Posted on 02/20/2014 10:32:23 PM PST by P-Marlowe
Yet even the great Thomas Sowell and our friends at the WSJ are going after Senator Cruz, the latter labeling Cruz as “The Minority Maker” and tagging him as the leader of a “rump kamikaze caucus.” Notably, in suggesting that Senator Cruz is leading the GOP to minority status, the paper wrote:
We’re all for holding politicians accountable with votes on substantive issues, but Mr. Cruz knew he couldn’t stop a debt increase the House had already passed.
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Ronald Reagan is somewhere shaking his head. He knew a “rump kamikaze caucus” when he saw one. He described them as the “fraternal order” Republicans. And he knew that this kind of establishment politics is exactly what had made the GOP a minority — and kept it there until he came along.
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Simply put, Ted Cruz — like Ronald Reagan before him — understands what it takes to make a majority. And he’s doing it. Over the vociferous objections of the same kind of people who kept warning Republicans that if they listened to Ronald Reagan they would get clobbered. Which is exactly why Ted Cruz is being greeted as a hero.
Ted Cruz is in the process of making a new Reagan Revolution, the Cruz Majority. On second thought, maybe he does he needs a food taster when he dines with GOP leadership.
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Amen.
Perhaps one way to think about it is this.
He promised Texas he would fight for us, wherever he goes. In the SEnate, that means fighting with every tool in the box. And in the past, that meant on big issues, you could filibuster and procedurally require them to get 60 votes.
He promised he would fight, and did so very publicly.
So when the time came, what did he do?
He fought.
And yet again, he fought and lost, because not enough Republicans would stand with him. But he did exactly what he said he would do.
Now the GOP’ers like Cornball are upset because they look bad for blocking his filibuster.
But Cruz said all along, this is what he is going to do. For him to do otherwise would be for him to fail to do what he promised us he would do.
The bad consequences are something Cornyn will have to deal with for himself.
I voted for Stockman a few days ago, incidentally.....
Outstanding! Thank you!
I'm glad someone is taking Sowell to task, it's really disconcerting that he's joined the Cruz attack machine.
You just knocked it out of the park with that statement! I have been trying to tell that to GOPe types I know. They won't listen and make excuses,like nobody could have beaten Obama.
When I try to tell them that Obama got 8 MILLION less votes in 2012 than 2008 they talk over me to keep me from finishing my statement.
The GOP leadership can’t control Cruz so they have to try to destroy him. They even have poor old Thomas Sowell in on the deal.
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Ulcer Party
Michael Berry, Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. Vociferously!
I don't any more. It's not just disagreeing with him on this issue, it's that he's part of a concentrated no-holds-barred attack to try to stop Ted Cruz's popularity.
Anyone who doesn't yet understand that we can't work with the backstabbers who voted with the democrats to defeat constitutional conservative issues is not our friend.
It's not the same country it was back then and what it takes to make a majority may not be the same thing.
Plus, the comparison's a little forced. Nixon and Bush also vetoed legislation that the Democrats passed when the Democrats were in the majority in Congress. It's what presidents do when the other party controls the Congress. Maybe Cruz is the new Nixon or the new Bush.
So should we just give up or should we capitulate?
What is your strategy?
I don't have one yet. Just trying to say that Lord overestimates just how far Cruz's strategy will take him and overplays the Reagan analogy.
There not a lot of time left. I would suggest you find someone with a strategy and get behind him.
Right now Cruz has a strategy, which is to attack the democrats rather than capitulate to them. Everyone else seems to think its not a winning strategy, but their idea of winning means that we lose the war before the first shot is fired.
Until someone else comes along with a better strategy then Cruz, then I've got his back.
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