What’s going on in the House, and a bit in the Senate, too, is what you might call the rise of Ted Cruz-ism.
And Ted Cruz, the senator from Canada through Texas, is basically not a legislator in the normal sense, doesn’t have an idea that he’s going to Congress to create coalitions, make alliances, and he is going to pass a lot of legislation. He’s going in more as a media protest person.
And a lot of the House Republicans are in the same mode. They’re not normal members of Congress. They’re not legislators. They want to stop things. And so they’re just being — they just want to obstruct.
And the second thing they’re doing, which is alarming a lot of Republicans, is they’re running against their own party. Ted Cruz is running against Republicans in the Senate. The House Republican Tea Party types are running against the Republican establishment. That’s how they’re raising money. That’s where they’re spending their money on ads.
And so they’re having a very obstructive role which is going on this week, and I think it’s going to make John Boehner’s life even more difficult.
Wouldn’t that make Barry Soertoro the President from Hawaii through Indonesia, basically not a President in the normal sense?
I have never argued that Barry wasn’t a citizen, just that he wasn’t “American”. He was raised during his formative years in foreign countries. He wasn’t raised as an American during those years where young boys play ball and pull pigtails and join the Boy Scouts and are influenced by the dominant culture. And what influence from Americans he did get are all from those who see America as the problem, not the solution.
Of course, I denounce myself for not pointing out that he is half-white.
Ted Cruz gives a rat’s ass what Our Miss Brooks thinks.
Remind us Mr. Brooks how much legislation did Captain Food Stamp pass when he was a senator?
He was too busy being Senator from New York to California.
Thats what made it okay. He flew over flyover country.
Except for that time he moved across the Big Muddy to camp out in Iowa.
It’s amazing how much Sen. Cruz has in common with productive, intelligent, patriotic Americans. One might almost suspect he’s one himself.
Coalitions are not an end but a means. When pushed as being a good thing in and of itself, as an end, it is done by those who are using that very “ideal” as a means to get something that they otherwise could not. Brooks in domestic affairs. Others do like wise in foreign policy.
If you form an alliance with those who would destroy what you value most, you have lost before you began to fight.
No, no he doesn’t. His constituents, the people that elected him and to whom he is representing, want him to do the opposite of “pass a lot of legislation”. They want him to take a meat ax to a lot of legislation that’s already been passed. Plus as many departments, agencies, and bureaucracies as possible.
It’s called limited government, dumbass…
Coalition building.
Shorter Brooks: How dare Cruz not compromise his principles?
Brooks says “They want to stop things.”
I wouldn’t disagree, so far as it goes. But I’d complete the picture, rather than leave the characterization short and misleading, as Brooks wants to do.
I’d say instead, they want to stop bad things, or wrong things, from happening. If there were good things proposed by their lights, they wouldn’t be obstructing those in the least. So Brooks lies, by design.
David Brooks: making metrosexuals look manly since 2000.
OT…Darleen, you’re a fan of high-speed photography, no? Tell me what you see at the top of this image?
Someone wants a hand on his thigh.
Umm, Brooksie, Cruz making life difficult for Boehner is a feature, not a bug.
Brooks is going to wet himself when he sees what’s in store with the Continuing Resolution.
Game on, Obama.
leigh, I wrote my congresscritter and told him in no uncertain terms I was paying attention and not interested in anything Cantor put forth.
I can’t wait to see what kind of response I get.
Maybe Chris Matthews’ tingle was similar to Spider-Man’s spider-Sense and he was too dumb to equate it with incoming danger.
Why it is almost like Cruz and a very few other men in Congress understand the principle of placing the representation of your constituents above that of legislating for personal gain or to further a statist agenda.
I wish Juan McCain would take notes!
I wish Juan McCain would take notes!
my friends there are countries to bomb. i have no time for this.
good allan it is raining in seattle
That never happens!
serr8d
nice! looks like a blob of paint or chewed bubble gum …
Blake, there’s nothing that sharpens a congresscritter’s focus like a bunch of angry constituents on the eve of an election year.
Looks like a white housecat sitting upright on its haunches to me, in a bipedal manner, left forearm outstretched.
call ghost busters
look at the crease in that pant suit
Congress: Hillary’s Benghazi Investigation Let Top Officials Escape Blame
chop chop
Obama’s GOP cousin may primary Pat Roberts
Huh. my last comment in that extra long thread is “awaiting moderation”.
