The WSJ needs to hire some competent fact-checkers.
Blaming Cruz for the failure of Republicans to reign in Obama is like blaming the one lit candle because the world is still dark.
McConnell has close ties at WSJ. He hates Cruz. They hate Cruz.
How can he win Senate votes against McConnell.
Cruz is a martyr and has in the end lost every battle. He’s proven a hypocrite on TPP and Iran, now finally flipped on H1B but still refuses to openly address amnesty. He’s been a loser from day one. He is also not very well liked and has only a small core of supporters, plus the big money donors that own him. Last I saw he was trailing in his home state of Texas. Not a promising record. That WSJ points this out is not unexpected. What is a bit is that people still want to defend him when he has nothing to show for his efforts and some of his positions are so offensive as to be disqualifying. I am embarrassed that I initially supported him and donated several hundred dollars to his campaign.
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H1-B expansion. Cruz supports it.
The Trade Bill. Cruz voted for it, apparently enthusiastically.
The Iran deal. Cruz voted to give Hussein essentially plenary power to negotiate it and to ratify it.
Because voters can rally around a president who's veto is overridden.
A senator whose bills are always getting defeated or vetoed is more likely to be seen as wasting people's time.
Presidents have a residual monarchical appeal with people that 1 out of 100 senators or 1 out of 435 congressmen doesn't.