$0.7 trillion deficit, $17 trillion debt, $92 trillion in unfunded liabilities and we are "immoderate" radicals?
Posted on 09/27/2013 8:11:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Critics think the Tea Party senator is being self-defeating, but his antics make sense if he's actually trying to remake the Republican Party in his image.
What's Ted Cruz up to? Is he a political idiot or a political savant?
Many people have argued that his antics, however well designed to appeal to the Tea Party and the Republican-primary voting base, also seem equally well designed to anger his Republican colleagues in Congress, "establishment" Republicans, and organs of opinion like the Wall Street Journal editorial page, and, perhaps more important, big business and big-money donors whose support Cruz will need if he runs for president in 2016. And what he is doing won't stop Obamacare. So it seems like his strategy of alienating his colleagues in the Senate is doomed to failure and he is just being intransigent for the hell of it.
But let's suppose Cruz sees something (or is betting on something) that his opponents in the Republican Party don't see. Then his actions make a lot more sense. He is not a terrorist or a bomb thrower. He is a Leninist. He wants to sow discord among his erstwhile allies so that he can seize control.
Suppose you thought that the Republican coalition is fracturing, that traditional Republican leadership can no longer hold the party together, and that the leadership is too willing to capitulate to its political opponents on the left.
Suppose you are also convinced that Obamacare will be a total disaster. Once in place, constituencies will form that will make difficult to repeal, yet it will make most ordinary Americans deeply unhappy. Obamacare will be the big-government equivalent of crystal-meth: an addictive substance that destroys your health. When the public finally realizes, it will abandon the Democrats in droves and look for an alternative...
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Um, hello. Just who is it you're talking to?
Add linda Graham to your Easily Fit list.
Lenin won out because of World War I. The Bolsheviks were the only party to oppose the catastrophe and that put them in power. It’s really not that complicated and the not the result of some sort of murky power struggle.
And it has nothing to do with Ted Cruz. This writer is a Yale professor ?
For one to be Leninist....one must aspire to be Socialist/Communist...or support entities that are Socialist/Communist
Ted Cruz is the last one in the GOP to be Leninist
$0.7 trillion deficit, $17 trillion debt, $92 trillion in unfunded liabilities and we are "immoderate" radicals?
Big deal. A lot of people enjoy the music of John Lenin. Bob
He is a Leninist. He wants to sow discord among his erstwhile allies so that he can seize control.
For a Yale professor to reduce Lenin to that characterization is an indication either that he's a complete idiot or that he thinks that we are. No, please believe me, Cruz is not Lenin. He isn't really even a revolutionary, although to hear the shrieking on the Left at the moment - this article is a case in point - he's somewhere between Proudhon and Genghis Khan. This is simply silliness.
They're absolutely terrified of populists, because they figure that's their exclusive territory. It explains the phobic reaction against Sarah Palin. Cruz must be similarly demonized, similarly marginalized, similarly destroyed by any means necessary. If that includes a particularly adolescent attempt to equate him with Vladimir Ulyanov, then so be it. Whatever it takes. One almost pities the degradation of a Yale resume necessary to make this point, but one would be a fool to hire the fellow who makes it, because he is either profoundly dishonest or profoundly stupid.
Ted Cruz and Sarah Palin are counter-revolutionaries
Ted Cruz = Reagan, roughly 1973....
Fine, say he’s a Leninist. Shouldn’t the media praise him for this? maybe this is a great new tactic?
Well, it sounds like the writer succeeded in abandoning logical and linear thinking.
“The flak is thick enough to walk on.”
They sure are afraid of the Cruz missile... and they should be.
Like most college professors, he knows Lenin and the 1917 Revolution better than he knows our current political reality.
So true. They published some Raymond Carver stories on occasion. Carver died in 1988.
“When the public finally realizes, it will abandon the Democrats in droves and look for an alternative...”
That process is already happening: Republicans and conservatives control 26 states while rats control 11. In some states, not a single rat holds a statewide office.
I expect that within the next few years, rats will all be congregated on the west coast beaches and the Northeast. Everything else will be Indian territory for them. They’ll live in forts called big liberal cities like DC and fear venturing out without taking a platoon-size Pretorian guard with them for protection.
That’s great, but bring back American manufacturing, and American businesses.
Now.
The GOP is completely out to lunch, on the matter of American jobs.
Buy American.
That’s fine, but you’ll not be making a statement. That award goes to the millions who stayed home in 2012, those “upstanding” stay-at-home Christians who bestowed upon the rest of us 4 more years of misery.
“That’s great, but bring back American manufacturing, and American businesses.’
Absolutely. We need small machine shops turning out real steel fasteners like bolts and screws, not that ChiComm crap that strips out and can’t take torque. We need fabrication shops, tool and die companies and mini-manufacturers that can handle small orders.
“Ted Cruz, Leninist (That’s a new tactic!)”....
And so it starts, just like they did with Palin, the destruction of someone the libs and demodummies disagree with and are definitely afraid of.
It’s pretty obvious that Cruz and Palin are the real “patriots” and it is time for all of us who want to save this country to back people like those two.
Balkin is a racist who hates Cruz because he’s Hispanic. everyone who disagrees with Cruz is a racist.
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