Posted on 02/21/2014 1:15:05 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas) may be the brightest light to adorn the Republican party in many years. He knows how to make the case for conservative ideas, pointing, for example, to the contrasting fates of Detroit and Houston to illustrate the superiority of conservative policies. So it’s particularly galling to see that rather than train his fire at Obama and the liberal machine that cocoons him, Cruz has become a one-man wrecking ball against Republicans. His most recent foray into sabotaging his colleagues concerned the debt-limit increase.
Because Speaker Boehner sent over a “clean” debt-limit bill, Republican senators had decided to let it pass with only Democratic votes. Republicans would not be endorsing the Democrats’ spending priorities, but neither would they be opening themselves to the accusation of flirting with national default. With Obama’s political fortunes sinking and several “red state” Democratic senators in jeopardy, Republicans have a good chance to retake the Senate in November — unless they fall into civil war....
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Is Kathleen Parker on vacation?
And to think, all Cruz is doing is trying to get GOP to fight. You’d think he was scalding a cat the way they are caterwauling.
FTA.... She brings up some good talking points:
Republicans have a good chance to retake the Senate in November — unless they fall into civil war.
Retaking the Senate won’t mean the repeal of Obamacare, but it will thwart the president in significant ways. A united Republican Congress can pass legislation forcing vetoes. Bills like those alleviating the effects of drought in California, endorsing fracking on federally owned land, permitting Americans to keep their doctors, opposing lifting sanctions on Iran, cutting the bloated budget, and other matters would land on Obama’s desk instead of moldering in Harry Reid’s bottom drawer. Presidential vetoes would underscore the extremism of the president and his party. A Republican Senate would also inhibit the president from appointing ultra-leftists (like Debo Adegbile) to administration posts requiring confirmation. Finally, should any member of the Supreme Court die or resign in the final two years of an Obama presidency, a Republican Senate would force the president to choose a somewhat less objectionable nominee.
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The problem is.... What damn good have the Repubs done as a minority in the Senate, and what makes anyone think a Repub senate majority would suck even less?
All these anti-Cruzers seem to be harping on is Ted is gonna cost us the senate majority. First of all; thats BS.
Second? Even if its true, I can live with that. Can you imagine Cornyn, McCain, Mitchell and other limp-wads as the majority? I ask you. What would be that different?
IMO, Cruz is a Hero to true conservatives, because not only does he KNOW, but he is calling out those “establishment” elites, who are destroying the Republican brand. It is not Ted Cruz who is hurting the Republican party, it is the lying frauds, pretending to be something they are not, who are.
Those in the Republican party, that are attacking Cruz, are the ones who needs to be sent packing.
Republicans have a good chance to retake the Senate in November — unless they fall into civil war....
TEA voters aren’t going to war with the GOPe, we’re just pushing them off the cliff, never to be fought with or heard from again.
A-Holes at National review. Bill Buckley must be doing 360s.
Senator Cruz has many gifts. He’s a skilled rhetorical marksman (if no tactician), but by firing at his own side, he may be doing more damage to the Republican party than any Democrat has done.Lets hope so, Mona old gal. Lets hope so.
The only reason that could happen is they are too stupid/duplicitous enough to not be able to explain the truth - oh, wait, that would mean going against Rove's insistence that they never say anything bad about Democrats...
I say good! The lefty, no morals and backbone people need to be cleaned from the pub party. they do that and I may return to them.
Hey Mona Charen,
Tell me again how the government was shrank from 2000 to 2006 and how the border was secured and government spending and social programs were shrunk?
Signed GraceG
That’s because the Repub Party isn’t conservative.
Yo! Ted! You are taking a lot of flak. Must be over the target.
Just sayin’
Yep. The “damage to the GOP” has already been done by PUSSIES like Boehner, McConnell, McCain, Graham, Alexander, Corker, Maine bimbo, et al.
Shove it Mona.
I think this and the Sowell article are being misunderstood.
As Reagan said Republicans shouldn’t be criticizing Republicans in public. I know the litany of thing that McCain, Graham and Boehner have said, done and should have done, but Cruz would be more effective if he could work behind the scenes to get them to move closer to our positions.
This is really a discussion of tactics. Yes, sometimes you need to go public, but that should be done after the private approach has failed.
I dunno about that.. why don’t you call Cornyn’s office and ask his staff if the Honorable Cornyn is still in fetal position? (That actually would be a funny Q to ask them!)
And this is just the first race of the TEA wave.
Conservatives have been targeted in a viscous back stabbing campaign since the very day after Romney lost. Now this GOPe lightweight has the gal to call out Cruz?
I am seeing a real campaign to shame conservatives into getting us back on the plantation for the midterms. Disgusting. Just in the last week we have had this columnist, Coulter and Sowell on this theme. Too bad the GOPe much prefers to go after conservatives and couldn’t attack the Dims in a similar coordinated manner.
It was Mitch McConnell who went to war with the TEA Party
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