"This is what they get for building a coalition built around the politics of resentment"

[phantom power]

I highly recommend Alex Pareene’s dead-on description of what’s going on with Ted Cruz and the Republicans who, while also batshit themselves, at least are reality-attached enough to oppose a government shutdown as a petulant kind of revenge for Obamacare. They just want Ted Cruz to go away, but as Pareene explains, they created this problem and now they have to live with it:

To all these critics, the only reasonable response is, hope you enjoy this bed you made for yourselves. Ted Cruz is the right man for the decadent decline stage of the conservative movement, which has always encouraged the advancement of fact-challenged populist extremists, but always with the understanding that they’d a back seat to the sensible business interests when it came time to exercise power. The result has been a huge number of Republican activists who couldn’t figure out why the True Conservatives they kept voting for kept failing to achieve the creation of the perfect conservative state once in office. That led to an ongoing backlash against everyone in the party suspected of anything less than perfect ideological purity. Meanwhile all the crazies got rich simply for being crazy. There’s no longer any compelling reason, in other words, not to act like Ted Cruz, and the result is Ted Cruz.

This is what they get for building a coalition built around the politics of resentment: Men who resent women, whites who resent black people, straights who resent queer people, etc. Bitter, resentful people whose main political goal is pissing off the liberals tend to not have very good boundaries or limits.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/02/there-are-so-many-more-options-if-you-want-to-pss-off-liberals/

[Vietnameravet]

1. They are reaping what they have sewn..

I lost a friend because i was angry about an email he sent me from some clown in Tex-ass talking about secession..Now I kick myself,,,should have urged them on!

We are coming to a crisis ...and its either us or them. We cannot exist as a nation with people like Cruz and crew...We must defeat them so solidly they will never recover or they will cripple this nation. Showdown is coming. America must chose between their vision or ours...

[Jazzgirl]

2. Most in Texas do not want to secede.

I know I don't. Unfortunately assholes like Cruz get too much attention. Just because your friend wants to do it doesn't mean most of Texas does.

[RobertEarl]

3. Cruz control?

When the majority quietly elected Obama in 2008, we voted to take the keys away from the republicans.

Now the pugs hacking the system, keep turning on cruise control.

Obama, driving USS Miss Crazy, keeps having to go back and delete that program. It's a nasty virus, this Cruz control.

[Logical]

4. Interesting! n-t