Ted Cruz’s war on the GOP accelerates
Texas senator is the inheritor of the Jesse Helms scorched-earth legacy -- and leading his party's ongoing collapse
BY BRIAN BEUTLER
If you’ve been reading this space, you know that the Republican Party has a huge mess on its hands thanks to the right’s kamikaze-like Obamacare strategy.
While that mess spread in the House yesterday, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, was busy giving the Heritage Foundation’s annual Helms lecture, named in honor of the unrepentant racist Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., who left Congress in 2003 and died in 2008.
“The willingness to say all those crazy things is a rare, rare characteristic in this town, and you know what? It’s every bit as true now as it was then,” Cruz said. “We need a hundred more like Jesse Helms in the U.S. Senate.”
These two facts might seem disconnected, but they’re actually tightly linked. The latter is a symptom of the same problem that caused the former.
If you think there’s no connection between the fact that Ted Cruz admires Jesse Helms, and that Cruz is also waging war against the GOP establishment from the right, you don’t know much about Ted Cruz or Jesse Helms.
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