type of effective leadership or plan of action of and by the GOP, that they are complicit with the sad state of affairs.
If every member of the GOP had the same fighting spirit, fearless political will and conservative principles as Ted Cruz they could really turn this unconstitutional Fedzilla monster away and halt this lawless administration in their tracks.
It's called accountability and the checks are missing and the balances went with it.
The business as usual crowd is why the GOP is FUBAR and Sowell clearly one of them.
Not one of us as portrayed.
He let the mask slip off yesterday and even today fumbled with it.
Country clubber.
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
But his part II makes no sense at all. He seems to have it in for Cruz for taking a principled stand but then criticizes the GOP for not taking a principled stand.
He thinks he can have it both ways.
He is being excoriated over this second part just as he was the first part. I don't know if he is just going to drop the subject, or if we will see some more backtracking tomorrow in Part III followed by Part IV and Part V.
I am sorely disappointed in Mr. Sowell's careless articles over the last 2 days. Whatever point he was trying to make has been lost in the fog of the contradictory statements he has made in both articles.
I am glad to see Levin explain this. So many of us do not understand how Hitler took over.
http://www.redstate.com/diary/aglanon/2014/02/20/thomas-sowell-makes-case-ted-cruz/
