Everybody Hates Ted: The Republican Party Has Turned on Cruz

[Tx4obama]

Everybody Hates Ted: The Republican Party Has Turned on Cruz

Years ago, I adopted a personal paradigm that has yet to fail: if I’m injured in any way by an arrogant, self-serving narcissist (as though there were any other kind), I do not have to lift a finger by way of retaliation. Though I may have been inconvenienced, or worse, in the short term, in the long run, these folks have a way of undoing themselves. What’s that famous quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln? “You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time….” Wise man.

Freshman Texas Senator Ted Cruz has never been able to fool all of the people. Quite the contrary. In just nine months of the job, the “legislator” (I use the term very loosely as pertains to the quarrelsome elected official) has done his best to become public enemy #1 of the liberal agenda. It’s important to keep in mind that the term “liberal agenda,” no longer has the same connotation of years past. Unfortunately in 2013, those deemed to be in possession of a liberal agenda need only exhibit a desire for functional government, without resorting to extortion to extract concessions from across the aisle. Compromise is for sissies.

When asked by Fox News host Chris Wallace in May of this year if he could “make it” in today’s Republican party, 1996 Presidential candidate, and nobody’s idea of a radical, Bob Dole famously replied, ”Reagan wouldn’t have made it. Certainly, Nixon couldn’t have made it, because he had ideas and we might have made it, but I doubt it.”

The lunatics have been running the asylum for awhile now as pertains to the G.O.P. and until very recently, it appeared that the troika of newly elected Senate “it” boys – Rand Paul, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz – could do no wrong as far as the party was concerned.

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Full article here: http://www.politicususa.com/2013/09/26/hates-ted-republican-party-turned-cruz.html

[BillyRibs]

1. They are hoping to dodge the bullet that they etched Ted's name on.

thus evading any repercussions of their actions. "look Ted did it, never mind we voted for it, Just blame him."

[awoke_in_2003]

4. they made that round...

they took the casing, put the powder in, and pressed the bullet home. Now that it has gone off they feign ignorance.

[BillyRibs]

5. Well Put!

[Cha]

2. Schadenfreud, Tx! From your link..

But my friends, after Cruz’s brazenly egocentric, disingenuous summertime “Defund Obamacare” campaign, punctuated by this week’s senseless and shameful non-filibuster on the Senate floor, longtime Tedemies have been treated to glorious new sounds. The jumping of the shark, the thud of the wall of protection that once surrounded Cruz, and kept more mainstream Republicans from daring to criticize the Tea Party Golden Boy. The following is a roundup of my favorite quotes in recent days from disgusted and newly empowered G.O.P. moderates:

thank you!

[Myrina]

3. Interesting 'poll' on a local, conservative leaning newspaper's site ...

... in WI ... asking about the Filibluster.

65% responded that it was a 'showboating waste of time'
20% responded that it was 'effective government' and about
15% responded that they didn't pay attention either way.

Nope, nobody likes poor Ted.