How dare he? I mean, doesn’t this uppity Cruz fellow realize that, by starting a fight he couldn’t possibly win, he harmed the GOP — who without him never would have started a fight in the first place, and so would have not won a lot sooner?
The goal is to get the capitulation over with. By drawing it out, you’re just making it more obvious how feckless the GOP is. And that’s no way to win elections, Hobbits!
Those who feel that Cruz has harmed their electoral prospects will find comfort in dropping the ruse and running as Democrats. The GOP is over unless and until it is purged of progressives.
Cruz is a lion among mice. They fear him.
Silly hobbit. The hill to die on is always the next one.
Insert St. Crispin’s Day Speech: Here.
Burn him? No, burn them:
2014 election class 3:
Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Keeper
Mark Begich (D – AK), X
Mark Pryor (D – AR), X
Mark Udall (D – CO), X
Chris Coons (D – DE), X
Saxby Chambliss [ret.] (R – GA), X
Brian Schatz (D – HI), X
Jim Risch (R – ID), X
Richard Durbin (D – IL), X
Tom Harkin [ret.] (D – IA), X
Pat Roberts (R – KS), X
Mitch McConnell (R – KY), X
Mary Landrieu (D – LA), X
Susan Collins (R – ME), X
Ed Markey (D – MA), X
Carl Levin [ret.] (D – MI), X
Al Franken (D – MN), X
Thad Cochran (R – MS), X
Max Baucus [ret.] (D – MT), X
Mike Johanns [ret.] (R – NE), X
Jeanne Shaheen (D – NH), X
Jeffrey Chiesa [replaced by special elect., reopens, 2014] (R – NJ),
Tom Udall (D – NM), X
Kay Hagan (D – NC), X
Jim Inhofe (R – OK), X
Jeff Merkley (D – OR), X
Jack Reed (D – RI), X
Lindsey Graham (R – SC), X
Tim Scott (R – SC), Keeper
Tim Johnson [ret.] (D – SD), X
Lamar Alexander (R – TN), X
John Cornyn (R – TX), X
Mark Warner (D – VA), X
Jay Rockefeller [ret.] (D – WV), X
Mike Enzi (R – WY) X
Geez, you guys act like we’re going to need to raise the Debt Ceiling again some day. Don’t you realize that the best thing about kicking the can down the road is that there’s never another step ever shut up?
What a handy list, sdferr. Burn them, indeed.
Inhofe, you bastard. I’m calling your office.
I think people in this country are divided into three groups right now regarding government power:
1) Those who have drawn a line, “This far, no farther”
2) Those who haven’t drawn a line… yet.
3) Those who want to erase the lines drawn by 1)
Right now, I put D-proggs and R-Establicans in category 3. So ‘eff em.
I really don’t understand why that argument carries any weight at all with any serious observer-activist.
If, for the sake or argument, Cruz et. al. were wrong, then it was the responsibility of the leadership to block or otherwise contain the conservatives. That they failed to do so indicates they’re incapable of leading.
On the other hand, if the conservatives were right, then it was incumbent upon the leadership to see the fight through rather than capitulating at the earliest opportunity. That they failed to see the fight through indicates they’re incapable of leading successfully.
In either case, the problem is John Boehner and Mitch McConnell and the rest of the so-called leadership.
Just as Lincoln couldn’t spare Grant, we can’t spare Cruz. He fights.
Find out what brand he drinks and send a case to Graham, McCain, and Bonehead.
Latest headline: “Boehner urges House GOP to support Senate deal”
I was too depressed to even click through to the article.
Alan Dershowitz turns himself inside-out in order to become a moron. “Why would he want to become a moron?,” you may ask?
I dunno. Why does Mitch McConnell like it when Harry Reid pats him on his head?
Clearly the fault is in the word “serious.”
Senate “No” votes:
Coburn
Cornyn
Crapo
Cruz
Enzi
Grassley
Heller
Johnson-WI
Lee
Paul
Risch
Roberts
Rubio
Scott
Sessions
Shelby
Toomey
Vitter
I just hope someone horse whips McCain, Graham and that little House douchebag King.
WTF? kinda stupid shit is this?
Sen. Warlock Cruz might be possessed of awesome preternatural powers, but just think where he could have gotten had he taken full advantage of Affirmative Action along the way: he could have been
arguingstumblin’ and bumblin’ in front of the Supreme Court . . . . . . . and drawing laughter and smirks the live-long day. Winner!“Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights By Any Means Necessary”
CTDAAIAIRBAMN. That could be a decent password.
I wondered what the BAMNs were doing, knew it had to be something spectacularly stupid if they opened their mouths.
Aha.
The Obama curve bending continues and quickens.
WaPo gets very slippery about just how the “Kentucky Kickback” came to be a part of the [not so clean but dirty in an Obama-loving way] CR-debt limit bill.
Does he weigh the same as a duck?
I mean, he certainly didn’t turn Boehner into a Newt…
I was just stunned at John Podhoretz’ column tonite in the NY Post savaging Cruz.
With “friendlies” like these in the media swallowing the DC koolaid by the gallon, it’s going to be rough going for grassroots conservatives over the next few months.
I was just stunned at John Podhoretz’ column tonite in the NY Post savaging Cruz.
Haven’t read it (wouldn’t bother), but can’t see why you’ld be stunned. He been where he is now for years, so there oughtn’t be any surprise. Amusement, maybe, if he goes all “epistemic closure” like his pal Pete Wehner does. Other’n that? They’ll all enjoy their triumph until it isn’t.
He’s been — ‘pologies.
Based on Cruz’ recent election and the subsequent media tarring of him, countered by adoration of him by people who don’t like the media, I predict that he will be our next president.
This is based on a prior pattern. I’m not laying any bets or odds.
$3 billion for Kentucky, huh?
I’d pay McConnell the back-handed compliment of saying that at least he wasn’t a cheap whore
except that in the era of multi-trillion dollar budgets,
he is.
The Pod-man is no Norm Podhoretz. Same thing with Bill Krystal: he’s no Irving.
I ignore them since they are sliding by as scions. I feel the same way about Jonah Goldberg, Lucianne’s kid.
In the half-witted world of Washington D.C., half a wit is all anyone can get.
There’s a very good reason the framers thought to provide means to detour the flow of power around the implicit toon-town to come, and put that detour out in the land in the hands of the people. Only use it.
The idea was to make Obama and the Democrats own the debt ceiling increase by giving the Craven Party a way to vote against it in their typical, well, we tried to block it, but we tripped over our peckers sort of way.
Considering what a short peckered bunch they seem to be, that’s quite a feat.
Now now Leigh, you’re assuming they even have one? Hillary maybe, but not our dickless leaders.
So….republicans aren’t conservative, don’t come from a tradition of being conservative, and with a few minor exceptions never have been conservative. They just courted conservatives to consolidate power after Reagan left office. Now they aren’t that into me. As a conservative, I was the real RINO all along. I should take all my Styx albums and my bean bag chair and move the fuck out. I’m embarrassing. That magical summer ended two years ago.
Depressing.