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I respect Dr Sowell's opinion a great deal, but I must defer here, I think he's missing the larger event.

The truth about the shutdown in Oct is being ignored or swept under the rug. What Cruz and the GOP were holding out for, a delay in the implementation of ocare, is in fact what is happening, albeit piece meal and in an unconstitutional, arbitrary fashion.

Cruz' position would have been cleaner, fairer, and constitutional.

That Cruz is showing up the GOP "leadership" to be nothing but lapdogs is not something we didn't already recognize and this vacuum can be identified as one source of the Tea Party.

Thank God someone had the spine to step away from the table and say "This is B3llsh!t".

That Cruz is showing up the GOP "leadership" to be nothing but lapdogs is not something we didn't already recognize and this vacuum can be identified as one source of the Tea Party.

Ted Cruz on the Rush Limbaugh program following his 0bamacare filibuster last year ...

I will tell you the single biggest surprise in arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here. I mean, we don’t even talk about how to win a fight. There’s no discussion. We talk about, “Hey, let’s get a show vote so we can go tell our constituents we’re doing something.” But I promise you, Rush, if you had to sit through one Senate lunch, you’d be in therapy for a month.

And Washington, look, in both parties you’ve got entrenched politicians who have barely veiled contempt for the American people. I mean they think their voters are gullible rubes, and, you know, you give them a little show vote, you tell ‘em, “Hey, I’m totally with you,” then they go to Washington and they don’t actually do what they say.

Sowell seems to have a point here, that the constitutional ideals are being turned to mincemeat.

This is one more step in a process that both Democrats and Republicans have had their fingers deep into. To debate it at the level of party is simply to lose.

And God well knows it. God would rather we forget for a moment what a mincemeat the US constitution has become, and look at what a mincemeat we have made out of His own will, especially as framed in the gospel.

That’s the only thing that is going to reframe sanity for us. A second shooting-war American Revolution is not in any reasonable person’s cards (and even the first one had the happy circumstance of a New World full of various fervent Christian denominations who had come to it to get away from the fuddy duddy opposition of the Old World).

Sowell is a pretty good secular philosopher. But I think he needs some “cruz” control too. As in the Cross of Christ. And we can’t force it on him. He’ll have to accept it himself.