Why Ted Cruz’s Filibuster Was Not Like Rand Paul’s

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The American Conservative: Why Ted Cruz’s Filibuster Was Not Like Rand Paul’s

By Daniel McCarthy • September 25, 2013, 2:09 PM

 

Senator Cruz represents no new thinking on the part of the GOP—quite the contrary, his whole public persona is based on amplifying the existing Republican stereotype. He’s the perfect movement conservative: articulate, combative, dramatic, but not particularly effective. He frames the conflicts he rides into as showdowns between freedom and socialism—Obama “is moving us day-by-day to being closer to a European socialist nation,” he once said—or, as in the Hagel confirmation hearings, between muscular patriotism and un-American subversion.

 

He’s avoided taking a clear stand on foreign policy, signaling at times that he thinks Obama isn’t aggressive enough in places like Syria—”We need to be developing a clear, practical plan to go in, locate the [chemical] weapons, secure or destroy them, and then get out. The United States should be firmly in the lead to make sure the job is done right,” he said in June—at other times saying that America should not act as “al-Qaeda’s air force.” He’s a hawk who will strike a dovish pose if a particular intervention, proposed by a Democratic president, isn’t popular.

 

This buys him some credit with young Ron/Rand Paul supporters who

 

[SrWoodchuck]

Hilarity Stupity Insanity, thy name is Liberal Progressive.....

 

Libs Petition Harvard To Rescind Ted Cruz’s Law Degree… http://weaselzippers.us/2013/09/25/libs-petition-harvard-to-rescind-ted-cruzs-law-degree/

 

Via NRO:

 

A new MoveOn.org petition to rescind Ted Cruz’s Harvard degree has emerged after the Texas senator’s 21-hour speech because he “has proven that he is not Harvard material.”

 

Addressed to Harvard president Drew Faust, the petition argues that Cruz’s efforts are a waste of taxpayer money and make a mockery of the university, as well as the Senate.

The petition currently stands at 30 signatures with some appearing to be done in jest by Cruz supporters.

 

Update: Petition withdrawn, when Move.On shamed by their own ignorance......and used as a punching bag by people with more than a single thought in their head.

[Valin]

What has driven me up the wall today is the story in the MSM about what Ted and the others who helped out did, and more importantly Said. I wonder if any of these reporters actually listened to what they were talking about? They used Obamacare to go up to 30,000 feet and talk about Big things, Big Ideas. And this is a good thing.

[SrWoodchuck]

 

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[Valin]

 

Via iOTW

On behalf of the American Society of Steve's let me say...we're here for ya.

[SrWoodchuck]

@Valin

 

On behalf of the American Society of Steve's let me say...we're here for ya.

 

In the long line.............a few spaces behind my wife?

 

J/K

[SrWoodchuck]

[Valin]

@Valin

 

On behalf of the American Society of Steve's let me say...we're here for ya.

In the long line.............a few spaces behind my wife?

 

J/K

 

We defer to a wise and wily veteran.

[SrWoodchuck]

 

Via iOTW

[SrWoodchuck]

Mr. Cruz Goes To Washington

 

 

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