Discussion: A Brief History of Ted Cruz Roiling His Fellow Republicans

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Sen. “Tailgunner Joe” McCarthy, without the charm.

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The big GOP money knows he isn’t electable in 2016. What is Ted’s end game here? 2020? A life in the Senate?

I just can’t see where Ted is going with all these antics.

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In another forum I read last night that Cruz is now saying his criticism of McConnell wasn’t personal. The fool is trying to rewrite the language! How can calling out a colleague as a liar be ANYTHING other than a personal attack? The Senate ought to send this jerk back to Texass!

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Sicko would make the top ten tent preachers dry out in jealousy.

I see him going down. He’s pissed off too many fellow senators. He’s just no fun anymore. Like so many of these clowns now, most recently Hucklebee, saying anything to attract attention is now their game. And the MSM gives it to them. Like dubya and dick, I’d rather not see Cruz again, anywhere.

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If you want to greatly enhance the accuracy of this story…simply replace “firebrand” with"mega asshole"…so much more appropriate…

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When are the GOP Senators going to re-assign him to the committee that inspects the johns in the Capitol?

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‘over a Chick-Fil-A breakfast’ That says it all.

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why isn’t the bastard in a FEMA camp yet? Is Jade Helm not working?

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Ted Cruz cares about one thing and one thing only - Ted Cruz. All he is doing is using the radical rights message as his stepping-stone to get him the attention he so craves. What the radical right fails to understand because they are so blinded by government hate, is that Cruz, like all politicians, is first and foremost a salesman, which makes him no different than anyone else, but they want to believe he is. I’ve watched him speak, and a good speaker he is, and he is one of the biggest political phonies I’ve seen.

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Got to reset the counter again!

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Has Cruz introduced any truly significant legislation? Not the silly bills that his camp think are important, but something with forethought and substance. Has he had any productive collaborations with other congressional members? Not the ‘Lenny and Squiggy’ friendship that he has with Mike Lee, but any real meeting of the minds to produce something “Senatorial”? He only seems to be standing on a ‘hill’ decrying all of the ills he perceives and mocking the members of the congress that he would need help from in order to resolve issues or make changes. He is like a venomous snake that is biting itself in protest of venomous snakes.

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Raphael Eduardo came into the Senate and became, for all intents and purposes, the Baggers’ Majority Leader and he gave Mitch McConnell the bird from day one. There has been NO practical governance from Cruz and his coterie of Rightie loons; that was never going to happen. If any of the racists, religious right, and discontented morons who voted for Republicans and their promise of “pure conservatism” believed for a nano-second there would be even a semblance of practical governance from these Wingnuts, like funding any part of the government or preventing a credit default and bankruptcy, their celebratory mood was a fu*king fantasy.
The “real conservatives,” (nutjobs and loony Righties) aligned with Ted Cruz leading both the House and Senate with his vicious Kochsucking-teabagger anti-government thugs Mike Lee, Jodi Ernst, and Tom Tillis at his side, wildest “drown the government” dream has taken center stage and the GOP leadership has little to no chance of controlling them. One only hopes that they can manage to decimate the Republican Party as they continue their Koch driven perverse course.

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It took fourteen years for conservatives to realize Michelle Bachmann was a useless grandstanding big mouth. The reason she did not run again is because she knew they would no longer support her, and she would lose.

How long is going to take for them to figure out the same about Cruz.

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Joe McCarthy had charm? I’m old enough to remember when Tail gunner Joe was a big deal with his HUA committee hearings on live TV. How he destroyed the reputations of good people. He was nooo charmer.

Isn’t photoshop a gift from the GODS?

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He is really just the personification of their base.

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Politicians say the darnedest things. But It’s the republicans that have cornered the market in derp.

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