You compare Cruz’s methods to LBJ’s as if that is a criticism. If Cruz is as effective as LBJ, he will be the most important conservative in the history of this nation since Alexander Hamilton
LBJ was the President of the United States who (probably) achieved more of his agenda than any other President before or since. He wanted civil rights, got it, and no one’s laid a hand on it for 50 years. He wanted Medicare — ditto. He appointed judges who have created an unbreakable trend to judicial imposition of whatever the liberal stance of the day may be. He wanted the welfare state — got it, lasted 30 years, and has done another 20 with minor changes. He wanted the war in Vietnam, got it, and despite it’s supposed unpopularity managed to have the 1968 election be fought among three pro-war candidates (Nixon, Humphrey and Wallace). That Nixon would win and then choose to forfeit the war was something Johnson couldn’t do anything about.
LBJ was a filthy crook through and through, from long before he even got to the senate. Read the Robert Caro biography to see what a load of conniving, thieving, murdering filth he was. He set the template for the Clintons and Obama.
Hillary? LBJ was a DISASTER. The Vietnam war crushed him so badly he wouldn’t run for reelection. A winner you say? The country was the big loser of his presidency.
BTTT, GREAT post