That bodes ill.
Or at least un-PW.
Accept me or ban me, but please don’t Judas me!
huh-oh…ALL my comments are awaiting moderation.
Is it just me? Am I being shunned?
good allan what a crease
State Department Staffers Forced To Mark Benghazi Anniversary On Their Own
Oh well, me and Ted Cruz. Totally uninterested in creating coalitions.
Miss Brooks apparently has never heard the old
gagtruism that no man’s life, liberty or property is safe while Congress is in session.What a twit.
Did I say something naughty?
“Awaiting moderation”? When did that start?
I saw the cat too, sdferr. Darleen, chewed bubble gum? Really?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4fOp_xQMkc
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“your comment is awaiting moderation”
Huh? That’s a YouTube linky, Silly WordPress.
*** Washington Navy yard shootings ***
– Live blog on latest Navy yard developments.
OT: Clown Disaster gave a speech and the war on terror was over. Maybe he needs to give that speech again.
The Party is busily righting The Disaster’s ship. Que Richard Rodger’s Victory at Sea.
– WTOP ongoing live coverage and news conference…..
Group Behind CO Recall Pushing for Full Repeal: ‘We Won and Now We Want More’
Shooter is daid. Anyone say if he was a Muslim, yet?
What the hell? “Your comment is awaiting moderation”
Am I on auto-moderation for some reason?
It isn’t terror any more, it’s “man-caused disasters”. Because someone setting out to shoot up a crowd of innocent people is exactly the same as an earthquake or hurricane.
Per McGehee’s link, we obviously need more gun control.
‘Your comment is awaiting moderation’ x2.
WordPress, it is busted.
I didn’t do it, nobody saw me do it, you can’t prove anything.
Liar.
“I didn’t do it, nobody saw me do it, you can’t prove anything”
I didn’t know you worked in the State Department. Or Justice department. Or EPA. Or NSA. Or IRS….
E-I-E-I-O.
Angelo Codevilla: The Obama-Boehner Project
*** If accounts of Barack Obama’s and John Boehner’s doings during the week of September 9 had appeared in the parody newspaper The Onion, they would have been occasion for laughter. But since the President of the United States and the Speaker of the House really did transact the nation’s business with laughably low levels of intelligence and integrity, the past week’s events sadly confirm the quality of elites that our ruling class’ Democratic and Republican wings promote and produce.
Obama proposed a plan for striking Syria with cruise missiles, carefully designed to avoid accomplishing any meaningful military result; while Boehner proposed to hold votes in Congress nominally to prohibit funds for the 2010 Health Care Law while actually appropriating them. These disparate plans were identical in essential respects. First, both violated the logic of the fields in which the activity of each was to take place – war and legislation, respectively. Second, Obama and Boehner assumed that the American people would neither notice the deception and nonsense, nor care. Third, although polls showed that the American people oppose both striking Syria and retaining Obamacare, Obama and Boehner were confident of each other’s support, and assumed that the ruling class’ unity would be enough for success. In fact however each withdrew his plan in the face of public scorn. ***
Beck went visigoth today and called for the impeachment of Obama, Boehner and McCain, because of the arms being sent to Al Quaida inSyria. Some little thing about aiding and abetting foreign enemies.
No, no, no, no, no! The brave rebels in Syria are not our enemies, they’re the enemies of our enemies. And they’ve promised — pinky sworn! — that they would never, ever, ever, ever in a bazillion years ever turn those weapons back toward us or our allies.
Pinky swearsies, people! What more could you possibly want?
Let me see if I have this correct: The American Embassy in Benghazi was attacked because we were running guns to rebels.
Our president is again running guns to rebels in Syria, though embassy duties have been transferred to the embassy in Jordan.
Call me crazy, but it seems to me moving the embassy from Syria to Jordan doesn’t really make our people any safer.
I also seem to recall a little affair known as “Iran-Contra” in which the Reagan administration got in a lot of trouble for running guns to rebels.
It’s almost like Obama is being protected by the media. How very strange.
Reagan got in trouble because the rebels he was arming were pro-American.
Reagan got in trouble because the rebels he was arming were pro-American.
True, if also anti-totalitarian, anti-communists and gasp, even possibly embracing a smattering of Roman Catholics roaming amongst them . . . shudder.