Posted on 12/08/2014 10:31:37 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In the minority, Republicans did not have responsibility for governance. However, with a few defections, as we saw in the 2013 shutdown, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) could start a rumpus, delay business, get attention and decry his fellow Republicans’ weakness when his own plots blew up. Come January, he will have a new challenge: remaining relevant.
Cruz will not be the most hawkish Republican, even among the potential GOP presidential candidates. Recall that he favored changes to the National Security Agency that would have decimated the program and a “reform” in military investigations of sexual assault claims that would have undermined the chain of command. He also opposed enforcement of the red line in Syria and now joins liberal Democrats in the fantasy that an airpower-only strategy can destroy the Islamic State.
Cruz will not be the leader of the freshmen. These are strong, pro-military legislators who owe him nothing politically and want, as Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said, to make a difference, not make a point. We already see Sen.-elect Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) leading, first on a joint letter excoriating the administration’s Iran policy, and once again when he defended the failed rescue attempt to free hostage Luke Somers in Yemen (“[A]ny time we know where an American’s being held and we have a chance to rescue that American, I think our default position should be we go get our fellow citizens”).
Cruz will not be a leader on major legislation, since he has not championed and passed controversial, complex bills....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin Endorses Rick Perry.
http://www.vdare.com/articles/washington-posts-jennifer-rubin-endorses-rick-perry-hes-more-dangerous-than-obama
Jennifer has a pretty severe relevance problem herself.
This person still pretends to be some sort of conservative or what
Rubin was born in the New Jersey suburbs of Philadelphia, and moved with her family as a child to California in 1968.[2] She attended college and law school at the University of California, Berkeley. Before moving into opinion writing, Rubin was a labor and employment lawyer in Los Angeles, working for Hollywood studios, for 20 years. She now describes herself as a ‘recovering lawyer’. Commenting on working with her from 2000-5, Hollywood animator and trade union leader Steve Hulett described her to Media Matters as “always funny, with sharp observations. I never got the impression she was anything but a Democrat...she was mildly critical of some of Kerry’s campaign moves during the ’04 campaign, but she wasn’t in the Bush camp...
Commenting on Rubin’s hiring, Columbia Journalism Review writer Ali Gharib said that “the Post seems to have picked someone who, while capable of some political introspection on the right, characterizes opponents by derision; by delegitimizing them rather than engaging them on the substance of their policy preferences.”[6]
In August 2013, former Washington Post ombudsman Patrick Pexton criticized Rubin in an open letter from his new desk at the Washington City Paper, saying that he received more complaint emails about Rubin than any other Post employee. Writing that her columns were “at best...political pornography,” he said “Have Fred Hiatt, your editorial page editor—who I like, admire, and respect—fire opinion blogger Jennifer Rubin. Not because she’s conservative, but because she’s just plain bad. She doesn’t travel within a hundred miles of Post standards. She is often wrong, and rarely acknowledges it. She parrots and peddles every silly right-wing theory to come down the pike in transparent attempts to get Web hits. Her analysis of the conservative movement, which is a worthwhile and important beat that the Post should treat more seriously on its national pages, is shallow and predictable.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Rubin_(journalist)
Well, you can certainly tell who Jennifer is afraid of in 2016. Go Ted go.
They’re ALL afraid of him. Search “tedcruz” here and feast your eyes on all the attacks.
The Rinos are running scared of Cruz...like they run scared of all normal people.
I'll say. Never heard of her.
Sen. Cruz, on the other hand...
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Rubin has spent a fair amount of time attacking other possible 2016 contenders, notably Rand Paul. My guess is she's working against outsiders on behalf of one of the GOPe candidates.
JenRub is going to be in a strait jacket in the next couple of years as she watches the Cruz juggernaut build steam.
Cruz or looz.
Rick Perry. See post #1.
Australia was close to freeing one of its citizens being held by the same terrorists. He, too, was killed in the raid. I'm waiting to hear if the Obama administration coordinated with one of our closest allies, Australia.
What would be awful is if Obama was made privy to some secret Australian information and used it to screw up our Aussie friends without getting their go-ahead.
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