Ted Cruz Has a Plan to Get the America He Wants: Minority Rule

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http://www.thenation.com/blog/176316/ted-cruz-has-plan-get-america-he-wants-minority-rule#axzz2frVdv74V

Ted Cruz has figured out how to get the America he wants: he wants to impose minority rule.

No, not majority rule, minority rule.

The senator from Texas hatched a “plan” to “defund Obamacare” by threatening to shut down the federal government. He got a lot of true-believer conservatives—especially in the Republican-controlled US House—to buy into the scheme. But the Texan never rounded up significant support for his approach in the upper chamber.

So the whole defunding scheme—which was never grounded in budgetary reality—has begun to look more and more like the sort of mess that costs political parties seats. House Republicans are furious.

After Cruz waged a national campaign to get the House to follow his strategy, and after they did indeed vote as he said they must, the Texan acknowledged that Senate Democrats could simply strip the House’s defunding language from the continuing resolution, pass a measure that would avert a shutdown and call the House’s bluff.

Even as Cruz was abdicating responsibility his own strategy, he was telling House Republicans to “stand firm.”

They were incredulous.

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1. This was the same strategy Cruz used to get Texans to vote for him instead of

long time serving R-David Dewhurst when they ran for the US Senate in the Republican primary of late July 2012.

David Dewhurst is Lt. Governor under Rick Perry.

I do not know who is the biggest joke in America, Cruz or the Republicans that voted for the Canadian Anchor Baby.