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David Brooks: GOP leadership will have to show Ted Cruz ‘who’s boss’
The Daily Caller ^ | September 21, 2013 | Jeff Poor

Posted on 09/22/2013 5:42:31 AM PDT by Timber Rattler

New York Times columnist David Brooks took on Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz for the second week in a row, saying he was “really unpopular” with a Republican leadership who will have to show him “who’s boss.”

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cruz; senate; tedcruz
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To: Timber Rattler

Typical Dim thinking - wanting someone else to do the job he thinks needs to be done...


41 posted on 09/22/2013 7:09:19 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Timber Rattler; All

Of course, any GOPer who “shows Cruz who is the boss” will be a GOPer who supports ObamaCare

Right now...Cruz is showing who’s Boss...and GOPers are being exposed for being ObamaCare supporters


42 posted on 09/22/2013 7:41:19 AM PDT by SeminoleCounty (Supporting Communism is never Conservatism)
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To: Timber Rattler

What are they, the communist party or criminal mob bosses... and who the hell is this David Brooks??


43 posted on 09/22/2013 7:54:23 AM PDT by dps.inspect (rage against the Obama machine...)
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To: Timber Rattler

David Brooks may claim to be a conservative but he is also one of those namby-pamby conservatives keen on compromise. David Warren, who writes for the Ottawa Citizen, called him the sort of conservative that liberals like, someone who “engages” the liberal agenda, as opposed to a “real conservative” like Charles Krauthammer.


44 posted on 09/22/2013 8:01:08 AM PDT by OKCharles
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To: Timber Rattler

Isn’t it interesting that one man, with simple dignity and the personal integrity to stick by what he believes in, has the entire Washington establishment exploding in dramatic fits of hysteria?

Imagine if there were a dozen like him on Capitol Hill.


45 posted on 09/22/2013 8:02:11 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

so the GOP has to admit cruz is boss.

the gop is good at surrendering to everyone.


46 posted on 09/22/2013 8:03:27 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: King_Corey

I agree.

Go Ted Cruz.


47 posted on 09/22/2013 8:04:47 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: Timber Rattler

The term Republican leadership is an oxymoron.


48 posted on 09/22/2013 8:27:00 AM PDT by Henry Hnyellar
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To: longtermmemmory
so the GOP has to admit cruz is boss.

I think it's pretty obvious that he's the de facto leader of the Republican party now. He's leading the charge against the opposition, which automatically puts him in the driver's seat, titles notwithstanding.

Leading by example, he's proving how gutless the rest of them are.

49 posted on 09/22/2013 8:46:30 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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David Brooks: GOP leadership will have to show Ted Cruz ‘who’s boss’

If that isn't an elitist statement to rally a revolution by the People.

50 posted on 09/22/2013 8:54:43 AM PDT by upsdriver ( Palin/West '16)
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To: M Kehoe

Thanks...and to make it worse..I may have gotten Brooks confused with “Brooks Bros..”


51 posted on 09/22/2013 9:25:44 AM PDT by ken5050 (Benghazi investigation update: "The plot thickens, like Hillary Clinton's ankles.." (longfellow")
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To: Timber Rattler; upsdriver; DefeatCorruption; mtnwmn; Vindication; skinkinthegrass; katiedidit1; ...

Ted Cruz Ping!

If you want on/off this ping list, please let me know.

Please beware, this is a high-volume ping list!


52 posted on 09/22/2013 11:33:58 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: COBOL2Java

Amen, the most productive factory in America, turns out liberals yearly


53 posted on 09/22/2013 4:22:05 PM PDT by Farnsworth ("The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no)
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