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Republican pushback against the junior senator from Texas is a thing to behold.
As soon as we listed Ted Cruz as our featured guest this week, I got unsolicited research and questions, not from Democrats but from top Republicans, to hammer Cruz, Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace said on his show. "Why are Republicans so angry at Ted Cruz?"
"You cannot build a congressional majority, in either party, for any kind of action, unless you are treating your colleagues with some certain amount of respect, and saying, Hey, what do you think of my idea? Karl Rove told Wallace, speaking of Cruz and Utah Senator Mike Lee, who are together leading the Don't Fund Obamacare movement. Instead they have dictated to their colleagues ... and not consulted them about this strategy at all.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/09/how-unpopular-is-ted-cruz-right-now/279903/
The republican leadership can't control this monster created by the teabaggers.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)That 1/ 3 of 1% of the population that signed his petition (assuming all the signatures were real) will love him. Other than that, not so much.
TexasTowelie
(111,313 posts)The man never learned how to share his toys with anyone else so he doesn't understand how to work in that environment.
dotymed
(5,610 posts)malaise
(267,823 posts)One and the same
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)tanyev
(42,360 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)cruz suddenly makes sense (to this armchair pyschologist) ... cruz is that outsider kid that no one likes because he/she is a brat; whose parents explain away his/her unpopularity by blaming the other kids.
mgardener
(1,799 posts)Isn't this exactly what karl rove did in his years of Texas politics and 8 years in the WH?
Is he pulling a mea culpa?
This is the result of Karl Rove's politics. he started this nasty types of politics. He courted these crazy RW evangelicals. he created/funded the tea party.
He is reaping what he sowed and he doesn't like it?
The most delicious part of all this is that he will have to clean up his own mess and destroy the republican party in the mean time.
if it does not destroy him first.
I do not feel sorry for karl Rove. I hope he gets exactly what he deserves.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)(I'd credit Lee Atwater with that honor), but he greatly advanced it. He was the Galileo of Hellworld politics to Atwater's Copernicus.
Not Sure
(735 posts)He portrays himself as one of the "no more taxes" mouth breathers that elected him, but he's actually a corporate grifter who is using what he has in common with the tea pity-party thugs to exploit their mandate to do the bidding of his corporate masters. I am hopeful he is the one tea party leader egocentric and greedy enough to expose how stupid the movement is.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,789 posts)The creators of the teabaggers and the masters of the Republican party are the conservatives among the 1% (there are progressives and liberals among the 1% too). The Koch brothers and their ilk are pulling all the strings and McConnell and Boehner are well aware of it and not able to do much if anything about it.
There used to be talk about the "country club Republicans". They are sidelined almost as much as the working classes by the bubble boys of the 1% who have not had any empathy for real people for decades.
riverbendviewgal
(4,251 posts)Joe McCarthey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)He wants to be known, maybe doesn't care how but just to have his name out there. And he is raising money. I am not sure he will ever run for president, but right now he is making himself a household name and building the bank account. And being very very destructive to the country.
Javaman
(62,442 posts)I'm always amused when the repukes eat their own.
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)and that's all he needs. I'd give a snarky "thank you" to Texas voters if it wasn't for the fact that we Californians gave you Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon.